Financial Independence
Escape the Rat Race
How to Think BIG and Get What You Want.

This is part two of Getting Started.
69) Add more value than any of your competitors. Solve bigger problems and sell your
solutions. It is essential to enhance the value your customers get when they buy from
you. Look for ways to do business better. Ask yourself how you can add more value to
more people’s lives. Keep adding value than anyone else for as long as you really want
to prosper.
70) Be in a field where there is sufficient potential for reward. You should be passionate
about the field.
71) If you want to become a multimillionaire or billionaire, you need to take on as much
risk as you can manage. If there is no risk there is no reward.
72) Focus on increasing the bottom line. You can do this by cutting expenses, by making
more sales, launching a new line of products, launching a new original advertising
campaign, increasing productivity, etc.
73) Avoid doing things that decrease the bottom line.
74) Continue to save money through the good times and the bad times. “If you cannot
save money, the seeds of greatness are not in you.” You need to be able to make it
through recessions. You need to have cash on hand to make acquisitions. Make sure
you have adequate retirement funds.
75) Put the law of accumulation to work for you. The law of accumulation says, every
great financial achievement is an accumulation of hundreds of small efforts and
sacrifices that no one ever sees or appreciates. Get started.
76) Stick with your goal. You must have the persistence, drive, and the fight in you
achieve your goals. You must have the persistence, drive, and fight to make the calls,
pound the pavement, work the hours, read the books and write the papers that you must.
Stick with it.
77) Learn about an NLP technique called “anchoring”. Using anchoring should help you
stay motivated or however you need to feel to get what you want. Hypnosis is also a
useful tool. Reading a sheet of paper with your greatest accomplishments on it before a
challenge, provides a sense of confidence and motivation as well.
78) Don’t be led astray by any go nowhere types, or by people who offer destructive
criticism, or by any sort of crook.
79) Form a mastermind alliance with like minded achievers. Have standards for yourself
and your mastermind, and then raise them incrementally. A mastermind can and should
be an excellent refuge from negative influences.
80) Read and listen to success stories. There are a couple autobiographies in the
bookstore at this site. Mark Cuban’s motivation and success blog is not to be missed.
81) Remember, when people put themselves on the line, they usually come through.
82) Follow the 80/20 rule. In other words, focus on your highest value activity and
delegate or eliminate the little stuff.
83) Automate, outsource and delegate everything you can or want to. This frees up time
for your most productive activities.
84) Cling to your work ethic! Work hard, every single day to reach your goals. Abandon
excuses and avoid procrastination. I highly recommend the book at left, The Forbidden
Book of Getting What You Want. Despite a few typos, that book will get you taking
positive action