How To Make More Money In 7.5 Simple Steps, part III

Here’s the next part in our How to make more money mini-series of articles. Click on these links if you’ve not read parts I and II yet.

Step 4: Visualise yourself with that money.

I talk about visualisation a lot and that’s for one reason and one reason only. Visualisation works. I’m going to repeat that for you because it’s a really important point…

Visualisation works. It really, really works.

I have been using visualisation techniques for 15 years+ now and I use them nearly daily. Most of the time these are rapid, quick fix visualisations of less than 5 minutes but some are much longer. I have used visualisation techniques successfully to…

• win more sales
• close bigger deals
• negotiate more confidently
• make powerful and persuasive presentations
• plan my business
• see the big picture
• rapidly walk through details and problems
• find solutions
• see other’s points of view
• increase motivation
• build rapport with difficult people
• sharpen my focus
• target my actions
• find the right path…

Visualisation works.

In this case, we’re going to use visualisation for two main reasons…

1. To get us juiced up, psyched up and motivated and
2. To check for problems or self-imposed barriers..

Using visualisation is a great motivator. Visualising yourself earning the money you want and living the life you want in techni-colour detail is a real driver. Do it right and it will get you passionate about your mission. (BTW – if it doesn’t you need to be asking yourself whether you have set the right goals or not ).

I talk about visualisation extensively elsewhere but for those who are new to this here are some basic tips to help you visualise successfully…

1. Think consciously first about what you want so that you know what you need to visualise.
2. Take some time to relax through sitting still and breathing easily. Most people find this easier in a quiet and secluded place.
3. Form a picture of yourself earning and having this money.
4. Flesh out the picture and make it as detailed as you can. Think about everything. The more detailed that it is, the better.
5. Check for barriers and incongruencies. I have noticed that goals or visualisations that you still have limiting beliefs or barriers attached to are difficult to visualise in your head. Realising this now can save you a lot of grief and heartache. Also, notice if this “new you” fits with your values system. There is little point visualising something which is “not you” and which conflicts with your deeply held values about life as you will find ways of sabotaging this!
6. Step into the visualisation and really experience it as if it is now. This part of the visualisation is the really enjoyable bit. Rather than just seeing yourself doing it, actually step into the new you and experience it as if it is now. See things through your own eyes, hear what you will hear, feel what you will feel, experience what you will experience. You can walk through different scenes of your life and see how these changes have affected everything from what you drive to where you live and from how you live to what you wear.
7. Check the route map and take your own advice. From this new state look back to now and see how you got to where you’re going. Notice the key steps on the way, how you dealt with challenges and what you learned on your journey.

And then let yourself come back into now feeling positive and energised by the experience.

The more regularly you visualise what you want, the more powerful this technique will become for you. If at first your visualisation seems difficult to do, maybe because it is so stretching, then keep working on it until you have perfected it.

The experience that you can earn and have a lot of money is perhaps more important than actually having it. If you have a lot of money but you have no idea how to make more or where the next crate of money (!) is coming from then you are likely to be very cautious around money.

Self-made rich people do not like losing money but they don’t live in fear. Their “experience” of actually making their money is an empowering one and allows them to make bold and positive decisions in their relationship with money.

Most people who don’t have money, not surprisingly, have the attitudes and actions of someone with little or no money. It is these actions that got them where they are in the first place and it is these actions that will hold them there. Likewise, rich people have the attitudes and actions of people with money. It is these actions that got and keep them where they are.

As someone once said, “Money breeds money.” This is a great belief if you have money but not such a good one if you don’t!

Our visualisation exercises help us to reshape our negative feelings about money and to act and feel like someone who deserves and has more money.

Step 5: Believe you can achieve your goals.

We talked earlier on about limiting beliefs and how they will hold you back. If limiting beliefs are like the braking system that holds you back, empowering beliefs are like the jet fuel that propels you forward.

I mentioned earlier on that I work with a lot of business people. Many of them do not have very empowering beliefs about what they can charge and how much money they can earn. Without the necessary beliefs they lack the jet fuel to propel their business and their personal finances forwards…

One business man I worked with was in a consultancy. He was adamant that $1000 (£500) per day was the going rate for consultancy and that was what he consistently charged. The more he asked for and received $1000 per day, the more he believed that was the going rate. The more he believed that was so, the less he could do about it.

After working with him to get him thinking about how much value he could add for his clients, how much they could make as a result of working with him, how much they all benefited, and underpinning this with evidence (real value in real monetary terms that he had added for clients); he totally overhauled and pimped up his belief system!

He went back out into the marketplace with a totally supportive and empowering belief system and his very next order was for $2000 per day.

Having the right belief system is the jet fuel behind helping you to make more money so get yourself down to the personal development gas station and fill up!

Take my personal situation as an 18 year old lad. If I had not listened to others and I had truly believed that I could earn $100k+ from selling vacuums then I would have gone for it. I wouldn’t have listened to others.

There are many beliefs that you need to work on cultivating if you want to make more money including…

• Being rich is my right.
• Being rich will allow me to live the life that I deserve.
• Being rich will bring me happiness and joy.
• Being rich will allow me to pursue my dreams and help others.
• There is unlimited opportunity out there for those who seek it.
• Anyone who applies themselves consistently to the right activities can be rich.
• I can earn X.
• I can bank X.
• I am worth at least X.
• I could go on…

Here’s the question to ask yourself…

“What do I need to believe to be rich?”

Many of the people that I work with who achieve quantum leaps in their business and personal success attribute this change in fortunes to the skills and techniques that I taught them. This is partly right as we clearly need the right skills and techniques for making money. I have however worked with people who I have taught little or nothing to in the way of skills or techniques and their personal fortunes have dramatically changed. I put this down to a change in their belief systems…

In a nutshell they move from, “I can’t” to “I can”. What do you need to believe to move yourself from doing the “can’t-can’t” to doing the “can-can”?

Continue to Part IV of How to make more money in 7.5 simple steps.

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