Getting To Grips With Fear And Confusion

Hiya,

This is an excerpt from my book: “Do You Hate Your Job?” – I re-read it today because I am feeling some of these feelings at the moment and this helped. To get a free pdf copy of my book see instructions at the bottom…

“If you do decide to find a new job, new career or start up your own business know that there may well be fear and confusion along the way.

Learn to accept that, learn to understand that growing as a person is happening alongside this journey of following your passion, dream or goal. Sometimes you have to take the hit. If you want to go into events planning but don’t have the experience, why not get a job just helping other planners set their events up and learn how they do it from the ground up.

If you feel totally stuck or paralysed by fear or doubt – get calm. Sit still, breathe deeply and slowly and reconnect with your intuition, excitement, creativity and imagination. Trust yourself.

Accept that you won’t know all the answers, accept that you will have to take risks and above all accept that you may fail along the way. This is part of the journey. If it was easy everyone would do it – but they don’t. This is the road less travelled, this is the path to success, the difficult path but the one that leads to more fulfillment, contentedness, happiness, joy and ultimately life.

I did it, in fact I’m still doing it. Yes, I still have doubts and fears and I still find myself procrastinating from time to time. But at least now I’m aware of what’s going on and how to change it.

And remember to give yourself a break. It’s normal to be afraid, it’s normal to be unsure. Rather than chastise yourself for these negative feel- ings, acknowledge them. Sit with them for a while. Listen to what they’re trying to tell you. Then question if you agree with them or not.

Feelings are natural – accept them, allow them. If you want to know the strategies and tactics to change them… read on.”

To read the whole book simply email me at:  stuart.young40@googlemail.com  with “Send me the book” in the subject line and I’ll send it to you direct, no strings, no endless emails trying to sell you something. Promise!

Enjoy

Stu

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7 Tips I Learned from ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’

Rich Dad, Poor Dad

Hiya,

I finally got around to reading the famous Robert Kiyosaki book: “Rich Dad, Poor Dad“.

As a way of helping me remember books I’m going to start blogging my top tips from each starting with this book. So here are the 7 principles that stand out for me from this book…

#1  Pay yourself first

At first read this seems a little selfish but what Kiyosaki is talking about is paying yourself first before your mortgage, your bills, your debts etc. BECAUSE… that will give you the mindset to think more creatively about money so that you CAN pay everyone else. He doesn’t advocate not paying people – just make sure it’s YOU first.

#2  Get your money back quick

When investing in an asset Kiyosaki advises looking to get your initial investment back as soon as possible so the only amount left at risk was any equity or growth that asset achieved in the meantime. That way what’s left IN the deal is actually free money.

#3  Let assets buy luxuries

Pay for the luxuries in your life out of money earned passively by your assets. EG: Let the rental income from any property you own (for example) pay for your holiday or car payments. You should never buy luxuries with earned money, because any excess ‘earned‘ money should be put into buying assets that create positive cashflow.

#4  Model your heroes

Identify who your heroes are and why. Then learn as much as you can about them and what they did to become the people you admire so much. Copy their process if you want to be like them, there’s no need to reinvent the wheel.

#5  Give away what you want most

Sounds counter-intuitive right? What Kiyosaki means is: identify what it is you want the most and learn to ‘give‘ that to others. What you want then finds it’s way back to you. You want more people to smile at you – smile at more people. In order to start a fire you must first give away a flame.

#6  Learn to teach

And he doesn’t mean study how to teach, he means continue to learn all your life and then share (teach) what you learn with others. Only by teaching something do we get the deepest understanding of it.

#7  Don’t work for money

Most people work for money but if you want to be truly wealthy get money to work for you. Unfortunately the education system doesn’t teach that, so you have to find your own teachers and learn from them. The good thing is… they’re everywhere, in plain site.

That’s my top 7 take aways from “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” – no substitute for reading the book yourself which I urge you to no matter where you are in your life. It’s never too late to become wealthy.

Hope that helped – share with others if you think it did and keep an eye out for further book summaries.

Enjoy

Stu

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PS: If you’d like a free pdf copy of my book: “Do You Hate Your Job?” just email me and I’ll send it right over.