Mike
Carruthers:
Financially speaking, there are five types of people.
Keith Cameron
Smith:
They are, the very poor, the poor, the middle class, the rich
and very rich - and each one of those types thinks differently
about money.
Keith Cameron
Smith, author of the book The
Top 10 Distinctions Between Millionaires and the Middle Class…
Very poor people
will think day-to-day. Poor people think week-to-week; middle
class people think month-to-month; rich people think year-to-year
and then very rich people will think decade-to-decade. So one
of the keys to becoming financially free is to stretch your
thinking further into the future.
And these five
different types of people have very distinctive financial goals.
Primary goals
for the poor and the very poor is survival and the primary goal
for middle class people is comfort and most people live there.
But the primary goal for the rich and very rich is freedom -
where I'm going to do whatever it takes to experience abundance
and freedom. And I think the old saying, "Seek and you
will find" is very true when it comes to your finances.
So if you seek to survive you will, if you seek to be comfortable
you will be, but if you seek freedom you will find it.
Having studied
successful people, Keith says, how they think and talk is different.
And when I speak
around the country, I always offer up a challenge for the next
seven days - try not to complain. And once you can go seven
days without complaining, you start to become very aware of
how powerful your words are. Your tongue is kind of like the
rudder of a ship - it determines which direction you're headed
in life. And so if you want to see where you're going to be
next year or five years from now, you can really just listen
to your own conversation and that will give you a real good
clue.
At somethingyoushouldknow.net
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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