What good is having a lot of money without the adequate time to fully enjoy that financial abundance. In accordance with this line of thinking and to provide some inspiration for all of you that are new to this path of effortless abundance and the perks it can bring, I will be devoting a series of posts to my personal experiences in travel and leisure from across the world over the past few years.

Much like I love to draw inspiration from magazines that write about bespoke travel and unique lifestyle ideas, I simply want to make you aware what is out there for you to enjoy, because ironically you do often NOT need to have a lot of money to enjoy most of the things I cherish.

Rather than giving advise on depper topics of wealth and financial success, this post is a lighter approach to the outcome of having achieved a positive attitude toward money and continously setting yourself up to attract outstanding experiences into your reality.

Last weekend, my girlfriend and I headed on a roadtrip to Portland , Oregon. After we had stayed in Seattle a few times over the winter season, it felt right to go a bit further and it helps to find out that Oregon has no sales tax which makes for a shopping paradise.

For those of you who know me a little bit, this may come a no surprise, but I am less interested in shopping and really enjoy travel for 3 reasons: Outstanding Hotels, Great Food & Exciting Culture at the destination.

Of course there are many other aspects that I love, but on a short trip like this I had to focus. So we booked at the Westin which is part of Starwood Group and hence gives me a lot of perks since I have reached their Gold Status just recently. I am a pretty tough critic when it comes to chain hotels, but so far they have not let me down and I do enjoy several of their properties.

Although the Service and the Concierge at the Westin were very good, and I can also recommend them since they give you an appetizer voucher for their bar & grill, it is a different hotel experience that I would like to bring to your attention.

On our way back from brunch at “Mother’s”, which is probably one of the top 10 breakfast places in the world on my map (trust me I love breakfast more than any other meal hands down…), I just had to stop and see what was hiding behind the facade of a historical building with a doorman out front. My instict always guides me to great hotels that way, and this one seemed no different.

So, we enter the main door of the Hotel Monaco (Kimpton Group) and immediately the cozy, but stylish lobby makes us feel welcome and at home. the next thing I notice is an oversized dog bed in the corner. It is home to Art, the hotel pet and ambassador to all other four legged guests that the hotel warmly welcomes.  

I walk up to the front desk and get a brochure. As I glance through it, I disover that they have a very cool way to connect with thei guests, espcially the ones travelling alone. At your request, they will deliver a goldfish in a fishbowl to your room to keep you company while you stay there.

I have only ever seen one other hotel that had a similar offering. I was in the Swiss Alps and the hotel offered to bring a pair of mini hamsters to the guest’s room for entertainment and company.

Now I don’t know about you, but since hamsters are nocturnal, I think I’d opt for the goldfish this time to make sure I get my sleep.

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Happy travels and see you at the top.

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Certain things in life are very easy for us to follow while others appear to be a constant struggle for the human mind. Why is it that we don’t have a problem doing some tasks and we would rather procrastinate eternally on others.

Well, let me offer a possible solution to this question. I would argue that if we had no time lag between the performance of a task and it’s result or outcome things would be very different. In other words if we had not only a guarantee of the result actually happening in the way it is promised to us, but really got a clear feeling for the consequences, good or bad, of our behaviour, this issue would be negligable.

Let’s look at an example that we have all heard before. Our dentist tells us to brush at least twice a day and floss once to keep our teeth healthy. So far so good. The average person who has somewhat healthy teeth hears that, and maybe gives it some thought or follows the routine suggested for a few days and then, not noticing a real difference in wellbeing - stops someday until the next visit to the dentist.

What different impact do you think this advise could have if the rotting, painful throbbing tooth decay was evident at the same time as the dentist gave us this warning to brush and floss. So to speak we would be getting a real life preview of the outcome right up front.

Case closed, all of us would brush and floss diligently from that day on I bet - right?

Well, with success and successful habits it’s much the same way as with your dentist. I am here today to share with you 3 simple steps that are going to make a true difference in your life and if applied diligently will make the difference between financial struggle and intergenerational wealth beyond your wildest dreams.

What do I mean when I say this? Well, let me be clear.

The initial difference in how a multi millionaire conducts his life and a flat out penniless person maybe subtle. However given time and consitent good or bad habits when it comes to success in general and money habits in particular make this nuances a world of difference.

And I wouldn’t write about a topic like this if I wasn’t also sure that what you will get from this post is at most going to take 10 minutes a day. Would you invest 10 minutes to make it to millionaire status. I bet the answer is yes.

But enough with the introduction, let’s talk strategy now…

1) Always quantify your goals

Before you even get started with any action in any direction of life, be sure that you take a few minutes to get clear on the outcome you want. Not in vague terms and undisclosed time frames, but in a concise and summarized way. If you can come up with one line and at least one number in that line, you have a winning step 1.

Here is a quick example: “I will reach $10,000 in average monthly income from my business by the end of 2009 or sooner.”

2) Track your progress

Have you ever taken a road trip and ended up not knowing how far along you are on your drive? That can be very annoying because the human mind likes to have a reference point. So just like your car on the road, if you don’t track your progress regularly, it will slow doen your success dramtically or stunt any growth.

At any given time, I have multiple excel sheets going to give me a snapshot of my progress. It’s what makes great athletes winners and it’s what will make you rich if you do it.

Example: Track the average monthly income for each month and have a field for comments or suggestions also to help you jog your mind if you spot any significant abnormalities in your tracker.

3) Celebrate YOUR Success

When Napoleon found out that grown men would kill in war to receive a gold star on their unifrom for bravery, he had tapped into a secret that would allow him to become one of the greates generals in human history.

You have to absolutley reward yourself for hitting not only the end goal but smaller milestones along the way. It is paramount for me to mention 2 things here. First, the milestone has to be significant to you and nobody else, and second the reward is purely for your enjoyment and not to elicit positive feedback from outside. We often tend to wait until others acknowldege our achievements before we do, and frankly that is BS in my books. I say once you are about 25, 50, 77 and 82 % of ther way there, give yourself a treat.

Take yourself to dinner, buy a nice shirt or whatever speaks to you. Main thing is that you celebrate yourself.

I know you will find this post useful in so many ways in your life. It gave me tramendous leverage once I figured this out a few years back and I continue to obliterate people that have more connections, cash to throw around or brains simply because I use the leverage of tracking what is important to my success story in life.

You should, too !  See you at the top.

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A few days ago I published a post outlining the importance of having a big enough ‘WHY’ in your life before you should even beging to contemplate the ‘How’ of making your plan work.

Today I want to drill a bit deeper on the topic of having a vision for your life and for major projetcs that impact your success.

The 3 steps of leadership can be summarized as follows:

1) See things as they are - not better and not worse

2) Imagine/ Envision things to be slightly better than they are now

3) Make them to be that way.

Of course this is an oversimplified version of what it takes to be a leader, but since I never was much of a believer in complicating things, it will do just fine for the sake of argument here.

The majority of the people don’t plan to fail in life but most mof us fail to plan. The outcome of this statement os of course equally undesireable so it shows that without a plan we are quickly headed nowhere.

If you want to get started on things, just go and check of point after point from the list above. Let’s say that you are currently experiencing a shortage of income to pay all your expenses. Assuming you cannot just quickly lower these expenses to make your income last further, take a factual account of the situation.

The real importance in this first step is only to get us started on the process of creating a better reality with more money coming in and the cashinflow outpacing our expenses for the future. What we don’t want to do is get so good and so caught up in the reality that we are living now that we can only speak of the lack of money all day long.

Here’s why: The more we focus on step 1 the more this reality will be engrained into our subconscious and thus we will create a vibrational match that tells the universe “I don’t have enough money”. Repeating this statement in our head even silently over and over  and over does not help. What often happens is that when we have this thought it is accompanied by a negative emotion such as frustration or despair.

This creates the perfect storm from an attraction point of view because effectively we are creating more lack each time we focus on it. I know that most of us are doing this process unconsciously, but even so, don’t ponder on the assessment of your ’situation’ or it will not go away.

Next, and this is the fun part, imagine your ideal scene. This does not have to be an eloborate dream scenario, but in our example with the income you could state an intention like this: “I now have more than enough money coming in every month to cover all my expenses.”

That is all you need to do. Now you can sit back and relax, because as long as your mind is clear on what you want and as long as you have a good feeling when you think of it, the universe will create it for you.

In the meantime, keep your vision to yourself until it is fulfilled and try to judge as little as possible whatever happens around you, This will speed up the delivery of your vision and put you on a good connection path with source energy in general.

Enjoy the journey and see you at the top.

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A Chinese proverb says: “A journey of a million miles begins with a single step.”

There is more truth to this than most of us are aware of and this s why I’d like to focus my attention on the concept with this post today.

If I came to you and said: “I want you to get from 1 dollar to 1 million dollars by tomorrow.” Could you do it? Most likely not, unless you are Warren Buffet or Donald Trump, but even they may have a hard time only starting with 1 dollar.

As a result of the above thought, the majority of people decide that since there is no way to get from basically nothing to millionaire status they will not waste any time and effort to even try.

So let’s examine a way to make the concept more accpetable to the human mind. What do you think happenend if we change the amount and simply made the task to get from one dollar to two? Would that make it easier for you? Of course it would, but now I am sensing that we may have another issue.

Just like our mind doesn’t consider it possible to go from $1 to $ 1 million overnight, our ego is likeli to chime in and complain that one extra lousy dollar will NOT take you from poor to rich. Looking at that comparison out of context there is a valid point, but regular logic has no place when we are setting out on the journey from nothing to rich.

I don’t want to get into too much detail on this particular issue in this post, so I’ll simply say this. Look at the equation not as an absolute figure, but instead restate it in terms of growth accomplished:

Getting from $1 to $2 is actually double the amount, so we have a solid 100% growth here. Case closed.

For the rest of this post, I am going to ask you to suspend your disbelief until you have tried what I am about to tell you.

What if there was an easy way to get 100% growth for your money and what if that way required you to only make one small change in your thinking? You would try it, right?

So here is the easy task I have for you: Go and tune your intuition to finding money in any place you can !

Here’s what I mean: Write down the following sentence on a piece of paper and then read it out loud a few times to yourself

“I am now finding money wherever I go in an easy and relaxed way.”

This little statement will set in motion many things in your mind and trust me, while it may seem a little weird at first, you will suddenly and magically find small amounts of money in unlikely places.

Here’s what happened when I first followed this idea a few years ago. I went from $1 to about $5 in the matter of about a day because I started to see money everywhere. On the street there were pennies and nickels, in a pocket of pants that I no longer wear I found a dollar and in between my car seet cushions another one.

Of course, I understand that this is hardly a strategy to get rich from, but trust me the implications of whether you can pull this off or not are far reaching for your potential to attract more cashflow down the road.

So play along with me and most importantly have fun while you are doing it.

See you at the top…

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A few days ago I stumbled upon a statistic that showed how people with clear goals had a huge advantage over those that merely had vague wishes for their lives.

Especially in the area of attracting wealth, the main reason people fail to become rich is not a lack of finding the tools to get there, but rather the reason that drives them to get there in the first place. What is the compelling argument in your life that makes you want to be wealthy? Is there a reason for you to follow that path that is beyond the gratification money can bring, or do you derive all your energy from the power that wealth brings?

I suggest you get clear on the ‘Why’ question first before you tackle the part of ‘How’ you will get there. The Why is the 80% of the equation with the remaining 20% resting squarerly on the how part.

Take a piece of paper and write down 5 reasons that make you want to be rich, better yet, write down 5 reasons that will push you to committ to becoming rich and give as much detail on that paper for each argument.

The next step is easy, because so many people have done it before. While the reasons may not be totally original, they are likely to be unique to your life and the experience you wish to create for yourself and your family. Getting started on the ‘How’ part of it all is what this blog and many other resources are for.

Showing and exposing you to proven or new ways to get from where you are currently at to that million dollar mark without too much of a sweat. It won’t be just all fun and games, but I don’t work 16 hour days and neither should you.

Stay tuned for an announcement to all my readers in the next few days that will be of great value to you.

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I would like to send a shoutout to Andrew for including me in his latest blog carnival.

Check out the many great posts he has over there and leave a few comments for him. Great blog, keep it growing… !

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One of the most common questions I get asked about the Law of Attraction is how well it works for different things in life. Can you manifest a car? A spouse? A million dollars? The short answer to this is “Yes, you can absolutely manifest all those things and more.”

Then why is it, I hear you asking that not many people seem to be good at creating their perfect scenario on life and the vast majority seem to be chasing a dream that eludes them forever?

And there is an answer for that, too. The Law of attraction always works, no matter what. The wishing well of the universe is always on, so there is no time or instance in which it doesn’t work. That being said, most of us are not deliberately living our lives, because we keep unconsciously recreating the same stuff over and over.

How then do we actually know if we are a vibrational match to attract what we really want? That’s the easy part. If you had the right vibration to attract money, that money would be available to you right now. If you had the right vibration to attract a car of your dreams, that car would be in your driveway today.

The key is to observe this before we endavour on any new manifesting sprees, because without that clarity of our present capabilities we will keep spinning our wheels for a long time to come.

Look for a follow-up to this post with a more in depth focus on the law of attraction in the next few days.

And don’t forget to leave a comment and join the conversation since the best learning in life usually comes from the experiences of out peers.

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I have had my fridge for a number of years now and often times when I openend the door to take something out, I caught myself focusing on the big Energy sticker inside. You know which one that is, it’s the sticker that tells you how much electricity your fridge uses in an average year.

The number in my fridge is quoted at 651 kWh per year. My next question to that statement is: What does that actually mean? If my fridge takes 651 and all other ones you can buy today with similar size and features only use 500 that must mean I am wasting energy, right?

I am drawing the analogy to personal growth here because it dawned on me what I had just understood. You cannot compare anything unless you are comparing it to the right things. And that is where most people go wrong in life and in measuring themselves.

Firstly, I am a big advocate of creating a little competition to get fired up, but when you compare results in your personal growth, do yourself a favor and don’t compare them to other people. The reason you are keeping score is for yourself and not to get jealous or get sidetracked from your progress. In short, measure any improvement against where you started and compare that to where you are at today.

What is the best way of doing that? I would suggest you get a journal and see if you can committ to a daily routine of writing for maybe 10-15 minutes at first. If that seems too much, try writing for 3 days in a row and then take a 3 day break. Just like most other things in life, the more you do it, the easier it gets. Eventually it will become second nature almost like eating, which is a very persistent habit that most of us reinforce about 3 times per day.

When you journal, it’s important to keep a date and maybe another reference point for yourself, because to measure your progress, it’s often great to be able to go back and give yourself a reminder that you have already achieved so much more than you give yourself credit for.

Lastly, I recommend being easy on yourself especially in the beginning. Set your intentions, start to manifest and let them unfold in your reality. The best part is that you get to celebrate your success along the way.

And much like your fridge, when it comes time to reach a better level of saving energy or upgrading, you will have to invest a little to get that new result. In Personal growth you invest in yourself and the outcome will be with you for good.

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Most of you have probably heard by now that the Law of attraction brings to us what we send out with our vibrational frequency. It does so by matching up what we send out and returning to us in kind exactly what we ask for with out state of being.

This is very powerful and also very useful if we can activate it to meet and fulfill what we desire to have in our life. If we ask for money from a state of vibration that comes from a joy of feeling abundant and enjoying to spend money to enhance our state of being futher, more money and opportunity for financial abundance will come to us - guaranteed.

If however, we ask for money from a state of lack and not having money, the universe will in turn respond just as swiftly by sending us exactly what we asked for subconsciously with our being. It will bring to us more lack and more troubles in channeling money opportunities into our life.

So what are we to do if we would like to receive money but have little to start the process and thus have no real experience what it feels like to be wealthy? It’s easy and I’ll give you a quick tip on how to overcome that issue.

You will be reminded of struggle and lack as long as you are surrounding yourself with an atmosphere and people that radiate that energy and thus amplify the problem. Likewise you will soak up the energy and attract the opportunities of wealth when you are surrounded by an environment of wealthy people. So, said differently - you need to be where the rich are. This is also why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It all comes down to your thinking and who you surround yourslef with.

If you are in a big city, find the best hotel. Usually you can find a Four Seasons or a Ritz - Carlton or even a Shangrila or Mandarin Oriental. Likewise you may substitute a fine restaurant if you cannot find a hotel. Next put on a good suit or some fine clothing and go to that place for a coffee, snack or a meal. The key is not the amount of money you spend but to practise being at ease in that environment.

I always seek out the best place I can find on a trip or even at home for an occasional cocktail or meal. It won’t break the bank to do that once a month maybe and you will get a feel for the energy at such a place. It’s a very condusive energy to create more abundance and money in your life because it sort of fast forwards your situation the minute you feel part of the crowd.

I’ll leave you with a quick story from my grandfather who taught me about investing and money whan I was about 10 years old. He lived in a city where a very large publicly traded petro-chemical company (BASF) had it’s headquarters. So, as soon as he could afford to buy shares, he went and bought 1 share of this entity. In Germany, this gets you an invitation to the annual meeting as well as a token for a hot dog and the right to vote. His rationale was simple but had long lasting effects. He said to me:” I can get a free hot dog every year and a beverage at their annual meeting. And what is even more important, I get a free ticket to hang out with billionaires and millionaires from all over the world for a day. And that is worth the shareprice to me.”

Turns out he was right, because the company has grown about 500% since he taught me that lesson.

Go and have fun with this, I cannot think of an easier way to alogn myself with the vibrational frequency of the rich!

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Most people I meet have a difficult time getting started with anything new. I have always wondered why that is?

Likely, it has to do with the way we humans tend to think because we love to refer to the past and look forward to the future. And herein lies the major struggle. Neither the past nor the future can help in making the present a better place.

Surely, you have heard the famous saying once or twice: “Yesterday is History, Tomorrow still a Mystery, but Today is a Gift - that is why we call it the Present!”

Beyond the surface of this beautiful proverb is much more than meets the eye when we read it. It brings out the essence of human struggle in a mere few words. We tend to try and live in a time that actually doesn’t exist and then wonder why it isn’t working for us.

We cannot live in the past because all we have is a faint memory of what was, and if you are truly looking at the construct of time and space that humanity has built for itself, you would find out that all memory of the past is heavily influenced by the subjective reality of its observer.

We also cannot live in the future, because no matter how hard we try, things take their time to come to us, and so even if we want it to be tomorrow right now, that wouldn’t yield much success.

Instead of resorting to the common thinking of:” When I have X, I will be happy, or when Y happens I will feel good” we must thus find a more productive way to deal with getting what we want. I am offering a simple solution to help you get there fast and with little effort.

Change your story from the one you are telling now

If I sat down with you today, and asked you to tell me about your life, what would you tell me? About how great everything is, and how you have an abundance of money and friends and love in your life? Or would you tell me about how high the price of groceries has risen, and how gas prices m ake it more costly for you to commute now?

Most people fall into the latter category and that is why they have a lot more negative experiences coming their way. The Law of attraction is an absolute law, one that always works and one that always give us what we want.

I can hear you say now that this is simply not true, because you have been wanting that new car, bigger house, more money or better job for so long now and still it has not shown up. Instead you are being dealt pretty much the same things that you have had for all your life now. Mediocre outcomes…

In essence the law of attraction reads like this: “It will draw like to like, and bring together those things that attract one another.” Think of it like a magnet.

Now here is the catch in the example above. The Law of attraction responds to the vibrational message you are sending out, rather than what you may say with words. So if you say that you are wealthy, but deep inside you are coming from a place of poverty, or a feeling of lack, then the law of attraction will respond in kind and send you what you asked for - more poverty and more lack of money.

This sounds really unfair at first, but if you let that concept sink in for a little bit, it actually turns out to be a truly fair one. Everybody on earth always gets what they ask for.

It’s a grand concept with major implications. You can basically start right away to break with your past of lack or problems and get yourself to a feeling of abundance which in turn will quuickly create more abundance coming to you.

Here is how you can do that:

1) Find out what you want don’t want in life

2) Rewrite these statements in a positive way to get to what you DO want in life

3) Change the story you tell about yourself

Example: 1) “I don’t want to have credit card debt all the time.”

this statement becomes 2)” I now have more than enough money to pay for everything I want in life.”

and then you combiine this with other statements that you have arrived at to form your “New” story about yourself.

The beginning of your story could go something like this: ” I feel secure in knowing that I always have more than enough money to live the lifestyle I desire and I can create abundance in every area of my life. Good things are flowing to me at all times and they come ot me easily and effortlessly because I deserve them…”

Now this is only a story at first, and because it is your uniques story, I would advise you to guard it well and share it with nobody. Instead, repeat it often to yourself and monitor how you feel when you are saying of thinking it. If you feel good inside that means you have reached a point of alignment with your spirit and it is a very powerful point from which to activate the law of attraction.

Then you only have to do one more step which is practise and hold that feeling as often as you can. Here is a little trick that helps you “trick” your mind into felling alligned with your spirit more easily.

If you are a visual person that should work extremely well: Take a frontpage from your favorite newspaper and scan it into your computer. Then use photoshop to re-create the front page for yourself. Let’s say you had the dream of being a millionaire with your small business. What you do is take a picture of yourself and suiperimpose that on the cover photo. Then think of a headline you would love to have written about you.

The end result could be something like the New York Times cover with your smiling face on the fron cover and a headline reading: “Local ice cream entrepreneur creates million dollar business from secret family recipy for authentic Italian gelato.”

Then you print out that copy and pin it on the wall where you can see it everyday. This is the day you have started to turn your life from mediocre to phenomenal and the Law of Attraction will respond by giving you what you asked for.

And remember: Infinite patience produces immediate results !

See you at the top, have fun creating your perfect life…

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