read it and write thing to implement Introduction:
The Law of Cause
and Effect
What you are about to learn can change your life.
These ideas, insights, and strategies have been the springboards
to financial success for millions of men and women, young and
old, rich and poor. These principles are simple, effective, and
fairly easy to apply. They have been tested and proven over
and over again, and they will work for you if you will take
them and apply them in your own life.
We are living at the greatest time in all of human history.
More people are becoming wealthy today, starting from nothing,
than ever before imagined.
There are more than seven million millionaires in America, most
of them self-made, and the number is growing by 15 to 20
percent each year. We even have self-made ten millionaires,
hundred millionaires, and more than two hundred billionaires.
We have never seen this type of rapid wealth creation in all of
human history.
Here’s the best news of all. Virtually everyone 1
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l l i o n a i re s starts with nothing. More than 90 percent of
all financially successful people today started off broke or nearly
broke. The average self-made millionaire has been bankrupt or
nearly bankrupt 3.2 times. Most wealthy people failed many
times before they finally found the right opportunity that they
were able to leverage into financial success. And what hundreds
of thousands and millions of other people have done, you can
do as well.
The iron law of human destiny is the Law of Cause and
Effect. This law is simple yet very powerful. It says that there
is a specific effect for every cause. For every action, there is a
reaction. This law says that success is not an accident. Financial
success is the result of doing certain, specific things over and
over again until you achieve the financial independence that you
desire.
Nature is neutral. The natural world, the market-place, or our
society does not care who you are or what you are. The Law
of Cause and Effect says that if you do what other successful
people do, you will eventually get the results that other
successful people get.
And if you don’t, you won’t. This law says that when you
learn the success secrets of self-made millionaires and apply
them in your own life, you will experience results and rewards
far beyond anything you have accomplished up until now.
Here is an important point for you to remember.
Nobody is better than you and nobody is smarter
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than you. Let me repeat that. Nobody is better than you and
nobody is smarter than you. Get those thoughts out of your
mind. One of the primary reasons for selling yourself short, for
underachievement and lack of financial success, is the conviction
that people who are doing better than you are better than
you.
This is simply not the case.
The fact is that most self-made millionaires are ordinary people
with average educations working at average jobs and living in
average neighborhoods in average houses driving average cars.
But they have found out what other financially successful
people do and they have done those same things over and
over again until they achieved the same results. It is no miracle
and it is no accident. And when you think the same thoughts
and do the same things that self-made millionaires do, you will
begin to get the same results and benefits they do. It is simply
a matter of cause and effect.
There are 21 success secrets of self-made millionaires. Each of
these is indispensable to your becoming financially independent.
The failure to apply any one of these principles can, by itself,
undermine and even destroy your chances for health,
happiness, and great prosperity.
The good news is that you can learn every one of these
principles by practice and repetition, over and over again, until
they become as natural to you as breathing in and breathing
out. Just as you learned to
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l l i o n a i re s ride a bicycle or drive a car, you can learn
the success secrets of self-made millionaires and apply them in
your life. And there are no limits except the limits you place
on yourself by your own thinking. Now, let us begin.
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