5 Keys to Wealth and Happiness Flashcards
YOU MUST LEARN TO HANDLE FRUSTRATION
Frustration can kill dreams. You must learn to discipline your frustration. The key to success is massive frustration. Look at any great success, and you’ll find there’s been massive frustration along the way. All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration. You have the tools to handle frustration in an effective way. Take the images that once frustrated you and make them wither and disappear and change them to the images that bring you ecstacy, or reframe the meaning of the things that used to frustrate you - what can you learn from them, what new opportunities for growth do they provide? etc.
YOU MUST LEARN HOW TO HANDLE REJECTION
The biggest challange for people in our culture is that they can’t handle the word “no”. Remember, you have the tools to anchor yourself so the word “no” turns you on. You can take any rejection and turn it into an opportunity.
YOU MUST LEARN TO HANDLE FINANCIAL PRESSURE
The only way not to have financial pressure is not to have finances. You should be able to deal with money as with anything else in your mind, with the same purpose and elegance. Learn to earn, to save, and to give.
YOU MUST LEARN HOW TO HANDLE COMPLACENCY
Comfort can be one of the most disastrous emotions a body could have. What happens when people get too comfortable? They stop growing, stop working, stop creating value. Ray Kroc said, “When you’re green you grow; when you ripen, you rot.”
Some complacency comes from comparison. LEARN TO JUDGE YOURSELF BY YOUR OWN GOALS INSTEAD OF BY WHAT YOUR PEERS SEEM TO BE DOING.
“Speak with good purpose only,” and “don’t major in minor things” - don’t waste your time gossiping and speculating about what is wrong with other people. Doing that is a great strategy for becoming complacent about your own goals.
ALWAYS GIVE MORE THAN YOU EXPECT TO RECEIVE
This may be the most important key of all because it virtually guarantees true happiness. The key to any relationship, for example, is that you have to give first and then keep giving. Don’t stop and wait to receive.
The biggest illusion about success is that it’s like a pinnacle to be climbed, a thing to be possessed, or a static result to be achieved. If you want to succeed, you have to think of success as a process, a way of life, a habit of mind, a strategy for life.
