Gandhi said “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
He could equally have said “Nothing happens to me without my permission.”
It really takes a new awareness to see the truth in this. We are conditioned to think that many things in life happen “to” us. We seldom see that we created them that way – without realizing it.
We have the lives we have built for ourselves. It often feels like they just happened, rather than that we set out to build them. That’s because we build them unconsciously – we aren’t aware of doing it. Why? Because we are programmed in a certain way and we just do things without thinking about them.
I know people who are programmed to believe, from the experience of their own childhood, beliefs like this one: “women like me end up bringing up our children alone”. That’s their programming. So that’s what they do. And that’s what their daughters do. Others can see that they choose the kind of marriages that are not likely to last. And that they do not pull out all the stops to save those marriages or reconcile. Why not? Because it does not occur to them. Their childhood conditioning led them to expect the marriage to end. And that is what they created. And they do not know that they created this. They think “it just happened”.
That’s just one example. We all hold ideas about money, success, love, meaning, truth. Many of these we are unaware of – just like in the previous example. They were taught to us as children. They are still reinforced today. Some are good … some of these things hold families together, create positive homes, happy hopeful futures. Others keep us stuck, endlessly repeating actions that do us no good.
What creates our conditioning? Our parents. Our teachers. Our churches. Mass media. Public opinion.
We should be aware that some of this conditioning is paid for to make others profits. Financial institutions. Lenders of money. Sellers of ‘investments’. All these companies pay money for advertising and public relations that shapes our thoughts towards what is good for their profits. If we are unaware of the power and pervasiveness of their influence, then we do not know how much of our actions are unconsciously shaped towards their ends, not ours.
This explains high debt levels. Steep mortgages. The consumer culture. The belief that spending money makes us happy. And that material things will fulfil our dreams. Which keeps us tied to a job, stuck in a trap.
The good news is that although our beliefs are often unconscious and always very powerful, once we see what they are, we can easily change them. This is what we do during Kaizen Wealth. We swap limited beliefs for empowering beliefs that work for us in a big way!
The next Kaizen Wealth Transformational Weekend, takes place on the 30 – 31 August – if you’d like to enquire further, phone my office on 012 542 4560
Friday, June 27, 2008
Forgive, let go, move on.
Nelson Mandela said he chose to forgive because otherwise he was giving too much power to the people who had already taken 27 years of his life.
He wasn't prepared to give them one more year. Or one more day. Not even one more minute. And we can understand that - but what is harder for us to understand is that it was up to him - it was his decision.
It was not about being bigger than them, or turning the other cheek. It was about reclaiming his life. Mandela knew what it was like to be in prison, your every move controlled by others. And he wasn't prepared to voluntarily enter a new prison on his release - the prison of hatred, grudges, regrets, resentment.
However, it's easier to complain and do nothing. It takes discipline to develop this strength. And it takes a decision - a commitment on your part - to begin with.
Mandela used his past to learn and move on. We can do the same. We too are often imprisoned by regrets and resentments. What he saw is that these regrets are themselves a prison. By fixating on them, we give away the key to our future. Then we become bitter and small. How likely are we to find happiness that way?
The wonderful thing is that no matter how many years have gone by, you can change your attitude in seconds. Make the decision to let go and move on . make sure that you have removed all internal resisters to this decision ... and you will change your life overnight! This is what we learn during Kaizen Wealth Transformational Weekend.
The next Kaizen Wealth Transformational Weekend, takes place on the 30 - 31 August - if you'd like to enquire further, phone my office on 012 542 4560
He wasn't prepared to give them one more year. Or one more day. Not even one more minute. And we can understand that - but what is harder for us to understand is that it was up to him - it was his decision.
It was not about being bigger than them, or turning the other cheek. It was about reclaiming his life. Mandela knew what it was like to be in prison, your every move controlled by others. And he wasn't prepared to voluntarily enter a new prison on his release - the prison of hatred, grudges, regrets, resentment.
However, it's easier to complain and do nothing. It takes discipline to develop this strength. And it takes a decision - a commitment on your part - to begin with.
Mandela used his past to learn and move on. We can do the same. We too are often imprisoned by regrets and resentments. What he saw is that these regrets are themselves a prison. By fixating on them, we give away the key to our future. Then we become bitter and small. How likely are we to find happiness that way?
The wonderful thing is that no matter how many years have gone by, you can change your attitude in seconds. Make the decision to let go and move on . make sure that you have removed all internal resisters to this decision ... and you will change your life overnight! This is what we learn during Kaizen Wealth Transformational Weekend.
The next Kaizen Wealth Transformational Weekend, takes place on the 30 - 31 August - if you'd like to enquire further, phone my office on 012 542 4560
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Lessons in Wealth from Flying a Helicopter
This week I am sharing with you lessons I have learned from an unusual tutor – my helicopter. Not that you need to be able to fly to learn! Whatever you do, as a hobby or as a career, at home or at work, even on the road or in the garden, you can see the laws of the Universe in operation.
In my case, I learn a lot from my helicopter!
In my case, I learn a lot from my helicopter!
- - Perhaps because it is a pleasurable hobby so I’m relaxed and in a receptive mood.
- - Perhaps because I must concentrate to fly – so I am focused.
- - Maybe also because there is a ritual you have to follow to fly safely, and that gets your mind into a contemplative, somewhat meditative state.
The other day I stepped out onto the helipad, at the airport, in the beautiful still winter morning, and my plan was to fly.
- I was not wondering whether I could fly...
- Whether I’d be lucky enough to fly...
- Whether I was special enough to have been born with the talent to fly...
I knew that there was a close to 100% chance that I would successfully fly, simply because ...
- I pay attention to the weather and choose the right conditions;
- I am a helicopter pilot - I have been trained to fly;
- I follow a set of safety and startup procedures that allows me to lift the helicopter off the ground and guide it through the air;
- I follow a schedule of maintenance to ensure that all parts of the helicopter are in good condition;
- I fill up with more than enough of the fuel I need, which is Jet A1 fuel - the right kind for a turbine engine.
As I prepared to fly, I was thinking about wealth creation which, like flying, is something anyone can do if they have the right training and follow the right procedures. I thought about the 20 or so steps that come before I can lift off. If I omit one, I either do not lift off at all, or I take a risk.
- I inspect the helicopter from the outside
- I inspect it from the inside
- I switch on the battery
- I switch on the generator
- I switch on the booster pump
- I press a timer and wait for 30 seconds before I switch on the starter
- During these 30 seconds I inspect all the warning lights to see if they are in working condition – by activating nine different warning bulbs. If a light comes on when I test it by pressing it gently, I know the warning light and therefore the system it indicates, is working
- After the 30 second period is up, I flick the starter switch on. Immediately a green light comes on – at the same time the blades start moving – first very slowly but gradually they build up speed
- Two to three seconds after the green starter light goes on, a yellow light – for the igniters - comes on
- Within eight seconds I hear the igniters ignite – it sounds like that “whump” you get if you throw petrol on a fire!
- Once the igniters fire up, the yellow light goes off – signaling that the process was successful. In the meantime the green startup light is still on
- I wait for the revs to go up to 14 000 – at that point the green light goes off
- Within 90 seconds the blades become synchronized with the turbine and I can physically see, feel and hear when this happens
- I slowly push up the fuel lever – pumping more and more fuel into the turbine
- As soon as I touch the fuel lever, a big red light comes on
- As I slowly push the fuel lever up, I make sure the tail pipe temperature (T4) does not increase by more than 30 degrees
- The turbine and blade speed pick up as I slowly push the fuel lever up
- At 33 000 revs the governor kicks in and the red light goes off
- The main rotor blades are turning at 360 revs per minute (RPM) and the tail rotor blades are turning at 2000 RPM
- All the temperature metres are in the green
- All warning lights are out
- It is safe on the outside
- The friction on the collective is still on – BUT I AM READY TO FLY!
Sounds like a lot. But any pilots out there will know this is all simple procedure. Routine.
And you know what? So is wealth creation!
Once you are trained and have put in the TEM$ (the Time, Energy Mindset and some money ($) to educate yourself) – to fit in with the requirements of the law of understanding, then you know that you have educated yourself and learned what you need to know.
· I KNOW I can fly because I learned. Simple.
· It’s not LUCK because I do it over and over and over, and so do all the other pilots and Wealth Creators – because they follow a system.
· It’s not TALENT - for the same reason.
What has all of that got to do with wealth creation?
Wealth creation is not about brilliance, talent, drive, luck or education. It’s about repeating a proven set of steps (a system) in the correct order, without missing one out, every time.
Just like flying, I know it’s not luck, it’s choosing the right moment to take certain actions (for instance, is now the right time to invest in property?)
It’s also following a set of instructions without taking short cuts. (The Formula for Riches™)
And it’s having the training (mentally, physically and emotionally) to know what to do, when to do it and HOW to do it
Of course, most of all, it’s WANTING to.
I love to fly because it makes me feel happy and free. That’s what I like about wealth too.
How about you?
As always - committed to your success
Dr Hannes Dreyer
Wealth Mentor
http://www.learn-to-invest-money.com
http://www.hannesdreyer.co.za
http://www.referralserver.co.za
PS - The interest rates are up. The petrol price is up – and we are again on holiday. This time I am writing this from Marloth Park next to the Kruger National Park.
Over the last four months we have increased our passive income in our property portfolio by R10 875.00 and we have signed another contract that will push it up further to R34 625.00. In my next Property Investment Seminar I will show you for the first time how I have used the Zagger principle in the current economy to lower our risk by increasing our passive income. Make sure you book your ticket now!
Thursday, June 12, 2008
The Poor Go With The Flow
Contents:
1.) The Poor Go With The Flow
2.) Life changing events
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1.) The Poor Go With The Flow.
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As I write, I am sitting on a sand dune above Bloubergstrand. Yesterday a cold front swept through the country, and when we left Pretoria it was raining. A great black thundercloud rolled over quite early in the morning, and we had thunder and lightning, the kind we expect in a typical summer Highveld thunderstorm. We enjoyed the unexpected contrast with the usual golden, dreamy, dry stillness of the winter veld.
Today as I look along the beach I see two kilometres of perfection. It’s still. It’s warm. The sea is lapping almost at my feet. When I look up, I see the famous picture of Table Mountain in front of me. I’ve seen a thousand calendars with this picture on it ... I’m sure you have too. It’s the Fairest Cape putting on a show. I wish you could see it. Next time I’ll take my camera and I’ll send you a picture! Or perhaps you’ll be here too, or somewhere just as lovely, because you know how to use the Formula for Riches™ to make your money work for you – and so you can take time off, lots of it, to really live and love your life.
For now, though, I’m not sharing this with anyone. You’d think there would be lots of people out here enjoying a magical day. It’s 10am. It’s balmy. I look up the beach. I look down it. But no. There is not a single soul out but me. I have it all to myself. This is not unusual. I am often playing while others work a 9 to 5 shift, feeling chained to their jobs when they’d rather be kite-surfing or sailing out here.
Tanja and our daughter Lara are now walking down the beach towards me. They’re going shopping just now, and then who knows, maybe we’ll take a drive out to a wine farm to enjoy the perfect weather and the breathtaking Cape winelands scenery. Maybe we’ll have a picnic with a little wine and cheese under the oak trees in front of a Cape Dutch homestead. Or a meal in an award-winning French restaurant in Franschhoek. We’ll see what we feel like.
Just so you know, though it is a gorgeous day, it’s quiet an ordinary one for me. By which I mean, I spend a lot of time enjoying beautiful places during what is usually called “working hours”. Because I can. Because I use the Formula for Riches™ to make my money work for me around the clock. And this has set me free.
In the meantime, I’m looking forward to teaching people how to invest in property at a seminar planned for Cape Town.
“Why property?” you may ask. “Why now? When the headlines say we can expect a huge fall in capital values?”
Well I’m not going to go into it too much right now (I do that in my Property Seminars) but let me just leave you with one thought. I’m watching the waves roll in and out at my feet. I see that they come and they go.
Like fashions...
Like investment bubbles...
Like booms and busts...
Like interest rate cycles...
And I know that most people will change what they do and how they invest based on whether the tide is taking them in or out. They go with the flow.
The reason I am here enjoying the beach and they are not, is because I don’t go with the flow – or not the flow of popular opinion and “expert projections” anyway. I go by the numbers. My properties bring me money, positive cash flow, in good times and in bad. Whether the tide is in, or whether it’s out ... the money comes in anyway. That’s why I’m here, walking barefoot on a beach at 10 o’clock on a Thursday morning.
Have a great week!
As always - committed to your success
Dr Hannes Dreyer
Wealth Mentor
http://www.learn-to-invest-money.com/
http://www.hannesdreyer.co.za/
http://www.referralserver.co.za/
P.S. Do you know that the average South African is has a debt ratio of more than 83% of income? It went up from 77% last month. I am planning a seminar on how to pay off your debt in less than 7 – 8 years, WITHOUT making any more money than you do right now. Please visit my blog (http://hannesdreyer.blogspot.com/) to tell me if you would be interested.
P.P.S. The MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU CAN DO RIGHT NOW for your future is to attend my next Quantum Leap Yourself To Quantum Wealth F-R-E-E Seminar. By applying the principles of Kaizen Wealth™ as explained in the seminar you will have a real advantage in life.
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2. Live Events and Public Talks
=================================
NEW - Property Investments in an Uncertain Market
Midrand
For more information and bookings
http://www.learn-to-invest-money.com/Property-Seminar.html
or phone my office (012) 542 4560
=================================
Quantum Leap Your Life To Quantum Wealth
Midrand – Centurion - Cape Town
For more information and bookings
http://www.hannesdreyer.co.za/FreeSeminar.asp
or phone my office (012) 542 4560
=================================
Kaizen Wealth™ Transformational Weekend
Pretoria - August 30 – 31
For more information and bookings phone (012) 542 4560
1.) The Poor Go With The Flow
2.) Life changing events
=================================
1.) The Poor Go With The Flow.
=================================
As I write, I am sitting on a sand dune above Bloubergstrand. Yesterday a cold front swept through the country, and when we left Pretoria it was raining. A great black thundercloud rolled over quite early in the morning, and we had thunder and lightning, the kind we expect in a typical summer Highveld thunderstorm. We enjoyed the unexpected contrast with the usual golden, dreamy, dry stillness of the winter veld.
Today as I look along the beach I see two kilometres of perfection. It’s still. It’s warm. The sea is lapping almost at my feet. When I look up, I see the famous picture of Table Mountain in front of me. I’ve seen a thousand calendars with this picture on it ... I’m sure you have too. It’s the Fairest Cape putting on a show. I wish you could see it. Next time I’ll take my camera and I’ll send you a picture! Or perhaps you’ll be here too, or somewhere just as lovely, because you know how to use the Formula for Riches™ to make your money work for you – and so you can take time off, lots of it, to really live and love your life.
For now, though, I’m not sharing this with anyone. You’d think there would be lots of people out here enjoying a magical day. It’s 10am. It’s balmy. I look up the beach. I look down it. But no. There is not a single soul out but me. I have it all to myself. This is not unusual. I am often playing while others work a 9 to 5 shift, feeling chained to their jobs when they’d rather be kite-surfing or sailing out here.
Tanja and our daughter Lara are now walking down the beach towards me. They’re going shopping just now, and then who knows, maybe we’ll take a drive out to a wine farm to enjoy the perfect weather and the breathtaking Cape winelands scenery. Maybe we’ll have a picnic with a little wine and cheese under the oak trees in front of a Cape Dutch homestead. Or a meal in an award-winning French restaurant in Franschhoek. We’ll see what we feel like.
Just so you know, though it is a gorgeous day, it’s quiet an ordinary one for me. By which I mean, I spend a lot of time enjoying beautiful places during what is usually called “working hours”. Because I can. Because I use the Formula for Riches™ to make my money work for me around the clock. And this has set me free.
In the meantime, I’m looking forward to teaching people how to invest in property at a seminar planned for Cape Town.
“Why property?” you may ask. “Why now? When the headlines say we can expect a huge fall in capital values?”
Well I’m not going to go into it too much right now (I do that in my Property Seminars) but let me just leave you with one thought. I’m watching the waves roll in and out at my feet. I see that they come and they go.
Like fashions...
Like investment bubbles...
Like booms and busts...
Like interest rate cycles...
And I know that most people will change what they do and how they invest based on whether the tide is taking them in or out. They go with the flow.
The reason I am here enjoying the beach and they are not, is because I don’t go with the flow – or not the flow of popular opinion and “expert projections” anyway. I go by the numbers. My properties bring me money, positive cash flow, in good times and in bad. Whether the tide is in, or whether it’s out ... the money comes in anyway. That’s why I’m here, walking barefoot on a beach at 10 o’clock on a Thursday morning.
Have a great week!
As always - committed to your success
Dr Hannes Dreyer
Wealth Mentor
http://www.learn-to-invest-money.com/
http://www.hannesdreyer.co.za/
http://www.referralserver.co.za/
P.S. Do you know that the average South African is has a debt ratio of more than 83% of income? It went up from 77% last month. I am planning a seminar on how to pay off your debt in less than 7 – 8 years, WITHOUT making any more money than you do right now. Please visit my blog (http://hannesdreyer.blogspot.com/) to tell me if you would be interested.
P.P.S. The MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU CAN DO RIGHT NOW for your future is to attend my next Quantum Leap Yourself To Quantum Wealth F-R-E-E Seminar. By applying the principles of Kaizen Wealth™ as explained in the seminar you will have a real advantage in life.
=================================
2. Live Events and Public Talks
=================================
NEW - Property Investments in an Uncertain Market
Midrand
For more information and bookings
http://www.learn-to-invest-money.com/Property-Seminar.html
or phone my office (012) 542 4560
=================================
Quantum Leap Your Life To Quantum Wealth
Midrand – Centurion - Cape Town
For more information and bookings
http://www.hannesdreyer.co.za/FreeSeminar.asp
or phone my office (012) 542 4560
=================================
Kaizen Wealth™ Transformational Weekend
Pretoria - August 30 – 31
For more information and bookings phone (012) 542 4560
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Wealth Insights Newsletter 04 April
Contents:
1.) New two hour seminar
2.) Why do most businesses struggle financially
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1.) FREE NEW SEMINAR
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Quantum leap yourself to Quantum Wealth – without a struggle
In this two hour seminar you will discover why people do not achieve the greatness they were destined for ... and how you can be different!
Johannesburg 15th April 2008 at 6.30PM (Sorry fully booked)
Cape Town 21th April 2008 at 6.30PM
Pretoria 22th April 2008 at 6.30PM
For more information Or to book your seat go tohttp://www.learn-to-invest-money.com/quantum-wealth.html
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2.) Why do most businesses struggle financially?
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The bit 99% of people forget when they start a new business – which is why they’ll struggle to become financially.
Unlike what the vast majority of “experts” will tell you, your business should be a success from the word go. I expect any new business to be generating a positive cashflow within the first month. Yes, ANY business! Sometimes it happens within the first few days or hours.
This may seem astonishingly fast.
But I am not surprised. I expect it!
Why?
I do not think of a business idea today and then launch it tomorrow. If I did it that way, it would take months or maybe years to get those kinds of results – IF EVER. And meanwhile, it would incur costs (risks). That’s why most new businesses fail – risks (costs).
You see, there is a whole “hidden” stage of starting a business that is seldom thought about, and even more seldom discussed. It’s the stage of the idea, the incubation, the planning, and the testing.
Warning! When you see the word “planning’ do not make the mistake of thinking I mean business plans!
To my mind, business plans are smokescreens and delayers and confusers and intimidators disguised as planning.
Why do I say that?
Well, getting up to your elbows in jargon and paper makes you think you’re doing something constructive, but mostly what this really does is scare you into thinking you need expert help or should stay away entirely;
... or satisfy you and make you think you are really doing something constructive when really you are avoiding doing so!
And if you are a delayer or someone who is dependent on others to tell you what to do, are you a Wealth Creator? No, because you are not taking responsibility AND you are not truly taking action!
So, to a true Wealth Creator, planning and all the stages that happen before you open your doors or your website are not the same things that people who stay stuck in life think they are!
Let’s get back to what it’s really about!
The idea leads to thought, thought leads to design, design leads to implementation – when the time is right. In your head you think it all through. In no particular order all of the below will come into it ...
- Everything your new business or product might be.
- Everything you decide it will not be.
- Who it will appeal to.
- How to gain their attention and keep their interest.
- What it will do for them.
- How it fits with other products or other people’s products.
- Where it leads to next.
- What form it takes.
- How it is structured financially.
- What the risks are and how to reduce them.
- What the goals are and how to get there faster.
- Whether or not your target market is interested.
This takes time. And a lot of it happens in odd moments. While you’re driving. Chatting. Doing something else entirely. It’s a creative process.
The laws of the universe
* There’s a law of the universe called the Law of Gender.
* This law tells us that there are two types of human energy – the yin and the yang.
* Now before you think “new age” let me just tell you that these principles are as old as humanity and that, put through the test of your own mind, they make a lot of sense.
* There is nothing religious about them.
* It is simply that there are two modes of being, roughly similar to the difference between the roles men and women play, as we traditionally see them.
* Although there are problems with this kind of over-simplification, it can be useful to start off learning to understand the principles in this way.
So the masculine or yang is the active, outwardly-focused side of life and the feminine or yin is the more inward-focused side.
I don’t like to say passive, because it’s not at all the right word. When a woman is pregnant she’s not passive, she’s growing a whole new life inside her. She may not be out there hunting, shooting, fishing or running a business, but she is performing the ultimate creative work, without which nothing else happens, ever!
The same kind of misunderstanding is why we also do not appreciate the importance of the stages of a business that take place before its official “birth”!
When it comes to the birth of a business, the pre-launch period can be equated to pregnancy and to the yin principle. It is characterized by inward-looking (i.e. pondering the idea, turning it over in your mind, building it up slowly inside you, seeing it take shape, what it is, what it isn’t, etc.).
This is the important point: from the outside it looks like not much is happening! A dangerous impression! Which leads many people to skip that stage altogether with serious results!
If you do not decide to put yourself through this phase, it is not going to jump out and insist on being noticed or understood! Unlike the active phase, which is out there for all to see, the inward “gestation” period can easily be overlooked! Wealth Creators learn not to make this mistake.
Once you understand this, you will also understand why Nikola Tesla, a great inventor who changed the way we live in the world, said this:
“Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit, just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings. It is immaterial to me whether I run my machine in my mind or test it in my shop. The inventions I have conceived in this way have always worked. In thirty years there has not been a single exception. My first electric motor, the vacuum wireless light, my turbine engine and many other devices have all been developed in exactly this way.”
Nikola Tesla’s many inventions ALL went through this process before they appeared in the outer world for us to see. And when you remember what kind of things he invented, you will appreciate that he is not talking wifty-wafty, nebulous New-Agey nonsense!
Tesla is the inventor of the loudspeaker, fluorescent lights, the polyphase induction motor, microwaves, the hydroelectric generator, vacuum tubes, radar, AC power, the rotary engine, and of course the Tesla coil.
Think of him when next you microwave your lunch or switch on a light!
Think of him when you plan your next business or product. Ask yourself whether it is so well planned that it could be built perfectly first time. Ask yourself whether your business is so well planned and designed that it works exactly as intended, from the first day.
THIS let me tell you, is a MAJOR way of reducing risk – because it costs you nothing while it’s in your head. You iron out the problems before they even happen. And if you know about wealth creation you will know that eliminating risk is THE single biggest factor in your success!
By the time a new business of mine actually launches, for me the process is not really beginning – it’s almost over. From now on it’s purely a matter of managing, adjusting and applying the Kaizen principle (constant and never-ending improvement).
And that is why a supposedly feminine principle, involved in pregnancy and creativity, has hard-nosed and very practical implications for the most masculine of businesses and the most active, get-out-there-and-do-it kind of men.
If you understand this you will truly own one of the greatest secrets of a Wealth Creator.
Have a wonderful weekend
As always - committed to your success Dr Hannes DreyerWealth Mentorwww.learn-to-invest-money.comwww.hannesdreyer.co.zawww.referralserver.co.za
1.) New two hour seminar
2.) Why do most businesses struggle financially
--------------------------------------------------------
1.) FREE NEW SEMINAR
--------------------------------------------------------
Quantum leap yourself to Quantum Wealth – without a struggle
In this two hour seminar you will discover why people do not achieve the greatness they were destined for ... and how you can be different!
Johannesburg 15th April 2008 at 6.30PM (Sorry fully booked)
Cape Town 21th April 2008 at 6.30PM
Pretoria 22th April 2008 at 6.30PM
For more information Or to book your seat go tohttp://www.learn-to-invest-money.com/quantum-wealth.html
--------------------------------------------------------
2.) Why do most businesses struggle financially?
--------------------------------------------------------
The bit 99% of people forget when they start a new business – which is why they’ll struggle to become financially.
Unlike what the vast majority of “experts” will tell you, your business should be a success from the word go. I expect any new business to be generating a positive cashflow within the first month. Yes, ANY business! Sometimes it happens within the first few days or hours.
This may seem astonishingly fast.
But I am not surprised. I expect it!
Why?
I do not think of a business idea today and then launch it tomorrow. If I did it that way, it would take months or maybe years to get those kinds of results – IF EVER. And meanwhile, it would incur costs (risks). That’s why most new businesses fail – risks (costs).
You see, there is a whole “hidden” stage of starting a business that is seldom thought about, and even more seldom discussed. It’s the stage of the idea, the incubation, the planning, and the testing.
Warning! When you see the word “planning’ do not make the mistake of thinking I mean business plans!
To my mind, business plans are smokescreens and delayers and confusers and intimidators disguised as planning.
Why do I say that?
Well, getting up to your elbows in jargon and paper makes you think you’re doing something constructive, but mostly what this really does is scare you into thinking you need expert help or should stay away entirely;
... or satisfy you and make you think you are really doing something constructive when really you are avoiding doing so!
And if you are a delayer or someone who is dependent on others to tell you what to do, are you a Wealth Creator? No, because you are not taking responsibility AND you are not truly taking action!
So, to a true Wealth Creator, planning and all the stages that happen before you open your doors or your website are not the same things that people who stay stuck in life think they are!
Let’s get back to what it’s really about!
The idea leads to thought, thought leads to design, design leads to implementation – when the time is right. In your head you think it all through. In no particular order all of the below will come into it ...
- Everything your new business or product might be.
- Everything you decide it will not be.
- Who it will appeal to.
- How to gain their attention and keep their interest.
- What it will do for them.
- How it fits with other products or other people’s products.
- Where it leads to next.
- What form it takes.
- How it is structured financially.
- What the risks are and how to reduce them.
- What the goals are and how to get there faster.
- Whether or not your target market is interested.
This takes time. And a lot of it happens in odd moments. While you’re driving. Chatting. Doing something else entirely. It’s a creative process.
The laws of the universe
* There’s a law of the universe called the Law of Gender.
* This law tells us that there are two types of human energy – the yin and the yang.
* Now before you think “new age” let me just tell you that these principles are as old as humanity and that, put through the test of your own mind, they make a lot of sense.
* There is nothing religious about them.
* It is simply that there are two modes of being, roughly similar to the difference between the roles men and women play, as we traditionally see them.
* Although there are problems with this kind of over-simplification, it can be useful to start off learning to understand the principles in this way.
So the masculine or yang is the active, outwardly-focused side of life and the feminine or yin is the more inward-focused side.
I don’t like to say passive, because it’s not at all the right word. When a woman is pregnant she’s not passive, she’s growing a whole new life inside her. She may not be out there hunting, shooting, fishing or running a business, but she is performing the ultimate creative work, without which nothing else happens, ever!
The same kind of misunderstanding is why we also do not appreciate the importance of the stages of a business that take place before its official “birth”!
When it comes to the birth of a business, the pre-launch period can be equated to pregnancy and to the yin principle. It is characterized by inward-looking (i.e. pondering the idea, turning it over in your mind, building it up slowly inside you, seeing it take shape, what it is, what it isn’t, etc.).
This is the important point: from the outside it looks like not much is happening! A dangerous impression! Which leads many people to skip that stage altogether with serious results!
If you do not decide to put yourself through this phase, it is not going to jump out and insist on being noticed or understood! Unlike the active phase, which is out there for all to see, the inward “gestation” period can easily be overlooked! Wealth Creators learn not to make this mistake.
Once you understand this, you will also understand why Nikola Tesla, a great inventor who changed the way we live in the world, said this:
“Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit, just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings. It is immaterial to me whether I run my machine in my mind or test it in my shop. The inventions I have conceived in this way have always worked. In thirty years there has not been a single exception. My first electric motor, the vacuum wireless light, my turbine engine and many other devices have all been developed in exactly this way.”
Nikola Tesla’s many inventions ALL went through this process before they appeared in the outer world for us to see. And when you remember what kind of things he invented, you will appreciate that he is not talking wifty-wafty, nebulous New-Agey nonsense!
Tesla is the inventor of the loudspeaker, fluorescent lights, the polyphase induction motor, microwaves, the hydroelectric generator, vacuum tubes, radar, AC power, the rotary engine, and of course the Tesla coil.
Think of him when next you microwave your lunch or switch on a light!
Think of him when you plan your next business or product. Ask yourself whether it is so well planned that it could be built perfectly first time. Ask yourself whether your business is so well planned and designed that it works exactly as intended, from the first day.
THIS let me tell you, is a MAJOR way of reducing risk – because it costs you nothing while it’s in your head. You iron out the problems before they even happen. And if you know about wealth creation you will know that eliminating risk is THE single biggest factor in your success!
By the time a new business of mine actually launches, for me the process is not really beginning – it’s almost over. From now on it’s purely a matter of managing, adjusting and applying the Kaizen principle (constant and never-ending improvement).
And that is why a supposedly feminine principle, involved in pregnancy and creativity, has hard-nosed and very practical implications for the most masculine of businesses and the most active, get-out-there-and-do-it kind of men.
If you understand this you will truly own one of the greatest secrets of a Wealth Creator.
Have a wonderful weekend
As always - committed to your success Dr Hannes DreyerWealth Mentorwww.learn-to-invest-money.comwww.hannesdreyer.co.zawww.referralserver.co.za
A cool story by Bruce Muzik
I heard an amazing story this weekend that will inspire you.
I spent the weekend with a fascinating man called Hannes Dreyer. Hannes is a multi-millionaire property investor and is also one of the MILLIONAIRE MENTORS speaking at my Wealth Blueprint seminars this month.
Hannes told me an amazing story that I'd like to share it with you.
At one of Hannes's seminars, a skeptic in the audience, who was doubting that Hannes's "Formula For Riches" could really work, said "That's easy for you to say, because you are rich! How can I make money if I have no money?"
Hannes, being a man who walks his talk, decided to create an extraordinary challenge to PROVE to this man that it does NOT take money to make money. Hannes announced to the world that he was going to take less than $150 and turn it into $1.5 MILLION in less than FIVE years.
So, what happened next? Well, Hannes did NOT start with just $150. He started with only ELEVEN CENTS!
Within only TWO years, his ELEVEN CENTS had grown to $1.4 MILLION, without Hannes using any of his other WEALTH as leverage.
Within only TWO years, Hannes proved to the world that IT DOES NOT TAKE MONEY TO MAKE MONEY.
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW HE DID IT?
Well, it turns out that he wrote an e-book called "The Formula For Riches" that explains exactly the formula he used to make his $1.4 MILLION from only ELEVEN cents. This weekend, I twisted his arm and persuaded him to give you, the most important chapter from the book for NOTHING!
So, go get your 77 page e-book now at www.designer-life.com/hannesbook/. This e-book is going to rock your world.
DO YOU WANT TO SEE HANNES AND I LIVE IN ACTION?
I have been so impressed by Hannes and his no nonsense approach to creating wealth that I asked him to share the stage with me at TWO public talks (in South Africa) called "Why You're Still Broke And What You Can Do About It". Book your seat at www.designer-life.com/events/WhyYoureStillBroke.html
For those of you outside South Africa, go download his e-book NOW and find out how "The Formula For Riches" works.
Till next time, see you in the front row.
Bruce
P.S. Hannes will be ONE of the MILLIONAIRE MENTORS who are going to be teaching you how to create real wealth at the Wealth Blueprint seminar this weekend in Johannesburg and next weekend in Cape Town, South Africa. I have only a few places left, so if you are still sitting on the fence, time to take ACTION and secure your financial success. Remember, no ACTION = no new RESULTS. Book your place at www.designer-life.com/wealthblueprint/
Designer Life - Teaching a scientifically proven approach to health. wealth and happiness. http://www.designer-life.com/
I spent the weekend with a fascinating man called Hannes Dreyer. Hannes is a multi-millionaire property investor and is also one of the MILLIONAIRE MENTORS speaking at my Wealth Blueprint seminars this month.
Hannes told me an amazing story that I'd like to share it with you.
At one of Hannes's seminars, a skeptic in the audience, who was doubting that Hannes's "Formula For Riches" could really work, said "That's easy for you to say, because you are rich! How can I make money if I have no money?"
Hannes, being a man who walks his talk, decided to create an extraordinary challenge to PROVE to this man that it does NOT take money to make money. Hannes announced to the world that he was going to take less than $150 and turn it into $1.5 MILLION in less than FIVE years.
So, what happened next? Well, Hannes did NOT start with just $150. He started with only ELEVEN CENTS!
Within only TWO years, his ELEVEN CENTS had grown to $1.4 MILLION, without Hannes using any of his other WEALTH as leverage.
Within only TWO years, Hannes proved to the world that IT DOES NOT TAKE MONEY TO MAKE MONEY.
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW HE DID IT?
Well, it turns out that he wrote an e-book called "The Formula For Riches" that explains exactly the formula he used to make his $1.4 MILLION from only ELEVEN cents. This weekend, I twisted his arm and persuaded him to give you, the most important chapter from the book for NOTHING!
So, go get your 77 page e-book now at www.designer-life.com/hannesbook/. This e-book is going to rock your world.
DO YOU WANT TO SEE HANNES AND I LIVE IN ACTION?
I have been so impressed by Hannes and his no nonsense approach to creating wealth that I asked him to share the stage with me at TWO public talks (in South Africa) called "Why You're Still Broke And What You Can Do About It". Book your seat at www.designer-life.com/events/WhyYoureStillBroke.html
For those of you outside South Africa, go download his e-book NOW and find out how "The Formula For Riches" works.
Till next time, see you in the front row.
Bruce
P.S. Hannes will be ONE of the MILLIONAIRE MENTORS who are going to be teaching you how to create real wealth at the Wealth Blueprint seminar this weekend in Johannesburg and next weekend in Cape Town, South Africa. I have only a few places left, so if you are still sitting on the fence, time to take ACTION and secure your financial success. Remember, no ACTION = no new RESULTS. Book your place at www.designer-life.com/wealthblueprint/
Designer Life - Teaching a scientifically proven approach to health. wealth and happiness. http://www.designer-life.com/
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Why You’re Still Broke, and what you can do about it!
A two-hour talk with Bruce Muzik and Hannes Dreyer
Are you still struggling to make the kind of MONEY
you would LOVE to be making?
Does creating WEALTH sometimes feel like an uphill battle?
In today’s world, everyone has a different opinion about how to become wealthy. Some teachers tell you to diversify your investments while others will tell you to FOCUS on one thing. Some teachers teach that property is the BEST investment vehicle, while others will tell you to BUY a franchise.
Everybody has a valid opinion and everybody thinks that their opinion is right. It probably is, but it is right for them because of who they are, and may be very, very wrong for you.
There Are Only EIGHT Paths To Wealth
Each one of us also has the potential to amass large amounts of wealth effortlessly, but only if we create it in a particular way. Just like Tiger Woods is naturally predisposed to playing golf, so you too are naturally predisposed to creating wealth in a particular way – a way that is the most natural (and most effortless) for you.
Why You’re Still Broke?
If creating wealth has been an uphill battle for you, then chances are high that you are operating outside your natural path to wealth, your Wealth Profile. If that is the case, you are NOT only robbing yourself of your wealth, but also robbing yourself of your life.
What To Do About It
Join Bruce Muzik and Hannes Dreyer for TWO hours of profound insight on HOW you can become a person who attracts REAL wealth, without the struggle.
PLEASE NOTE: You will NOT learn ANY new techniques here. You can buy those in a book. You WILL learn WHO you need to be and HOW you can CLAIM your WEALTH naturally, FREE from the struggle.
BOOK NOW TO RESERVE YOUR PLACE
Johannesburg: 10 April 2008, 6.30pm registration; Talk 7– 9.30pm
Cape Town: 17 April 2008, 6.30pm registration; Talk 7– 9.30pm
Tuition is only R100.
Click here to book your seat NOW. http://www.learn-to-invest-money.com/Hannes-Bruce-Seminar.html
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