http://mindsetovermoney.com Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:55:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was struggling to get out of bed this morning, I had a long weekend finalizing some business arrangements and was fatigued from lack of sleep.  As I lay there I went through all of the reasons why I should get out of bed and found that one of the ... http://mindsetovermoney.com/90-day-challenge/be-a-part-of-something-bigger-than-you/ In the last post I did on, I talked about how we can learn as much from wealthy people as we can from people who are in poverty.  At the end of the post I asked you to do an activity where you sat down and assessed your position compared ... http://mindsetovermoney.com/90-day-challenge/learning-from-poverty-part-2/ I am sure that you have heard the saying before: Your Network = Your Networth The saying basically suggests that the total of your top 10 friends annual salary when combined and averaged is most likely your income potential.  Many Personal Development experts would suggest that if you want to increase your ... http://mindsetovermoney.com/90-day-challenge/learning-from-poverty/ [caption id="attachment_93" align="alignright" width="300" caption="The Story of Two Wolves"][/caption] I want to bring the section on values to a close today with a story that I found, which speaks to many of the reasons as to why we sometimes succeed and sometimes fail in life. Over the last few days I have ... http://mindsetovermoney.com/90-day-challenge/the-story-of-two-wolves/ [caption id="attachment_80" align="alignright" width="192" caption="Celebrate Your Victories"][/caption] It has been a couple of days since I have had time to sit down and write a blog post for this Mindset Over Money site, I hope that you have been spending time reviewing and implementing the tasks I have already assigned you. Today ... http://mindsetovermoney.com/90-day-challenge/celebrate-your-victories/ Over the last few days you have been assessing your values and how the affect your decision making, your successes and also your failures.  As part of this you have probably realized that values don’t function or operate independently.  Values function as a team, and are called a “value system”. There ... http://mindsetovermoney.com/90-day-challenge/values-dont-function-independently/ A personal development blog that uses the word failure, that is almost a cardinal sin.  In fact I am sure I will get emails from people telling me that by talking and thinking about failure I am attracting failure.  My answer to that is “that’s a load of crap”! Do you ... http://mindsetovermoney.com/90-day-challenge/assessing-the-values-that-contributed-to-failure/ Over the last few days you should have been walking past your values at least 2 times a day and rating them from one through to ten as to how they are affecting your decisions at that exact moment.  When I have previously done this exercise I have found that ... http://mindsetovermoney.com/90-day-challenge/values-change-overtime/ Today's post comes from a very good friend of mine by the name of Dean Letfus from Massive Action Over many years of observing and working with many people I have noticed that we don’t pick our values, they kind of pick us! Professional psychological research tells us that our value systems ... http://mindsetovermoney.com/90-day-challenge/we-dont-pick-our-values-they-pick-us/ Today’s mindset over money blog post is going to be a bit different, in fact it’s not even the post that I had planned.  You see as I was writing yesterday’s post about values I had something occur where I needed to assess my own value system. I don’t know whether ... http://mindsetovermoney.com/90-day-challenge/a-quick-story-about-values/