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Mind Set for Riches
By Amy Selby
Do you believe you can train your brain to think rich and actually see the results in your bank account? T. Harv Eker has been teaching the value of reprogramming your mind, coupled with smart money management, to change the financial lives of millions through his Millionaire Mind Intensive seminar and bestselling book, “Secrets of the Millionaire Mind” (Collins, 2005). The chiropractic community has embraced the seminar and book, so much so that chiropractic associations have sponsored Millionaire Mind events.
TCL wanted to get in on the game, so we read the book and interviewed two DCs who have taken the three-day seminar and seen positive results.
There are plenty of titles available promising millionaire status in a variety of ways—without effort; within a year; with just one step; and getting rich God’s way.
Eker’s “Secrets of the Millionaire Mind” is the only one to fuse the inner game of wealth with the outer—taking calculated steps toward financial security. It shares philosophies on the power of thought and intention in a tell-you-like-it-is style.
The core message of the book centers on your money blueprint, the collective belief system regarding money and success that is deeply embedded into your subconscious mind. Consider it a pre-set program regarding your relationship to money. Throughout your childhood and adolescence you observed how your parents and influential people around you dealt with money. You may have been trained to save, you may have heard that rich people are greedy, that hard work pays off, you can’t make money off your dreams and so forth. All of these messages have wired your brain to think about money in a certain light. These thoughts are the basis of your actions with money and, in some ways, reflect your current financial standing.
After reading the book, Theresa Pigott, a chiropractor in Troy, Mich., cashed in her frequent flier miles for the first available Millionaire Mind Intensive seminar. “Initially I was very skeptical,” says Pigott. “I sat for a day and a half with my arms crossed. I thought it was a sales job and my mind started playing all my old patterns about money.”
Eventually, the messages from the seminar began to sink in and lead to new discoveries. “I realized my blueprint was set on the idea that money was evil. I came from a strict Catholic, working-class family. All I could hear my dad saying was ‘you have to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and the harder you work, the bigger the reward,’ says Pigott. “I don’t mean to speak negatively of my father, but he had a negative relationship with money and that was passed on to me. I didn’t realize I was raised [with these beliefs] until completing the exercises in the seminar.”
The seminar is three days of intense programming—prepare to be brainwashed, but in a good way. Everything that’s in the book is featured in the seminar, except it’s live on stage. But, there are extras. Eker and his team are masters at engaging crowds of 500, 1,000 and more. Participants won’t give you the nitty gritty details of the experiential portions of the seminar, but we know the schedule calls for many opportunities to reprogram your mind and face your fears in what some would call unorthodox ways.
The Michigan Association of Chiropractors (MAC) sponsored a Millionaire Mind Intensive seminar in Detroit as a means of fundraising. Erica Peabody, D.C., in Fenton, Mich., learned about the seminar through the association and attended after hearing rave reviews from friends. Before the seminar, Peabody says she had a good relationship with money, but was inexperienced when it came to money management. While in chiropractic college, Peabody had around $2,000 a month for living expenses, and now she makes that in a day. “I was saving my money—I didn’t know what else to do with it. I didn’t want to make a bad decision with it, so I saved it. I did splurge once. I bought myself a new Volvo and paid cash for it.” Besides splurging on the car, Peabody made a conscious effort to live more like a student while growing her Café of Life practice. She rented an apartment and kept spending to a minimum.
Using the strategies she learned in the seminar, Peabody has signed a purchase agreement for a condo and moved her money from an account that earned 1 percent interest to one that earns her 6 percent. “I found that account in 10 days [after attending the seminar]. Within 10 days I had changed the way I was handling my money.”
Today she’s working on creating streams of passive income. “I’m looking into possible different products in network marketing. The only way to be financially free is to have passive income and then you work because you want to, not because you have to.”
After three days of reprogramming, self discovery and transformation, many participants leave on a high. “I came out of the seminar feeling empowered and I had an uncanny belief in myself,” says Pigott. “The dream to have a healing center was always within me—he didn’t give me that. The seminar did take me to the next level. I changed my blueprint to reflect that I am a generous person and I can help thousands by having money.”
After the seminar, Pigott set up a scholarship fund for her patients to attend future Millionaire Mind seminars and began piecing together her dream of expanding her practice into a multi-discipline healing center. A real estate broker led her to a building that was 7,128 square feet and in her preferred location. With her old money blueprint out of the way, Pigott moved forward. “I thought to myself, how did I do this, but at the same time I had complete faith in myself,” says Pigott. “People trusted me and loaned me the money. They wanted to be a part of my vision. The bank looked at it and I closed on it.” Pigott attended the seminar last May.
It has been a little over a year since the closing and Pigott has her center up and running with eight practitioners, including an acupuncturist, two massage therapists, an allergy specialist and a number of other holistic healers. “I made this leap and I really want to be a part of other’s transformations, so the center includes an education center, a full kitchen for cooking classes and a lecture space for experts in different fields to speak to the patients,” says Pigott. “I just want to be a part of the path for people’s transformations.”
Both Pigott and Peabody bought additional seminar packages through Eker’s company, Peak Potentials Training. Peabody chose a series that will help her work a crowd during her public speaking event. Peabody signed up for the Enlightened Warrior Camp and immediately felt a sense of buyer’s remorse. Her old blueprint came flashing back, and she had to learn to control her thoughts—a key lesson from Eker. Pigott realized she was investing in herself. “It’s the best tool I’ve got, and it has paid for itself over and over. I have created a center for people to be healed.”
All in all, the book and seminar are not just about getting rich, together, they strive to serve a larger purpose: to change your life and transform the world. Pigott has got the message. For her the Millionaire Mind experience has been more about personal growth than making more money. “[Eker] just hooks you with the money angle. But what he’s really doing is helping people live their life with passion and to their fullest extent, and then the money will follow.”
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Millionaire Truths
“Secrets of the Millionaire Mind” is organized into two parts, the first half focuses on your money blueprint—discovering your blueprint and reprogramming it for wealth and success—and the second half outlines 17 wealth principles, which explain the mindsets and thought patterns for the wealthy, middle class and the poor. Here’s a sampling of Eker’s revelations:
“Leaders earn a heck of a lot more money than followers.”
“There’s nothing wrong with getting a steady paycheck, unless it interferes with your ability to earn what you’re worth. There’s the rub. It usually does.”
“Rich people believe ‘You can have your cake and eat it too.’ Middle-class people believe ‘Cake is too rich, so I’ll only have a little piece.’ Poor people don’t believe they deserve cake, so they order a doughnut, focus on the hole, and wonder why they have ‘nothing.’”
“Where attention goes, energy flows and results show.”
“Money will only make you more of what you already are.”
“The secret to success is not to try to avoid or get rid of or shrink from your problems; the secret is to grow yourself so that you are bigger than any problem.”
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A Step Toward a Million
Every person that buys “Secrets to the Millionaire Mind” has the opportunity to receive free book bonuses, including newsletters, a chart to calculate your net worth and a list of positive affirmations. The following is an excerpt from a newsletter designed to keep your thoughts focused on your new money blueprint. Read and learn:
“Money is a result. Wealth is a result. Health is a result. Illness is a result. They all come from your mental blueprint. It’s a blueprint that was created long ago in childhood and it’s embedded deep in our subconscious minds. We were programmed from an early age.
But we can re-program ourselves and change the results in our lives by following four key elements of change: awareness, understanding, disassociation and reconditioning.
So in the weeks ahead, we’ll use these four elements of change to transform your money blueprint.
I’ll be giving you Action Steps that cover all three of the primary ways we were conditioned in the first place: Verbal Programming, Modeling and Specific Incidents. I’ll also give you Action Steps to help engrain in your minds the way rich people think versus the poor and middle class.
Let’s start with Millionaire Mind Action Step No. 1: Verbal Programming
All of us were given verbal messages about money as we were growing up. “Money is the root of all evil.” “Money doesn’t grow on trees.” “What am I? Made of money?” “Rich people are greedy.” Even phrases such as “Filthy rich” or “Stinking rich” have a profoundly negative influence on our money blueprint.
These four actions can change your verbal programming and change your financial life forever.
Action 1 - Awareness:
Write down all the statements you heard about money, wealth and rich people when you were young.
Action 2 - Understanding:
Write down how you believe these statements have affected your financial life so far.
Action 3 - Disassociation:
Can you see that these thoughts represent only what you learned and are not who you are? They’re just not part of your anatomy. Can you see that you have a choice in the present moment to be different?
Action 4 - Declaration:
Place your hand over your heart and say, “What I heard about money isn’t necessarily true. I choose to adopt new ways of thinking that support my happiness and success.”
Touch your head and say, “I have a millionaire mind!”
Good job. Now practice this principle over the next 30 days and watch your mind, thoughts and financial life transform.”
Who is T. Harv Eker?
Before his Millionaire Mind days, T. Harv Eker was responsible for many failed start-up businesses. Eker made millions by opening a retail fitness store, but eventually lost it due to poor investments. Once he made the connection that his inner thoughts regarding money directly related to his current success, he was able to make millions and keep it. Through the principles he shares in “Secrets of the Millionaire Mind,” Eker went from zero to a self-made millionaire in two and a half years. He is the president of Peak Potentials Training, cited as one of the fastest-growing success training companies in North America. More than a quarter-million people have been touched by his teachings.
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