Dream Toolbox

Welcome to the Dream Toolbox, a series of short podcasts that are designed to open windows of economic opportunity that most people don’t know even exist and to provide a set of skill based tools that can lead almost anyone from a low-income existence to wealth and financial abundance.

Let’s talk some more about belief systems because they control everything else that is in the Dream Toolbox. Belief in yourself and believing in your dream is a strange thing. With it, there is almost nothing you cannot achieve; without it, nothing will happen.

Our belief systems determine where we will end up in life. I am not talking about religious faith, although that can be a huge help if it is strong. I am talking about those fundamental things we believe about ourselves.

I promised to give you another personal example of why beliefs matter.

How do you begin to change your belief system to redefine what you believe is possible?

If your dream has anything to do with financial success, you need to learn something about what I call “the Entrepreneurial Mind.”

No one would think of building a house without tools and materials, hammers, nails, lumber, etc. So what tools do you need for financial success? Over a lifetime, there may be many, but if you start with these two, all the rest can be mastered as needed. What are they?

Let’s talk about Skills as investment assets. 1. No wealthy person I know depends on a paycheck to live the life they live. They own assets, stocks, real estate, businesses that work for them while they sleep or play. 2. A quality investment can last a lifetime, and beyond. A job is only as good as yesterday’s paycheck.

If you don’t have a goal, how are you going to achieve it?

A problem is only a problem if you fail to see it as the opportunity it really is.

There is a much abused saying, “Fake it until you make it.” But behind that glib phrase is a powerful truth.

Let’s talk about Money. We can’t talk about the tools of success without talking about it. Most everyone thinks they know what “Money” is. And most everyone is wrong!

You have no doubt heard it said, “Money can’t buy happiness.” And that is true. I know many unhappy millionaires. But I know many more unhappy folks whose lack of enough money to feel safe in their daily lives creates its own unhappiness.

Everywhere you turn today, you hear people lamenting the income gap between the top 10% of earners and the bottom 50%, or below. Those people are half right. There is a big difference between those who earn the most and those who just barely get by. But, as we will discuss in detail later, it is not a gap but a pyramid, something else much easier to manage. The reality is that anyone who learns the skills they need and develops the mindset of the wealthy and not the poor can create wealth and never have to work again.

Thinking of corporations as some kind of enemy and failing to understand how they really work is a recipe for the failure of dreams.