It’s a little known fact that Napoleon Hill, the author of “Think and Grow Rich”, a person who’s considered the father of the self-improvement industry, ended up broke and was supported financially by W. Clement Stone throughout the last years of his life.
But let me assure you that it doesn’t mean that Hill lied when he wrote “Think and Grow Rich” as well as other bestselling self-help success and achievement oriented best sellers.
The reason why Hill ended up “on welfare” is because he either never practiced what he preached, was too busy researching success principles to find time to actually apply them or because he didn’t entirely understand abundance.
Abundance
Abundance is the opposite of scarcity. Abundance is when you have no such feeling as guilt or sense of insecurity regarding money and finance. But to better understand abundance we first need to learn to “ask for the doe” for our services.
Feeling guilty about charging money the less fortunate then ourselves for what we do is the number one reason why 90% of those who preach prosperity aren’t prosperous.
Guilt is a feeling I got accustomed to early on in my internet marketing career, ever since I had to name the price to my first client. Although the sum was as small as $10 a month-I still had an overwhelming feeling of guilt for actually asking him to pay.
I felt as if I am being unfair, as if I am taking away the last money he ever had, that he was going to spend on food for his starving children. That’s exactly what it felt like when I said the number out loud.
But as I discovered later, there isn’t anything wrong with charging money for what you do. Even more, there’s nothing wrong with making as much money as humanly possible by doing what you do. It’s not greed or excessive profits-it’s opportunism. It’s entrepreneurship. It’s the right thing to do!
You shouldn’t lose sleep over the fact that you’re selfishly “taking” money away from people. Understand that they are going to spend that money anyway. Regardless of whether they are going to pay you or the liquor store cashier-it’s only a matter of time before the money’s gone.
Isn’t it better if they spend their money with you, improving their life in some way, instead of spending it on cigarettes, alcohol, hookers or coca cola? (Note: Yes, Coca Cola is as bad (worth) then hookers, cigarettes and alcohol…)
Chiropractors Are People Too
A study has been done amongst failing chiropractors to find out the common reasons for failure. It has been discovered that more than 50% of the time, the reason why a chiropractor didn’t close the deal was because of his assistant “not trying too hard” to motivate people to schedule an appointment.
They’ve discovered that the reason why chiropractors’ assistants weren’t eager convincing people they’re making the right decision was guilt. Assistants felt guilty for encouraging people to pay more than seventeen hundred dollars for treatment because they felt their boss is already making too much money and that it’s wrong taking so much money from someone who has no insurance and has to pay the full treatment fee.
Get Rid Of Guilt
For you to be able to make any money online (and off), you have to be comfortable with charging the full price. There’s nothing wrong with asking the maximum amount of money possible for the goods you deliver.
And don’t let the famous “If I just work harder” fairy tale mislead you. It’s not about what you deserve or how good of a person you are. There are millions of deserving, generous, sweetest and most adorable people who are broke, were broke and will always be broke. But you don’t have to be …and quite frankly-you shouldn’t. It’s no fun!
Napoleon Hill’s failure to retire rich shouldn’t discourage you to practice what he’s teaching in all of his fantastic books, but it’s also important to feel that you deserve to receive everything the universe has to offer.
It’s important that you understand that the sum of all money does not equal to zero-there’s more money then we can spend. The reason why some are rich and others are poor is only because of their habits, thinking and actions-not because there’s a shortage of resources.
