Brian Tracy walks through five steps to hit financial goals: align them with your values, think five years ahead and work backwards to today, start small from where you are now, save consistently, and expect success. He emphasizes that wealth builds over time, not overnight.
I'm Brian Tracy and today I want to talk to you about how to reach your financial goals and become wealthy. Most people don't realize that reaching your financial goals starts with your core values. You must do well in all areas of your life and determine what it is that you believe in and stand for in order to find true financial success. Your values lie at the very core of everything you are as a human being. The virtues and qualities that you stand for are what constitute the person you have become and will continue becoming. So all improvement in your life, including financial improvement, begins with you clarifying your true values, committing yourself to living consistently with them, and then aligning everything you do with them. When you align your work and personal life to support your financial goals, you'll find it much easier to reach them or any goal that you set next. Aligning your goals with your values helps you to become a living magnet. One of the most powerful principles in the universe is the Law of Attraction. This law makes you a living magnet by using your thoughts to create a force field of energy that radiates out from you and attracts back into your life the people and circumstances that are in harmony with those thoughts. Every person who has achieved financial independence has become wealthy and successful as a result of holding the idea of wealth and success in their mind long enough and hard enough until they drew into their life the resources they needed to accomplish it. Your main job is to keep your mind fixed on improving your personal finances and achieving financial independence. When it comes to setting your financial goals, you want to think big but start small or wherever you are. High achievers always set challenging goals and continually work toward them in everything they do. Self made millionaires all started with a dream and one of their secrets is dreaming big. You can then practice back from the future thinking you project forward five years and allow yourself to imagine the amount of money you'd like to earn and have in your bank account. Then work back from the future to the present. Make a list of the logical steps in order that you need to take to get from where you are to where you want to be. Then figure out what big or small action you can take today. Next, give yourself time to plan it out and accept that your financial goals are long term strategies. Many people fail to realize this. They instead go through their days and their money trusting luck that somehow they will become wealthy. They buy lottery tickets, gamble and think about making a killing in the stock market. The fact is however, that financial success is long term money. Those with financial freedom are patient, persistent and farsighted they discipline themselves to save and accumulate money. Over many years as a result of this money habit, each year their wealth grows and they usually surpass their financial goals and keep going and sooner than they'd expected. Lastly, when setting your financial goals, expect the best. The Law of Expectation says that whatever you expect with confidence, positive or negative, becomes your reality. So don't worry about failure. That is negativity that will manifest into your life. If you confidently expect to become wealthy, hold to that belief and act as if your financial success was inevitable. You will eventually achieve that goal. Successful people who become rich expect to succeed in advance. The wonderful truth about your expectations is that they are completely under your control. You decide for yourself if you want to become rich and how you are going to get there. If you enjoyed this video and feel it was valuable in teaching you how to achieve financial success, share it with your friends or anyone else who might benefit from this information. Before we wrap up, I'd like to leave you with a thought to share with your friends and followers. The more you think about financial independence, the more you base your decisions about time and money. With this objective in mind, now I'd like to hear from you. So my question today is what are your financial goals and what is holding you back from achieving them? Leave a comment below and I'll be sure to follow up with you. Thanks for watching. And remember, if you want to change your future, take action. And take action now. If you enjoyed this video and feel it was valuable in teaching you how to achieve financial success, subscribe to my channel like this video and share this video with your friends and click the button on the screen for a free gift. Thanks again for watching.
