Brian Tracy explains why self-made millionaires dream big: it raises self-esteem, sparks creativity, and changes behavior toward money. He walks through visualization, writing down five-year goals, and picking one guaranteed-success goal to act on today.
Hello, I'm Brian Tracy. I have a question for you. Are your dreams big enough? Why don't you dare to dream bigger? The first secret of self made Millionaires is simple. Dream big dreams. Allow yourself to dream. Allow yourself to imagine and fantasize about all your career goals and the kind of life you would really like to live. Think about the amount of money you would like to earn and have in your bank account. All self made millionaires begin with a dream of something wonderful and different from what they have today. You know the song that says you have to have a dream if you want to make a dream come true? It's true for you and for everyone else as well. So imagine that you have no limitations on what you can be or have or do in life. Just for the moment, imagine that you have all the time and all the money and all the education and all the experience and all the friends and all the contacts and all the resources and everything else you need to achieve anything you want in life. You have no limits. If your potential were completely unlimited, what kind of a life would you want to create for yourself and your family? Practice back from the future thinking. This is a powerful technique practiced continually by high performing men and women. This way of thinking has an amazing effect on your mind and then on your behavior. Here's how it Project yourself forward five years. Imagine that five years have passed and that your life is now perfect in every respect. What does it look like? What are you doing? Where are you working? How much money are you earning? How much do you have in the bank? What kind of a lifestyle are you enjoying? Create a vision for yourself for the long term future. The more clear your vision is of health and happiness and prosperity, the faster you move toward it and the faster it moves toward you. When you create a clear mental picture of where you are going in life and you set clear career goals, you become more positive and more motivated and more determined to make it a reality. You trigger your natural creativity and you come up with idea after idea to help make your vision come true. You see, you always tend to move in the direction of your dominant career goals and dreams and images and visions. The very act of allowing yourself to dream big dreams actually raises your self esteem and causes you to like and respect yourself more. Dreaming big dreams improves your self concept and increases your level of self confidence. It increases your personal level of self respect and happiness. There's something about dreams and visions that is exciting and it stimulates you to do better than you've ever done before. So here's a great question for you to ask and answer over and over again. What one great thing would I dare to dream if I knew I could not fail? What one great thing would you dare to dream if you could not fail? If you were absolutely guaranteed of success in any one goal in life, large or small, short term or long term, what would it be? Whatever it is, write it down and begin imagining that you've achieved this one great goal already. Then look back to where you are today. What would you have done to get to where you want to go? What would you have changed in your life if you had achieved those goals? What would you have started up or stopped doing completely? Who would you be with if your life was perfect? Who would you no longer be with if your life were perfect in every respect? What would it look like? Whatever it is that you would do differently to achieve that wonderful vision of your future life? Take the first steps today. Dreaming big dreams is the starting point of achieving your goal of financial independence. The number one reason that people never succeed financially is because it never occurs to them that they can do it. As a result, they never try. They never get started. They continue to go around in financial circles, spending everything they earn and a little bit more besides. But when you begin to dream big dreams about financial success, you begin to change the way you see yourself and your life. You begin to do different things bit by bit, gradually, until the whole direction of your life changes for the better. Dreaming big dreams is the starting point of financial success and of becoming a self made millionaire. So here's an action exercise for you. Make a list of everything you would do or attempt. If you are absolutely guaranteed of success, then decide upon one specific action and take it immediately. Remember, all self made millionaires dare to dream big and then they take action. I hope you enjoyed this video and if you did, please subscribe to my channel by clicking on the button that appears on the screen.
