Brian Tracy argues that financial problems come from childhood spending habits and emotional shopping. He prescribes rewiring your brain to link happiness with saving, opening a dedicated account, and paying yourself first. Small monthly savings compound into real wealth over time.
Questions this video answers
About $11,000.
Save $10 a month (claimed result: more than $200 after a year).
Save $100 a month (claimed result: more than $2,000 after a year).
Pay yourself first (save from the top of every amount received).
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Eliminate financial Problems through self Discipline make your financial independence a primary goal in life and begin working towards it today. Brian Tracy the primary reason for financial problems in life is lack of self discipline, self mastery and self control. It is the inability to delay gratification in the short term. It is the tendency for people to spend everything they earn and a little more besides, usually supplemented by loans and credit card debt. Today, the savings rate in America is too low to achieve financial independence. After a lifetime of work, the average American family has a net worth of only about $11,000. People continue to spend and borrow as if there is no tomorrow. The good news is that we are living in the most affluent time in all of human history. There are more opportunities to achieve wealth and prosperity today for more people in more different ways have ever existed in the history of man. It has never been more possible for you to achieve financial independence than right now, but you must make the resolution to do it and then follow through on your resolution. The Reasons for Financial Problems the primary reason that most adults have financial problems is not because of low earnings. The reason is lack of self discipline and the ability to delay gratification. Why is this weakness of character so prevalent among the majority of adults in society today? It goes back to early childhood when you were a child and you received money. Whether it was your allowance or a gift from a friend or relative, the first thing you thought of doing was to spend that money on candy. Candy is sweet. Candy is delicious. Candy fills your mouth with wonderful sugary flavor. You liked candy when you were a child and you probably could seldom get enough of it. Many children will eat candy until they become physically ill because it tastes so good. As you grew older, you developed what psychologists call a conditioned response to receiving money from any source, like Pavlov's dog. When you receive money, you mentally salivate at the thought of spending this money on something that makes you happy, at least temporarily. When you become an adult and you earn or receive money, this automatic reaction continues. Your first thought is, how can I spend this money to achieve immediate pleasure? When you go on vacation to a resort of any kind, you find that the hotels and streets are lined with shops selling useless trinkets, baubles and trash, plus clothes, artwork and other items that you would never think of buying at home. Why is this? Simple. When you're on vacation, you feel happy. You have a conditioned response to associate happiness with spending money. The happier you are, the more unconsciously compelled you are to go out and spend money on something or on anything. It is quite common for many people. When they are unhappy or frustrated for any reason to go shopping, they unconsciously associate buying something with being happy. When it doesn't work as expected, they buy something else. Sometimes unhappy people go on shopping sprees. They buy lots of things that they don't particularly need because they unconsciously associate spending with happiness. Use self discipline to rewire your responses about money the starting point of achieving financial independence is for you to use self discipline to rewire your attitude towards money. You reach into your subconscious mind and disconnect the wire linked to spending and happiness. You then reconnect that happiness wire to the saving and investing wire to reinforce this shift in thinking and eliminate financial problems. Open up a financial freedom account at your bank. This is the account in which you deposit money for the long term. Once your money goes into this account, you resolve that you will never spend it on anything except to achieve financial freedom. Associate happiness with financial independence. When you begin saving in this way, something miraculous happens within you. You start to feel happy about the idea of having money in the bank. Even if you only open your account with $10. This action gives you a feeling of greater self control and personal power. You feel happier about yourself because the money in your account is emotionalized by your own thoughts and feelings. It sets up a force field of energy that begin attract more money into it. If you save $10 a month for a year, you will be astonished to find that with the extra bits of money that you have put into that account, you will probably have more than $200 rather than just 120. If you save $100 a month, you will probably have more than $2,000. The more money you have in your bank account, the more energy it generates and the more money is attracted into your life. You have heard it said that it takes money to make money. This as you begin to save and accumulate money, the universe begins to direct more and more money towards you to save and accumulate. Everyone who has ever practiced this principle of regular saving is absolutely astonished at how quickly their financial problems change for the better. The rule for financial independence once you have rewired your attitude towards money is to pay yourself first. Most people save whatever is left to after their monthly expenses if there is anything left over. The key however, is to pay yourself first off the top of every amount of money you receive. Now we'd love to hear from you. So our question today is are you paying yourself first? Leave a comment below and we'll be sure to follow up with you. 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