Marcel Fernandes blamed his country's poverty and corrupt government for his lack of wealth until he watched a Jim Rohn seminar that shifted his thinking. Five years later, he became a millionaire. He argues that changing your thoughts is the first step to changing your life.
The only way to change your life is to change the way you think. What my philosophy used to be was, how do they expect me to get rich? I'm from a poor country. How do they expect me to get rich? The government is corrupt. How do they expect me to get rich? The taxes are too high. If this is all the company pays, how can they expect you to do well? If taxes are this high, how can they expect you to do well? This was my philosophy. Not I'm the one to blame, not it's all my fault. It was only when I changed my philosophy after watching this 4-hour seminar by Jim Rohn, 5 years later I became a millionaire.