At first blush, I thought Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, T. Harv Eker's work on success and becoming rich, seemed like another scheme. Most of these books offer plenty of sales pitches, but are thin on support for their claims or detailed information to back up their promises. However, a second look will tell you that there's more here.
Think of Secrets of the Millionaire mind not as a guide to your personal finances, but as a motivational tool that helps you focus on your life in general. While many people might not think there's a lot of use to this book - after all, it offers little concrete financial advice - they would be wrong. There's plenty of information about getting into the right frame of mind.
The most important thing you need to know is in the title of the book. If you want to be rich, you need to know the secrets of a millionaire mind. Just change your mental approach to money, happiness and success, and you'll be surprised by what happens.
According to Eker, each of us has our own internal script that tells us how to react and deal with money. He calls this our financial blueprint, and says it's created by the money messages we encounter throughout our lives. Those messages can come from entertainment, family, friends, and events that happen around us.
Unfortunately, the money maps we pick up are often full of errors. Those problems are what keep us from having a good relationship with money. The book tells us seventeen different ways that middle class and poor people have blueprints that keep them from success.
Some of the things we can learn from what this book has to tell us about the secrets of a millionaire mind are that we ought to admire the successful, associate with positive people, be bigger than our own problems, focus on opportunity and think big! Don't let the world happen to you. Instead, it's time to start creating your own life.
Each point is carefully explained, showing us how the successful discard beliefs that limit them. Unsuccessful people allow those beliefs to take over. This is a book that's about success and happiness at base, and the way those things can lead us to wealth.
Now, if you're someone who's not willing to change your own financial blueprint, you'll probably be disappointed by this book. After all, it takes a lot of work and it isn't comfortable. However, if you're ready to do a little work and change how you think, this could be just what you need.
If you think that Secrets of the Millionaire Mind can't do anything for you, it's time to think again. You'll be amazed at how you feel once you learn to think differently about success, money, and life in general.