The mentality of being rich and poor

Mentality is a matter of how we see things based on our belief system. As a young man growing up in Indianapolis, Indiana, I grew up being very poor. My stepfather was a hard working man but he never made more then $13,500 a year. So I was always doing without. I was never talked to about saving money or investing it. I only heard the complaints about their not being enough to buy all the things that we wanted. I myself went without a lot and never had the things that other kids had in other neighborhoods with more money.

I noticed as I made my way into other neighborhoods looking for more friends and girlfriends the houses were nicer and so were the cars. They had dinner with each other at the table and were polite to one another. Their play clothes would have been nice school clothes for me. Then I would hear the parents talking about investing and having a savings and putting away 10% of their money in their savings accounts at the bank. I thought how weird to have money left over after paying bills and then to invest it without going out and buying silly things with. I learned that wealthy people think of their assets as employees. They wanted to know how each dollar they have left over can make more money for them and how it can secure their future.  The poor people that I knew, myself included, all wanted to know what we could buy next if we had any money left over at all which was seldom.

The rich people had the mentality of I can have my cake with my favorite icing and eat it as well. Because they knew that their money was making them money and securing their family future. My poor family lived only in the moment and immediate gratification. And when we spent what we had it was someone else’s fault that we had no money to buy other things with. I also noticed that the other neighbors who were rich had higher educations and owned their own companies. And I even knew some people who had no education and just a lot of drive and desire to be wealthy and they were. It was all mentality. I begin to study being rich with a vengeance and found some very interesting facts that I used to become wealthy. I also found the balance of having wealth and being humble. It is all about mentality. Creotology Personal Development will follow up with another article on the “Mentality of Wealth” on part 2 of this blog tomorrow.

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The Leader in you! 8 Guidelines for Becoming a True Leader

The 1^st guideline to being a successful leader is to understand the importance of being a shining example to your team and showing them how they can count on you to be there. When the going gets tough for your team they need and want to see the leader take control and help them through their obstacles and be a stabilizing force for them to succeed. There is an old saying that says a coward dies a thousand deaths and the man/woman with true courage dies only once is very true in business and personal life. The leader must have the courage to lead his/her team with a positive attitude and the power to make a difference in the teams confidence level that we can achieve if we all pull together. You being the leader must portray that unbendable courage at all times. Never back down and never surrender and always look for new viewpoints to work from.

The 2^nd guideline is to have think tanks not meetings. Schedule meetings for the new things that must be implemented into the work structure. However, when looking for new ideas have group think tank sessions and have all the ideas laid out for all to examine. As the leader keep the group positive and allow them to expand their own ideas and the ideas of others to make a larger idea. Do not allow any negative ideas about why something will not work. Once solid ideas have been created and structured allow another day for the negative ideas about the new ideas to come forward. But, use the negative ideas to help restructure the other positive ideas into a better idea. Then it is time to test the market and see what really works and adjust from there.

The 3^rd guideline is to always look to expand your knowledge and wisdom base. Always be reading and doing seminars and workshops to increase your knowledge and personal development. You are the centralized hub of what works and what does not. Allow all of your team to see you constantly studying and learning and trying new things. The team wants a know it all that is willing to try new things for the sake of the team. So come off with your knowledge and ideas as another idea to try just like the rest of the teams ideas. This way there will be no animosity towards your knowledge and wisdom. When they see you work for it and you are not the wonder kid the team will respond far better to you and all you wisdom and knowledge.

The 4^th guideline is to always be on the look out for an area in the company that someone may be better at then what they currently do on the team. Always make the switch to another division a positive switch and not that the person who is being transferred is less then adequate for their current position. Instead of hiring out side the firm look for the people in your company that you feel are a great fit for the new division and then hire for their spot that is now open. Moving people around first so that they are fitted into the team spot will boost confidence and fill key places with already established staff. Bottom line; help your people grow!! Personal development is for everyone.

The 5^th guideline is to create an outing among all key staff personal every 3-6 months and invite other staff members that you feel are up and comers. Give away special prizes to everyone that attends even if they were not expected to show. Everyone loves praise and attention so surprise them with something that recognizes the greatness in them and for what they have performed.

The 6^th guideline is to be flexible with your team but make them fully participate in their position. If they have to be off a day make them find their replacement and then you give the final approval on their choice. If it is not the right choice make them figure it out again. Getting your team to think about the ramifications for their personal actions is a great way to increase confidence and the personal role they play in your company and the team. This will breed greater personal development and foster greater personal responsibility.

The 7^th guideline is to never allow a team member to present a problem that they do not have at least one answer for. This is the personal responsibility factor again. Your job as a leader is to train others to be leaders and to have personal conviction. This will help your team and company grow in an expedited way. The stronger your team the more responsibility they can foster the more work can be done because there is strong management all the way to the top!

The 8^th guideline is leading by example!!! What ever the rules are, be sure that you follow them to the letter. Do not ask others to do what you your self are not willing to be seen to do. Do as I say and not as I do no longer works well as a productive model in a company or a relationship. Be willing to be the lead dog and let others see you doing it. When they see you do it, and then you ask them to do it, it is not as big of a deal. Be the role model for the team that you want and you will notice that your team becomes unified and an exact model of you and your leadership ability. Let me talk to a team member for ten minutes and I will know how they have been lead.

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Clarity and living with the success it creates!

Because of the clarity that Creotology Personal Development creates in your life you are able to shape what is truly important and get rid of all the illusions of what you have been programmed to believe is important. There is no road to travel that is more important then the one you choose that has the greatest passion for you. When you choose to travel your road of passion you will automatically become of service to others and enrich their personal lives.  Just imagine if the world’s greatest painters never decided to follow their personal passion for painting or if the Marx Brothers never wanted to go against the odds and try to fly. You get the point…passion is what ignites creation and makes the world a better place over all.

When you have clarity about what you want and why, and what the greater good is that it will serve in your life you truly make a difference in the world. Now that is the very thing that makes the world a greater place and you having your secured position in it. Passion is the fuel that will drive your dreams to the fruition of your desires and enable you to succeed in your life. Nothing happens without clarity. Think of clarity like a map that is laid out with the specifics of the path that you are to follow. It makes your mission to follow instructions easy and gives you the bearings that you will need to overcome obstacles that will be created along the way so that you have the stabilizing ability that you need to keep moving forward and achieve these goals.

Any type of goal that you want to achieve should always be written out in clarity and should have built in plans for any foreseeable obstacles and how they can be covered. Moving around in haste creates a lot of wasted time and energy. Both of these commodities are too valuable to waste. You can never be very accurate if you do not have a clear target to hit, and when you can have your contingency plan worked out ahead of time it makes handling obstacles very simple. Remember the more information you have about an obstacle in your path the easier it is to dissolve them. Information dissolves obstacles. In fact writing out the obstacle solves approximately 50% of the obstacle. Creotology Personal Development Live it, and Succeed!!

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