Sunday, September 28, 2014

How to think and be; Starting at level one towards wealth and success

While reading You Are Now Less Dumb, I started to learn the secrets behind who and what I am, what motivates me and how many of the things I think and the justification behind them are wrong.  Once the realization was there, I started to take a different approach to my life.  Now when I think about something in a certain way, I question it based on what I read and my understand of those facts.  With this new knowledge, I started to understand why I am where I am and some of the things I can do to change my situation.


Today I decided to find out something that has a lot to do with wealth and success.  Looking up this search

how does a rich person start their day?

That's all I wanted to know. What are the successful general habits that rich people have?  Clicking through the first ten links allowed me into their well kept world.  The first one I found was on www.daveramsey.com called.

20 Things the Rich Do Every Day

So let's start here.

So let's start here.

1. 70% of wealthy eat less than 300 junk food calories per day. 97% of poor people eat more than 300 junk food calories per day. 23% of wealthy gamble. 52% of poor people gamble.

(i'm terrible guilt of the "more than 300 junk calories...an hour)

2. 80% of wealthy are focused on accomplishing some single goal. Only 12% of the poor do this.

3. 76% of wealthy exercise aerobically four days a week. 23% of poor do this.

4. 63% of wealthy listen to audio books during commute to work vs. 5% of poor people.

5. 81% of wealthy maintain a to-do list vs. 19% of poor.

6. 63% of wealthy parents make their children read two or more non-fiction books a month vs. 3% of poor.

7. 70% of wealthy parents make their children volunteer 10 hours or more a month vs. 3% of poor.

8. 80% of wealthy make Happy Birthday calls vs. 11% of poor.

9. 67% of wealthy write down their goals vs. 17% of poor.

10. 88% of wealthy read 30 minutes or more each day for education or career reasons vs. 2% of poor.

11. 6% of wealthy say what’s on their mind vs. 69% of poor.

12. 79% of wealthy network five hours or more each month vs. 16% of poor.

13. 67% of wealthy watch one hour or less of TV every day vs. 23% of poor.

14. 6% of wealthy watch reality TV vs. 78% of poor.

15. 44% of wealthy wake up three hours before work starts vs. 3% of poor.

16. 74% of wealthy teach good daily success habits to their children vs. 1% of poor.

17. 84% of wealthy believe good habits create opportunity luck vs. 4% of poor.

18. 76% of wealthy believe bad habits create detrimental luck vs. 9% of poor.

19. 86% of wealthy believe in lifelong educational self-improvement vs. 5% of poor.


20. 86% of wealthy love to read vs. 26% of poor.

"Tom Corley, on his website RichHabitsInstitute.com, outlines a few of the differences between the habits of the rich and the poor."

Naturally I'm compelled to ask, what rich habits do you have as opposed to poor ones?  I'll discuss how I rank if you tell me how you rank.


Oh and if you'd like to understand yourself a little better, here's the link for the book.

You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself

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