The older I get the more I wonder what it is we're all so afraid of. Like you, I travel the world and see or hear about real problems; murder, torture, death, disease and starvation. Then I return to this gray, stuffy country to witness intelligent and privileged people wasting their lives down the pub or propped in front of the TV screen for, on average, four hours each night.

Many people are also timid and completely risk-averse. Their quest for safety comes way above their desire for pushing the boundaries and living a powerful life.

Achieving great wealth and happiness starts with having a dream. Today's dreams are surely tomorrow's realities.

No matter how far down you are at the moment, I promise that you can make a greater success of your life from here on in. Not only have I done this myself but in the past ten years I have helped thousands of people to improve their lives. These are people similar to you. People who were sick of the poverty and mediocrity of their lives, just like I was twenty years ago when a small book changed my life forever.

It's a famous book called: The Lazy Man's Way To Riches by Joe Karbo. Cheesy title and Joe is long dead, but that was the very first exposure I ever had to the ideas of positive thinking, motivation and goal-setting. The book was sold mail-order at £10. Like millions of people I thought: "Yeah, I know how he got rich - by taking £10 off mugs like me!" To this day, I receive about one hundred letters each year which say the same thing about the advert for my own book The Midas Method.

Anyway, I thought "what the heck" and decided to give it a shot. (Note: Investing in myself). To my surprise, the book arrived and I remember the thrill with which I opened it. The book was dynamite! It talked about goal-setting and motivation. I had never heard such concepts. It talked about the magic power of goal setting and how it worked. I was highly skeptical, but decided to try (Note: You need flexibility. You must be willing to try something different, even if you 'know' it's rubbish.)

I set my first six goals. One of which was to have a net worth of £250,000 one day. Note this goal. At the time (and I can recall it vividly) this was an impossible, fantasy level of money and I didn't believe for one microsecond that I would ever achieve this. I was about £20,000 in debt on a salary of £6,000/year. But the book said to set high goals, so I chose a 'ludicrous' amount of money. (Note: False ceilings keep your aspirations low. What a low goal to set, whilst thinking it was an impossibly high goal!)

Something changed that day. Imperceptibly. No flashing lights and blaring trumpets. Just a small shift in gear and a tiny angle-change in aiming point. I was not even aware of the change, but looking back I can say categorically that writing my first set of goals was the turning point. If I had not done that, I am totally convinced that I would have remained a studio engineer at the BBC, or similar.

Instead, I decided to fight. Are you prepared to fight?


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