The Driving Force for Success

Part 3

A Business Tycoon Reveals How to Change Your Life!

One of the most successful self-made businessmen in the Middle East has agreed to regularly reveal his success secrets to our readers on the strict condition that we don't reveal his identity (He HATES publicity).

We all want money and the niceties and freedoms that having money provides. But just fantasizing about a bigger house, a sleeker car, and a membership at the country club won't get you those things. There's got to be a reason for the wealth that's bigger much bigger than the money itself.
Let me share how, for me, the desire for wealth grew from a tiny spark of an idea to a powerhouse of energy, and the guts to get it done. Sure I wanted to be wealthy. I wanted to be a millionaire. But it wasn't for the Rolex watch, although today I have one. It wasn't for the nice homes or expensive cars, although I have those, too. It look me years to understand what was driving me and it wasn't positive thinking. For me, it was simply this: If I could become rich, it would make all the pain from the past go away. I would be somebody. I could show all the people, like my father, who said I would never amount to anything, that they were wrong. Most importantly, I could give my family all the security and safety that I had never had and I so badly wanted them to have. To build the desire necessary to achieve wealth, you must unleash the energy of your own pain, Maybe your pain comes from someone telling you that you wouldn't ever succeed. Maybe your pain comes from imagining your children in a mediocre, financially deprived life. Whatever it's source, you must find that pain, crystallize it, and understand what will make it go away.
Fortunately, somewhere along the way, my pain and animosity faded. I never gloated about my success to my father. By the time I began achieving my financial goals, it wasn't necessary.
And gradually the need to escape the pain of my unhappy childhood was replaced with the need to repeat the pleasure my achievements generated. The challenges and rewards of building wealth became my motivators. I am absolutely fascinated by wealthy people. I want to know how they got that way and what keeps them going. I found a study that tracked the fortunes and misfortunes of 12,000 wealthy people from across the United States. This study pointed out one significant common characteristic among people who are wealth builders: They love what they do! Have you ever wondered why wealthy people keep on working? Why did Sam Walton continue to be actively involved in the running of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., until his death- long after he had made more money than he would ever spend?

Don't you think that Michael Eisner, chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company, made enough money while still in his 40s so that he could retire with a lifestyle most of us only dream about?
Why does Bill Cosby keep doing television shows and Madonna keep recording music after they've become two of the richest entertainers in the world?
The answer is simple: They love what they do. Work is not a chore for them. They're eager to get up in the morning, to tackle new projects, to reach new goals. And because they love what they do, they are willing to do what it takes to succeed. Most people have a job for which they're paid just enough not to quit, and they work just hard enough not to get fired. Only a very few really love the work they do. That being true, we have unwittingly associated the process of making money with something that's painful or, at best, not pleasurable.
Think about this. If for years you have associated making money with pain, your brain has built a wall between yourself and the pleasure wealth and prosperity brings. When you think about money, deep down you may be focusing on ideas like "not fun," "hard " "boring," "no future," "wasting Lime," - all things that are painful. And when you think about big money, your idea is "big pain." It's entirely possible that this thought process has caused you unknowingly to sabotage your dreams in the past. But it doesn't have to be that way in the future. Making money can be fun. Becoming wealthy does not have to be all trials and tribulations. Once you find the right vehicle-one that will make money and be enjoyable at the same time you'll see how this process works, and how it will keep on working for the rest of your life. A friend of mine makes this point quite clearly. He's successful and he likes what he does, but he doesn't love it, and here's how I know: He usually comes in to his office around nine or ten in the morning. He claims he's not a morning person, so he chooses to come in late, and then stay late if necessary. But this guy loves to fish. Fishing is a passion with him. If I were to call him at any time and suggest we go fishing the following morning, he'd be up at 4:30 A.M., and have coffee brewed and the boat ready to go by 5:00. Interesting behavior from someone who claims he's not a "morning person." Business and making money can be extremely pleasurable, as pleasurable as fishing is for my friend. I love what I do. Simply put, it's fun for me. When the stories of wealthy people are told, over and over the common thread of loving what they do clearly shows through. It doesn't matter if they are Bill Gates of Microsoft, a computer whiz kid who became one of America's richest men, or Wally "Famous" Amos, a black man from a Harlem ghetto who made a fortune selling chocolate chip cookies. They all loved what they were doing.
When making money becomes your hobby, getting up early is no longer a chore. Staying late doesn't matter, because you're enjoying yourself. In fact, you'll be having so much fun that you'll toss out the time clock. You won't need it.
When you find the right vehicle that lets making money become your hobby, you'll find yourself generating significantly more wealth in much less time than you're probably spending on your job right now.