12/05/2025
The 21 Success Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires
Law of Cause and Effect:
1. In order to achieve great success in life, you must become a special kind of person. To rise above the majority, you must DEVELOP QUALITIES and DISCIPLINES that the average person lacks.
2. The most important factor in achieving great financial success is not the money. It is the kind of person you have to become to earn that money and then hold on to it.
3. Success in every area of life.
4. I see myself more as a student of success—a reader, a researcher, a synthesizer, and a teacher of great ideas—than as an originator or creator of brand new concepts.
5. We are living at the greatest time in all of human history. More people are becoming wealthy today, starting from nothing, than ever before imagined. There are more than seven million millionaires in America, most of them self-made, and the number is growing by 15 to 20 percent each year. We even have self-made ten millionaires, hundred millionaires, and more than two hundred billionaires. We have never seen this type of rapid wealth creation in all of human history.
6. Law of Cause and Effect. This law is simple yet very powerful. It says that there is a specific effect for every cause. For every action, there is a reaction. This law says that success is not an accident. Financial success is the result of doing certain, specific things over and over again until you achieve the financial independence that you desire.
7. Nature is neutral. The natural world, the marketplace, or our society does not care who you are or what you are.
8. Nobody is better than you and nobody is smarter than you. Get those thoughts out of your mind. One of the primary reasons for selling yourself short, for underachievement and lack of financial success, is the conviction that people who are doing better than you are better than you.
9. The fact is that most self-made millionaires are ordinary people with average educations, working at average jobs, and living in average neighborhoods, in average houses driving, average cars. But they have found out what other financially successful people do and they have done those same things over and over again until they achieved the same results. It is no miracle and it is no accident. And when you think the same thoughts and do the same things that self-made millionaires do, you will begin to get the same results and benefits they do. It is simply a matter of cause and effect.
10. The good news is that you can learn every one of these principles by practice and repetition, over and over again, until they become as natural to you as breathing in and breathing out. Just as you learned to Introduction: The Law of Cause and Effect 3 ride a bicycle or drive a car, you can learn the success secrets of self-made millionaires and apply them in your life. And there are no limits except the limits you place on yourself by your own thinking.
Secret 1: Dream Big Dreams:
1. THE FIRST SECRET of self-made millionaires is simple: Dream Big Dreams! Allow yourself to dream.
2. Think about the amount of money you would like to earn and have in your bank account.
3. Imagine that you have no limitations on what you can be, have, or do in life. Just for the moment, imagine that you have all the time, all the money, all the education, all the experience, all the friends, all the contacts, all the resources, and everything else you need to achieve anything you want in life.
4. Create a clear vision of health, happiness, and prosperity, the faster you move toward it and the faster it moves toward you.
5. A clear mental picture in life become more positive, more motivated, and more determined to make it a reality.
6. Trigger natural creativity and come up with idea after idea to help make your vision come true.
7. Dream big dreams actually raises your self-esteem and causes you to like and respect yourself more.
8. Write it down and imagining that you have achieved this one great goal already. Then, look back to where you are today. What would you have done to get where you want to go? What steps would you have taken? What would you have changed in your life? What would you have started up or abandoned? Who would you be with? Who would you no longer be with? If your life were perfect in every respect, what would it look like? Whatever it is that you would do differently, take the first step today.
9. But when you begin to dream big dreams about financial success, you begin to change the way you see yourself and your life. You begin to do different things, bit by bit, gradually, until the whole direction of your life changes for the better.
ACTION EXERCISE : Make a list of everything you would do or attempt if you were absolutely guaranteed of success. Then decide upon one specific action and do it immediately.
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Secret 2: Develop A Clear Sense Of Direction
1. A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress on even the smoothest road.
2. TAKE YOUR DREAMS out of the air and crystallize them into clear, specific written goals.
3. Successful people think about their goals most of the time. As a result, they are continually moving toward their goals, and their goals are continually moving toward them.
4. Seven-step formula for achieving goals that you can use to become a millionaire:
1. Decide exactly what you want in each area of your life, especially in your financial life.
2. Write down your goals clearly and specifically.
3. Set a deadline for each goal. Set sub deadlines if a goal is big enough. Give yourself a target to aim at.
4. List of everything you can think of that you will have to do to achieve each goal. As you think of new ideas, add them to your list until it is complete
5. Organize your list into a plan of action. Determine what you are going to do first and what you will do later. Decide what is more important and what is less important.
6. Take action on your plan immediately. Goals and plans are never realized because of procrastination and delay.
7. Do something every day that moves you at least one step closer to your most important goal.
Exercise: Take a sheet of paper and write the word “Goals” at the top of the page with today’s date. Then, make a list of 10 goals that you would like to achieve over the next 12 months. Write your goals in the present tense, as though a year has passed and you have already achieved them. Begin each goal with the word “I” to make it personal to you. By making out a list of 10 goals for yourself for the next year, you will move yourself into an exclusive group consisting of only 3 percent of adults in our society.
go over the list and ask this key question: Which one goal on this list, if I were to achieve it, would have the greatest positive impact on my life?
Whatever your answer to that question, circle that goal and make that your number one, most important Develop a Clear Sense of Direction 11 goal for the future. Set a deadline, make a plan, take action on your plan, and do something every day that moves you toward that goal.
Now on, think and talk about that goal all the time. Think and talk about how you can achieve that goal. Think and talk about all the different steps that you can take to make that goal a reality. This exercise will stimulate your creativity, increase your energy, and unlock more and more of your potential.
