RICH THINKING VERSUS POOR THINKING.

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. — JOHN M . IDIO.

THERE HAVE NEVER BEEN more opportunities for you to become wealthy, and more different ways to achieve it, than exist today. More people are starting more businesses in more different industries than ever before. More knowledge, information, and technology are creating more products and services that people want, need, and are willing to pay for.

One new idea is all you need to start a fortune. In the year 1900, there were 5,000 millionaires in America, after almost two hundred years of economic development and growth. By the year 1980, there were 1 million millionaires in America. In 2015, there are more than 10 million millionaires and 1,826 billionaires, most of whom started with nothing and earned all their money in one lifetime. And within reason, so can you.

As Within, So Without

The Law of Correspondence works for everyone at all times under all circumstances. This law says that your outer world will be a reflection of your inner world. Everything moves from within to without. You cannot accomplish something on the outside until you first accomplish it on the inside. To be wealthy on the outside, you must think like a rich person on the inside. There is no other way. Poor people think like poor people.

They have self-limiting beliefs that hold them back and stop them from even trying. In a study completed a few years agoentitled One Hundred Million Millionaires, the authors demonstrated that if you simply saved $100 per month throughout your working lifetime, invested it, and let it grow with compound interest, it would amount to $1 million by the time you retired. Why doesn't everyone do this?

Poor thinking! Tony Robbins, in his 2014 book, Money: Master the Game, emphasizes what Einstein said: "Compounding is the most powerful force in the universe." After extensive interviews with fifty of the richest people in the world, Robbins concluded that almost anyone can start small, save and invest regularly, use the miracle of compound interest, and eventually become financially independent, if not wealthy. This simple method has worked for almost everyone at all times throughout history. And it can work for you.

Self-Made Millionaires

studied, contrasted, and compared for many years to determine what it is about them that makes them different from each other. The bottom line is that you can start off with every advantage in life—good family, excellent education, ideal contacts and opportunities—but if you lack themental habits necessary for success, they will do you no good. On the other hand, you can start with no advantages, like people who escape from a poor country or a dictatorship and arrive with no friends, no contacts, even no language skills, but with excellent habits, and then go on to create great lives for themselves.