How to Become Wealthy
In Any Economy
This week saw the largest financial crisis since the stock market crash of the great depression. The economic downturn leading us into a recession is not only a national economic crisis, but now has become a global economic crisis. If you’re worried about your financial future you probably should be.
Not only have we seen stock market dives for six days straight, but during the last few months we have seen the largest bank failures in history, massive government intervention trying to save banks like Wachovia and Merrill Lynch which sales were orchestrated by the Feds. We saw Indymac commercial bank get seized and taken over by the Feds in order to save it from collapsing. We’ve seen many commercial banks and a giant investment bank, Lehman Brothers, file bankruptcy, while almost all other banks have frozen lending.
Real estate values have been dropping for 18 months straight with no end in sight, and this week saw a financial meltdown in the stock market wiping out peoples stock portfolios, mutual funds, and retirement plans. This week also marked the economic collapse of economic markets in France, Japan, China, Korea, Britan, Canada, Germany and Italy. The US has taken massive measures to infuse hundreds of Billions of dollars into the banking system in an attempt to save it, along with other desperate measures to insure bank deposits, guarantee loans, and more.
The seven nations (G7) met this week to make a coordinated reduction in the Federal lending rate for each of their respective countries, hoping it will free up inter bank lending; it did not. Public confidence is an all time low, people are bailing out of the stock market, unemployment is rising, housing values continue to drop and people are gripped with fear of what the future holds for them.
It’s Time to Be Scared
For Your Financial Future
· Will you be able to keep you job?
· Is your money safe from Bank Failures?
· How will you recover the losses in your retirement plan?
· Will you recover from the stock market drop?
· Will the Feds be able to stop the economic crisis?
· Will Inflation go wild?
· Will America drop into another Great Depression?
· Will unemployment rise?
· Will the value of your house continue to drop?
· Will you be able to stay in your home?
These are the questions we must ask our self, and we must answer those questions. If you don’t know the answer to these questions then you are probably like most people, who have placed your financial future into the hands of others; and nobody has an answer for you.
Who Is In Charge
Of Your Financial Future?
· Your Boss?
· The Company where you work?
· Your Bank?
· The Stock Market?
· Your Mutual Funds?
· Your 401-K or IRA Plans?
· The Federal Government?
· The Next President?
If you are like most people, you’ve placed your financial future in the hands of other people, and now you have reason to be concerned for your future. When you allow others to control your financial future you allow them to control your security, your job, your home, whether or not you can retire, what you can or cannot afford to buy, your savings, your happiness and your freedom. Why would you let others have all that control over your life; I want to help you take back that control.
What Will Happen to You If:
· Your bank fails?
· Social Security disappears?
· Your savings is lost?
· Your stocks and mutual funds crash.
· You get laid off at work?
· Consumer spending drops.
· We enter a long term recession or even depression?
· What happens if inflation goes wildly high affecting prices of, food, gas, mortgage interest rates, and more?
What if You Controlled Your Own Financial Future – Imagine If:
· Real estate values had no affect on you.
· Bank failures did not affect you.
· Job layoffs did not affect you.
· Unemployment did not affect you.
· Failed social security did not affect you.
· Consumer spending did not affect you.
· Recession and Depression did not affect you.
· Inflation did not affect you.
We cannot live in the world without being affected by the economic crisis, but for the those who understand the formula for creating true wealth, the affect does not need to be a negative one. Over the past twenty years I’ve worked with and alongside hundreds of wealthy entrepreneurs, multi-millionaires, and by doing so I discovered the formula to creating wealth in any economy.
During good economic times the wealthy minded entrepreneur makes money and during poor economic times they might make even more money. They do it in a way not to take advantage of other’s adversities, but in fact do just the opposite by helping bring value to those who need it most in a down economy. The wealthy have always provided value to society just at the time that the economy needs that value.
The Wealthy Always
Create Value to Society
At Just the Time it is Needed Most
· When society want houses, developers build houses
· When society need to sell houses investors buy their houses
· When society needs jobs entrepreneurs build businesses and provide jobs.
· When society need money entrepreneurs open banks and lend money
· When society wants to invest in stocks and mutual funds, entrepreneurs take their companies public so the public can invest in those companies.
· When the economy crashes, the wealthy are there to pick up the pieces, buy frozen assets, put rental houses back into the market, buy bankrupt businesses and put them back into production.
You cannot say they do all this only because they have the financial resources to do these things. No, the wealthy minded person began thinking the way they do long before they were ever wealthy; that’s how they eventually became wealthy. And they began behaved in the ways they that make them wealthy long before they were actually wealthy; that’s how they became wealthy.
All too often we see the wealthy behave in very different ways than the average person:
· Being driven in a limousine.
· Charter a plane.
· Hire people to tend to their estates.
· Buy up real estate.
· Start build and sell businesses.
· Spend massive amounts of money any way they can to save time.
And most people think the rich only behave in these ways because they have the financial means to do so. When in fact, the only reason they are rich is because they first began behaving in these ways. Granted, the behavior had to start small until the money followed, but the point is that the behavior drives the flow of money into their life, not the other way around.
So, what we are talking about is taking control of your thoughts and actions in order to drive money into your life so you no longer need to give away control of your finances, and therefore of your life, to others.
Who Controls
Your Financial Future?
· Wall Street or You
· Your Boss or You
· Your Employer or You
· The Bank or You
· The Feds or You
How Do You Take Back
Control of Your Financial Future
It’s really that simple, most people simply don’t know the difference, because they think you can’t do what the rich do unless they first have money. And if they never take those first few steps, then of course they won’t ever create wealth. The behavior has to happen first; wealth is the result of the behaviors, not the other way around.
I discovered the behaviors of the wealthy that makes them rich and I’ve packaged it into what I call my Formula For Millionaires. This is how you can take control of your financial future so when the economy crashes, it has little to no affect on you.
· You won’t need a boss to give you a job because you know how to create wealth.
· You won’t need a stock broker to make the right decisions for you because you will know how to make your own.
· You won’t need social security because you create your own security.
· You won’t need government sponsored retirement plans because you build your own.
· You won’t need the government to bail you out because you are financially free and free from the control of others.
In the middle of the current economic crisis, many wealthy people are hear amoung us and although that look at the financial situations of today with concern because of how it affects so many people, they are not worried for their finances, because they took control of that a long time ago. Only those who handed control over to others now fear the outcome, because the banks are losing their money, wall street is losing their money, and the Feds don’t seem to be able to stop it.
Let me give you just one example. I could use any number of examples to make my point including examples using stocks, real estate, banking, or a business like a clothing store, or even you who might want to make a music CD or your friend who wants to own a river fishing business. But, I will choose an example of real estate for no other reason than I like real estate, and many people think right now there is no way in the world to make money had you invested in real estate sometime during the last two years. I’ll prove that myth wrong.
If you think about money and investments like most people, then anything you do will fail when the economy goes through a tough time. But when you discover this very simple formula for becoming a millionaire you discover that you can create millions doing any number of things and it will not be affected by a crashed economy. Let me show the example of how most people think about real estate compared to how the millionaire thinks about it.
Example of
How Most People
Think About Real Estate Investing
Most people who buy real estate do so because:
· They think it will go up in value.
· They buy it because the last time they bought it they made money.
· They buy it because all the forecasters say it will go up.
· They buy it because their tax advisor tells them it is a great tax write off.
· They buy it because they have cash but are afraid of the stock market.
· They buy it because they think real estate will never go down.
Most people who bought real estate for all these reasons during the last several years are now suffering; they either went bankrupt, are facing foreclosure, or own expensive real estate that is worth 60% what they paid and now they cannot sell it, and are stuck with huge payment.
The wealthy never buy anything for the same reasons everyone else buys things.
The Wealthy
Buy Real Estate
Only if the Real Estate
· Provides a Value such as land needed for development, places to live – like apartment buildings, places to work – like office buildings, or places to play – like movie theatres and athletic clubs.
· The property pays for itself, not needing your money to pay bills.
· The property pays you a check each month, not the other way around.
· The property still pays you even if the perceived value goes to zero.
· The property still provides value even during recession.
Now you might think only the rich can buy this kind of real estate – Wrong. I give seminars to show how anyone without any money can do it without spending a dime. I’ve been purchasing apartment buildings during the last 12 months even while banks were having credit difficulties.
I use real estate only as one example. I could have used an example of a business that employs people, a company that makes food, or clothing, or a person who provides any number of services that people need every day and who will continue to need those products or services in any economy. The point is that the wealthy minded person creates and offers something of value which is not affected by economic downturns.
I Want You To Be Rich
In Any Economy
In my 7-Step Formula For Becoming A Millionaire. I share the steps you can take to become financially free in any economy. Where you are:
· Financially Free from needing a job.
· Free from affects of a stock market crash.
· Free from affects of inflation.
· Free from affects of a real estate crash.
· Free from exposure to bank failures.
· Free from affects of losing retirement savings.
· And free to love life, spend money, have fun, and help others.
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Article by Paul McCormick
Author of: SECRETS OF THE MILLIONAIRE INSIDE – The 7-Step Formula For Becoming A Millionaire.
About the Author
Early in life Paul discovered the secrets to creating true wealth when he had the opportunity to work with hundreds of entrepreneurs and multi-millionaires. He began using the formula in his own life and at age 27 he became owner of his own multi-million dollar company and at 29 became CEO where he remained for the next 11 years. While in his 30’s he walked away from it all, in order to write and speak, sharing the formula with you.