The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

I think we’re meant to often feel lonely and scared. It allows us to recalibrate where we are and ask the important question, is this what I’m supposed to be doing right now? When I am filled with fear is exactly the time when I want my idea muscle humming, when I must write those ten ideas a day down and become an Idea Machine.

your brain is going to spend a lot of time figuring where you are in the hierarchy. Then it’s going to govern your behavior, often without your conscious permission, based on where it concludes you belong. The only way a mammal can choose itself is by fighting a mammal above it in the hierarchy and winning, even if this means maiming or killing. So

Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

When you come up with ideas for someone else, always give all the ideas away for free if you think they are good ideas (remember: six months). I read recently about one person who recommended giving half of your ideas away for free and making others pay for the other half. But this guarantees you will only come up with bad ideas, because you will h

ABS—Always Be Storytelling. Never give advice in a talk. Nobody, I don’t care who you are, is smart enough to just dole out advice. Just talk about your own experiences and what you did to help yourself. Mix in interesting facts. Straight out advice will never help anyone. Buddha himself realized this about public speaking. He said, “Don’t believe

Only stepping out of the prison imposed on you from your factory will allow you to achieve abundance. You can’t see it now. It’s hard to see the gardens when you are locked in jail. Abundance only comes when you are moving along your themes—when you are truly enhancing the lives of the people around you. It happens when you wake up every day with t

Here’s the operating theory: you don’t need to spend 10,000 hours at anything to be the best. You just need to be pretty good at something (spend a couple of hundred hours) and then you need to know how to give a good talk in public. You will stand out, because so few people want to talk in public.

We spend years building a garden. We plant the seeds. We tend the soil. We water the plants. But we are also the sun. The sun shines no matter what. It doesn’t care which flower blossoms. The sun is always there providing value every second of the day. Be the sun and you will create abundance.

There’s no such thing as instant health. There’s only such thing as practice and progress. All you have to do is check the box on progress. Progress compounds every day into enormous abundance.

Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Atlantic Airlines, is an Idea Machine. And he provides one of my favorite examples of taking a critical first step. Branson didn’t like the service on some airline he was flying. So he had an idea: “I’m going to start a new airline.” But how the heck can a magazine publisher start an airline from scratch with