Wednesday, November 22, 2006
A Dynamite Article From a Mentor of Mine
Today I would like to share an Article form a mentor of mine. His name is
Willie Crawford. This Article is so insightful and powerful.
The title is - Don't Hate The Rich - Become One Of Them!
Copyright 2006 by Willie Crawford
When I was a child, growing up on the farm in North Carolina ( extremely poor),
my grandmother's favoritesaying seemed to be "Money doesn't grow on trees!"
She was also fond of unintentionally misquoting the Bible and saying "Money
is the root of all EVIL!"
As I listened to my elders, and the others around me,I learned that "It was
easier for a camel to pass thought the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to
get into heaven."
It was gradually hammered into my head that the richwere to be scorned,
and that they got that way bystepping on the poor. I also learned that we
were "very lucky" that we didn't have many things. For example, we didn't
have a telephone, television, a car, or air-conditioning during most of my
pre-adult life. My grandmother use to make us feel better by pointing out
that "Sleeping under a cold air conditioner would make you sick."
Many of us grew up exposed to similar thinking and similarteachings. We
were taught that there was something inherently wrong with being rich.
As I grew older, I was exposed to many very rich people.They taught me
that it wasn't wrong to be wealthy, andthey also helped me understand that
part of our psyche that makes us feel better by blaming others for our problems.
I learned that there was a time in history when many ofthe very rich did indeed
treat the lower classes very badly. This was a time when people were little more
than property, and in most countries the rich didn't see a reason to be polite to
the working class!
Being treated so poorly, the working class did often refer to the upper class by
such terms as "stinking rich" and other MUCH harsher terms.
Even today, there are places where the rich do treat thepoor as property, or as
just "labor." That's the reality,and that's life. Instead of complaining about it, if you
find yourself in that predicament, your job is to extract yourself from the extreme
poverty... first of all.Then you will have the ability to help the less fortunate.
As I spent more and more time around the rich, I learned and began to appreciate
some of their sayings. Two thatreally seemed to stick were:
1) "Rich people have large libraries, poor people havelarge televisions." I've seen
several variations of thatsaying, but they all pass along the same basic message...that
constantly learning new things is one of the keys to moving ahead. Vegetating in front
of the television only allows temporary escape as we live our "dream lives"by watching
those of others.
Television largely hypnotizes us, and puts us in a statewhere we can at least temporarily
imagine ourselves inthe shoes of the actors and actresses. That's the onlyway that we can
mentally get so wrapped up in some of the shows that we watch.
2) "The best thing that I can do for the poor is not be one of them." When I first heard that
saying I thought that it was cruel, until I saw the truth inthe fact that I cannot help out the
poor (financially) unless I'm not poor too. Getting involved in activities that seek to transfer
the wealth from the rich to thepoor doesn't work. Instead, to escape from poverty you need
to learn from the wealthy, and discover ways of creating more wealth.
A big part of the problem is that many of us grew upwith a poverty mentality. That mentality
teaches that"If you have more, then I must have less." After all,the pie is of a fixed size, so if
you get a bigger piece, then that leaves less for me.
The rich know that the pie is limitless. Instead of grabbing for a bigger piece of that pie, you
should help the pie to grow bigger. When the pie is bigger,there is naturally more for everyone.
The Internet proved to me that the pie is indeed limitless. Consider creating and selling digital
products which is what many of my mentors and I do.When I create and sell an audio course
that is digitally downloaded, I am selling part of anendless supply of electrons. After I create
an audio product, in downloadable MP3, I can sell amillion copies of that product, and there
is STILL enough for everyone in the world to have more. By creating that product, I literally
produce a pie of unlimited size.
Once you wrap your mind around that concept, a whole new world of possibilities opens up.
Being on the Internet also opens you up to a whole new world of possibilities. You'll see that
not only is the pie limitless, but it can also be shared across borders.We are no longer confined
to the effects of, and restrains imposed by, conditions in our own countries.
As an example, I personally have friends and mentorson several continents. I teach and speak
on several continents. Over the next five months, I am scheduledto speak at seminars in Malaysia,
Singapore, Australia,The United Kingdom, and all across the United States.I'm also exploring speaking possibilities in theCaribbean, Africa, and South America. For a farm kidthat spent most of his youth
on welfare (governmentsubsistence) this is very powerful proof that it's notthe rich that hold us back.
So, how does a poor farm kid move from extreme povertyto an international speaker who literally
has directaccess to international financiers, governmental leaders,and celebrities? I did it by letting
the rich teachme! I read and studied voraciously. I went through an endless stream of audio tapes,
and lately audio CDs, listening to them and studying what they taught overand over again until I
actually "wore out" many of the tapes!
In the Internet marketing arena, I studied what people who were living the lifestyle that I wanted
were doing.For example, I have a friend, and mentor, over in theU.K. who earns an incredible living
from the Internetworking just a few hours per week. I let him teach me how. He spends the rest of his
time managing anoffline business, serving as a politician, and doingother things that are important to
him. You can checkthis friend out at: http://www.StinkingRich3.com/wc
The secret is studying what the wealthy are doing,allowing them to teach you what they are doing,
and then doing the same thing. If it works for them, andyou do the same thing, then it should also
work for you. Right?
Your big challenge is identifying accurately what therich are actually doing. Often it looks like one
thing is the reason for their success, yet when you talk tothem, or manage to get close enough to
really studythem and their habits, you discover things that 99% ofthe world completely misses
about them.
I'm only going to share with you one of my mentors today. That's the one in the U.K. He works
VERY few hours at his online business, yet earns more than 99.9% of the "Internet marketers" that
I know. He reallyunderstands the wealth mentality. He teaches people like me how to get rid of the
"poverty mentality" and to develop that wealth mentality. Take a few minutes toget to know one of
my mentors now. He's at:http://www.StinkingRich3.com/wc
Another secret to success, and increasing your wealth,is closely managing who you allow to "rub
off" on you.Our thinking is heavily influenced by those that we arearound every day. If you are
around negative people,their constantly spewing negative energy HAS to affect you.
If you are constantly exposed to those who have radicallychanged their lives, they prove to you
that you can do ittoo. That's a big reason why I attend seminars, conferences, and networking
events sponsored by the people that I want to be like... those who have the lifestyle that I desire.
I encourage you to do the same. When you can't actually be surrounded by them, at a minimum
completely IMMERSE yourself in recorded materials that they so generously make available to
you. There you have the key to gradually becoming one of the rich, instead of mearely envying
them.
Willie Crawford has taught thousands how to build successful online businesses since late-1996.
His membership site contains over 30 interviews of leading online marketers sharing their views
on "How To Break Into The InternetMarketing Inner Circle." You can access those interviews
at: http://TheInternetMarketingInnerCircle.com
Today I would like to share an Article form a mentor of mine. His name is
Willie Crawford. This Article is so insightful and powerful.
The title is - Don't Hate The Rich - Become One Of Them!
Copyright 2006 by Willie Crawford
When I was a child, growing up on the farm in North Carolina ( extremely poor),
my grandmother's favoritesaying seemed to be "Money doesn't grow on trees!"
She was also fond of unintentionally misquoting the Bible and saying "Money
is the root of all EVIL!"
As I listened to my elders, and the others around me,I learned that "It was
easier for a camel to pass thought the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to
get into heaven."
It was gradually hammered into my head that the richwere to be scorned,
and that they got that way bystepping on the poor. I also learned that we
were "very lucky" that we didn't have many things. For example, we didn't
have a telephone, television, a car, or air-conditioning during most of my
pre-adult life. My grandmother use to make us feel better by pointing out
that "Sleeping under a cold air conditioner would make you sick."
Many of us grew up exposed to similar thinking and similarteachings. We
were taught that there was something inherently wrong with being rich.
As I grew older, I was exposed to many very rich people.They taught me
that it wasn't wrong to be wealthy, andthey also helped me understand that
part of our psyche that makes us feel better by blaming others for our problems.
I learned that there was a time in history when many ofthe very rich did indeed
treat the lower classes very badly. This was a time when people were little more
than property, and in most countries the rich didn't see a reason to be polite to
the working class!
Being treated so poorly, the working class did often refer to the upper class by
such terms as "stinking rich" and other MUCH harsher terms.
Even today, there are places where the rich do treat thepoor as property, or as
just "labor." That's the reality,and that's life. Instead of complaining about it, if you
find yourself in that predicament, your job is to extract yourself from the extreme
poverty... first of all.Then you will have the ability to help the less fortunate.
As I spent more and more time around the rich, I learned and began to appreciate
some of their sayings. Two thatreally seemed to stick were:
1) "Rich people have large libraries, poor people havelarge televisions." I've seen
several variations of thatsaying, but they all pass along the same basic message...that
constantly learning new things is one of the keys to moving ahead. Vegetating in front
of the television only allows temporary escape as we live our "dream lives"by watching
those of others.
Television largely hypnotizes us, and puts us in a statewhere we can at least temporarily
imagine ourselves inthe shoes of the actors and actresses. That's the onlyway that we can
mentally get so wrapped up in some of the shows that we watch.
2) "The best thing that I can do for the poor is not be one of them." When I first heard that
saying I thought that it was cruel, until I saw the truth inthe fact that I cannot help out the
poor (financially) unless I'm not poor too. Getting involved in activities that seek to transfer
the wealth from the rich to thepoor doesn't work. Instead, to escape from poverty you need
to learn from the wealthy, and discover ways of creating more wealth.
A big part of the problem is that many of us grew upwith a poverty mentality. That mentality
teaches that"If you have more, then I must have less." After all,the pie is of a fixed size, so if
you get a bigger piece, then that leaves less for me.
The rich know that the pie is limitless. Instead of grabbing for a bigger piece of that pie, you
should help the pie to grow bigger. When the pie is bigger,there is naturally more for everyone.
The Internet proved to me that the pie is indeed limitless. Consider creating and selling digital
products which is what many of my mentors and I do.When I create and sell an audio course
that is digitally downloaded, I am selling part of anendless supply of electrons. After I create
an audio product, in downloadable MP3, I can sell amillion copies of that product, and there
is STILL enough for everyone in the world to have more. By creating that product, I literally
produce a pie of unlimited size.
Once you wrap your mind around that concept, a whole new world of possibilities opens up.
Being on the Internet also opens you up to a whole new world of possibilities. You'll see that
not only is the pie limitless, but it can also be shared across borders.We are no longer confined
to the effects of, and restrains imposed by, conditions in our own countries.
As an example, I personally have friends and mentorson several continents. I teach and speak
on several continents. Over the next five months, I am scheduledto speak at seminars in Malaysia,
Singapore, Australia,The United Kingdom, and all across the United States.I'm also exploring speaking possibilities in theCaribbean, Africa, and South America. For a farm kidthat spent most of his youth
on welfare (governmentsubsistence) this is very powerful proof that it's notthe rich that hold us back.
So, how does a poor farm kid move from extreme povertyto an international speaker who literally
has directaccess to international financiers, governmental leaders,and celebrities? I did it by letting
the rich teachme! I read and studied voraciously. I went through an endless stream of audio tapes,
and lately audio CDs, listening to them and studying what they taught overand over again until I
actually "wore out" many of the tapes!
In the Internet marketing arena, I studied what people who were living the lifestyle that I wanted
were doing.For example, I have a friend, and mentor, over in theU.K. who earns an incredible living
from the Internetworking just a few hours per week. I let him teach me how. He spends the rest of his
time managing anoffline business, serving as a politician, and doingother things that are important to
him. You can checkthis friend out at: http://www.StinkingRich3.com/wc
The secret is studying what the wealthy are doing,allowing them to teach you what they are doing,
and then doing the same thing. If it works for them, andyou do the same thing, then it should also
work for you. Right?
Your big challenge is identifying accurately what therich are actually doing. Often it looks like one
thing is the reason for their success, yet when you talk tothem, or manage to get close enough to
really studythem and their habits, you discover things that 99% ofthe world completely misses
about them.
I'm only going to share with you one of my mentors today. That's the one in the U.K. He works
VERY few hours at his online business, yet earns more than 99.9% of the "Internet marketers" that
I know. He reallyunderstands the wealth mentality. He teaches people like me how to get rid of the
"poverty mentality" and to develop that wealth mentality. Take a few minutes toget to know one of
my mentors now. He's at:http://www.StinkingRich3.com/wc
Another secret to success, and increasing your wealth,is closely managing who you allow to "rub
off" on you.Our thinking is heavily influenced by those that we arearound every day. If you are
around negative people,their constantly spewing negative energy HAS to affect you.
If you are constantly exposed to those who have radicallychanged their lives, they prove to you
that you can do ittoo. That's a big reason why I attend seminars, conferences, and networking
events sponsored by the people that I want to be like... those who have the lifestyle that I desire.
I encourage you to do the same. When you can't actually be surrounded by them, at a minimum
completely IMMERSE yourself in recorded materials that they so generously make available to
you. There you have the key to gradually becoming one of the rich, instead of mearely envying
them.
Willie Crawford has taught thousands how to build successful online businesses since late-1996.
His membership site contains over 30 interviews of leading online marketers sharing their views
on "How To Break Into The InternetMarketing Inner Circle." You can access those interviews
at: http://TheInternetMarketingInnerCircle.com
