I hear it all the time. “How do I get rich?”
I see it all the time. “I can show you how to get RICH!”
The problem is that getting rich is easy IF you do what rich people do.
I am not talking about some get rich quick scheme. I am not talking about a video course on how to get no money down real estate. I am not talking about learning to day trade in the stock market. What I am talking about are the thing that rich people do that are unrelated to how they make money. They have specific habits. They have a behavioral lifestyle that is different than those who are not…. rich.
I am about to say something that most get rich GURUS will never tell you. You can get rich doing anything. All you need are the behavioral habit of rich people. Even those who do get this just give you a list of rich people stuff that they do. Then people go out and try to do that rich people stuff.
The problem is that they never do it. Even with an exact road map to success they can’t get themselves to follow it. The reason is that in the things they are not doing they need to make a mental change before they can accomplish it. I don’t care what your favorite change method is. It is not important. What is important that you know WHERE to make changes.
Here is a list of things rich people do. It is from the Dave Ramsey site where he quotes Tom Corley, on from website RichHabitsInstitute.com
Go through this list and see which of these things you are not doing. Then make a change on each one and start doing it.
The habits of rich people
1. 70% of wealthy eat less than 300 junk food calories per day. 97% of poor people eat more than 300 junk food calories per day. 23% of wealthy gamble. 52% of poor people gamble.
2. 80% of wealthy are focused on accomplishing some single goal. Only 12% of the poor do this.
3. 76% of wealthy exercise aerobically four days a week. 23% of poor do this.
4. 63% of wealthy listen to audio books during commute to work vs. 5% of poor people.
5. 81% of wealthy maintain a to-do list vs. 19% of poor.
6. 63% of wealthy parents make their children read two or more non-fiction books a month vs. 3% of poor.
7. 70% of wealthy parents make their children volunteer 10 hours or more a month vs. 3% of poor.
8. 80% of wealthy make Happy Birthday calls vs. 11% of poor.
9. 67% of wealthy write down their goals vs. 17% of poor.
10. 88% of wealthy read 30 minutes or more each day for education or career reasons vs. 2% of poor.
11. 6% of wealthy say what’s on their mind vs. 69% of poor.
12. 79% of wealthy network five hours or more each month vs. 16% of poor.
13. 67% of wealthy watch one hour or less of TV every day vs. 23% of poor.
14. 6% of wealthy watch reality TV vs. 78% of poor.
15. 44% of wealthy wake up three hours before work starts vs. 3% of poor.
16. 74% of wealthy teach good daily success habits to their children vs. 1% of poor.
17. 84% of wealthy believe good habits create opportunity luck vs. 4% of poor.
18. 76% of wealthy believe bad habits create detrimental luck vs. 9% of poor.
19. 86% of wealthy believe in lifelong educational self-improvement vs. 5% of poor.
20. 86% of wealthy love to read vs. 26% of poor..
