The Millionaire Mindset: Seven Important Things to Know

Discover 5 key millionaire mindsets from T. Harv Eker’s book that set the wealthy apart and learn how to apply them for success and abundance.

In his book – Secrets of the millionaire mindset: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth – T. Harve Ecker outlines seventeen differences between the mindset of rich people versus poor people. T. Harv Eker is a self-made millionaire who lost his first million to bad decisions, figured out what he did wrong, and became an author and entrepreneur who in 2024 claimed a net worth of $17.4 million. If you want to know more about the millionaire mindset, you might want to read his book.

The biggest secret of a millionaires is that they don’t spend money but invest it. To live in frugality. To save more than they spend.

In today’s world when you can’t even make it through from paycheck to paycheck without dipping into your credit card to buy groceries, and I’m talking about spending less than you make.

Why Mindset matters when building wealth

Even so, no matter what your finances are at the moment, a dollar a day adds up. A saved dollar you swear never to touch, no matter what.

The truth is, anyone can become wealthy. Some millionaires drive oldcars, live in modest homes, and quietly grow wealth behind the scenes. Others lose it all, learn, and build it again.

Wealth isn’t about luck. It’s about discipline, choices, and perspective. The good new? A millionaire mindset can be learned and practiced no matter where you’re starting from.

Wealth is abundant in this world, you just have to learn how to tap into it. What you do need is a millionaire mindset. Here are five differences between wealth thinking and poverty thinking.

Sevven Millionaire Mindsets you can Adopt Today

Mindset Rule #1: Know yourself and Your Beliefs About Money

Ask yourself. How do you feel about being wealthy? Do you think rich people are greedy? SAre you resentful of their wealth? Do you believe they were born with a silver spoon in their mouth?

Let’s not talk about the greedy rich people, but about those who have a strong love affair with their money. Yes, you have to love your money. Just like you have to love your friend. Literally kiss that dollar. Think about how grateful you are for it and what it provides for you.

What in your past is holding you back from a great financial future? What are the limiting beliefs, the negative thoughts you have about money and rich people. Who influenced you in this thinking? What was their financial status? Were they rich or poor?

Get the cobwebs out of your brain. Those old thoughts, those voices from the past that tell you money is wrong, money is bad. Get rid of those people telling you really don’t want to be rich, do you? Go down that rabbit hole and figure out why you think about money the way you do and then change your thinking about it.

Action Steps: Write down three negative thoughts you have about money.

Mindset #2. Act in spite of fear.

When you were taking stock of your mindset for money that was cemented in your brain as a child, did you notice a fear factor running underneath all those thoughts? Fear isleeps, eats and lives with us. In our head. Rent free.

Living in poverty is living in fear.

It is true. Fear of taking risk. Fear of failure. Fear of not having enough.

Consider you want to save the recommended 10% before anything else. Pay yourself first. It is scary to step into unfamiliar territory. When you are struggling and not making ends meet as it is, saving 10% of your income is a scary thought! What will you do without that extra $10 out of every $100 you spend? How can you afford to live without it when you are scrimping by as it is?

Stepping out of your comfort zone is never easy. It is uncomfortable. It makes you queasy. Makes your stomach turn. Reves up your blood pressure. This is your poverty mind telling you to step back, don’t do it. Don’t save that 10%, you need it to pay your bills. What will you do if you can’t pay your bills?

Do you see how fear takes over? And the next thing you know, you’ve decided you like your comfort zone and see no reason to step out of it. This is how the anti-millionaire mindset takes over. It hits us with discomfort, with fear, and rather than dealing with that fear, we give into it.

Action Step: Start small. If you can’t save 10%, save $1 every day. Keep it in a separate account and never touch it.

Mindset #3: Commit fully to Wealth and Abundance.

My mom used to say, “Money doesn’t grow on trees.” Maybe your mom said it, too. Meaning, you have to “work hard for what you get.” A limiting belief that needs to be abolished from your mind right now! It is true, when starting a business, growing a relationship, or anything else worthwhile, you have to commit to it. But when you work hard for your money, it means it controls you. Those little green dollars dictate your life.

You must be committed to having those dollars work hard for you, not you working hard for them.

How do you do this? As you start a savings plan – even if it is only $1 a day – to be put away and never touched – you will see it grow, month by month. Once you make saving a discipline watch and your meager savings multiply, you will begin to feel that maybe this saving thing isn’t so hard after all. Commit to a rich lifestyle. What can you do to gather wealth. What daily spending habits can you change.

John Sutter and the California Gold Rush

Abundance is all around you. Your wealth is under your nose.

John Sutter found a nugget of gold that started the California Gold Rush. in 1848. After Sutter bought his property, he was out for a stroll one day and looked into the clear stream bubbling through his property. “Wait,” he said. “What is that shiny object I see in the bottom of this creek bed?” The shiny object was a gold nugget. As he investigated further, he found more gold.

The rest is history, as they say. People flocked to California to find their riches. Most of them never found it because they didn’t have the millionaire mindset. Mining for gold, as it turned out, wasn’t the way to get rich. The ones who did took advantage of the Gold Rush by offering services to the miners. Restaurants, general stores, real estate. These people supplied the gold diggers what they needed and became the staples of the communities that grew around the gold mines.

The point is, that gold had been sitting in those hills for millennia. Why didn’t the previous owner see it? What is the gold mine sitting right under your nose? Will you notice it, or will you sell your property to a more astute observer that sees the gold right away? Commit to being rich, commit to seeing abundance around you and you will see the gold in your own backyard.

Action Step: List three ways you can create income outside of your job.

Mindset #4: Possibility thinking.

My book Success comes in Cans: How to grow a Miracle in 21 Days, tells the story of Jack. He had a narrow strip of dirt next to his house that was an eyesore because it only grew weeds. He wanted to put in brick and one day, decided to tackle the job. It was a long strip and a hot day, and he had to dig out the dirt so the bricks would be level with the ground.

The neighbor came out and asked what he was doing. Jack told him, the neighbor shook his head and said “Good luck. That’s a big job!” and went off to work.

The sun was rising higher and the day was getting hotter, when Jack’s friend, Will, stopped by for a chat. He had a tractor on a trailer and was headed for a job. After a little bit of negotiation, Jack convinced Will to dig up the strip in exchange for the dirt. In no time, the job was done.

The neighbor comes home from lunch and is amazed the dirt is gone and the area is ready for the bricks. “How did you do that so fast?” he asked in surprise. “Possibility thinking,” said Jack.

Jack didn’t feel sorry for himself because he had such a large, daunting task. He considered the possibilities; the various ways he could make the job easier. While he was doing so, Will showed up.

The moral of the story is never be daunted by your task. Look at the possibilities and you will come up with a way to make your job easier.

Remember, impossible translates to I AM POSSIBLE.

Action Step: The next time you face a big task, branstorm three different ways to solve it before you start.

Mindset #5. Be bigger than your problems.

Poor people are overwhelmed by their problems. How to pay the rent, put shoes on the kids, buy enough food. Making the money stretch as far as possible.

Rich people think how they can overcome their problem. They know there is an answer (possibility thinking), they just have to find it.

Success does indeed come in cans. “I can do this.” “I can find an answer to this problem.” “I can find a way to get me out of this mess.”

Failure comes in cant’s. Once you start down that path, “I can’t ___________” (fill in the blank), you are definitely on your way to failure. Be bigger than your problems. They are just problems, and no problem is too large that you can’t handle it. It’s just the way things are.

Action Step: Write down your three biggest financial challenges. Then list three possible solutions.

MIndset #6. Manage your money wisely.

T. Harv Ecker says if you can’t manage a little bit of money, you will never be able to manage large sums. Start small. Be consistent, disciplined and patient. Managing money is not moving it from one slot to the next, hoping there is enough to go around. Managing money is moving it into slots, without the worry that there is not enough.

Money should work hard for you, not you work hard for your money. If you find yourself working at a job you hate that keeps you in poverty, then perhaps it is time to look to reevaluate your life.

Ecker says to start a Financial Freedom Account. This is where you faithfully deposit that 10% into a high-yield savings account and never touch it.

As time goes, start other accounts such as Education, Long-term Savings, Necessities, Giving.

Yes, you must give in order to receive.

It is the spirit of giving that comes back to you in kind. If you are Mingy Stingy, you will never enjoy abundance because you must share your wealth to enjoy it. Unless you want to sit in your dark room all day, shades drawn so no one can see you count your large piles of money. Sitting in your ratty chair, your dank house, friendless, because you are too afraid to part with your gold.

Not a good mindset if you want to reap the benefits of wealth. Wealth can mean having large amounts of money, but it means having large amounts of friends and people that love you. Being comfortable with yourself and your surroundings, being happy and grateful for your place in life. That is the ultimate goal of wealth.

The definition for financial freedom: The ability to live the lifestyle you desire without having to work or rely on anyone for money.

Rich people work make their money work for them, by investing in bonds, stocks, T-bills, real estate. Keep growing that nest egg and one day you will be able to do the same.

Mindset #7. Learn and Grow.

Educate yourself about how money works, how to invest, how to save. Take classes, read books, find a mentor that will teach you the ropes on how to be rich. Hang out with rich people. Copy their way of doing things. Learn how they gathered their wealth.

Rip you Rot. You must grow or you die. Wealth is about growth, about learning about yourself and how you interact in life. You become like the people you hang out with.

As Buddha said:

Do not have evil doers for friends; do not have low people for friends.
Have virtuous people for friends.
Have for friends the best of men.

WISE PEOPLE FASHION THEMSELVES

Fashion yourself to be who you want to be. People conquer the worst of times and came out on top. It just takes the mindset to do so, persistence, patience, and a strong heart.

Action Step: Begin your educational journey by reading one book, listening to a podcast or enrolling a class on how to manage your finances.

July 28, 2025

Success comes in Cans: Achieving your dreams

SUCCESS COMES IN CANS

Feeling stuck is a common feeling for many of us. We are in a job we hate, in a relationship going nowhere, cannot seem to get of the couch and get motivated to do anything useful.

It is a horrible feeling to live a life you are not happy with. We search for answers, take self-help courses, go to counselling, pray, meditate, some of us reach for that addicting habit just to soothe our angst.

This feeling of stuckedness is not just in your head. There are many reasons you feel the way you do, but as they say:

The only way out is to face your reality and work through it.

You work through it, and still no results. You are still stuck.

Well, Success Comes in Cans, How to Grow a Miracle in 21 Days is not just another self-help book. Most books read well, give you some ideas to grow, but after a while the old ways kick in, and that advice becomes a memory.

I am here to offer you a different way to go about solving your problems.

As you see, here is a money tree growing in a can labeled “reframe”, flanked by two other cans labeled “observe” and “plan.”

This is how you grow a miracle.

This is how you become unstuck. This is how you get off the couch, or wherever you are stuck. This is how you achieve your dreams.

21 days, you say. How do you grow a miracle, anyway?

You take a problem, and you spend 7 days observing your thoughts about that problem. What do you do on the couch all day? How does that make you feel? Are you depressed? Obviously stuck in a rut, what keeps you there?

Week 1 – Observe

The first week, observe. No judgement, no changes. Just be a witness to your day.

The second week, you reframe those thoughts. You have a pretty good idea why you remain where you are, how it makes you feel, and any limiting beliefs that keep you there.

Keep a journal so when you go back and read what you wrote, you will see patterns, good and bad, and gather clues on where you can improve.

Take those limiting beliefs and rewrite them. From the first week, you discovered where they are coming from – what voices in your head – and from your past – are repeating those ideas. Now you get to challenge them – perhaps for the first time in your life. If you think you are worthless, by the time you finish this book, you will say “I AM POSSIBLE.”

The worst emotional pain people feel is rejection.

A social pain equivalent to a heart attack. A social heart attack, if you will. Your brain doesn’t know if the pain is from a real heart attack or a broken heart, all it knows is there is pain, and its job is to alleviate it. So then we go into these self-blame theories – it must be me, I am worthless because no one loves me.

People who have been traumatized have these thoughts. Most of us have been traumatized. Few of us grow up with a stress-free, 100% loved-filled childhood. Life is traumatic, no matter how hard you try to keep the demons away. It is bound to bite you on the backside some time in your life.

Unless you have a solid system of “I am worthy,” those setbacks reinforce what you have believed all along. “I am worthless.”

Week 2 – Reframe

In week two, you reframe these thoughts. You are not worthless. By reframing your thoughts, your habits automatically reframe as well. Once you see you are not worthless, your confidence grows.

Week 3 – Plan

By week three, after agonizing over and examining the problem you want to solve, you come up with a plan. What will it take to get off the couch? Do you need to see a counsellor. Or a doctor. Perhaps you are ill. Perhaps all you need is a buddy to cheer up your day!

But the point of this 21-day miracle, is by day 21, believe it or not, you will say, “It’s a miracle.” If nothing else, you will say, “I did it, I made it through!” That in itself is a miracle, especially if you are prone to giving up halfway through.

Making the 21 days gives you confidence that you can complete a task, no matter how small or mundane.

I use this process all the time. It gives me a time frame to think about what’s bothering me and a way to come up with some plausible solutions to my problems. This works with getting your finances in order, shedding those unwanted pounds, finding a better job.

This is not to say your world will completely change in 21 days, but that is a possibility. This is also not to say you will shed all of your weight – or even find a better job in 21 days. But it is to say, the 21 days has got you thinking, and if you have a plan, you know where to go from here.

And if you need another session, try another 21 days. You’ll find better insights and come up with different solutions.

This is not heebie-jeebie stuff, folks.

This is the best thing I’ve found to getting out of my ruts. Perhaps it is because it is time sensitive. Perhaps it is because it delves deep into your thinking patterns and gives you a chance to face your shadow and your fears. For many of us, being able to do just that is in itself a miracle.

I am curious if it works for other people as well as it works for me. Read the book and let me know in the comments if you became unstuck. It’s only 21 days. What can you lose?

July 26, 2025July 26, 2025

Walking Between the Raindrops: Understanding the Cost of Trauma

Trauma knows no boundaries.

It affects all of us — men, women, and children — regardless of income, status, or education. In Walking Between the Raindrops: A Treatise on Trauma, we explore the invisible impact of abuse on our society. This isn’t just a book for women or survivors — it’s a raw, inclusive conversation about how we’ve become emotionally desensitized, and what it takes to heal.

Why do women stay in abusive relationships?

Here, we attempt to answer that question and shed some light on gaining self-worth to understand it is not necessary to tolerate such behavior.

Abuse begins on the playground and in the home, where manipulation is learned, boundaries are tested, and shame is passed down as an inheritance. Bullies perfect their tactics early — often unnoticed until the damage is done.

Women face double standards: they are punished for speaking up, labeled as bitches for asserting themselves, and pressured into silence by cultural expectations. Society trains women to ignore their instincts and demands unconditional caregiving — even at the cost of their identity and safety.

The Wounds of Childhood

Many of us carry wounds from childhood mistreatment that continue to shape our adult relationships. Healing begins when we break the cycle — when we stop giving our children reasons to have demons.

This book is not just about women in abusive relationships. It’s about a trauma-informed awareness that applies to us all.

As readers walk through these powerful pages, they’re invited to reflect on their own experiences, challenge societal conditioning, and most importantly—stop the silence.

Key takeaways include:

Recognizing abuse beyond physical violence
Understanding the long-term effects of childhood trauma
Reclaiming assertiveness and self-worth
The importance of raising emotionally safe children
Breaking cycles of silence and shame

Walking Between the Raindrops is a call to compassion, awareness, and action. It’s a must-read for survivors, caregivers, educators, and anyone seeking deeper understanding of how trauma shapes lives.

Become part of the solution, break your cycle of violence!

Trauma and abuse awareness begins with listening—and healing begins with truth.

With piercing honesty and compassionate insight, Walking Between the Raindrops challenges us to do better — to see beyond the labels, stop the silence, and raise children with the love and respect they deserve. Because healing isn’t just possible — it’s necessary.

You are not alone. Your story matters. And healing begins with truth.

January 29, 2025

Wyoming’s Unrelenting Mental Health Crisis: Eight sustainable ways we can FIX it

Wyoming has been in an unrelenting mental health crisis for some time. Since 2018 the state has consistently taken the top spot in the nation for suicides. Having watched this trend with rising concern, I felt it was time to get to the root of the cause. For years, Wyoming has been on a path of failed attempts to figure out what to do about this. Finally, the issue has become one of importance in the minds of our leaders, and some steps are being taken to correct this problem.

But are we taking the right steps? Have we looked at the brutal reality of why Wyoming residents continue to be so distraught? You will say we are a small population, and the numbers are skewed because of it. Whether that is true or not, you cannot argue with the fact that a suicide occurs every other day in Wyoming! Forget the numbers. Let’s talk about the reasons why this is happening.

You won’t like what you read. Wyoming also holds the #2 position for incarcerating our women! In both the USA, and in the world, if every state were a country. Most of the women are mothers. What happens to the children while their mom is in jail?

General protocol is to separate the kids from the parents in times of trouble. Domestic violence and incarceration of a parent (often both happen at the same time) and the children go to whoever can take them. A child who is separated from their parent like this often carries the anxiety that goes along with it for their lifetime.

Wyoming has few tools to approach issues of mental health and low-level crimes, such as addiction, and there is little help for someone wanting to harm themselves. Addiction and self-harm take years to manifest, and Wyoming is severely lacking in treating the trauma inflicted in childhood. Our answer is to arrest and incarcerate.

Jail offers no treatment whatsoever if the high suicide rates in Wyoming’s jails are any indication. If a person enters the judicial system because of misbehavior from a mental health condition, then not only are they dealing with the legalities of their illness, but also with the isolation and lack of connectedness that is detrimental to mental and social well-being.

The eight sustainable ways we can FIX these mental health concerns suggested here are not difficult to accomplish. The hardest part will be getting people on the same page and agree to implementing such necessary changes. My intent is to provide enough documentation of my claims that you, the reader, may explore these issues on your own. Perhaps you will come to a different conclusion, or come up with your own ideas, but this is a place to start.

January 29, 2025

Take the Quantum Leap into Abundance: A Guide to the Good Life

Take a quantum leap into abundance. a guide to the good life — Buy the Book Here

TAKE THE QUANTUM LEAP

When you think of quantum physics, you think of living in an alternate world. This amazing “other” world, is a part of our everyday existence, we just don’t see it.

They say thoughts make who you are, but how do you shift from low-vibration, every-day thoughts to ones of abundance?

It takes some work, change doesn’t happen overnight, but there is more to it than just “thinking yourself rich.”

First, you have to get off the couch and put your thoughts into action. In this book, you will learn about Hobson’s choice, which means sometimes we really don’t have a choice. As Hobson says, “Only one horse is for sale.” Read the book and you will understand.

Also discover how important it is to keep the faith and your eye on the goal. We usually don’t think about these things when life is going well, but what if everything that could go wrong does? Rather hard to keep the faith then. Read how you can tap into that resilience and survive even the worst conditions.

Do you want to live past 100 years of age? Explore this ancient culture and how they respect the elderly and see their older population as good fortune. A lesson Americans could learn about aging.

There is more, but you’ll just have to read the book and see for yourself.

ABUNDANCE

What does abundance look like?
Is it owning a room full of gold?
Laying in a field of flowers?

Or perhaps living in Shangri-La?

When do you know when you have enough? Where do you find abundance in the first place?

We are told to “have a better life,” but no instructions come with that advice. We wander around blindly, without direction, looking for the path of our dreams.

Finding self-esteem, losing weight, becoming less depressed – we should naturally know how to do these things, but we don’t.

And then we feel like failures because our dreams never happen. You are not a failure. You just need a blueprint to reach your goals.

IN THIS BOOK, YOU WILL FIND:

a no-nonsense approach to building a kinder self-image
how people turn peak experiences into life-defining moments
the real world Shangri-La where people live beyond the age of 100
what an ancient great swordsman says about spirit and iron will
how to live a life or happiness and prosperity
how to build meditation and gratitude into your day

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The Millionaire Mindset: Seven Important Things to Know

The biggest secret of a millionaires is that they don’t spend money but invest it. To live in frugality. To save more than they spend.

Why Mindset matters when building wealth

Sevven Millionaire Mindsets you can Adopt Today