Tuesday, May 13, 2008

More on the ultimate success secret...

Nobody so far has figured out the one word that summarizes the ultimate success secret for achieving financial wealth. So please feel free to keep trying! :-)

Any person who comes up with the right answer, will receive for FREE my $50 ebook on the BMW workshop which I teach in entrepreneurship schools and charge $500 for.

Another hint: There seems to be, in our culture, a negative perception regarding this success secret. But soon, people will abandon culturally based notions that have little to do with reality. As a result, more and more people will achieve financial freedom and will do so more easily, especially with the opening up of "worldwide" markets via the Internet.

Thomas Friedman, in his best-seller The World is Flat, talks about how the Internet is allowing three billions people (mostly from India, China, the Russian Federation, etc.) to join the global workforce and compete for jobs that traditionally were "protected" in North America.

As a result, many people fear for their jobs. And they have reason to fear: an engineer paid a yearly salary of $100,000, could easily see his job being outsourced to an Indian engineer paid only $20,000.

Even if the North American engineer was able to keep his job, his and his employer's awareness of the "Indian option" would dramatically diminish his bargaining power vis-a-vis the employing organization. As a result, as an employee, he will do whatever his employer asks -- thus, he will feel more and more stress at work. This is not a good situation.

What is important to understand is that a job is simply the result of the failure to understand the ultimate success principle I'm talking about.

In short, if you have the right education and the right skills, you normally would go out there and get a job.

However, if you know, appreciate and master the ultimate success principle, you do NOT go out there to get a job -- rather, you go out there to receive the money! And over time, more and more money will flow to you.

This is precisely why I created this little game where I challenge you, dear reader, to think hard about this mysterious success secret. This secret is truly a pearl that will change your life, yet it has no power unless a person WANTS to know what it is.

As a guide, I offer valuable knowledge, but people will only integrate this knowledge into a permanent knowingness (or dynamic awareness) if they seek it and want to know it.

In other words, knowledge is like food. I can't force someone to eat something if he's not hungry. Similarly, I could have just revealed to you the ultimate success secret, but your mind would have reacted indifferently. Your mind would say, "Hmm, interesting idea you got there, Peter." Then, five minutes later, you would resume whatever you were doing prior to reading the email containing that ultimate success secret. And in that very instant of turning AWAY from the ultimate success secret, you would have lost millions of dollars without knowing!

So my little contest was designed to create a certain tension in your mind, also known as "suspense." This tension will ensure that when you finally KNOW what the ultimate success secret is, you will NOT forget it.

Of course, knowing the secret doesn't mean you will become rich. There's also the implementation or execution or practice part.

But don't worry, I have another contest for that too!