Free Trickle Down Mindset: The Missing Element in Your Personal Success by Michal Stawicki Page B

this guy is a millionaire and I’m not. Let’s try it and see how this works. ”
    You may move to a different state or country, you may change your social environment altogether, you may read new books and listen to new coaches, but if you don’t alter your self-talk a bit, it will all be in vain. You will disregard new information and advice and sooner or later, you will go back to your old ways.
    Knowledge Items:
    - It’s enough to focus on three pillars to develop a successful personal philosophy: data sources, people, and internal interpretation.

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    “Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success;
    they are interested in your money.”
    ― Bo Bennett
     
    I hope I drove the point home and you embraced the idea that the way your mind functions dictates the outcomes in your life.
    Can you connect the dots? Do you see how specific types of mindsets generate specific results in your life? If they are not satisfying, it’s time to transform your philosophy. The important thing here is not to dwell on what’s unsatisfactory in your life, not to beat yourself up for it, but to objectively observe your conditions and the trends.
    If you progress in specific areas, then the chances are your philosophy is not so rotten after all. The lack of satisfaction comes from impatience or your high expectations, which usually are a result of comparing yourself to others.
    Let’s say you are obese. You are 5 feet 5 inches and weigh 200 pounds. But a year ago, you weighed 240 pounds. You are doing something right. Your mindset is not all trash.
    Or you have $5 million in your savings account and don’t need to work if you don’t want to. That’s great. Ninety-eight percent of the population would like to be in your place. However, two years ago you inherited $25 million. Hey, there is something wrong with your attitude toward money.
    Okay, you know you need a better philosophy, so how do you change it? Should you try to revolutionize it and develop it from scratch or rather painfully discard one rotten element after another and replace them with a more healthy construction?
    I’m almost sure your intuition suggests you go on a rampage. Ditch the old, ineffective methods! Do as many things as possible as fast as possible! Your old philosophy has already cost you a lot of priceless time, which may never be reclaimed. All of that is fine and true, but you are not a tabula rasa .
    Your intuition is partly right. It is possible to entirely rebuild your personal philosophy. People do it all the time. Mark Bowness transformed his life at the age of 26. A single event —his own failed suicide attempt—made him examine all his previous beliefs and change them practically within one day. You can radically change all three elements that comprise personal philosophy. You can change who you interact with in a single moment. You can move to a different town, state, country, or continent. You can change your data digesting habits: throw away the TV, destroy your mobile phone, install a firewall app on your computer and block all the news sites. Or you can start saying to yourself whenever you encounter an unfortunate event that “every obstacle is a chance if viewed as an opportunity for growth or self-mastery.”
    However, you need to realize that such drastic measures also have a drastic cost attached to them. For example, I hate TV as it is today, but I dread to think how my wife would react if I threw the set out the window. I wouldn’t have to watch it for some time, but the price would be horrendous.
    Building an entirely new philosophy is like joining a religious order. You abandon your old life. You change the whole social fabric of your life; you surround yourself with totally new people. You change the sources of information. Worldly sources become secondary at best. You focus on the holy teachings and the teachings of holiness.
    If your calling is the