To find million-dollar "deals of a lifetime" requires us to call on our financial genius.
I believe that each of us has a financial genius within us.
The problem is, our financial genius lies asleep, waiting to be called upon. It lies asleep because our culture has educated us into believing that the love of money is the root of all evil.
 It has encouraged us to learn a profession so we can work for money, but failed to teach us how to have money work for us.
 It taught us not to worry about our financial future, our company or the government would take care of us when our working days are over.


Your financial genius is smart enough to develop its own list.
An interesting example is used in the book:

While in Peru, with a gold miner of 45 years, I asked him how he was so confident about finding a gold mine. He replied, "There is gold everywhere. Most people are not trained to see it."

And I would say that is true. In real estate, I can go out and in a day come up with four or five great potential deals, while the average person will go out and find nothing. Even looking in the same neighborhood.
The reason is they have not taken the time to develop their financial genius.


the following ten steps are a process to develop your God-given powers. Powers only you have control over.


1. I NEED A REASON GREATER THAN REALITY:

 The power of spirit.
If you ask most people if they would like to be rich or financially free, they would say "yes." But then reality sets in. The road seems too long with too many hills to climb. It's easier to just work for money and hand the excess over to your broker.

 I once met a young woman who had dreams of swimming for the U.S Olympic team. The reality was, she had to get up every morning at 4 a.m. to swim for three hours before going to school. She did not party with her friends on Saturday night. She had to study and keep her grades up, just like everyone else.
When I asked her what compelled her with such super-human ambition and sacrifice, she simply said, "I do it for myself and the people I love. It's love that gets me over the hurdles and sacrifices."

A reason or a purpose is a combination of "wants" and "don't wants." When people ask me what my reason for wanting to be rich is, it is a combination of deep emotional "wants" and "don't wants."

I will list a few. First the "don't wants," for they create the "wants."
I don't want to work all my life.
I don't like being an employee.
 I hated that my dad always missed my football games because he was so busy working on his career.
I hated it when my dad worked hard all his life and the government took most of what he worked for at his death. He could not even pass on what he worked so hard for when he died. The rich don't do that. They work hard and pass it on to their children.


Now the wants.
 I want to be free to travel the world and live in the lifestyle I love.
I want to be young when I do this.
 I want to simply be free.
I want control over my time and my life.
 I want money to work for me.

Those are my deep-seated, emotional reasons. What are yours?
 If they are not strong enough, then the reality of the road ahead may be greater than your reasons.
 I have lost money and been set back many times, but it was the deep emotional reasons that kept me standing up and going forward.
 I wanted to be free by age 40

I wish I could say it was easy. It wasn't, but it wasn't hard either. But without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard.