How to Become Wealthy During This Time of Economic Crisis
Every time that you turn on the TV, you are confronted by reports about the economic crisis. The reporters and economic specialists say that we are in a downward spiral. They are telling the world that they sky is falling and it is time to take cover. (That’s why I do not watch the news often as it just influences your thinking with media brainwashing – I can think for myself thank you.)
The people that we turn to for advice on money and wealth have become scared by the trends that they have been seeing, they are advising us to be afraid of what we are seeing as well. You are told to save your money and to cut back on your spending.
People are talking about this economic crisis as the next depression. For many people, the only thought that they can think about is that hopefully they will keep their job through tomorrow. This is the time when people decide to be happy with where they are at financially and just hope to stay there.
This is not where you want to be in this time of economic turmoil. You can not just sit and hope that you can hold on to what you already have. This is a time when you can make your dreams of becoming wealthy a reality.
Millionaires are made in times of economic turmoil and now is no exception. Many of today’s wealthy know that now is the time to take the steps to expand their wealth. They do not listen to the tails of doomsday that are broadcast on the TV. They know that there is always a way to make money and that they only have to find it and follow it.
You can be one of these people that can turn the dark skies into a brighter day tomorrow. All it takes is a belief that you can do it. This belief that there is wealth to be had in this time of economic crisis will make you succeed where others fail. It will help you to stand tall against the naysayers.
The use of visualization will be key in achieving your wealth. With your beliefs in place about your money, you will be able to clearly visualize your goals. A clear visualization of your goals will make them become more real to you. This will help you to succeed in your goals.
The first step that you will need to take on your journey is to decide how much money that you want to make in a month. This is often a humbling task for most people. Most people will look at how much money they need to pay bills and living comfortably. This is not all that you need to take into account when you are setting your goal. This is the goal that is set when you are happy just to get by in this time of economic crisis.
The best way to do this type of goal setting is to sit in a quiet room with a pad and pen. Sit and just think about how much money that you would like to make a month. Do not limit the amount of money that you would like. Personally I wrote myself a check from the universe for $1 billion (I don’t like to think small).
Ever heard that story how the actor Jim Carrey when he was broke and before he was famous wrote himself a check for $10 million for acting services and put it in his wallet. He looked at it everyday and visualized he would be getting that check by Thanksgiving. Well, on Thanksgiving exactly 1 year later he landed a role for the movie “Dumb and Dumber” and the rest is history. Anyways, I thought that was a really cool story and a great example of how visualization can help you out.
The limitations of the fact that the job you are at only pays this much will only set you up to stay where you are. This is what I need to live, is a limitation that will make that you only make enough money to live. You want to earn enough money to be wealthy and to also help give back to society eventually.
The next step is to decide what you will put back in the community to get the wealth that you desire. This is based on the fact that giving back when you receive will help you to build upon what you have. This can also mean what kind of service or product you will provide to help people out and in return earn a profit from on your way to wealth.
Many people choose to donate money to a charity that they have always wanted to help. This is a noble cause and one we do a lot of ourselves, but not the only thing that you can give back.
One thing I thought was cool was when Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin empire, said to just focus on being an entrepreneur first and to build your business. Once your business is doing well then start focusing more time and money into charities. Makes sense if you think about it.
Side Note about the …”kind of service or product you will provide to help people out and in return earn a profit from on your way to wealth”…
Too many just think of how to make money for themselves but you need to go in the reverse order.
Start with how or what can you do to help out someone in (your target niche area) = your customer. Then solve that problem with your new service or product. As long as it does what it says it does, you market it well and people like it you will do well and the money will roll in.
Examples:
This is how I started SureFireWealth.com – back before 2005 the resell rights business was a mess flooded with poor quality products and even poorer distribution channels. We set about to change the industry by adding reviews, descriptions and fully showcasing everything out in the open, adding searches and requirements to meet higher standards to even be added to the site with SFW. We think we have done a good job so far but we have much more to do. We have some cool things at SureFireWealth.com in store for 2009.
We started LearningToEarnOnline.com with the goal to provide great ecourses & learning videos to people just starting out or wanting to learn how to make more money online. We also put in a cool reseller program where we let our resellers keep 100% of the front end sales – something that was really unheard of at the time back in 2006. As a result we’ve helped our resellers to make thousands of dollars by providing a great service to their customers in the form of solid unique content. We’ve also got a whole new line of courses for 2009 to be released soon.
We started SavingYourTime.com to help save people time by just watching videos to learn new things to help them make more money quicker. At the time back in 2005 online videos were just starting to get more mainstream as more and more of the world got on highspeed internet service and pcs evolved with faster processors and higher storage.
ElistSecrets.com was formed to help show people how to build their own mailing lists, something that is very important in any online business. We’ve got some new things in store for that site this year also to help people out.
This is also how my partner & good friend Simon Hodgkinson and I did our MarketingMainEvent.com series. We started backwards with the customer in mind first, then our partners, then us last. The concept became reality and helped us to do a few million in sales and to even start an entire new company and product line under it such as MembershipMillionaire.com & MemberSpeed.com. We have some amazing things in store for 2009 coming under MemberSpeed Inc to watch out for. We plan on giving away more free content to help you make more money faster, smarter and better than you will see in most of the product launches of 2009.
This is also how Louis Allport and I did InstantVideoEmpire.com and how my friends and partners John Delavera, JP Schofel & Simon and I did Dynamic4Marketing.com.
So my point is – think how you can provide a REAL service to people this year then get off your butt and get to work getting it out there. Just get it out the door this year.
The third step is to set a time frame for achieving your monthly income goal. You need to be realistic when you set this time frame. Don’t say I want to make $10,000 by January 15th if today is January 1st and you have never made more than $1 online before. But maybe $10,000 in exactly 3 months from now could work for you. The time frame should not be too far in the future that it does not seem real to you. Remember visualization of your goals and the time frame that you are going to achieve them in are an important part of becoming wealthy despite economic crisis.
Put your time frame in writing. By seeing it in writing, the time frame will become real to you. This will help you to focus on achieving your goal by then.
The fourth step is probably the most important. You need to take action. Many times a great idea and goal go cold when the person spends all their time planning to take action. Even if you do not know the exact route that you will take to make your goal of a certain income a month reality, you need to take the first step today towards it.
From there you will continue to take steps everyday on your road to achieving your wealth in the time frame that you set. You do not want your drive and attitude about your goals to become stagnant.
As you journey by taking these steps, it is good to have a reminder of your goal and time frame. Write down a statement about what you plan to do. An example of this would be, I plan to make $10,000 a month by the end of 6 months. Your statement can be that simple.
Say this statement out loud 2 to 4 times a day. This reinforces your plans and goals. You will stay on track with this reminder of what you are trying to achieve.
This simple plan for achieving wealth was created over a span of 20 years of research almost 100 years ago by the wealthiest people in America at that time – Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, John D Rockefeller, King Gillette and others, then set onto paper by Napoleon Hill in 1937. The simplicity and the truthfulness of these steps will become apparent to you as you take them.
This is why I like to take advice from people who have done it (See above) rather than people who just want to make a quick buck selling their latest ebook, semiar or course. Don’t get me wrong, if the person has done it first then wants to teach you how in their seminar or course – that is the real deal and you should go and learn from them. The problem I have is with the person who writes one book, it makes a bunch of sales, then they are suddenly doing seminars and courses how to become a millionaire.
Have they actually built a business = a real company with real services that has real customers that continues to grow? Do they actually have many years of experience in the niche they are teaching you about? You wouldn’t want to learn how to build a house from someone who has only read about how to build a house correct? These are some of the questions you need to ask yourself the next time you are thinking about buying that new course or seminar ticket to learn how to do something.
Stay true to yourself, follow your higher self & spiritual guides, listen to your gut instincts and keep it positive.
The steps are set to help you to take formulated risks that are needed to make the money that you dream of, despite the doomsday advice about the economic crisis.
These are the steps the wealthy have taken and found the opportunity that exists even in the most difficult of times. You can find the window that has open now that the door has been shut on the ideas of wealth of the general public.
To Your Success!
Jeremy Gislason
SureFireWealth INC
SureFireWealth.com
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Thank you Jeremy,
Thought provoking,inspiring and just what I need to get me out of this New Year blues. 2009 is my third year online and I’m yet to claim success. YOU have made it more doable by awakening my enthusiasm and focus to finally succeed when it all was becoming a little frustrating and almost depressingly so.
Thank you and as Michael says above “Thought provoking and inspiring” I don’t think I suffer from the New Year Blues, I must admit that I have been quite positive the last few weeks but you are right, the economic crisis is looming large for a lot of people, myself and my family included in that group!
Visualisation is a key tool to use and although I have not yet got it right, I will. I have been online since the late 90′s and while I have had a good amount of success with eBay, my other online endeavours have not been so successful. I persevere though and with the right amount of perseverance and knowledge, I will succeed.
One thing I have made a commitment to myself to do is to read a lot more and to dedicate some of my daily time to personal development, this may mean reading a book, practising visualisation techniques or just something as simple as learning something new. I would recommend it to all as it has certainly helped me be more positive and focused.
Jeremy, I have been a subscriber of yours for a while now and I am continually impressed with what you come up with. Keep it up!!!
Happy New Year to all.
This is a great post Jeremy – I am recommending to my friends and associates as well worth reading.
You have outlined many excellent strategies and for those of us who have heard these ideas before, it’s a good reminder to check whether we are taking enough of the right kind of action.
Thank you and best wishes to all for 2009
Wow Jeremy I’m so surprised and happy to find someone else that shares my same feelings and philosophy. I’ve been saying the same thing about this silly doomsday nonsense…. It will only affect you negatively if you allow it to (by believing it will).
As for the visualization exercises, I use them myself…though I have to admit I often forget to do them…So this year, I plan on increasing my wealth by remembering to do my visualization exercises on a daily basis, and by helping my readers learn how to start making money online.
Best of luck to you in 2009 and be safe.
Terry Gillis
Thanks Jeremy for giving us an opportunity to express our opinion on your very timely subject.
I remember the same situation several years back, when everything seems to be going down. What I have learned from this past experience is that, those companies who advertised had more growth compared to those who did not.
It is a business cycle that history will tell us that when you reached the lowest point, there is no way but go up.
Let us believe on the positive side and believe on our selves.
Orlando Racelis
The most important part of this article i abstract ,is keeping focus on achieving your goals whatever they are:in making money or in spiritual domain.That proves simple fact life comes from inside us,we are manage,create and visualize our lives.Outside circumstances don’t matter.Just a short reminder on powers of people’s resistance in the hardest times and making the greatest works in Art and Literature in biggest poverty.
Something looks like missing line in your writing:making connections with others in online business;yes,you expressed it speaking about giving and helping-so, maybe there should be looking for building partnerships.
By reading Napoleon Hill newsletters i always learned of importance to give ,be honest,sincere and become friends.
Jeremy, having followed your site for the past couple of years, this post is mindful of why I remain on your subscriber list.
In spite of the negative news out there, I truly believe this is indeed a time to make dreams of becoming wealthy a reality. Your article definitely sheds light on How To Make 2009 Your Richest Year Ever!
I know personally – this is a humbling time for many both financially and emotionally. Outlining a plan and providing resources to help others get in the mindset…they can change their personal situation, speaks volumes about your sincerity, integrity and credibility in our industry.
As we pursue our own economic goals this year, I agree wholeheartedly with you – let’s first start with how we can help out someone by solving a customer problem with the products and services we offer.
I hope all your readers share this valuable post.
Wishing you all the best in 2009!
Fear and Greed are currently running our false economy. The vibrational energy of the universe has not been this low since the great depression but, with goal-setting and the proper use of affirmations, there has never been a better time to reach limitless wealth and self-fulfillment. We truly live in a world of abundance. In fact, the great investor Warren Buffet has welcomed this false economic downturn as the perfect time to seek all of the new opportunities that are presenting themselves everyday. He sees this as a time when his economic worth will grow exponentially. Don’t let fear and greed rule your life, now is the time to seize the day.
Thank you Jeremy,
A very inspirational article. I am one of those that you described, worried about if I will have a job tomorrow. I read and hear what you say and have many ideas and dreams but always afraid of failure. Maybe it’s the fear of success, who knows. Many of us have been living from paycheck to paycheck for most of our lives and perhaps have a hard time with taking risk.
All in all it is a reality that has probably bogged down many and that is why not everyone is rich. I know that this is not something you would expect on your comments but I am a real person who has struggled all his life and would like to break away and become like the people that write articles like this one.
I suppose that by putting my self out there is a way for me to take the steps in overcoming my fears and hopefully taking a step in the right direction toward building wealth. Being positive is always good and that is what this article has sparked in me.
Thank you
Your article has given me food for thought and will be thinking very hard about your words.
Thanks Jeremy
This is the kind of information we marketers have been teaching ever since
this whole recession thing started Get educated and go forward with your
dreams. Dont let all the actions of mismanagement and corrupt CEO’s
guide your future
Great Info,
I have been steadily increasing my business over the last year depite what the media says. All the negative information on the news is exactly why I do not watch the news anymore. As a matter of fact, my business so far this year is more than double from this point last year. This success is due to some great products available from Sure Fire Wealth.
I am using products available from my SFW Gold membership to help me in my quest to become the List Building Club spokesperson this year. I am looking for partners to help me on this quest and in return, I will not forget yor help.
Follow my journey to superstar status at http://davidmcdonough.com
My goal this year is to help everyone who wants it to succeed. Remember there is still lots of money out there and you can find it by helping others.
Send me an email if I can help you. dave@smartpassive.com
Your friend,
David McDonough
http://smartpassivelistbuilding.com
The next List Building Club Spokesperson
Thanks Jeremy Sounds good to me I understand all that you wrote. This is what we need to help us new ones to understand what we need to do to get started the way we wont. Keep it up this was a great job on your part.
Hi,
Thank you for your inspirational article. People need to realise that this is the time they need to build their faith and not allow fear to take root.
If we all dispel our fears and begin to profess our faith we can turn things round. People in authority are trying to feed on our fears and we should not allow that to happen.
I wish all who are starting their business in 2009 every success. There is plenty of money to be made out there and I am going to make mine.
Good Luck everyone.
To your success
Comfort Osunsami
http://sourceforincome.com
Superb Inforformations.I have had little success online and your clear cut pathways have certainly inspired me to proceed in the same lines. I joined SFW in 2005 so that I could also help others and sure fire wealth has lots to offer to beat the recent developments. Thanks jeremy
Hello,
Great advice. Keep up the good work and the great tips.
So true Jeremy. It was very informative article and I really liked the story of Jim Carrey
Thanks for the instructive, informative and inspiring article (the 3 i’s).
Unlike in the last Great Depression, there are infinitely more opportunities today for anyone to prosper in spite of the recession/depression. The internet offers tons of opportunities for anyone with a little bit of ambition and know-how to earn a comfortable living. All you have to do is get off your fat fanny and DO IT!
Have fun. Make money. That’s the only way to beat ANY kind of depression!
Hi Jeremy,
At last someone else who is not frightened to say that the media attention on the ‘recession’ is brainwashing! I, too do not watch the news and strongly believe that the media almost want to keep you in a certain place (a place of uncertainty, doom and gloom).
I am a victim of the recession having lost my job back in September 2008 and have put all my efforts into my online Business. Whilst I have not even got close to the money I was earning in my J.O.B yet, I can honestly say that I now love life. My Business is my passion and I feel very confident about 2009.
With regards to visualisation, I totally agree. My wife and I have a laminated piece of A4 with pictures of the 5 things we want to achieve the most with a desricption underneath and the date by which we want to achieve it. Every night we verbalise the sheet (almost like a mantra!!) and look at the pictures.
Its very focussing.
Good Luck for 2009
Jonathan
HAPPY NEW YEAR AND THANK YOU JEREMY!!!
You have just affirmed and given me quite a boost to continue in the direction I have set my goals for, for 2009. It is a lot of information and very helpful, because there is so much stuff on the internet, sometimes I wonder where should I start.
Thanks again and Keep up the good work.
Rosanne Reid
HI!
With all the hype from the media ….. much of which is for their own agenda it is hard to tell what is truth and who is real. It is important that people such as yourself continue to provide products and services that are needed by those willing to work toward their future.
I plan to increase my promotion of the earth friendly products from a company that I have been accociated with for over 20 years. Their products are able to help their users save time, fuel and wear on their equipment and vehicles.
Keep up the good work
Glen
I definitely agree with you. I think that the taking action is one of the biggest things you can do to succeed. To many people spend a lot of time preparing for something, and they never actually get around to doing it. Action is key.
Thanks for the post, it was great!
Mary Glisan
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Great insights! We need to build our wealth unbreakable – indestructible in all seasons. We should also make it flexible. In business, we need to find the untapped market and continue to innovate – that is how we might become wealthy in any kind of economic situation.