If his face looks familiar, it’s because this is the guy who was talking to his son about his vision board in The Secret. What you may not know is that John Assaraf is a high school dropout turned entrepreneur. I met Assaraf several years ago, and he is an all-around cool guy.
Tonight he shared a few millionaire secrets with Donny Deutsch and the gang at The Big Idea. With so much going on, Assaraf has managed to write The New York Times bestseller Having It All. He built four multimillion-dollar companies, and one of them generates more than $5 billion a year in sales. Assaraf’s dedication to help entrepreneurs inspired him to create the company OneCoach. I have to admit, I was pumped up with enthusiasm after seeing him tonight.
John’s 5 Millionaire Secrets:
1. Think like a business millionaire. Start thinking like a business millionaire. You’ve got to upgrade your mental vision of what you are going to achieve. Focus on what you really want, and start acting like you already achieved it (act as if).
2. Is your why big enough? If you have a big enough why the what will be easy. It’s not about the money: It’s who you become along the way that will drive you to do things when it’s hard.
3. Set grand, unrealistic goals that scare you. Unrealistic goals that make you feel doubt and fear force your brain to move to a higher order of thinking.
4. Opinions are free, and they are a dime a dozen. Don’t take people’s opinions that haven’t been there before.
5. Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Click here to check out John’s website, blog, myspace page, videos on Squidoo and his book. I did.
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January 15th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
I say one important “secret” is use the people around you. It really is about the team you build that can make your vision reality.
January 16th, 2008 at 10:29 am
It is a good start but just thinking or pretending you are a millionaire won’t make you one. Unrealistic goals are just that, unreal and unreachable. I prefer to set grant achievable goals instead. Javier.-
January 16th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
I’m interested in becoming a millioniare with a franchising business.
January 18th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Each year Entrepreneur Magazine devotes an issue to franchising. My other suggestions would be for you to Google the word franchise and visit the entrepreneur.com website.
All the best,
Michelle
January 27th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
That’s a great post! This sound like the perfect story that wold relate to aiming for the stars so that you can land on the moon. I don’t know who that came from but it’s great advice. I try to tell all the beginner investors that I coach to put themselves in a mindset of successful business owner. I guess you can say that someone who is focused enough can possibly “will it to happen”.
Dwayne Lattimore