Rich Dad Lessons: Make disappointment your strength
Based on Kiyosaki’s work
You can see the disappointments as mental assets or mental liabilities for your life. Most people transform them into a mental long-term liability.
Usually, people transform their disappointment into a permanent failure by saying things like “I will never attempt to do that again”, although in many cases, they are doing something for the first time. Due to the mentality that they learned in childhood, most people think the failures are bad situations that should be avoided, instead of life lessons to learn by making mistakes. In this way, people transform the disappointment into a mental long-term liability.
On the other hand, if you learn something when you fail and are ready to try again, but this time avoiding the same mistakes that you detected already, your chance of achieving the financial success is now bigger, although that doesn’t mean you won’t fail again. In this way, we transform our failures into mental assets.
Expect to be disappointed: It is not about having loser’s mentality, but if you get ready emotionally for disappointment, then you will be able to face it in a positive way, instead of only complaining about life. You need optimistic thinking and, as established by the Law Of Attraction, to be surrounded by attitudes and thoughts that attract success. But you should get ready emotionally in case you fail temporarily.
Have a mentor standing by: tell your plan to people who you can consider as your mentors, or people who is where you want to be: successful business owners and rich investors. When you have difficulties, you will be able to call them and listen to their wise advice.
Be kind to yourself: If you fail temporarily, don’t become bitter by thinking bad things about yourself. If you punish yourself very hard, then the chances for learning valuable lessons for life will be wasted.
Tell the truth: Nowadays, we can hear a lot of things about the emotional intelligence. And this intelligence has to do a lot with how people face the difficult situations, without trying to hide the truth by lying or using false appearances. Face the reality and always tell the truth even if that is really difficult. That way, you will place your feet on the earth, will learn much more and some bigger problems will be avoided.
Make mistakes: Don’t be afraid of making them. If you don’t make mistakes, then you won’t learn. Think about all things you have learned: walking, riding a bike or your profession. At the beginning, you made many mistakes. But today, you would not make those mistakes because you learned the lessons.
Put a little money down: if you don’t begin to invest small amounts you can lose without a lot of drama, then you could not learn anything about the investment world. And, if you lose those small amounts of money, compare what you learned versus the lost money. Usually, what you learned is much more valuable.
TAKE ACTION!: it is important to read, observe and listen. But if you don’t take action, you will never arrive anywhere. Just do it!
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