[Harv:] The second clue that someone is playing the victim is that they complain. Complaining is the absolute worst thing you can do. One of the universal principles we use is that what you focus on expands.

I am going to repeat that. What you focus on expands.

When you are complaining, what are you focusing on? What’s right with your life, or what’s wrong with your life? What’s wrong with your life.

So if what you focus on expands, that means you’re going to get more of what’s wrong with your life. If you are complaining, you are actually attracting crap into your life. You become a human crap magnet.    

Liz: Oh, that is such a pleasant mental picture.   

Harv: (Laughter) Totally. And have you noticed that complainers usually have a crappy life? They say of course I complain, look how crappy my life is!

Well, now you can say to them, “No it’s because you complain that your life is so crappy. Do yourself a favor and shut up!” I have to give your readers some homework.    

Liz: OK – what is it?   

Harv: For 7 days, absolutely no complaining – not out loud, not even in your head. When you can do that for 7 days, your whole life will change. At least you won’t be bringing crap into your life.

You have to do it for a full 7 days, because, you know, you might have some residual crap coming to you. For the first few days, you might not see any change.

Because crap doesn’t travel at the speed of light, it travels at the speed of crap. So your old way of being is going to be coming to you over the next few days.

It’s got to be a full 7 days. Then you will really start to notice something. One of the things we want to have people recognize is that there is no such thing as a really rich victim. Who would listen to them?

“Oh I got a scratch on my boat.” Yeah whatever.    

Liz: Really! How would you recommend that somebody start on this process of identifying their blueprints and developing a Millionaire Mind? What would be the best thing for them to do?   

Harv: Well, without blowing my own horn here, or anything...   

Liz: Blow your own horn, Harv, you’re awesome...   

Harv: You know, that’s one of the things we do in the Millionaire Mind Intensive, people need to train themselves to blow their own horn and to do it very appropriately, do it very nicely.

Most people’s issues are around marketing and promotion. Especially promoting themselves. It’s usually because they were trained to be quiet, and to not toot their own horn.

That’s ridiculous. If you don’t toot your own horn, you can be sure that nobody else is going to toot it for you.

For one thing, people just don’t do that, plus they might not think it’s worth tooting it for you. You have to be kind of a person that will step out.

And here’s what I think people need to recognize.... They need to have the awareness of, “I am not doing as well as I can be doing.” I don’t care if on a financial level you are earning $20,000, $50,000, $100,000, or $1 million.

The people who come to our programs are the people who want to reach their full financial potential.

And the thing about financial success that I love is that I’m not that different than I was before...the things I have are not that different. I always wanted to live in a nice house. I always wanted to have a nice car and all that.

I went through the toy stage and let that go. But you know the biggest thing is freedom. It’s the freedom to be able to do what you want with your time, with your money, with your life...

You know, say you want go on a boat tonight, you rent the boat and take your wife out for dinner on a boat and it’s going to cost you four or five hundred bucks, all right no big deal, it’s not going to break you.

In fact, that comes in every few minutes for me. So, it’s the freedom to do what you want to do. If you only have one life why do what you want? You can travel. Give generously, lay around on the beach. Golf. Go and help people. 

In one of our other programs, called Life Directions, we help people find their true mission in life and have the wherewithal to go and live it.

When you are struggling for a living, you are just trying to earn money to get by, to have a decent life; it’s a lot harder to help people, because you are not coming from a position of strength.

So you have your intention out there. You go and help a lot of people. The money just starts coming in and coming out in buckets.

But, you’ve got to own your own power.  The first thing that people need to do is to know that their success is going to come from who they are, not necessarily just from what they are doing.

What they are doing is going to be a result of who they are, and the decisions they make. The second thing that they need to do is that they need to change their money blueprint.

That is a subconscious level situation that will create your financial life and every other part of your life. And, unfortunately...in the old days, you couldn’t do anything about this...if you had a blueprint that was the end of it.

Today there is something available to help them change their blueprints.  They can do it quickly and easily on the spot, in a loving way, that can change their whole life.

We are very fortunate to have created The Millionaire Mind Intensive that does this for people. I would say to everyone that I cared about...my mother, my brother, my sister, my cousins, and everyone who I loved...the first thing you want do is get on a plane, train, drive...whatever and get to the Intensive.

The last time we had the course, someone’s airplane ticket got screwed up, and they couldn’t afford another one, they drove 5 days from Atlanta with their whole family to Seattle.

If you are not the kind of person that will drive 4 days or 2 days or fly there, then you just don’t want it badly enough. One of the things that people have to realize is that rich people’s whole lives do not revolve around comfort and convenience.

You have to be the kind of person who will do whatever it takes to succeed. And if you’re not, then what makes you think that you are going to succeed anyway?

If you think it’s just going to walk up and smack you in the face then you’re not going to have it. You’ve got to be a “whatever it takes” person.

And that means if it’s inconvenient, so what? If it’s expensive, so what? It doesn’t matter. When you show the universe that you are willing to do whatever it takes, then the universe will bend over backwards to support you in every area of your life.

First, you’ve got to put in the wood, and then you get the fire. Most people are consistently asking for fire before they will go out and put some wood in! You know there was an early time in my life, where I was a complete disaster, especially in business.

It was like the Loch Ness monster. I had heard of this thing called profit, I just never saw it! You know?

People used to say, ‘Oh Harv, you’ve got so much potential.’ I would say, ‘Yeah, well, look at my bank account!’ I got tired of hearing how much potential I had.

So I would say, “Don’t tell me that any more, I do okay, but with all this ‘potential’ I am certainly not up to scale anywhere. I’m not anywhere I want to be.”

Once I did this work, everything changed for me. And so I realized it’s not just the inner work that you have to do. It’s very specific inner work – on a very cellular level.

The only thing I can tell the people is, it’s not going to be books that are going to help you – and I love books, I’m an author. Books are great, but you’ve got to put things into action.

You have to stay in the conversation. Stay in the energy. I encourage people to continuously grow. One of the t- shirts we came up with says “grow or die,” because if you’re not growing you’re dying.

If you’re not sure of that, then just check out your plants. If a plant is not growing it’s what?   

Liz: It’s dying.   

Harv: That’s right. And we’re the same...made of the same energy. You have to consistently grow yourself in order to make a better life. And I encourage everyone to “Don’t think about it.” We have another t-shirt that says, Don’t think, don’t think, don’t think....    

Liz: I have that one, and believe me, I need the reminder! (Laughter)   

Harv: Yeah, because you know we think ourselves out of our success. We think ourselves out of our happiness. Thinking comes from the mind, and the mind’s job is not happiness.

One of the things we teach in our programs is that your mind’s job is to protect you. That’s it. It’s the sentry on the ship. It’s always looking for what’s wrong or what could go wrong in any situation.

And there is not a lot of happiness there.  The only time you can really be happy is when you quiet your mind. And you come back to your center place, where your higher self resides. There you can find true joy and happiness.

People don’t get it because they have this voice that tells them one thing and the truth is another thing. There’s no reason that people cannot earn $200,000, $500,000, a million dollars a year. That is out there for the receiving.

You get that for adding value to the world. You don’t just get that, by sitting around and wishing for it. You know you can’t have a million dollars if you are at a $20,000/ year job or even a $50, 000.

You’ve got to put out the value that creates the million dollars. That doesn’t usually happen overnight. It’s a buildup. You know it will happen whatever your financial potential is....whatever your personal potential is...if you are going to live one time why not reach it??

Why not do the best you can? Why not have the best relationship you can, the most  happiness you can have, have as much money as is necessary for you to live a fulfilled and happy and free life?

And reach your potential everywhere.

Again if you are not growing you are dying. And that goes financially, relationally, everywhere. We have some totally amazing—I’m going to say mind blowing—strategies and techniques that work for people.

And people say all the time, they say...is this brainwashing? And I say the same thing all the time...’I wish we could wash your brain!’ Please, bring me the sponge and the gloves...if we could wash your brain we would be in heaven here.

But you know it’s not as easy as that. I wish we could wash your mind and then you could start clean, with information that is supportive.

But here’s the thing, we can’t wash your brain but we can help you install the information that you want installed. You are going to be the one installing the information. You are going to be the one installing new ways of thinking and being that support you.    

Liz: Well, thank you very much for this interview Harv. And we are definitely going to recommend that everybody goes to the Millionaire Mind Intensive because having experienced it ourselves, we know that it is absolutely life altering.    

Harv: It was a blessing to speak with you. 

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From the free book [pdf] A Life on Fire: Living Your Life with Passion Balance & Abundance - interviews with  Jack Canfield; T. Harv Eker; Marianne Williamson; Robert G. Allen; Jay Abraham, and Brian Tracy

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T. Harv Eker is author of the book Secrets of the Millionaire Mind  - which “identifies the money and success blueprint engrained in our subconscious minds - this blueprint, more than anything, will determine our financial lives.”

He also leads the Millionaire Mind seminar

and Millionaire Mind Tele-class

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