Believe it or not, though thinking rich helps in making one feel rich, it is in what one does that ensures affluence is reachable and do-able.

Being rich, more than just a state of mind, is actually a state of one’s pocket. Getting those greens in your wallet require a lot of luck, preparation and opportunity to come your way.

Alright, enough of my ramblings, have a great day ahead!

The following are helpful tips and advice to hopefully snag that richness and swim in it. Acquiring lots of wealth has never been this easy, or is it?

Look Out For Inheritance

Believe it or not, this is a very old yet a very effective tried and tested way that today’s families got rich in the first place.

During the early 1800s as well as 1900s, just right before there were laws put up on taxes, trusts, etc., the wealthy families of America built large empires and amassed for themselves lots and lots of money through various industries like banking, oil, newspapers, transportation, sugar, land, etc.

That wealth – like an heirloom – has been passed onto generations upon generations of family.

Therefore, inheritance is one of the surest and easiest way to get rich. Provided of course that the family before yours was rich enough to do so.

The down side of this method is that wealth inheritance only works if you are born to the appropriately rich family.

If not, then go and establish your own wealth and pass it on to your children and your children’s children. Oprah wasn’t born rich, but look at her now.

It is never too late or too early to start.

Marry Up, Marry Rich

If inheritance seems a long shot, try marrying someone rich. If you are extremely lucky, that person you just married could be kind, lovable and generous. If not, then divorce will make sure you get what is handsomely due you.

However, for this to work, you have to make sure that you get married in a state where property community laws favors you.

Work, Work, Work

If inheriting wealth and marrying rich does not work, there is always an alternative: work for the money.

It is very rare that people get rich just by holding a job, though it does pay the bills. What people do to get rich is building a company and owning a company. Eventually, the company goes public thereby bringing the owners millions upon millions of those green dollars.

Inventing something everyone would find useful is another way to get rich and at the same time help society benefit from it. Some examples includes Microsoft, Google, eBay or Post-it, etc.

Win, Win, Win

If inheriting wealth is not your cup of tea, if you cannot marry rich and if working and working still won’t bring you wealth, try winning it.

After all, that is what lotteries are for. Eventually, someone wins at the lottery, and hope that it could be you. Though the chances of winning the lottery is a lot less, compared to perhaps being struck by lightning, it is only worth a buck so why not try it out?

Gamble For Money

If marrying does not work, if inheriting does not work, if winning does not work, try gambling. Believe it or not, a total of fifty million Americans play poker. There are even those that win millions out of it.

Watching these poker players battle and win it out on tv seems easy, however the fact of the matter is, it is not.

Steal Money?

This is a loser’s attempt to get rich, but it could work. That is if you are willing to risk life, limb and one hundred years of your life in federal prison if caught.

Being a CEO is one good way to steal money. Cook those accounting books, purchase a thirty million dollar home, lie and hope that no one notices. But this is really not advisable.

Another un-recommended way to get rich is to deal, either drugs, meth, heroine or crack as well as other non-approved meds by the FDA.

Invest Your Money

This is a sure way to get rich and a very clean one too. Real estate is a good investment with its rate going up by ten percent every year.

Though this process takes time, and also needs a humongous down payment to get started, you will get rich still, just right now.

Most people would call it charisma, some, the X-factor. Donald Trump has it and so does Bill Gates. Oprah Winfrey built her empire on it.

It’s called power and it has two faces: influence and persuasion. Power has a symbiotic relationship with its audience.

A man has power because he can command an audience and he can only do so because the audience allows him to, which gives the man power in the first place. Whatever it is that a powerful man can do, he can do so because his audience granted it to him.

Contrary to popular belief, power has nothing to do with control and manipulation. In fact, using these two can result to corruption and antagonism, quite the opposite of what power aims to achieve.

Power, when derived from control and manipulation can result to hostage and bribery, even deception. It can come in the form of holding information, reward, even freedom for ransom.

Influence and persuasion are two of the most basic components that run our lives, regardless of who we are.

We could be a sales professional selling a product or service, a doctor guiding his team through an operation, a construction foreman leading his crew into building a tower, a politician trying to make a difference, a parent working to make a better home, or even a student interacting with his peers.

It doesn’t matter where we are at our lives at the moment, at one time or another, we have need of influence and persuasion. We negotiate because we can persuade.

We are able to achieve things because we can influence and we don’t even have to be celebrities or business tycoons. We use influence and persuasion on a daily basis so much that we aren’t even aware of it. We use it in groceries, shopping malls, offices, parks, even over the dining table.

The gift of influence and persuasion is inherent in all of us. Some people are just adept at it because they recognize this and have worked hard in nurturing this gift. An effective way of developing it is to learn to communicate well – be able to listen with attention and understand verbal and non-verbal cues and be sensitive to the goals of the other person.

Try to learn how to negotiate mutually rewarding results. Try to see from the other person’s point of view. Be able to present your ideas clearly and concisely to let the other person see what you see, regardless of what his prejudices or biases are.

Understand that human nature is complex and very dynamic. It operates simply, but can produce complicated results.

People respond to reciprocity whether it’s good or bad. They also appreciate consistency and honesty. Knowing what makes people act can help you influence them more effectively.

People recognize the need to belong and it is this concept that has helped many influential and persuasive people make a difference by just appealing to this need.

It’s also worth to remember that people are more likely to respond to small decisions than they are to big ones. And most of all, people like appreciation – not the cheap vulgarity of flattery – but honest approval of what they are capable of.

Being able to utilize the power of influence and persuasion in our lives can make a huge difference and can get us a job, raise our income, get the assistance we need, advance our relationships and improve ourselves.

We all can’t be presidents and CEOs. In fact, most of us might be spending our lives untouched by limelight, unknown by the rest of the world. But having the ability to influence and persuade can help us improve the quality of our lives and the lives of those around us.

The power of influence and persuasion is the battery that runs our society. It builds nations and promotes peace. It encourages relationships and promotes leadership.

In fact, without influence and persuasion, the world would not be what we know of it today, and what it can still be if we only use these two correctly.

Break down a single goal into little pieces

Regardless of your goal’s size, you should have a plan of attack. Ask yourself:

• What do I know about this?
• What information do I have?
• What information do I need? Where can I get it?
• What skills do I need to master?
• What other resources should I use?
• Is this the best way to do it, or is there some other way?

If you start looking at a goal as something that can be approached from many sides, you will not be too intimidated by it. Plus, you will also keep a more realistic frame of mind, knowing what you are capable of and in what area you’ll need help with.

Stop procrastinating

So you’ve heard this before. Big deal. Well, it is. Time wastage is one of the greatest crimes in history. If Henry Ford put off studying and tinkering with machines for another time, someone else would have improved on automobiles and he wouldn’t have gone down in history as a pioneer.

If you’re used to procrastination, being bullheaded about a goal can seem scary at first. Try to set a schedule and then reward yourself each time you meet it.

If you like putting off reconciling your accounts, try marking your calendar for two or three days and set a time limit for each day, say 15 minutes and then spend those minutes doing nothing but reconciling your accounts.

If you don’t finish the job, no sweat – you only allotted a quarter of an hour anyway. But try to make some progress within the time frame you set. Once you condition your mind that you can actually do it within a certain time period, you won’t find it too difficult to make schedules in the future.

Start small, but keep walking

Goals don’t necessarily have to be big ones. When you set your goal too high, you might find it too overwhelming and time consuming and just give up, or make another one, just as big. It’s akin to quitting cold turkey – there are setbacks.

To make goals believable and achievable, set them in small increments, complete with time, dates, amount, some details.

If you tell yourself, “I’m going to be an opera singer” and then sit around and wait for it to suddenly happen, you could be waiting all your life. Start with singing lessons for a month, and then a year and expose yourself to opera music. You can then progress to more singing lessons year after year.

By breaking down your goals in smaller, workable units, you are more likely to make them come true. Remember, even the great ones had to start somewhere.

Be positive when stating your goals

Instead of saying, “I am not going to mess my exercise routine today,” say “I’m really busy, so I’ll probably just make time for 20 minutes on the treadmill.” Stating your goal positively will help you view it as a good thing to do, and not as a byproduct of what you had to avoid.

Spread out your goals

So maybe we do have certain general goals that apply to all areas of our lives like, “I want to be successful” or “I want to be rich” but those would seem as far away as the Niagara Falls viewed from Hawaii. Instead, try making tiny goals for different aspects of your life, one or two for each, even more if you like.

These areas are: family and home, career, social, physical, mental and spiritual. If you say, “I want to be a successful dad,” then try to make goals towards the development of your family life while still keeping an eye out for ways to improve your career and other areas of your life.

Don’t underestimate yourself

It’s tempting to sometimes just slack off, or let yourself off too easy. If you want to write the definitive American novel, then don’t try to churn out just a page or two a day when you know you are more than capable of writing five pages, even ten.

The fear of failure is sometimes to blame for setting our goals too low. How often have we said, “I don’t really want to volunteer for that project ‘cause I might screw it. And then my colleagues will make fun of me.”

Remember that some fears are unfounded. How do you know you’ll actually ruin it? And how do you know for sure your coworkers will laugh at your effort? If you try to reason with your fears, more often than not, you’ll realize that there really is no reason for you to be reluctant and that in fact, you can do it.

Write it down

Putting your goal down on paper is more than just memorizing it. You are actually confirming your willingness to make it come true. A written list of goals is also an effective reminder of what you need to do and once you’re done, a good review of your accomplishment.

Affirm it

Affirmation is really more than writing down, “I am going to buy my $750,000 home by Christmas” twenty times. It’s actually being conscious not only of your thought processes, but also of your acts during the day.

If you’re trying to save money and then you pass by a shop window where a great pair of shoes seems to have your name on it, think, “If I buy those shoes, would I be making my goal of saving easier? Will I be able to meet my deadline if I splurge just this once? A few months from now if I don’t meet my deadline because I didn’t save enough, would I feel good about it?”

Small decisions can have a great impact on you working towards your goal. Remember that your goals are your roadmap to success in life. Without them, you can lose your way.

Although you can always retrace your steps, you might not have the time, opportunity, energy or resources you once had when you could have made your goals happen one by one.

Let me now show you how to choose the right action that will lead you to your ultimate goals. First of all, let’s discuss …

The root of all procrastination

Very often, people tell me “I have studied all the theories of success and read all the self improvement books, but I still don’t know what to do.” Then they end up doing nothing, and getting no results. No matter how many books you read, how many tapes you listened to, and how many seminars you attend, if you don’t take any action, you won’t have any result. Action creates result. You can’t change this fact. Inaction leads to endless procrastination, and ultimately, leads to failure.

You must understand that no matter how bad the situation is, you can always take some action to improve it right now, even just a little improvement. If you can’t imagine how to make 1 million dollars, just make a commitment to make 100 dollars first. You might have heard of this phrase “CANI”.

It represents constant-and-never-ending-improvement. Success is a journey, not a destination. This journey is about improvement.

As long as you are making some kind of improvement, you are leading to success. Now you know you need to take some kind of actions, then…

What is the right action?

The answer is to ask your intuition. Your intuition will never fool you because it is the message from the higher intelligence. Your intuition always knows what is right and what is wrong.

Do you remember when I said that feelings and emotions are the language of the universe? They are also the messages from the higher intelligence of the universe. When you feel a positive emotion, the universe is telling you that you are doing well, keep on doing; When you are receiving a negative emotion, the universe is warning you that you are not aligned with your ultimate purpose, or life mission. You need to correct your action.

This is the way the universe communicates with you. Before taking any action, ask yourself ” How will this make me feel once I have accomplished this action?” Most of the time, your intuiting will give you immediate feedback, you either receive a positive or negative emotion.

Listen to your intuition, and do what makes you feel good, don’t worry about making mistakes, because…

Everything is in its divine order

One of the most stubborn road block to success is fear of failure, or fear of making mistakes. To completely remove this road block, you must accept a belief that everything is in divine order. Look back at your life of the past 10 years. Did you make any mistakes?

Sure you did, but without that mistake, would you have the life you are living now? If you can look deeply, you will find that mistake had inevitably created some coincidence that leads to your present life.

There is always a connection between everything happening in your life. That mistake is part of your life journey that should not be missed, then why did you worry at that time? After my university entrance examination, I did not get a chance to join an old brand university that I loved very much.

Most people that know me felt pity for me, but I did not care, I joined a university of my second choice. Just one month after joining that university, I was offered a scholarship to study abroad in a much better university than my first choice university. Best of all, I did not spend a single dime on my tertiary education, even my everyday spending was covered by that scholarship.

I would never have had this chance if I had joined my first choice university. Is this only a coincidence? I don’t believe that, I believe everything is in its divine order, in my life, nothing ever goes wrong. If you want more of this kind of coincidence happen in your life, repeat this everyday when you feel doubt.

“Everything is in its divine order; in my life, nothing ever goes wrong” To sum up, you need to make a small improvement every day. Before taking any action, think of the feelings it will bring to you, and make the right choice based on your feelings.

Then just do it, and believe you are doing the right thing because everything is in divine order.