T Harv Eker - CNN
An Interview with T Harv Eker
T Harv Eker Interview on CNN
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T Harv Eker is interviewed on CNN including his new book Secrets of the Millionaire Mind.
Date: June 25, 2006
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T Harv Eker is author of the book Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, mastering the inner wealth game. T, good to see you!
Harv Eker: Hey, thank you for having me.
I am so conflicted by this segment. I want to believe everything you say and I don't believe anything you say. But let's try this out for size. There really is a secret, a secret to being financially successful?
Harv Eker: Absolutely. And it's the root cause of financial success, the root cause of everything else of course. It's the way you think. You know in the book, I say "Give me five minutes and I can predict your financial future for the rest of your life." How? By identifying whats called your "money blueprint". Each of us has a personal money blueprint already ingrained in your subconscious mind. And Tony, it is this blueprint more than anything else that will determine your financial life. So you can be the best at your job, the best at your business, you can know everything about stocks and bonds and real estate, but if your subconscious money blueprint isn't preset for a high level of success, you will never amass a large amount of money. And if by chance, you do, you'll somehow manage to lose it. Can I give you an example?
Yeah, give me an example.
Harv Eker: Alright we've all heard of the fellow with the big hair. Great guy, Donald Trump. Here's this multi-billionaire. He loses everything and more and 2 years later, he's got it all back again and more. Why? His money blueprint is set for high. On the other side of the coin, we've all heard the story of lottery winners, right? They win 5, 10, 50, 100 million dollars. Five years later half of them are right back to where they started. Why? Because their money blueprint is set for low.
Well, T, are you essentially saying that our minds tend to get in the way of our own success?
Harv Eker: Well there's a formula for the results of your life and it's very simple. Your thoughts lead to your feelings which lead to your actions which lead to your results. So, your results are originated in the way you think. And most people, we were all taught how to do money. And most of us were taught by either people who didn't have a lot of money, or they had a lot of emotional issues around it. Their ways of thinking and their habits became our ways and we just take them for granted as the way we do things now. We just think in ways that for most people are just unsupportive to success.
Is it your belief that all of us, some of us watching you this morning, can change our thinking and become wealthy?
Harv Eker: It's the only way. What else are you going to do? People work hard all the time. People change their job. People take different classes and they're all good people.
Everyone is not going to be wealthy, T, and you know it. You can think if you can believe it, you can achieve it. But not everyone in this society can change their mindset, do the work that you're going to suggest here and wealthy. There is randomness to this. Well, what do you think?
Harv Eker: I agree that not everyone is going to become wealthy because they don't think in terms of wealth. They think in terms of old conditioned beliefs, not in supportive ways of thinking. Let me give you an example of that.
Harv Eker: Most people, believe it or not, what they do is they resent rich people. What do we hear? "Filthy rich," "rich people are greedy," and it's very simple, Tony. If you think rich people are bad in any way shape or form, and you want to be a good person, then you can never be rich. How could you be something that you resent? Another belief that people have... Most people play the money game on defense as opposed to offense. Their big intention is to have enough to pay the bills or just get by. Or just earn a decent living or just be comfortable. Literally, you have to have an intention like anything else. You had an intention to have your job, and you've got it. You've worked hard for it and you've got it.
Harv Eker: If you don't have an intention... I want everyone to have the intention to become a multi-millionaire.
This society, and capitalism in general, depends on a permenant under-class to do the bidding of the rich industrialists.
Harv Eker: That may be true, but you don't have to be one of them. You can be on the opposite side of it. And let me just say this. Why get rich? Well one of the reasons of course is for yourself. But the other reason is that you can't give what you don't got. And literally, I believe this, that if you have the wherewithall to get rich, it is your duty to do so so that you can help other people who do not have that wherewithall.
The other saying is that "Money is the root of all evil."
Harv Eker: Well if you believe that you're certainly not going to have any, are you. I believe that money only makes you more of what you already are. It's a tool. People say "Well, it's not as important as love"
Hey what do you mean by that? Money makes you more of what you already are.
Harv Eker: It just enhances who you are. In other words, if you're a really greedy jerk person, it's going to allow you to be more greedy and a bigger jerk. On the other hand if you're a kind and generous person, and a compassionate person, it's going to allow you to be even more kind and more generous in the financial arena and help the people you want to help.
That's good, T. Let's see the book again. T Harv Eker is the author of Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, mastering the inner wealth game. T, good to see you, thanks for your time.
Harv Eker: Thanks for having me.
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