Wealth is created in your mind well before you actually create it physically.

"Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve" - Napoleon Hill

I was a wealthy self-made millionaire in my mind way before I actually became one.

Napoleon Hill stated - "whatever your mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve".

Henry Ford stated - "whether you think you can, or think you can't - you're right"

These two great men summed it up quite well. In other words, what they are saying is that

your destiny, your future, your success is whatever you decide it will be in your mind.

Your "lightbulb moment" is here....... and the key to it all is in your mind!

Your subconscious mind will believe whatever you tell it, and goes to work to make it happen.

So, if you believe you will be successful, then you will be. If you believe you will be wealthy, then your mind will make it happen.

However, if you believe you will be a failure, then your mind will go to work on that instruction, and if you believe you will be poor, your mind will make that happen for you too.

Think about it a moment...

This means that there are NO real excuses available to any of us for not succeeding in our endeavours. We have control of our own futures and it starts in our minds. Whatever we decide in our heads, is what we will achieve.

Believe it or not, it's actually true. I don't know how it works, but it just does.

I honestly believed that I would become successful and wealthy, even when I was broke!

I had absolutely no idea how or when it was going to happen, I just "knew" that it would.

Nobody else believed that I could do it, even my own parents, but that didn't matter. My mind was made up, and it WAS going to happen!

It seemed everyone knew that I was just a "mug" that was going to amount to nothing. It seemed everyone knew this..... except me.

As you live, you learn (hopefully), and I learned that it didn't matter what others "believed" or "knew" about me. All that mattered was what I believed about me. All that mattered was whether I believed I could, or I believed I couldn't.

It was because I honestly believed in my future success and wealth, that I NEVER accepted any excuse for failure. I NEVER considered giving up because success (in my mind) was inevitable and becoming wealthy was certainty.

NO EXCUSES, NEVER, EVER.

• "Not born into a wealthy family" is NOT an excuse. Make your own wealth. Even the wealthiest of families and individuals had to start with nothing first. My parents were factory workers and I was a "latch-key kid". That didn't stop me.

• "Born in an underprivaleged area with high crime" is NOT an excuse. You can move, find a way and make it happen. I was personally raised in the slums of Sydney, that didn't stop me.

• "Not having a higher education" is NOT an excuse. I have no degree or diploma, yet that didn't stop me.

• "Cannot land a descent job" is NOT an excuse. I applied for around 60 jobs and attended around 25 interviews before I landed my first basic job.

• "I don't know where to start" is NOT an excuse. It may be true, but it's NOT an excuse for failure. I had no idea where or how to start, but I started anyway.

• "I have no useful skills" is NO excuse. You DO have useful skills, you just need to uncover them. Nobody is useless, most are just lazy. Find your strengths. I did.

• "I'm just not good at....." is NOT an excuse. I don't care what it is you think you're not good at, if you believe it's important enough in your success, then find a way to become good at it. My "strengths" were selling and people skills. I wasn't brilliant, but they were my strong points, so I read books, listened to audio recordings, attended seminars etc to develop my skills. Accepting medioce skills was not acceptable to me as was not going to be an excuse. It sohould not be an excuse for you either.

• "I know nothing about investing" is NOT an excuse. Nobody is "born" an investor. It is a learned skill. I was clueless about investing, but I learned. I observed others, read books, listened to audio recordings, attended seminars and built skills over time. Heck, I'm still learning and building skills - and I'm retired for goodness sake! You can learn to invest - if you believe you can.

Wealth creation, and in fact, ANY success in your life, will ONLY happen if you believe it will.

If you think you can, then you will.

If you can conceive an idea, and believe in it with all your being, then you will find a way to make it happen.

Think of successful people like Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet, George Soros, Bill Gates, Henry Ford, Sir Richard Branson and so many others didn't become wealthy and successful because they doubted themselves. Love them or hate them, such people have absolute belief in themselves and don't care what anyone else thinks!

They were wealthy and successful in their mind and soul, well before they were wealthy and successful in real life.

If you believe you will be wealthy and successful, if you truly think you "can", then you will find a way to make it happen - no matter what others think and no matter what life throws at you!

Two wise Warren Buffett quotes:

“I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.”

“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.”

Your success is in your hands and nobody else's.