Why work harder, relax less, stress more, and often arrive an hour late and
a dollar short? Short of winning a lottery – you likely won’t see a windfall overnight. But if you program in a few new routines you can tilt your brain in the direction of significant profitability. Worth a try? Here are a few tactics that will rejuvenate your brain’s potential for financial return – for a competitive advantage that lasts.
1. Make one money move daily – Whenever you do a thing – small as it may be – you literally rewire your brain to do it again and to increase your chances of success. It could take up to a month to land that next solid contract – but there may be a far smaller move you could make today that would stop money going out or bring a few dollars in. Start there and you’ll be launched for a better move the following day.
2. Lay out your assets on one page – Spatial intelligence kicks in to help you create a critical plan – when you can visualize exactly where you stand at the moment. If you work better with encouragement – and most people do - then fuel your brain with the support it needs by seeing assets you already own.
3. Start small – Rather than read the financial-fix-for-experts - instead, add one straightforward target for the week ... and then map out a few steps toward it that day. Continue to move toward a destination you set – one step and one day at a time. It's easy to get lost in complex roadmaps that go nowhere near profit. If you wanted to consult the experts, first make your own daily plan to grow what you have, and then build on that with experts later.
4. Reward your efforts – At the end of week one – head out for your favorite golf course, as a reminder to yourself that you plan to build in cool rewards along the way. The brain stokes itself with chemicals for well-being and for sharper outcomes whenever we take a diligent step and then pause for a well-deserved reward before we hit the trail again.
5. Hold on – Each time you step forward with a plan to build better profit – you reboot the brain for the next positive step – so it gets easier in one sense. In another sense, though, you may have hardwired your brain for financial failures in past – and so it may stop, spit and stall a bit when pressures mount. Commit to holding on before you slip … and you’ll regain your step faster when you get back up.
6. Buy lunch for a financial guru – Take someone you respect for lunch – and ask how they build their wealth and approach financial management. Suggest a few plans you’ve been brewing to increase profitability and see if they add any wit ‘n wisdom to the mix. Due to interpersonal intelligence … your brain moves far faster in the direction of solutions whenever you start with giving. Rather than look for a mentor, though, expect a more mutual exchange of ideas.
7. Prepare prompts – Your brain operates best when you outsource that part of your memory that will promote your financial plan. Create a list, jot daily progress in a financial plan book, or put your ring on backwards to remind you to sock a bit away weekly into a growth account.
8. Play with ideas – When you make money into a game – you motivate the brain to come back to the winning edges on the following day. Think big – even if you spend small at first. Brainstorm on the left side of your serious financial records to spark new ideas that spill much more easily into practical plans from a playful pool of your brain’s creative side.
9. Laugh at a mistake - Laughter sticks the luster back into work and creates a new buzz for your brain to chase in your advantage. If nothing else you’ll add zest for the plan you make and laugher adds to your healthy state along the way.
10. Spot venting for what it is – If you’ve ever heard people vent about why they have less money than they want or need – you’ll see why rage usually works against your brain’s potential to win. To the brain’s chemical and electrical systems – venting is like swallowing a bottle of Clorox and then hoping its toxins don’t take out your health and plans along the way.
11. See one step ahead of where you stand – Retrofit your financial plans whenever you sense you are no longer making a few dollars a day more than you spend. The brain leaps to an advanced organizer – so that it becomes a steel trap for ongoing profit growth.
12. Hook financial goals to your best talents - See your plan as a hat rack and your talents as multiple hats tossed toward its golden hooks. Whenever we link what we do best in any one area– with what we hope to do better in another area – we create a synapse for the brain to win. It’s like laying down a new neuron pathway toward profit and using one thing you already do well to catapult you there.
13. Teach a financial lesson to your dog – When the brain teaches what it knows – even at the time it’s being learned – you retain 90% more of what you learn. So if you explain your best financial idea – the one you tried that day – even to the dog, if nobody else shows interest – you're already further on your way to making a smart financial move the next day.
14. Back away from negative people – Surround yourself with anxious, fearful, or just plain stuffy people and you will also decrease the cortisol chemicals that negativity spills into the human brain to slow it down.
15. Speak a financial plan idea into a tape while you drive home - Your intrapersonal or reflective intelligence can step back and show you new angles when you use an approach that’s less familiar. After dinner – replay the tape – and create a simple 5-step plan that could mushroom money – all from one gem you mined from your own taped insights.
16. Trust your own brain – While it’s a great idea to familiarize yourself with guru financial thinkers and planners – it’s preferable to problem solve with your own brain in mind – before enlisting an expert’s. If nothing else you will have a sense of what you want to accomplish before you get confused with all the geek speak that financial experts tend to toss into the ring.
If you are aware ahead of the brainpower you possess for amazing profitability – you’ll also be far more prepared for the challenges to make it happen. To fortify your plans with a few straightforward brain facts is to add the motivation and direction you need to make it happen.
Oh, and don’t worry about age, failures or past limitations … because fear shuts the spigots and cuts off fuel you need for financial brainpower. Give it a shot and watch new profits begin to flow. Ready … set … go ….
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