1.2.1.21 Conclusion

I started this book by saying that I’m on a mission to help make people rich. I want to help make you rich, but first you’ve got to adopt a millionaire mindset. There is a reason why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Generally it has to do with mindsets. Some scientists once created a scenario in which all the wealth of the world was distributed equally amongst everybody. In other words, in this scenario you and I would have received a share of Bill Gates’ money! The conclusion they came to was that every time they performed this scenario, the wealth would always return to the original owners. Why? Because the rich have a mindset that the poor don’t have.

One of the early pioneers of Christianity, the apostle Paul, once wrote, “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” That’s essentially what this book is all about. Do not allow yourself to go through life simply conforming to the patterns of thinking and living that are dictated to you by the world around you. You could easily blame your upbringing, your education, negative social norms, or statements that may have been said about you. How should you respond? My friend, transform your life by the renewal of your mind.

In the 1979 film Being There, the late Peter Sellers played the main character: a gardener named Chance who had lived his entire life in an old mansion in the middle of Washington DC. Chance had never been outside the owner’s property, spending every day tending the small walled garden attached to the house. Apart from limited contact with an African-American housekeeper who came to the house each day to cook and clean, his only knowledge of the outside world was based on what he had seen on television, which he watched almost continually. When the owner of the mansion died, for the first time in his life Chance had to leave the only home he had ever known and venture out into the outside world. The rest of the film is about how Chance survived in this big new world, interpreting and responding to every situation in which he found himself by relating it to what he had seen on television or to his knowledge of gardening.

The final line of the film is, “Life is a state of mind.” While that sentiment might be a little too existentialist for me, it is certainly true to say that the path of your life will be determined to a large extent by the state of your mind. Remember, if there’s a mist in your mind, there will be a fog surrounding your world.

So, as you begin today to change your mindset, the mist in your mind will begin to clear. And as the mist clears, the fog surrounding your world will lift ever so gently. As that happens, you’ll find yourself beginning to see further than you’ve ever seen before. New horizons of opportunity and possibility will appear before you. Paths of prosperity that once eluded you now stretch out before you. Rivers of riches now flow within your reach. Gardens of greatness are now at your fingertips. With the dawn of each new day, you’ll awake to the realization that your dreams are achievable.

My friend, the difference between yesterday and tomorrow is simply that you have decided to apply a millionaire mindset. And that will make all the difference!