My journey to a successful mind using 'lead the field'

It's great to have someone who can explore ideas with you. Earl's material is a really wonderful starting point for great conversations. Can you play a ten minute excerpt of the audio at lunch time or break, so your buddy can also hear what Earl has to say?

You've decided to choose your attitude for yourself, rather than just accepting a hand-me-down attitude. You've also decided to evaluate whether advice comes from people who are successful and well informed in the area where they give advice. You've woken up to the fact that many people give advice that's not well informed, just as a habit... it's where they got that mediocre advice themselves. You're recognizing that you can decide to still care about someone, while no longer accepting their default attitudes as your own.

That's a huge change in direction for many people!

Those types of decisions started Earl on his own path.

Growing up in the Depression, he wondered why his family was poor. Nobody could give him an answer that made sense. So he went to the public library to see if he could find an answer. After many years of research he found answers that made sense to him. He spent the rest of his life living and sharing those answers, starting with our ability to choose our own attitude.

The first thing to decide is if these are really your words and ideas, or just someone else's words and attitudes that you're recycling.

Did you first hear this phrase spoken by someone else? Maybe by parents, relatives, other adults when you were a child? Maybe by friends, neighbors, co-workers, buddies you have as an adult? Leaving aside whether or not they were good, kind, loving, honest people, when it comes to the area of money, were these people successful based on the advice they're giving you?

Did they say these things based on a sincere study of the nature of money, value, and financial success? Or were they just recycling unhelpful ideas and negative attitudes someone else had carelessly dropped off in their life - "following the followers" as Earl calls it?

Next question: "What attitude would I have if this was true? Do I want to have that attitude?"

That's why Earl talks about attitude, and the Acres of Diamonds story. It's to get you thinking for yourself. Sometimes a secondhand attitude is easy to take for granted. It can take a lot of work to recognize that some things we feel are obvious are not, we're just well trained to accept them.

Later in the LTF course, Earl does have specific material about money and business. It's really outstanding. Keep going through the course and by the time he gets there, you'll be ready to meet him.

Chris