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CHAPTER NINE

Getting Started
I wish I could say acquiring wealth was easy for me, but it wasn't.

So in response to the question “How do I start?” I offer the thought
process I go through on a day-by-day basis. It really is easy to find great
deals. I promise you that. It's just like riding a bike. After a little wobbling,
it's a piece of cake. But when it comes to money, it's the determination to
get through the wobbling that's a personal thing.

To find million-dollar “deals of a lifetime” requires us to call on our
financial genius. I believe that each of us has a financial genius within us.
The problem is, our financial genius lies asleep, waiting to be called upon.
It lies asleep because our culture has educated us into believing that the love
of money is the root of all evil. It has encouraged us to learn a profession so
we can work for money, but failed to teach us how to have money work for
us. It taught us not to worry about our financial future, our company or the
government would take care of us when our working days are over.

However, it is our children, educated in the same school system, who will
end up paying for it. The message is still to work hard, earn money and
spend it, and when we run short, we can always borrow more.
Unfortunately, 90 percent of the Western world subscribes to the above
dogma, simply because it's easier to find a job and work for money. If you

are not one of the masses, I offer you the following ten steps to awaken
your financial genius. I simply offer you the steps I have personally
followed. If you want to follow some of them, great. If you don't, make up
your own. Your financial genius is smart enough to develop its own list.
While in Peru, with a gold miner of 45 years, I asked him how he was
so confident about finding a gold mine. He replied, “There is gold
everywhere. Most people are not trained to see it.”

And I would say that is true. In real estate, I can go out and in a day
come up with four or five great potential deals, while the average person
will go out and find nothing. Even looking in the same neighborhood. The
reason is they have not taken the time to develop their financial genius.
I offer you the following ten steps as a process to develop your God-
given powers. Powers only you have control over.

1. I NEED A REASON GREATER THAN REALITY: The power of
spirit. If you ask most people if they would like to be rich or financially