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8 Secrets of the Truly Rich By: Bo Sanchez Buy your own copy at any National Bookstore Outlet Have You Relied of God Too Much? Trust God, but tie your camel. - Old Persian proverb Many years ago, when I was still young and handsome (Now, I'm just handsome), I was giving a retreat to a bunch of college women. While preparing for my talks in my bedroom, a regular-sized cockroach flew in and buzzed around the ceiling. I didn't know why I did this, but I found myself pointing my finger to it and commanded, "In Jesus' name, come down and die!" In a second, I saw the insect hit an invisible wall and come crashing down on the floor, dead as a stone. Suddenly , I felt powerful. I lifted my pointer finger to my lips and blew the imaginary smoke. A few minutes later, I was preaching to an enthusiastic crowd of young female college students. Without warning, a bigger cockroach came into the seminar room - probably the grandfather of the critte...

8 Secrets of the Truly Rich By: Bo Sanchez Buy your own copy at any National Bookstore Outlet Do you Practice the "I Hate Myself" Spirituality? Love your neighbor as you love yourself. - Matthew 22:39 Some strains of religion encourage self-hatred. In some religious circles, if you don't like yourself, you're considered a saint. That's a lot of chicken poop but a lot of people believe it. If someone says, "Oh, woe is me. I'm the most rotten, most miserable, most evil, most depraved man on the face of the earth, and I hate me! I hate me! I hate me!" some people will actually canonize him on the spot as a saint. Friends, that's no saint. That guy needs therapy quick. Quick. He's sick. He's got low self-self worth and self-pity all over him. Here's my belief. Unless you love yourself, you can't love anyone else. This low self-worth trip spills over their financial life. Because t...

8 Secrets of the Truly Rich By: Bo Sanchez Buy your own copy at any National Bookstore Outlet Do You Believe that the Rich Won't Enter the Heaven ? Again. I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. - Mathew 19:24 The verse above is often quoted as a proof that heaven isn't for rich people. I've got two problems with that. First of all, they don't read the verse right after that verse.... When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked,"Who then can be saved? Jesus looked at them ad said, "With man this is possible, but with God all things are possible. - Mathew 19:25-26 Jesus didn't say, "It's impossible for rich people to enter heaven."He simply said ,"It's going to ...

8 Secrets of the Truly Rich By: Bo Sanchez Buy your own copy at any National Bookstore Outlet Have you Romanticized Poverty? Blessed are the poor. - Luke 6:20 Religion can romanticize poverty. We can receive this message: "To be poor is better than to be rich. It's more pleasing to God. He favors the poor. Poor people go to heaven. Rich people go to hell." If you believe in this philosophy, then goodness, why in the world would anyone even think of becoming rich? Yes, it's true that God favors the poor. And it's true that the Bible says, "Blessed are the poor" (Luke 6:20). But I believe God loves the poor and accompanies them in their difficult journey so that they can rise from poverty. Not so that they can remain in their poverty! It's foolish ti romanticize poverty. Whoever says being poor is romantic is out of his mind. When I was 15 years old, I lived and ministered in the slums - and I'm telling you, there's not...

8 Secrets of the Truly Rich By: Bo Sanchez Buy your own copy at any National Bookstore Outlet Get Rid of Crazy Religious Beliefs The mind maketh good or ill, wretch or happy, rich or poor. -Edmund Spenser You may be wondering what in the world "religious Beliefs" are doing here in a book about money. Answer: Your religious beliefs determine your wealth more that you think. Let me say it again. one of the biggest monsters that keep us poor is that we really don't want to be rich. And we don't to be rich because we've got crazy, insane religious beliefs about money. Religious beliefs are so deep, so wedged to your core identity, you follow them even if you're not aware that you're following them. In this book. I'm NOT in anyway insinuating that all people should try to be rich, yada, yada, yada. Or that we're defined by how much we earn. Mother Teresa had zero income but she's one of the greatest person this century ever ...

8 Secrets of the Truly Rich By: Bo Sanchez Buy your own copy at any National Bookstore Outlet Enlarge Your Skills to Match the Size of Your Psychological Wallet Do you see a man skilled in his works? He will serve before kings; he will not serve before obscure men. - Proverbs 22:29 My son believes he's rich. So when he sees someone in need, he says, "I have money. Let's give him money." His psychological wallet is big. For a long time, we were praying for a friend's baby who needed a liver transplant. My friend needed P3 million for the surgery. After our usual evening prayers, my son asked me, "Daddy, why don't you give P3 million to that baby?" I almost choked. "Because I don't have P3 million." And then it hit me: What's stopping me from earning P3 million a month? Only two things: My beliefs and my skills. First, I don't see myself earning P3 million a month. I can't imagine it. ...

8 Secrets of the Truly Rich By: Bo Sanchez Buy your own copy at any National Bookstore Outlet Train Them While They're Young The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. -Dennis Waitely One day, when my son was five years old, he wanted to buy a toy - a Power Rangers robot. "Will you buy this for me, Daddy? he asked. I shook my head. "You need to earn money to buy that." "How?" "Set up a business," "What can you sell?" His face lit up. "I'll sell bangus. I saw him writing , Lola Linda, Ninong Robee, Cousin Denise..." and seven other names of family members. Meanwhile, I typed up a list of the bangus products and printed a leaflet. Bene grabbed a yellow necktie, wore it over his sando and shorts, and scooted out the door - with leaflet in hand. He rode his little three-wheel bike to his Lola's house, gave the leaflet ...

8 Secrets of the Truly Rich By: Bo Sanchez Buy your own copy at any National Bookstore Outlet Rip Out Your Negative Family Labels Men and women are not limited by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope. - John Johnson Some parents "train" their kids to have very small psychological wallets. We inherit the size of our psychological wallters form our families. I hear this dialogue a lot in toy stores... Junior: "Mommy, can you buy this toy for me?" Mother: "No son, we can't afford that." Junior: "But Mommy, this toy is really nice." Mother: "Son, didn't you hear me? Were not rich!" Junior: "But Mommy, I realy, really like this toy!" Mother: "For the last time son, I'm going to say it again. Get this into your skull, Your family is poor! Your mother is poor! You are poor!" The child grows up with that label tattooe...

8 Secrets of the Truly Rich By: Bo Sanchez Buy your own copy at any National Bookstore Outlet Are You Sending Mixed Signals to God's Universe ? What you subconsciously want, you will get, And what you subconsciously do not want, you will avoid. - Bo Sanchez I've long learned that God's universe simply responds to what we want - clearly, repeatedly and passionately. You can gain all the financial wisdom in the world, but unless you sort out your unconscious wrong beliefs about money or negative image of yourself in relation to money, you'll be sending up confused , muddled, incoherent messages to God's universe. Let me tell you why. Many people are trapped in poverty specifically because of their mixed-up, conflicting desires: On one hand, they want to get rich, pay their debts and be generous. On the other hand, in a very deep unconscious level, they don't want to get rich. Shocking? Because of their subconscious beliefs that money ...

8 Secrets of the Truly Rich By: Bo Sanchez Buy your own copy at any National Bookstore Outlet People do not attract that which they ant, but that which they are. - James Allen James Allen is right. But let me go one step further. It should be written this way:" "People do not attract that which they want, but that which they think they are." Your picture of yourself is't just a picture. It's a photograph of the future. This works in non-financial aspects of your life, too. For example, if you can't see yourself as a "fantastic father to my children," then you won't be spending time with your kids on a daily basis, building your relationship with them. You won't do that because it's not who you think you are. Remember this truth. At the end of the day, who you are doesn't count. It's who you think you are determines your success. Because you'll be acting according to that picture. H...

8 Secrets of the Truly Rich By: Bo Sanchez Buy your own copy at any National Bookstore Outlet Unless You see It in Your Mind, It Won't Become Reality It's time to start living the life you've imagined. - Henry James Deep with in you, you've programmed your life to operate ona particular level of income and total net worth. Because this is your psychological wallet or money-comfort zone, you can't see your self earning twice as much or becoming a millionaire. You simply can't. Something within you says, "Are you nuts? Me? Earn twice as much? Become a millionaire? Ha! I might as well imagine I'm Mc Donald Duck." So you stay in your money comfort zone for the rest of your life. It affects your love life too. More likely, you'll subconsciously get attracted to marry someone who also has the same size as you psychological wallet. So both of you can comfortably live in that zone happily ever after. Well, I've got news ...

8 Secrets of the Truly Rich By: Bo Sanchez Buy your own copy at any National Bookstore Outlet Increase You Money Comfort Zone You are the way you are because that's the way you want to be. If you really wanted to be any different, you should be in the process of changing right now. - Fred Smith I had to enlarge my psychological wallet. Some call it our money comfort zone. Can you imagine yourself with a million? Some can't even picture this scene. Some can picture it but they immediately feel uncomfortable. As though there's something wrong with the picture. For example, some have a P10,000 psychological wallet. They see themselves earning P10,000 a month - nothing less, nothing more. If, for example, they get a bonus of P20,000, they'll be happy on the outside, but subconciously. they're panicking on the inside. And so they'll force themselves to lose it all (usually by spending it) They'll buy the dress, the shoes, the ce...

8 Secrets of the Truly Rich By: Bo Sanchez Buy your own copy at any National Bookstore Outlet Face Your Feelings What you can feel, you can heal. -John Gray The poor have tiny psychological wallets. God wants to give them more but their psychology can't handle the blessing. let me give you an example in my life. Last month, I earned more money than I ever earned in any single month of my entire life. (Of Course, the phrase "more money" Is a relative term. What may be a lot of money to me may be loose change to some of you.) But because it was "too much" for me-way beyond what I was accustomed to - I actually felt very uncomfortable. In other words, the money didn't fit my psychological wallet. The money didn't match my perceived identity. I sat with these raw feelings for a whole, and identified them as fear and guilt. I was afraid because it was new experience of earning that huge amount of money. And felt guilty because I may be...

8 Secrets of the Truly Rich By: Bo Sanchez Buy your own copy at any National Bookstore Outlet Secret # 2 Enlarge Your Psychological Wallet There is a secret psychologically to money. Most people don't know about it. That's why most people never become financially successful. Alack of money is not the problem; It is merely a symptom of what's going on inside you. - T. Harv Eker The first giant reason why people are poor is because they don't want to be rich. As absurd as this may sound, it's true. Because subconsciously, we don't think it fits us. We feel it's not who we are. Here's what I learned. If you want to make small incremental improvements in you r life, change your behavior. But if you want to make dramatic, quantum leaps in your life, change your beliefs. So many people are trying to change their behavior. They try to save. They study how to invest. They start a tiny business. But it's no...

8 Secrets of the Truly Rich By: Bo Sanchez Buy your own copy at any National Bookstore Outlet You Can Create a New Pattern of Success Man is not the creature of circumstances; Circumstances are the creatures of men. -Benjamin Disraeli Let me tell you my story. When I was growing up, I felt I was the most ungifted kid in the entire world. Honest! I had four thing going against me. First, my grades were bad. As early as Grade 2, I failed in Math and Pilipino - two subjects I abhorred like amplaya (bitter gourd) juice concentrate or an antibiotic capsule that accidentally breaks open on your tongue. Yuck. I felt I was dumb exponentially exponentially raised to the power of three. My academic goal in life was to reach the high grade of 75. One day, one of my subjects reached 82 and I almost collapsed in shock. I went to my teacher and asked f she made a mistake. Today, I'm guessing I probably had some form of mild dyslexia, but during my time, they ...

Chapter 5 8 Secrets of the Truly Rich By: Bo Sanchez Buy your own copy at any National Bookstore Outlet You're the Product of Your Thoughts, Choices and Habits If yo u d on't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain - Maya Angelou You create your life. When you choose your thoughts, you choose your psychology. And when you choose your psychology, you choose your behavior. And when you choose your behavior, you choose the consequences of that behavior. Which includes wealth or poverty. Bottomline, you create your wealth, and you create your poverty. WE do it. So let me ask you: What kind of thoughts do you have? Your thoughts have power. They have the power over your body. They have the power over your abilities. They have the power over you life. What kind of choices have you made in your life? Some of you might be saying right now, "OK, Bo. I'm g...

Chapter 5 8 Secrets of the Truly Rich By: Bo Sanchez Buy your own copy at any National Bookstore Outlet Stop Blaming God for Your Poverty If there is no wind, row. - Latin Proverb Some poor people believe God made them poor. This is a deadly belief. Because religious beliefs are so deep, they become part of our core identity. And they're very difficult to dislodge. I've heard this cruel belief spoken in various ways... "Fate made me this way." "If I were rich, perhaps I won't be as close to God as I am right now." "My poverty is God's will for my life." Whenever I hear these lines. I get angry. This is not the God we worship! But God gets blamed for everything. One day, two women were talking about their diets... Dieter #1: "Last night, I wanted to eat ice cream after work." Dieter #2: "You didn't, right?" Dieter# 1: "Well, I asked God that if he wanted me ...

CHAPTER 4 8 Secrets of the Truly Rich By: Bo Sanchez Buy your own copy at any National Bookstore Outlet Stop Blaming the Devil for Your Poverty We Have met the enemy and he is us - Pogo Ferdie, a lean man in his mid-30s, approached me after one of our prayer meetings. One look at him and I felt pity for him already. He had dark circles around his eyes and pale skin. He looked perfect for cheap zombie movies. "Brother Bo, I've had so much bad luck in my life!" he said. "Last year, I lost my job. That's my fifth job in three years. Now, I'm buried in credit card debt... Oh what bad luck!" "I don't believe in bad luck," I said,"I believe we create our luck." "You don't understand. Someone told me that there was evil in my house and I need to remove them." "Evil?" I asked, "What do you mean?" For a moment, I wondered if my zombie theory was accurate. Ferdie said,"A Charisma...

8 Secrets of the Truly Rich By: Bo Sanchez Buy your own copy at any National Bookstore Outlet Stop Blaming Your Family for Your Poverty You can't hire someone else to do your pushups for you. - Jim Rohn One day, I was talking to a mother in her 40s. She told me, "I was born in a poor family. My father is poor, my other is poor, our grandparents are poor, all our uncles and aunts are poor, even our dog is poor...THat's why I'll be poor forever." I shook my head and said, "There's a slight problem with your logic. Do you know who else can say the exact same story?" "Who?" she asked. "Henry Sy, Lucio Tan, John Gokongwei..." "But Bo, they're not counted!" she objected."They're Chinese!" "So? Even worse. At one point , they couldn't speak our language. These three men started with manual labor. And except for Henry Sy who finished in Far Eastern University, the o...

8 Secrets of the Truly Rich By: Bo Sanchez Buy your own copy at any National Bookstore Outlet Stop Blaming the Government for Your Poverty Ninety- nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses. - George Washington Carver This chapter is specifically written for my fellow Pinoys. Because this has become our national pastime. We like blaming our personal financial misery on our government. One day, I was talking to a friend of mine. Over a cup of coffee, he blurted out in exasperation to me, "Brother Bo, do you know why I'm poor?" He didn't wait for my answer. He said, "It's our (blip) government! From the (blip) policeman on the street to the (blip) President of the Philippines, they're all (blip) corrupt. This (blip) country is going to the dogs be cause we're being run by a bunch of (blip) thieves!" If he'd stopped cursing, we'd have shortened our conversation by half. But I neede...