I was honoured to be able to attend the first ever Millionaire Mind Intensive seminar in London. The Millionaire Mind Intensive (MMI) is based on the bestselling book, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, by T Harv Eker.
If you don’t know already: T Harv Eker is the first motivational speaker I’ve heard whose book I bought. I listened to clips of his book on the late Achievement Radio, which prompted me to buy the book in the first place.
The seminar itself was great – great being an understatement – and as I write this I feel like I’ve slowly become a changed person. Even lying in bed right now, in the hive of negativity, I am still managing to stay alert to negative thoughts popping up.
But this seminar had also revealed a number of insights. I’d had an insight even before the seminar began. This is the first one.
In Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, Harv tells about a guy at one of his MMI seminars, who wouldn’t take an advanced course because he couldn’t afford the flight to another part of the US. Harv told him, “you’re broke!” The idea was that h wasn’t willing to invest in himself enough.
After reading that part, I said to myself that – if Harv ever came to London – that I’d go to the MMI seminar. It was at a time when I genuinely couldn’t afford a plane ticket to America, and even more I had never been to America (and still haven’t, at the time of writing).
Well, a few months ago I was offered a free VIP ticket to the first MMI seminar (allegedly) held in Europe, which was just last weekend at the London ExCeL. It turned out that free VIP tickets had been offered to a number of people, but that was, as they say, a minor.
I forgot about reserving my place, until days before the event when I was reminded of it.
Suddenly, I felt my mind being filled with reasons why I shouldn’t go to the seminar. The most prominent reasons were: that it was a three-day seminar; that I’d have to travel all the way to east London; that I’d have to get a hotel room; that I had better things to do; that it really wasn’t that important.
I should also note that I’d also had two prior engagements planned for that weekend: a beginner’s scrapbooking class on the Saturday morning, and a speed dating event on the Friday.
In the end, I decided to fight my excuses. I cancelled the scrapbooking class (and was luckily refunded), and decided to take time out of the seminar to go on the speed dating event – it was too late to cancel, and I didn’t want to be a no-show. I made the preparations for a hotel room,and committed myself to the seminar.
This was an example of a time when I had to step up to the immediate challenge. Too often I would say that when the time is supposedly right I would take the opportunity, yet when it appears, I procrastinate and find other, menial things to do. I knew that if I didn’t go the seminar, I’d spend all of the weekend like a thirsrty, dried up vegetable.
That was my first insight: stay tuned for more.
Tags: achievement, excuses, lies, motivational, positive, procrastination, seminar, speaker
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