Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

PART TWO
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The Wealth Files
Seventeen Ways Rich People Think
 
and Act Differently from Poor
 
and Middle-Class People
 
 
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N PART I OF THIS BOOK WE DISCUSSED THE PROCESS
of Manifestation. Recall that thoughts lead to feelings, feelings 
lead to actions, and actions lead to results. Everything begins 
with your thoughts—which are produced by your mind. Isn’t 
it amazing that our mind is pretty much the basis for our life 
and yet most of us have no clue as to how this powerful 
apparatus functions? So let’s start by taking a simple look at 
how your mind works. Metaphorically, your mind is nothing 
more than a big file cabinet, similar to what you’d find in your 
office or home. All information that comes in is labeled and 
filed in folders so that it’s easy to retrieve to help you survive. 
Did you hear that? I didn’t say thrive, I said survive.  
In every situation, you go to the files of your mind to de-
termine how to respond. Say, for example, you’re considering 
a financial opportunity. You automatically go to your file 
labeled money and from there decide what to do. The only 
thoughts you can have about money will be what are stored

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in your money file. That’s all you can think about, because 
that’s all that is in your mind under that category.
You decide based on what you believe is logical, sensible, 
and appropriate for you at the time. You make what you think 
is the right choice. The problem, however, is that your right 
choice may not be a successful choice. In fact, what makes 
perfect sense to you may consistently produce perfectly poor 
results.
For instance, let’s say my wife is in the mall. That shouldn’t 
be too hard for me to imagine. She sees this green purse. It’s 
on sale for 25 percent off. She immediately goes to her mind 
files with the question “Should I get this purse?” In a 
nanosecond, her mind files come back with the answer: 
“You’ve been looking for a green purse to go with those green 
shoes you bought last week. Plus it’s just the right size. Buy it!” 
As she rushes to the checkout counter, her mind is not only 
thrilled that she’s going to have this beautiful purse, but 
glowing with pride that she got it for 25 percent off.
To her mind, this purchase makes perfect sense. She wants 
it, she believes she needs it, and it is “such a deal.” However, 
at no point did her mind come up with the thought “True, this 
is a really nice purse, and true, this is a great deal, but right 
now I’m three thousand dollars in debt, so I’d better hold off.”
She didn’t come up with that information because no file in 
her head contains that. The file of “When you’re in debt, don’t 
buy any more” was never installed in her and doesn’t exist, 
which means that particular choice is not an option.
Do you catch my drift? If you’ve got files in your cabinet 
that are nonsupportive to financial success, those will be the 
only choices you can make. They’ll be natural, automatic, 

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and make perfect sense to you. But in the end, they will still 
produce financial failure or mediocrity at best. Conversely, if 
you’ve got mind files that support financial success, you will 
naturally and automatically make decisions that produce 
success. You won’t have to think about it. Your normal way of 
thinking will result in success, kind of like Donald Trump. His 
normal way of thinking produces wealth.
When it comes to money, wouldn’t it be incredible if you 
could inherently think how rich people think? I sure hope you 
said “absolutely” or something to that effect.
Well, you can!
As we stated previously, the first step to any change is 
awareness, meaning the first step to thinking the way rich 
people think is to know how rich people think.
Rich people think very differently from poor and middle-
class people. They think differently about money, wealth, 
themselves, other people, and pretty well every other facet of 
life. In Part II of this book, we’re going to examine some of 
these differences and, as part of your reconditioning, install 
seventeen alternative “wealth files” into your mind. With new 
files come new choices. You can then catch yourself when you 
are thinking like poor and middle-class people and consciously 
shift your focus to how rich people think. Remember, you can 
choose to think in ways that will support you in your happiness 
and success instead of ways that don’t.