457. Controlled Focus

Focus is the master key to your success. Whatever you focus on is what you wind up getting. Focus on Poverty, you get Poverty, focus on Wealth, you get Wealth. Controlled focus is like a laser beam that cuts through the apparent obstacles. You need to practice this focusing consistently until it becomes the way in which your mind operates by default. Focussing like this is the concentration and directing of your power.

Here is a nice formula :

Focus X Consistency = Effective Power.

448. Poverty & Lies

Do not talk poverty. In truth you are wealthy and talking poverty when you are wealthy is a lie. Wherever there is a lie, there is evil. Evil always has to do with lies.

419. The Relationship between Budgeting and Poverty

Make friends with your budget. Create one from scratch and keep refining it. Always live within it - this will make you disciplined about money. Your budget is your first line of defence against poverty. Without one, hou have no hope of avoiding red-lining. Keep your budget under review, line by line and week by week. It is not enough just to create it and file it away. It must be a document that you live by.