Set Your Success Thermostat

Last Update: September 22, 2011

Financial Thermostat

You probably already know this.

We all have a financial thermostat that's just like the heating thermostat in your house. Some people program themselves to make $75,000 a year. You set your thermostat at a certain level and feel fine at that the limit. If you fall below that limit, you'll do a little more to reach it. If you exceed that limit, you'll start spending or experience some loss, or experience deals falling through because it is above the level you set.

Here is a tool to make a graphic for your wall that you can focus on. You can type in any goal, not just financial. You can type "learn to juggle", for example. Print out what you type and put it on your wall. When you're ready to increase that goal or change it, then type in a new goal or amount, and print it and put that on your wall. For instance, if it your goal is to have $250,000 a year, put that amount on the top line, and "per year" on the bottom line, and so forth and so on.

Sometimes we just have to train our brains to do what we want.

Btw, Brad Yates is fantastic!



Here's the link: success thermostat

Have fun!

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jatdebeaune Premium
Martha, I think many people are afraid of change because the idea of it threatens their sense of security. We learn fear in childhood. It's false though. I've had to do a lot of introspection too. We have to have faith that we can pull it off, and then, pull it off. All the best to you in working with your thermostat.
Marthar5 Premium
Thats probably me a thermostat of humble beginnings, so worried an increased income means a change of lifestyle I grown so accustomed is yet to change - change, I turn from till safety nets are in place, the incase of's and if' this failed. My husband and I worked as casual employee's last year to combine a annual income of $100.000 a first time for us, yet wasted it that year, and now that I'm home, not earning an income, we budget and spend to gain more than we've ever had since #%* years - so weird that. I'm gonna check that success link out, and try to increase our income again but spend it wisely this time. Martha
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