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RICH and HAPPY Whatever you want, Whenever you want.

by John P. Strelecky and Tim Brownson

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message fro the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 introducton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Chapter 1 - my Car s On Fre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Chapter 2 - if You Don’t Know, You Don’t Get . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Chapter 3 - What Would You Be Wllng To De For? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Chapter 4 - Your Brllant mnd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4 Chapter 5 - So That’s What i Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Chapter 6 - Don’t Sell to the Jantor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Chapter 7 - Don’t Beleve Your Belefs Unless They Beleve n You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Chapter 8 - Reals s for Accountants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Chapter 9- How Full s Your Glass? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Chapter 10 - Fal, Fal Fast and Fal Often . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Chapter 11 - Are Your money Belefs Keepng You Poor?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Chapter 12 - All t Takes s One Good Exaple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Chapter 13- Sugar Plls and Black Capes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Chapter 14 - What Are Your Three Favorte moves? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Chapter 15 - Do Less and Get more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Chapter 16 - Pleasure or Pan? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Chapter 17 - Wrte t Down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Chapter 18- maxze Your Rch and Happy Return . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101 Chapter 19 - The Rch and Happy matrx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 08 Chapter 20- You Have No But, You’ve Got a Serously Bg Asset.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Chapter 21 - Congratulatons, You’re Not Dead! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139 Chapter 22 - What Would Jaes Bond Do? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 46 Chapter 23 - i Thnk Therefore i A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Chapter 24 - Re-Frae Ths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 58 Chapter 25 - Who s Controllng Your mnd? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163 Chapter 26 - See t, Hear t, Feel t, Have t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 76 Chapter 27 - Be Patently Unrealstc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 84 Chapter 28 - Be a Qutter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 91 Chapter 29 - Stress s for Suckers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Chapter 30 - ignore most People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 Chapter 31 - Star n Coedes Not Draas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 Closng message fro the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Author Bos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate  – our deepest fear is that we’re powerful beyond measure.”  —Marianne Williamson

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Congratulations on taking one o the most important steps you’ve ever taken in your lie. You’ve decided to decide. You’ve chosen to choose versus live a lie that others chose or you. That right there makes you one o a select group o  people. I you read the inormation in this book, and apply it in your lie, you will be part o an even more exclusive group- those who are Rich and Happy. As you embark on this adventure, you may be wondering  how this book came to be. How and why do a #1 BestSelling inspirational author whose works are in nineteen languages (John) and a renegade lie coach with one o the most let-eld thinking and successul lie coaching blogs on the Internet (Tim) pair up to write a book called How to be  Rich and Happy? 

The answer is actually pretty straight orward. Part o it you’ll nd in the personal story described in the the opening chapter. That will explain our own motivation or discovering the ormula or being Rich and Happy. The other part, which is why write the book now, is simply because we listened to what  people are asking or. We have been riends or a number o years. A riendship that  began because although we operate in dierent arenas (Tim in lie coaching and online blogging and John as an author and speaker) and we have very dierent styles (Tim relies on a very British sense o humor, where John is more serious and inspirational) we have a similar lie purpose, which is to help people.

with them, and through our own lie experiences, that even when they couldn’t actually name it, what they wanted was to be Rich and Happy. Tim was seeing it through his work with individual clients, and via his blog, and John was seeing it at his events when he was speaking to large audiences. So when people asked us what we were working on next, we started telling them we were working on a book called “How to be Rich and Happy.” And literally every single person responded with something  close to “That’s the book I need.” I you are amiliar with John’s previous books; The Why Cafe, Life Safari , and The Big Five for Life- Leadership’s Greatest Secret , this will be a very dierent type o read. Those works are ctional stories with inspirational messages. This is a non-ction, tell it like it is book. That said, the underlying ocus is still the same - help people live the lie they want to live.

Although the book is written by both o us, or ease o reading, you’ll see that it reads as i there is just one author. The word “I” is the collective I o both o us. Think o us as science experiment gone mad, where two people’s brains and lie experiences have been merged into one. Or, just realize that it is a heck o a lot easier to explain the stories and material the way it’s written, than or us to keep clariying who is saying what. And now, let’s move you orward with what you want and deserve- to be Rich and Happy.

And when we would get together or a round o gol, or grab lunch, and discuss how things were going and what people were telling us, it kept coming back to the same answerpeople are really struggling. We knew rom our interactions

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XX introduction

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Throughout each piece o this book, you will nd reerence to the ormula that has made thousands o people I’ve analyzed over the course o almost twenty years, not only rich, but Rich AND Happy!

Having seen the impact this inormation has on young  people rom around the world, I am condent that i  this were taught to youth early in their lie, we would see a uture o innovation, cooperation, and satisaction with lie, like the human race has never beore experiThe staying power o this ormula is evidenced in that  enced. it was rst introduced to me through the lie story o  Benjamin Franklin, one o the ounding athers o the Perhaps you, like many others have already, will nd United States, who lived more than two hundred years yoursel a catalyst or making that happen ater you ago. It is the same ormula that Bill Gates, currently read this book and enjoy what the ormula enables. the wealthiest man in the world, a man whose net  As you read the inormation, you will learn why this worth exceeds twenty three billion dollars, a man who ormula or success will work or everyone who uses it. dropped out o college, began applying when he was How a man named Eiel put it to work and watched  just a boy o 13. it generate millions o dollars in wealth as he orever When I rst began to discover the pieces o the ormula, they let such an indelible impression on me that I was let inspired to ponder them, refect on them, seek examples o them in everyone I met, and o course, use them. Through my research and through my own experiences with the ormula, I have come to realize that it  is the dierence between those individuals who live a  Rich and Happy lie, and those who do not. Knowledge and use o it makes all the dierence. This book explains the ormula and how it has been the dening actor in the lives o people rom all varieties o backgrounds, races, and geographies. Thousands have applied it and reaped the benets.

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carved his place in history by doing something he loved. All the truths you will nd in this book will illustrate what the use o the ormula can mean in your lie. The leap rom the lie you have, to the lie you want. Thousands o men and women have applied it and received the benets it enables. For one young man that meant traveling throughout  Asia or two years while his bank account grew on its own. He was operating in what you’ll soon discover is called zone three o the Rich and Happy Matrix. For another it meant buying a mountain in Costa Rica  and spending his aternoons surng and playing at the beach with his amily. 7

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Martin Strel, a sel-taught swimmer used it to set a  Guiness record by becoming the rst man to swim the entire length o the Amazon River, an accomplishment that netted him worldwide acclaim, a book about  his adventures, extensive speaking opportunities, and became the basis or an award winning lm. Sam Horn, author consultant extraordinaire used it to establish a lie where her hourly salary now exceeds what used to be her annual salary. All while doing  something that makes her happy, and has brought joy to literally tens o millions o people around the globe.

The ormula has been the signicant element in thousands o others like her who have gone beyond tragedies to not just survive, but to thrive. A unique characteristic o the ormula is upon discovering and applying it, people realize they are literally cascaded toward a Rich and Happy lie. Like a brilliantly colored lea in the midst o a ast moving stream, they are swept along in a current o their own denition o success.

Within these pages the Rich and Happy ormula is reerred to almost constantly. I you are looking, and ready to benet rom it, it is out there in the open, plain to see. All that is required is to use it.

One o the uniqueness o the ormula is that those who are not looking or it or not ready or it, don’t see it. I know this on a personal level, because as you will read in the next chapter, until one momentous morning, I didn’t see it, even though it had been there the entire time.

I your lie has taken you on a journey that has let  you tired, and perhaps eeling hopeless, i you eel that  the challenges you have aced, or perhaps are acing  are obstacles too big to overcome, then drink rom the examples in here and let them be the nourishment you seek in the midst o your exhaustion.

I you are a person o limited education, don’t worry. The diversity o people who have beneted rom the ormula proves that ormal schooling is not a requirement or its use. It works as eectively or someone o  little education as it does or someone who has spent  years in academic institutions.

The ormula enabled a single woman rom a small Arican village to rise against the tyranny that surrounded her and create a movement o ollowers who collectively planted more than thirty million trees and reorested an entire nation. The Nobel Peace Prize she received, including  its more than one and a hal million dollar award, were the rst ever awarded to an Arican woman.

Many who have become Rich and Happy come rom very modest educational backgrounds.

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How can I state all o this with such certainty? That will become clear as you read through this book. There will be a moment when it all clicks in your mind, and you just get it. 8

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It might be in one o the early chapters as you learn about  the power o belies. Or perhaps it will be through one o  the nal stories. Just know that i you read with an open mind, and a pure intent, it will happen.

Keep ever-present in your mind that what is written here is the known, not an opinion.

Over the course o almost twenty years, I have researched thousands o men and women who have achieved the state o Rich and Happy. While they each have their own unique story, the ormula is a common thread that connects their success.

It exists in this orm so that you and all who are open to it can discover the ormula or being Rich and Happy, including the motivation to put the ormula to work.

These individuals are a raction o the people worldwide whose results veriy that knowledge and use o  the ormula is the key to being Rich and Happy. In truth, I have never met, or researched a single person who understood and applied the ormula who then did not go on to become Rich and Happy. I have also never ound someone who achieved a state o Rich and Happy, who didn’t ollow the ormula. That is how important it is.

It is truth, not fction.

One last comment ahead o your journey into the rst  chapter. Every Rich and Happy moment occurring now and at any time throughout history has had it’s origin in a single thought- “I want to be Rich and Happy.” I  you have that desire, and are open to what it can bring, then you are hal-way there. The rest waits or you to discover it in these pages.

As you go through these pages, the ormula will leap rom the words and you will eel as i your whole world has shited in a positive direction– i you are open to the possibility! At those moments, and you will know it when they happen, close your eyes, smile, and take a long, deep breath. For they will mark dening  moments in your existence. Knowledge learned is an asset that can provide benets or your entire existence, and no-one can ever take it  rom you.

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Chapter 1 - My Car is On Fire

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“My car is on fre. Oh my god, my car IS ON FIRE!”

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ach person who discovers the Rich and Happy ormula has a dening moment that launches them upon their adventure with it. A beginning that is oten very memorable. Mine happened on Interstate 88 West, heading out rom Chicago. I was twenty-one years old and barely surviving at the edge o the poverty level.

Ater hitting the latch to open the hood, I jumped out o the car. Trac was whizzing by and people were honking. No-one stopped, they just honked. Apparently they wanted me to know my car was on re. As i somehow I would have missed that.

I ran to the ront o the car and lited up the hood. So that’s what all the honking is about, my car is on re. I ran to the trunk to look or water. There was none, so in my state o panic, I reasoned that antiIt was a very cold day in February and I was driving to reeze, being a liquid, would make a suitable alter nawork. I waited tables or $2.01 per hour, plus tips, at a  tive to put the fames out. restaurant chain called Bennigans. I, as a member o  the wait sta, was a “Bennigans Blues Buster.” What a  This proved to be a poor decision. Antireeze has  joke. My salary or that year was just over seven thou- quite a large concentration o alcohol in it, which as sand dollars. I couldn’t even bust my own blues. I learned moments ater pouring it on the re, has the exact opposite eect o putting re out. One o the perks o the job was that or lunch you could order o the employee menu or ree. There “Dirt,” I thought. “I need dirt to throw on the re.” were eight items. Most people ordered one. I would The anti-reeze enhanced inerno was now burning  order and eat one o everything. That was pretty much the engine block. February in the Chicago area  my ood or the day. tends to leave the ground rather rozen, and as I tried to grab some dirt rom the side o the road, But back to the burning car. I encountered little success. So I grabbed all the At the rst realization o fames coming up rom under rocks and gravel, and the little amount o dirt that  the hood, I expressed the phrase that now holds many was on the cement shoulder, and threw that on the happy memories because o what it launched, but  re— about twenty times. And wouldn’t you know which then was lled with panic— “My car is on re. it, it worked. Oh my god, my car IS ON FIRE!” With the fames out, I stood there shivering in the Then I slowed rom the seventy-ve miles per hour I had wind and unsure o what to do. I had no cell phone, the temperature was 19 degrees below reezing, and been driving at and pulled over onto the shoulder.

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I was two miles rom the next exit, which was the one I needed to get o at to go to work. And that, was my defning moment.

Standing on the side o the expressway, looking at my burned out car, was the instant when I decided something was going to change in my lie. Not that I’d like  something to change, or it would be nice i things would change. No, something was going to change. And that’s when the ormula ound me. From that day until today, I have been a student o  the way the ormula works. I have interviewed and analyzed thousands o people to discover its nuances, threads, and acets. The rest o these pages are dedicated to sharing those ndings with you.

Thanks to the ormula I retired rom the nine to ve rat  race more than thirty years ahead o schedule, and will never have to go back. Through the use o its wisdom, I have traveled the world, spending as much as nine months at a time out exploring all that this amazing planet has to oer; the Amazon, the Great Wall o China, the rain orests o Costa Rica and Brazil, the Coliseum in Rome, the Parthenon in Greece, the plains o Arica… . It is what enabled me to become a #1 Best-Selling  author and be invited to share my thoughts and ideas with audiences around the world. Perhaps most important, and or some reading this, most relevant to their personal situation, ater standing  on the side o that road, and eeling the cumulative hopelessness and depression that had become my lie, thanks to the ormula, I learned how to live in a 

“Why?” you might be thinking. “Why write about  state o genuine happiness. the ormula? Why not just use it or your own So yes, I have most certainly used the ormula or my beneit?” own benet. Well, irst o all, trust me, I have used it or my own beneit. On the day the ormula ound me, I made the decision to put my almost twenty years when my car caught on i re, I was twenty-one years worth o ndings about the ormula into a book or one old, living at the poverty level, and overcome with simple reason. I know what it eels like to be twentyone years old, standing on the side o the road as your hopelessness. car is burning, and eeling about as low in the world as I was about as ar away rom Rich and Happy as you can possibly eel; hopeless, alone, like you’ll never you can be. get ahead, like you’ll never be happy.

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Once you know the ormula, all o that changes. I put  together this book to help people know that. Because right now especially, there are a lot o people who eel like I elt when I was standing on the side o the road. Realize that some parts o the ormula will be totally new to you. That means you will have to read with an open mind i you are going to benet rom them. Albert Einstein once said, “The denition o insanity is doing the same things over and over again and expecting dierent results.” Most people spend their lie perecting insanity. Rich and Happy people do not.

Other parts o the ormula may be similar to things you’ve uncovered in other books. That shouldn’t be surprising. Neither I, nor the people I’ve interviewed and researched, are the only ones who have achieved the state o Rich and Happy. It’s a big planet with a lot o history and there are lots o people on it. Those other Rich and Happy people may have been kind enough to share their learnings through books as well. As a matter o act, some o the people I’ve interviewed and researched have written their own books. Since you cannot achieve Rich and Happy without  knowing the ormula, then not surprisingly, although their terminology may be dierent, the books speak a  common language.

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That’s OK. As a matter o act, it’s a good thing. Not everyone will read the same book, and not  every book impacts each reader the same way. The more options people have or nding insights into the ormula the better. I encourage you to approach each page with an open mind. I you don’t, the ormula will elude you.

You have never been at this exact stage in your lie beore. So although it may seem amiliar, in truth, every single thing you read will be new to you as it  relates to your lie right now. Let me caution you against one character faw which more than any other, can keep you rom your Rich and Happy pursuits. I know it well because or a long time I possessed it, ocused on it, and let it hold me back in lie. It’s the everyone  faw. It works like this. You hear or read something that is an empowering statement and immediately you start  trying to nd the one possible scenario in which it  isn’t true. I know this well. I would hear a speaker, engage in a conversation with someone who was Rich and Happy, or read a passage in a book that said something was possible, and instantly my entire ocus would shit to trying to nd the one scenario in which what they said, couldn’t be true. 13

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For example, the empowering statement might be something like- “A state o Rich and Happy is possible or anyone who wants it.” And instantly I’d be thinking, “Oh yeah, well what  about a yak herder who lives at the top o a remote region in the Himalayas, who just ell o a cli and broken both his legs, and his yaks have abandoned him, and his water bottle broke when he ell, and...” I think you get the picture. The examples I would come up with were always so ar removed rom reality it was ridiculous. What was not ridiculous though, was that  this habit kept me rom ocusing my time and energy on what was important- the lessons to be learned. It doesn’t matter i what you read is applicable to every person in every situation.

The question you need to be asking, which is the one all Rich and Happy people have asked, and I nally learned to ask as well, is can this work or me? Don’t worry about everyone else. They will take care o themselves. So let’s get you started on the path to Rich and Happy!

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Chapter 2 - If You Don’t Know, You Don’t Get

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“Follow your bliss, & the universe will open doors where there were only walls.”

except look at it. And when you die, you can’t leave it  to someone else. The person who gave it to you gets it  back. Now how do you eel?

—Joseph Campbell

Suddenly having money isn’t all that big o a deal is it? That’s the point.

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uring my almost twenty years o research, I’ve uncovered a common denition or being Rich To be Rich and Happy you have to be able to look and Happy. Despite its simplicity, awareness o  beyond the physical money, to what it is you want  this denition has proven to be a critical part o the ormula  to do during your time on this planet. or those able to achieve a Rich and Happy state. Even or those rare people where money is part o the Rich and Happy is the ability to do whatever you scorecard they use or their personal denition o Rich want, whenever you want. and Happy, there is always something behind the accuThe specic elements o  Whatever  and Whenever vary mulation o wealth. by person. The denition though, is almost a one hundred percent constant. You’ll notice that the denition says nothing about money. That’s because or the vast majority o Rich and Happy people, money itsel is not the goal. Money is just one o the vehicles they use to pay or whatever they want, whenever they want it. I you nd yoursel doubting that money isn’t the goal, think o the ollowing scenario. Someone gives you twenty million dollars and you don’t even have to pay taxes on it. It’s all yours. How do you eel about that? Rich? Happy?

Warren Buet, the multi-billionaire investor, is an example o this. While making money is a component  o the “Whatever” he wants to do, in many interviews he has given, he’s talked about how the accumulation o money is really just a game. It’s part o what makes lie un and interesting or him. The prize or the game, or the way to tell i he’s winning,  just happens to be money. This is evidenced in that the process o spending money, unless it’s to purchase parts o, or entire businesses, doesn’t do much or him.

What i you can’t spend, invest, loan against, tell anyone about, or do anything with the twenty million dollars,

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In some cases, it’s actually possible to have everything  you need to be Rich and Happy and not even know it, because you don’t know your “Whatever.” Sound crazy? Hardly the case. Here’s an example.

Because beore you can be Rich and Happy, you have to defne what Rich and Happy means or you. You have to know your “Whatever.”

Within that statement lies a proound insight— despite what the luxury automotive advertisers would lead you to believe, Rich and Happy is not the same or all people. Until you know what it is or you, you can’t be it. That’s just the way it works. Think o being Rich and Happy as the vacation o your dreams. One day a sort-o- amous celebrity turned spokesperson comes knocking on your door. When you answer, you are handed one o those giant ve oot  checks and the good news that you have just won the vacation o your dreams. Pack your bags, the plane leaves in three hours.

While traveling through Costa Rica a few years back, I met  Tony. Tony was from San Jose, California and was now living  with his wife and two daughters in a beautiful place called  Manuel Antonio. He spent his days relaxing, reading, and   pursuing his multiple hobbies including playing the guitar  and learning the Spanish language.

Beore you can even get out a thank you, and ask where the celebrity has been the last teen years since he was on your avorite TV show, the van he arrived in is gone, and you are let standing on the ront porch. You race inside, open the suitcase, and then realize you have no idea what to pack. Should the clothes be ormal or casual, swimsuit or ski-pants, hiking boots or running shoes? You don’t know what to do. You don’t  know how to decide what to do. You’re stuck in a state o perpetual conusion. That’s the way most people go through lie. That’s a big  part o the reason why they aren’t Rich and Happy.

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Two years earlier, at the age of 48, Tony was on the verge  of a nervous breakdown. He and his wife worked fourteen  hour days, one in high-tech and one in bio-tech. They saw  their girls for brief intervals on week-nights and occasion-  ally on the weekends if they weren’t working. Then one  day Tony’s heart decided to send him a reminder that he  wasn’t immortal. In the recovery room after his heart surgery, Tony and his  wife had a long discussion about what a Rich and Happy  life would look like. Three months later they had sold their house, cashed in all  their stock options, pooled every single asset they owned, and with the four hundred thousand dollars that netted, they bought a mountain in Manuel Antonio. Their moun-  tain sloped down to the beach, and each evening they would  head down a few hours prior to sunset and play som e family  volleyball with the locals, which is what they now were. That’s where I met them. 17

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In my conversations with Tony, I learned that he could have done what he did many years earlier. His inancial position had actually declined as his company was going through ups and downs during  the previous years. But it wasn’t until his trip to the hospital that he and his wie took the time to igure out what they really wanted— what Rich and Happy looked like, elt like, consisted o, or them. In an attempt to save you a trip to the emergency room, let me be very clear. People who are Rich and Happy get that way by knowing what it means to them. They know it in their mind beore they become it in their lie.

Now you may not have our hundred thousand dollars in total assets, or maybe even our hundred dollars in total assets. But you also might not view Rich and Happy as owning a mountain in Costa  Rica. Plus, as you’ll learn later in the book, assets come in all shapes and sizes, and I guarantee that  you have ones you don’t even realize, and they are worth a lot! The important lesson or you to learn now, is that the rst step in the Rich and Happy ormula, is to dene what Rich and Happy means to you. I this seems daunting, don’t worry. The inormation in the next  group o chapters will help you gure it out.

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Let me throw you one piece o advice beore we get  there though. When it comes to the Rich and Happy ormula, I have learned that all the steps are important. Think o it like making a rozen pizza. For the pizza there are our steps: #1. Turn on oven, #2. Un-wrap pizza  rom plastic wrapper, #3. Put pizza in oven or 12-16 minutes, #4. Remove pizza rom oven and eat it. I you’re not sure each o the steps is that important, try leaving out #1. Turn on oven. How would your pizza  taste. Or leave out #2. Un-wrap pizza rom plastic wrapper. I you try that one, make sure to turn o  the oven once the smell o burning plastic has orever etched in your mind that each step is important. What that means or you, is that in order or the Rich and Happy ormula to work in your lie, you need to be serious about using each piece o it.

And that includes taking action. I you want a  perect, hot and ready to eat, delicious tasting pizzaat some point you have to put it in the oven and cook it. Reading and even knowing the instructions aren’t enough. You have to take an active role in the process. The same goes or being Rich and Happy. One o the common characteristics o Rich and Happy people is that they don’t just know the steps in the Rich and Happy ormula - they do them. 18

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I once heard a unny albeit sad story about an intriguing  occurrence at a sel-development seminar. The person giving the talk asked how many people had read Napoleon Hill’s classic book Think And Grow Rich ? Almost every hand went up. He then asked how many people believed in the principles in the book. Again, almost every hand went up. Finally he asked how many people put the lessons into practice. One hand went up and that was the guy on the platorm. Early in my Rich and Happy journey, I was guilty many times o learning a piece o the ormula, and then not putting it to work. O course I always intended to, I just knew that I would go back to it later. That behavior keeps the Rich and Happy lie you want   just out o reach. Keep that in mind as you go through this book, starting  with completing the exercise you’ll nd in the next  chapter.

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Chapter 3 - What Would You Be Willing To Die For?

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What would you be willing  to die or?

condition that you nd yoursel in at least occasionally, in which everything seems to happen without eort.

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provocative question isn’t it? It’s also a great  Suddenly, and ater paddling uriously against the way to help discover your “Whatever.” stream or a while, it eels like somebody has kindly turned your canoe around and you are now fowing  You see, that question opens your mind to with the river instead o against it, and are using the discover the core essence o what you hold most  power o nature and momentum to propel you along. important in lie. It helps you discover your internal It’s a great eeling, or to use Csikszntmihalyi’s words, compass, the guiding orces that tells you whether to an optimal experience. turn let, right, go orward, or turn back in lie. The eeling can occur while you are working on a  It helps you discover- your values. project, playing sports (where it is oten called being  To help you understand the importance o this inorma- “in the zone”), interacting with others or any number tion, know that you you cannot be Rich and Happy i  o dierent situations. In whatever scenario it strikes, you don’t know what your values are. And you cannot  the common characteristic is you are enveloped in a  be Rich and Happy i you try to live in confict with eeling o ease. your values. There are no exceptions to these rules. In other words, they are a critical part o the Rich and Happy ormula.

That eeling is the same experience as when you are in alignment with your values.

To the contrary, think o times where when you were I you wonder whether or not you are currently living  procrastinating, bored, miserable, stressed or anxious. in alignment with your values, then ask yoursel- Am I How many o those times do you think you were living  Rich and Happy? Am I doing whatever I want, when- in accordance your values? Let me help save you some ever I want? I the answer is no, then you aren’t living  energy by telling you. The answer is none. in alignment with all your values. The good news is, i  Would you like to be able tap into that “optimal expeyou keep reading, you’ll learn how to x that. rience” eeling any time you want? That state o fow? The book Flow , by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is subtitled Rich and Happy people can do it. Once you under‘The Psychology o Optimal Experience’ and Csik- stand the importance o your values and move into szentmihalyi called it that or a good reason. Flow is the alignment with them, you’ll be able to also.

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I have no doubt that at some point in your lie you’ve asked yoursel “What’s important to me?” or something  similar. That’s a great start in the direction o nding  your values. To get there you keep heading in that same direction, you just go way arther down the road- all the way to the core o your identity.

Sound interesting? Just wait, it’s going to get even better. The ollowing two charts contain a list o values and also something called anti-values. For now, just glance at these so you have them as a rame o reerence. Ater giving you some need to know inormation about  how values impact your lie, I’ll explain how to gure out which ones o the values and anti-values below are yours, and how that impacts the Rich and Happy lie you want and deserve.

Values

Adventure Authenticity Beauty Clarity Comort Commitment Community

Connection Courage Creativity Discipline Diversity Excellence Freedom

Positivity Power Recognition Prudence Selawareness Sel-control Service Sincerity

Signicance Security Spirituality Stability Trust Truth Wealth Wisdom

Fun Gratitude Growth Happiness Health Humor Humility

Honesty Integrity Justice kindness Knowledge Leadership Love

Nurturing Oneness Openmindedness Passion Peace Persistence

anti-Values (also known as away from Values)

Aggression Anger Anxiety Apathy Arrogance Confict Contempt

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Values are not belies. We’ll cover belies later in the book. For now, know that values are oten built upon and intertwined with your belies, but they have a  tendency to be more static and more powerul than belies. Your values are determined over many years and like belies are infuenced by countless things including your amily (or even lack o amily), your riends, television, politicians, Church leaders, cultural infuences, books you have read, incidents (both positive and negative) you’ve seen or been involved in, conversations you have had and much more. That less than exhaustive list still easily demonstrates why even close siblings and twins can have many dierent values and character traits.

discover you have a serious illness that requires your immediate ocus. Health will now nd its way to the top o your list very quickly, irrespective o where it  had previously been. Similarly, i you were in what you thought was a great  relationship and then you ound out your partner was having an aair, trust may become incredibly important to you. In act, most people I have worked with who had ‘Indelity’ as an anti-value had been through or witnessed rst hand (oten their parents) an unaithul relationship. There are no right or wrong values. There are only values that are right or wrong or YOU! And nobody’s values are better or worse than anybody else’s.

No two people and that includes co-joined twins are exposed to exactly the same environmental conditioning and thereore, no two people have exactly the same values.

When you judge somebody you are judging them based on your own values and the belie that i they do not  have the same values as you, then there is something  wrong with them.

Your values tend not to shit too much when you get  past your mid-twenties. The main reason or that, is because you have a tendency to look or inormation that cements the values you already posses and lter out inormation to the contrary. That said, things can change radically under certain circumstances.

This is ridiculous, because i you had their genes and their up bringing you would have their values. So when you judge someone else, what you are really saying is they were wrong to be born into that household, to those parents, and to have had their lie experiences- which doesn’t make much sense when you think about it.

Perhaps you never had ‘Health’ as an important value because you’ve always been t and healthy. Then you

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