We're all familiar with various "get rich schemes." The ones where self-proclaimed "experts" lure customers into purchasing programs targeted at people who believe they can buy themselves a shortcut to success.

While generating a seven-figure income isn't easy, it's definitely possible. Would you believe you already have what's needed to acquire wealth and financial security? It's true and 100 percent free. Before amassing wealth, you must cultivate a millionaire mindset first.

Did you know that eighty-five percent of millionaires are self-made? I interpret this to mean that you don't need to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth to be able to live the American Dream.

While not comfortable referring to myself as an "expert," I am proud of my humble beginnings and the fact that I am living the ultimate American Dream. I've been a successful entrepreneur for almost two decades and have accumulated all that I've ever wanted in life. In addition to receiving many professional awards and accolades, I am a bestselling author of the "No Excuses Mindset" book and soon I will be hosting a new podcast series called, "The Millionaire Mindset" starting March 19th, 2019.

In the series, I will share my journey of success and teach how investing seven minutes a day can help you achieve the financial wealth and freedom you've long desired. Although it sounds cliché, you really can achieve anything in life if you can clearly see it and believe it. I emigrated to America with only four hundred dollars and could barely speak English. Those were obstacles that I never allowed to become excuses.

If you want to become a millionaire, you respect the fact that time is money. So, have you calculated how long it's going to take to earn your first million dollars? Even if you're currently netting $100K, it'll still take at least a decade before achieving your million dollar goal. If you're like me, you think that's far too long of a wait. Keep in mind that broke people will sell their time to get money, wealthy people will give their money to get time.

At the same time, your impact drives and even determines your income. It's simple. The more people you help; the more value you add. Essentially, adding value allows you to solve problems which directly correlates to generating more income.

Years ago I was told: "It's not about the hours you put in at work; it's about the value you bring to each other's lives that makes the real difference." The critical takeaway here is that if you're not adding value to each working hour, then you're not increasing your value to people. Therefore, you can't realistically expect to produce more income if you're not making the necessary positive impact.

Living life with intention is the most powerful, transformative, game-changing behavior that you can commit to right now. Intentionally investing seven minutes each day doing one or all of the activities below will positively change the trajectory of your life!

#1. READ. Plain and simple. Reading conditions the mind. Take seven minutes to learn about others who've already achieved what you're trying to accomplish. It sounds simplistic I know, but, leaders are readers. Also, millionaires acquire their wealth through knowledge. Read daily and never stop learning. Approximately eighty percent of millionaires read at least two books per month, while sixty-three percent report listening to audiobooks. Also, seventy-six percent purport to exercising at least four times per week. These facts provide valuable insight we can extrapolate from to create the guide to living our best lives. These facts show a direct correlation between the power of our daily habits, routine, and self-discipline with ascending to financial prosperity. There's a powerful link between maintaining a healthy mind by nourishing the brain through reading and conditioning the body with regular exercise.

#2. REFLECT. Take seven minutes to reflect on what you read and learned the day before. Apply what you can to your personal life. In other words, reflect on your positive actions or even mistakes, so you don't repeat them in a month or down the road a year later. Daily reflection helps you reconnect with your goals and keeps you grounded.

#3. THINK. Another simple life-hack. Invest seven minutes towards thinking about creating new ideas, strategies, and solutions towards self-empowerment and elevating your mindset. This form of purposeful thinking facilitates an opportunity to stop competing and start preparing for future collaboration with others.

#4. ACT. Dedicate seven minutes to taking massive actions towards implementing your goals. Enormous effort is analogous to the glue that brings everything together. Consider it this way: thinking without action is like trying to drive a Ferrari without an engine. What's the point, right? Every day that you waste complaining, settling for less than what you deserve, waiting for things to happen, and avoiding solutions by remaining part of the problem delays and perpetually impedes achieving personal and financial growth. Commit to doing the work required to live your best life even if you think you might fail at the beginning. Decide to take massive and unrelenting action towards achieving your goals, with the understanding that failure is part of the equation. Stop squandering your time with indecisiveness as it's the number one reason and culprit why people have average lives. You've come this far there's no reason to give up. Failure is only the end when you fail to get back up and dust yourself up and try. I promise, the harder you work, the luckier you'll become.

Now that we've laid the foundation, there's no more time to waste. Day one or one day you decide. Incorporate the previously delineated steps into your daily routine, join my coming soon podcast channel, and we'll expedite the process of developing a Millionaire Mindset!

Live With Passion!

Farshad Asl