Recently, I finished e-book The Road to Wealth by Robert G. Allen.  He is a best-selling author and real estate guru.  Also, he teaches thousands of people real estate tricks and how to start an information empire.  He is wealthy in knowledge and very generous with information.  This is a second book I read by him and looking forward in reading other books of his, including “Nothing Down.”

Here, I want to share some excerpts and quotes from Robert G. Allen e-book, The Road to Wealth, that will make you think, encourage you, inspire you.  It inspired me, for sure.  Enjoy these nuggets of wisdom:

“Confidence comes with practice.”

“Don’t look at the immensity of the goal.  Don’t look down at the penalty for failure.  Just keep your eyes on the next step.”

“You’ll slip and bruise yourself.  Maybe even break a leg, figuratively.  But you’ll heal, and if you maintain the proper attitude, you’ll emerge a stronger, more courageous and less fearful person.”

“Face your fear.  You always find the best fishing holes in the places where the average fisherman is afraid to go.”

“The masses are always afraid.  This leaves more for the few who dare.  We don’t have shortage of opportunity in America.  We have a shortage of courage.  The lakes are teeming with fish.  But you have to dare to climb the cliffs to get them.  Where the risks are great the rewards are greater.

Once you understand this concept, you’ll never lack for anything again.  That is, if you’re able to overcome your fear.”

“As in all fairy tales, if you want to marry the princess, you have to slay the dragon.  The greatest dragon you’ll ever face is your own fear. ”

“If you can learn to live with the fear, the world is yours.”

“Watch the crowd.  Go in the opposite direction.  Success does not come by following the crowd.  Where there are many fishermen, the lakes get fished out fast.  You must not be afraid to go against the grain – to go alone to unclaimed territory.”

“To be successful you must learn to be different.  Find true friends who will admire you for your courage.  Any friend who encourages you to be less than you can be is not real friend by anyone’s standard.  Be different.  While the masses seek security, do the contrary.  March out into the risk.  If the masses huddle in a corner, afraid, stand out from them.  Face your fear.  Look around you.  See the masses standing in lives, waiting for someone to take care of them.  Step out of line and form a new line – with you at the head of it.

If fear of failure causes the multitudes to cower, let this be your cue.  Like all great people before you, determined to fail way to success if necessary.

If the masses yearn to be loved, strive instead to be respected.  It is greater to be respected than to be loved.  For respect is the foundation of love.  There can be no love without it.  When you learn to face your fear, you will come to respect yourself.  And you will be irresistible.  It takes courage to step out of the line marked “security” into the line marked “risk.”

“You’re already wealthy.  You are your wealth.  Wealth is not having.  It’s being.  Nothing you have is as important as what you are.”

“Acceptance is harder to give than advice but infinitely more valuable.”

“From ashes of failure grew my greatest success.”

“If you refuse to accept failure, you cannot fail.  You may fall down a cliff or two, but you must learn to get up, dust yourself off and keep climbing.  Only those who are willing to fail again and again deserve to make it to the top.”

“The brain is the most powerful computer in the world – your personal Einstein.”

“How do you stretch your brain to accept bigger and bigger ideas?  Associate with big thinkers.”

“Often hunches are correct.  Try to create an environment in which hunches can be nurtured.

Feed the faith, starve the doubt.  Learning how to recognize and follow this still-small voice can lead us to levels of success that we could not attain otherwise.

Thus, by listening to positive thinkers, reading positive books and by learning to follow our hunches, we can actually program ourselves to be more successful.

One of the best brain-stretching activities is some form of regular exercise.  Exercise builds self-esteem.  And self-esteem is the fuel that keeps us running after other people give up.  The better you feel about yourself, the more willing you will be to accept those big ideas from others and those hunches from your own computer.”

“You are obliged to help other people in anyway you can because it’s going to come back to you.  Your success is assured if you help enough people get what they want.”

“Whatever you plant in your life, you’re going to get back.”

What are you afraid of?  What do you want to conquer? Who or what you want to be, but your fears keep you hostage?

There are so many phobias out there.  Some of them are reasonable, and some of them are not.  Some fears are for your own protection; it’s your instinct for survival.  It’s great to have these fears.  If it comes from instinct or hunch, these fears should never be ignored.  It’s your inner knowing that something is not right.  You should act on your instinct.  Reaction to them usually is to fight or flee.  Do what your inner knowing tells you to do.  It’s great when that kind of fear keeps you on your toes.

Then, there are fears that are unreasonable.  You don’t know why, but you afraid of something.  These fears keep you from functioning normally in every day life, keeps you away from achieving something, keeps you dead in the tracks.  Examples include fear of public speaking, fear of heights, fear of swimming, fear to succeed, fear of unknown, etc., etc.  You want to achieve something, but these fears keep you away from what you want.  If only you would overcome them, life would be so much more fun.

To get rid of the fears, first we have to look at deep roots what caused them.  Perhaps,

1. Something scared us in the past;

2. We are scared of consequences. (Example:  afraid to look foolish)

3. What others might think. (this is huge)

We might come up with different reasons.  Or, we might not even know what causes our fears.

In these situations, most of the time our mind is our enemy.  We will think of different consequences and reasons not to do what we want:  we might fall from the sky, the bug might bite us, we may drown, we may faint, we may die, etc., etc.  If only we let our mind to come up with different conclusions, it will.  We will tremble and will not achieve a thing.  The key to these situations is to consciously shut out thoughts, dismiss them as ridiculous.

The only thing we should concentrate on is the end result.  Instead of “I’m afraid,” tell yourself “I can do this.”  Do not look at it as fear.  Look at it as a challenge, a game to play.  Then use your imagination how your life would be if you would conquer this challenge, if you would win at this game.  You might make a difference in delivering a powerful speech, you might be able to swim with dolphins, to be able to travel on airplanes like many people do, to go on adventures, etc., etc.  Imagine the whole possibilities and make yourself do it what challenges you the most.  Then, repeat it again and again until your mind will register it’s OK, and conquering a challenge will become a second nature to you.  Practice makes it easy.  You can win at this game – you better believe it.  Mind is powerful.  We just need to know how to consciously use it.

For more help with public-speaking, see how-to-be-brave-in-public-speaking.