This is our 36th episode of the Master Key Coaching Teleseminars and I think it’s a doozy. I am going to give you five reasons why you’re not as rich — or successful — as you should be, even though you’re reading the books, listening to the tapes, attending the seminars, and everything else in between.

I felt the need to address this for a couple of reasons.

The first is that it’s a “complaint” I hear more than I think I should. I sometimes hear a person say that they’ve been studying this “stuff” for years and they have nothing to show for it.

I understand how frustrating that is. That’s why Im addressing it.

The second is that I think many people are deluged with some of the more modern personal development books and such and … Well, they’re not doing folks many favors! I think that some are skewing peoples’ perspectives in such a way so as to make true success almost impossible.

I know how frustrating that is! I hope my words can remedy that.

More often than not, it’s not your fault that you’re not succeeding like you should be. I hope this episode sheds some light on how just by shifting your perspective just a little, you can begin to really take advantage of not only Charles F. Haanel’s philosophy of success, but of all of the books you’ve read.

So, let’s get into the five reasons you’re not as rich or success as you should be…

How Harold Cameron Influenced This Topic

As you may know, my friend and author Harold Cameron is walking across America as his way of battling brain tumors and brain cancer.

Harold is an amazing and inspirational fellow.

What he did in preparation for his walk and what he continues to do on a daily basis influenced the five reasons you are about to read.

You can read about what Harold is doing and why he is doing it in his book Why I Walk, which is available just about everywhere!

For the book: www.whyharoldwalks.com (you’ll get some cool bonuses here!)

For the Kindle: www.whyharoldwalks.com/kindle

For the Nook: www.whyharoldwalks.com/nook

For the iBook: www.whyharoldwalks.com/ibooks

On Amazon: www.whyharoldwalks.com/amazon

Follow Harold’s walk on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/WhyIWalk

Enjoy!

To understand these five reasons better — and what you must do to overcome them — I am going to briefly explain what Harold did.

Harold has two brain tumors. Rather than letting them get the best of him, he decided that he would get the best of them! He made a plan to walk across America. The proceeds from his book Why I Walk would be donated to the wonderful organization Miles for Hope. In order to make his walk possible, Harold reached out to the community and got sponsors.

That’s it in a nutshell.

The 5 Reasons You’re Not as Rich or Successful As You Should Be

Before I list these reasons, I want to make sure that you know one important thing: These reasons are in no particular order. No one is greater or more important than another. Far too often when people see lists, they just concentrate on the top one r two things without paying much attention to the others. That is not the case here. These are all equally important. Please keep that in mind.

Also, these items are very easy to mold into our lives. You’ll see that it’s just a small perceptual change that needs to take place.

So, let’s get to them …

1. Do Something!

We have to do something if you want to be successful or rich. There’s no way around it. Action is key!

I bring this point forward because many people still do not think that is the case. Instead of taking steady, deliberate action, they fuss around with vision boards and things like that.

Let me make clear, vision boards (or goal boards) are fine! They serve a purpose. They are things we make to remind us about why we are doing what we are doing. A person may keep a picture of his family on his desk at work to remind him of why he is toiling long hours. Likewise, a person may keep pictures of a fancy new car or house on a vision board to remind them to go further and work harder.

That’s how they work. They are inspirers and reminders. Nothing more nor less.

Harold has a goal: He wants to walk across America and back. How far would he get if he just thought about it all day? Or if he only pasted pictures on his wall?

It has taken — and will continue to do so — an Herculean effort to get things off the ground. He had to find sponsors. He had to make travel plans. He had to do so many things it would make your head spin.

But he did it. He’s doing it.

You really have to decide to do something.

2. Waiting for Help Rather Than Giving It

Most people want a hand — someone to pull them up. They want to be “discovered” or they want someone to find them and give them what they need to succeed.

That rarely — if ever — happens.

What you should be looking for is someone you can help. Someone you can make an effort for.

Harold decided that his walk was going to help other people with brain tumors and brain cancer. He decided that he was going to do something, no matter how small or insignificant or crazy, that was going to benefit others.

Once he made that decision, the flood gates burst open. He got sponsors. He got help. He made contacts.

Instead of looking for someone to help you, look for someone to help. When you do that, you’ll find people coming to help you.

3. Be of Service

Haanel wrote in Week 23 of The Master Key System that the “law of success is service.”

3. We make money by making friends, and we enlarge our circle of friends by making money for them, by helping them, by being of service to them. The first law of success then is service, and this in turn is built on integrity and justice. The man who at least is not fair in his intention is simply ignorant; he has missed the fundamental law of all exchange; he is impossible; he will lose surely and certainly; he may not know it; he may think he is winning, but he is doomed to certain defeat. He cannot cheat the Infinite. The law of compensation will demand of him an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

People get rich not by taking from others nor by “lucking” into it. They become rich and successful by serving others — by trading value for value.

It’s sometimes funny to me when people say that they are going to “fire their boss.” What they mean is that they are going to start their own business. Little do they know that instead of firing their one boss, they are actually going to be placing themselves in the service of many — hopefully! — of bosses, those “bosses” being their customers.

But that’s the name of the game. We serve each other. We become our “brother’s keeper” and find the best way we can serve our fellow man. That’s what business is all about. Think about it.

On his walk, Harold will be stopping at sponsors’ businesses and inspiring the “troops.” He’ll bring attention to his sponsors and help them as much — if not more — as they helped him. He will be of service to those who helped him.

4. Tony’s Axiom #3

There are three Axioms for success. This is the third:

Successful people don’t worry about the things that they want; they look at what other people want and provide it — at a profit.

Read that again. And again. Get it, as we like to say on the calls, “bone-deep.”

Far too often we are taught to only think about the things that we want, whether it’s a new car, more money, whatever. We’re told to fix our minds on that and concentrate on that until we can think of nothing else.

How far has that gotten you?

You see, the trick to making this philosophy work for you is to stop focusing on the things you want; rather, you should look around you — pull your head out of your … you know the rest — and see how you can deliver what other people want. By supplying those wants and needs in a fair and efficient way, you can begin to take part in the abundance that these philosophies of success discuss.

Now, I am not saying that you should cast away your wants and personal goals. Not at all! What I am saying is that to get the things you want, you have to provide t