10 Tips To Escape Rat Race And Achieve Financial Freedom

How to escape rat race?

The first strategy we need to escape the rat race is to have a powerful dream that drives us forward. Those who have successfully escaped from the day-to-day mundane life of being caught in a rut have done so because they have had a dream for something better!

If we don't have bold, daring and imaginative dreams then we are just not being realistic in life!

The reason so many people stuck in the rat race is that they have simply given up on their dreams in life. Before we can successfully make a great escape we need to have a dream.

So what are our dreams?

What are our goals in life?

How can we acquire an expanded view of possibility for us and our family?

Answer these questions and we are well and truly on our ways to raise ourselves above our present circumstances. Get excited about our dreams and we will develop an internal drive to take action to achieve our dreams. Expand our dreams even further and we will become unstoppable when obstacles get in our ways.

We can find numerous ways to create a residual walk away income for life that would give us both time freedom and financial freedom but chances are without a powerful dream we would never do anything about it!

So, all success in life starts with a dream!

One of the way to start a dream is goal setting.

The first thing I would do is write a list of 100 things that we would like to Have, Do and Be in our life. This would be an excellent place for us to start right now!

Imagine for a moment that both time and money was no object in our life.

What would we have in our life?

What would our dream home likely to be?

What car would we drive?

What other toys and material possession would we acquire?

What about the things we would do in life?

Remember that time and money in life are no obstacle so what would we do?

Just go wild for a moment and write down as many ideas as we can.

And finally who would we become?

As a person, what characteristics would we like to acquire?

What personality traits and roles would we take on?

Write down all of our dreams in life see if we can make a list of 100 things we would like to Have, Do and Be in life!

Once we have made a list of things we would like to do, just imagine and have as many images as we can that represent our dreams.

Surround ourselves with these images and begin to imagine our life being complete with all of our dreams turned into reality from there, it is simply a matter of the right vehicle to manifest our dreams.

All success in life starts with a dream - it is the starting point of escaping the rat race to achieve financial freedom!

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The greatest trap of the rat race is the trading of hours for dollars. As long as our only wealth creation strategy involves trading of our time for money, the more trapped we will be in the rat race.

Thus, the second tips to escape the rat race is to STOP trading our time for money!

I am not suggesting that we should all quit your job today but we should begin immediately to create an additional or multiple income (esp passive income) streams that gives us greater leverage than our job does.

As long as our income is dependent on the hours we spend earning it we will never have time or financial freedom. So, no matter how much money we earn in our career or business we will never have our dream lifestyle because we will not be able to fully appreciate the financial success that we have.

As an employee, we are in a terrible position we are stuck deep in the rat race because we are trading our hour for money!

Decide today that we will no longer trade our time for money directly in future. Make the decision that we will look for a business that allows us to take advantage of our third tips. It is vital to getting out of the rat race!

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Tips#3 is looking for leverage to escape from rat race.

Are you wondering whether you are currently caught in the rat race? Then, ask yourself this question: on who's efforts do you currently get paid?

If your answer is you only get paid on your own efforts, then, you need to look for greater leverage. If not, you are NOT serious about leaving the rat race.

Don't expect anything to change, if we don't change anything especially the way we think...

Tips#3 to escape the rat race is looking for opportunities to gain maximum leverage on our personal efforts and time.

What is leverage?

Leverage simply means the ability to generate more and more income with less and less works. If the strategy is to get paid for our time, we are not leveraging.

"I would rather have 1% of the efforts of 100 people than 100% of my own efforts" ~ John Paul Getty.

As highlighted by John Paul Getty that it is better to earn a small amount on the efforts of a large group of people than earning 100% of your own efforts.

What will happen to our income, if we stop going to work for a month?

Just take an example of a friend of mine who is a senior sales manager in a big corperation. She told me that she was getting paid on the efforts of her 50 sales team members i.e. she is leveraging on her people to make money.

However, after a short conversation, she soon realized that if she took the rest of the year off she would soon be unemployed and as such she had little leverage from her current job.

A major step to getting out of the rat race is to look for an opportunity to gain massive leverage through the multiplying effect of lots of peoples efforts combining with our own ones!

Today, more and more leveraged tools are being created such as computers, internet, wireless and many more to help us generate more with less. If we want to keep up with the rich and escape from the rat race, we need to understand the power of leverage and use the leveraged tools that the rich are using. The average use fewer leveraged tools than the rich.

People who do not learn to use leveraged tools like computers and internet will fall behind financially or work harder and harder just to keep up.

Tips#4 Be your own boss!

If we truly desire to create wealth and escape the rat race then we must have our own business.

Why?

Well, just as Jim Rohn, the business authority, says "Profits are always better than wages!"

It's a simple principle based on the cold hard fact that few people become wealthy working for someone else. If we work for someone else the business owners are simply buying our talents, skills and experience at wholesale and selling us at retail while the business owners keep all of the profits.

We must have our own business if we want a true chance of gaining massive leverage through the efforts of a large number of people.

A word of caution is: not all businesses provide the same level or opportunity to escape the rat race. Do you know that there are many people who mortgage their house, scrape together all of their savings to go and buy a fast food franchise (or any other franchise). They then work ridiculous hours, manage difficult employees, pay massive overheads, and only to take home a meagre wage.

Sounds like they would be better off to stay in the rat race ya...

They are certainly no closer to escaping the rat race.

It is vital that we look for a business opportunity that we can start and run whilst keeping our current jobs. We want a business that involves little investment or risk, can be run part time in hours that suit us and provide an unlimited stream of income as a result of its leverage creation opportunity.

Look for an opportunity that we can channel our TV time or 8 to 10 hours per week for the next two to four years. With the right opportunity we will be able to create financial freedom and escape from rat race for good.

We must start our own business to escape the rat race and become fabulously wealthy and it must be a business that is highly leveraged!

As long as we seek security in what we are doing we are destined to remain a member of the rat race. Security is the shackle that binds us to the rat race. So many people are caught up in the rat race simply because they are more focused on security than they are on opportunity.

In order to break free from the rat race we need to seek opportunity first and security second. The landscape of opportunity is where the promised land of freedom lies.

In our society we are taught to get a good education and then find a
good company or job that will provide you with a secure position and income for many years or forever.

But did we know that this mindset is a new development?

Around a hundred years ago most people worked for themselves either on the land or through specialised skills.

Most people were entrepreneurs who had a mindset of seeking opportunity first rather than security. Due to the revolution of the industrial age that people have changed the mindset of people to work for large corporations because they thought it would lead to greater security.

Whilst we may believe we have security in what we are doing right now, the truth of the matter is that most of the people who have sought security are miserably unhappy being a worker drone in the larger collective.

People who seek security first always see the negatives or what is wrong in the opportunities they do look at. People who seek opportunity recognise the negatives, but their focus gravitates towards the positive side and the potential.

To break free from the rat race and create abundance for us and our family, we must begin to seek opportunity that has the potential to lead us to financial freedom.

Those who have broken free from the rat race and achieve financial freedom is those who have taken decisive action!

When we put off taking action, we put off our better future. When we procrastinate on moving forward in an empowered way we dig ourselves deeper into the rut that we may find where we are currently in.

Decisive action is what will make the difference for us in moving from
our present circumstances to the life we can only dream of right now!

Those who manage to escape rat race are those that take decisive action when they are presented with the right opportunity. They carefully evaluate all opportunities until they find an opportunity that excites them and stands up to their stringent assessment criteria.

Once they believe they have found it, they move swiftly and decisively to get involved. They make an empowered positive yes decision to get started immediately. There is no hesitation or indecision. They literally jump at the chance to begin working on their financial freedom.

If you we serious about improving our life, leaving the rat race treadmill for good and creating financial abundance then we must act decisively.

The best business opportunity in the world is of little value to the person who decides to think it over for a week or two, or more, and eventually succumbs to the temptation of watching all of the TV sitcoms every night rather than being decisive, bold and action oriented.

It is possible for everyone to escape from the rat race and live our dream life, but only if we take decisive positive action when we are presented with the right business opportunity!

A big mistake many people make is to start a business and become a solo-entrepreneur. If you do this then you will need to make all of the mistakes yourself, learn all of the lessons you need and eventually figure out what you need to do to be successful.

We do not want to be a solo-entrepreneur! It is much better to join a business that provides a proven business system.

Why? Simple, we will fast track our success!

We are far more likely to succeed in business if we can plug into a proven business system and follow the process of someone who has already been successful.

This is why the franchising business model is so popular, it provides a proven step-bysystem that can be run by a seventeen year olds boy or girl. Only problem is there is no leverage in most franchise businesses. Franchise owners outlay huge sums of money to buy into the business because we want the proven system to follow but the reality is we are simply buying ourselves a job.

There are a number of business opportunities available that provide us with a proven business system, and successful people who will work with us directly to virtually guarantee our success.

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If we are currently caught up in the rat race, financially just getting by and
not living our dream life. Then, we may need to expand and acquire some new skills. Constant self improvement is key.

Those people who manage to escape rat race do so by being prepared to invest in themselves and acquire the necessary skills!

If we are going to be successful in our own highly leveraged business then there are some new skills we may require. The great news is these skills are easily accessible. Anybody with a strong enough desire can acquire these skills starting today especially in the internet era.

Firstly we will need to think differently than the people we may currently associate with through work and our social life.

For most people their thinking is the number one thing that
holds them back from their dream life. If we want to be successful, we need to change our old habitual ways of thinking and begin to adopt a prosperity mind set. Failure to do so will leave us right were we are in your current situation only this time even deeper.

Everything we need to know to achieve success can be learnt. All of the information, skills and mindset that we need is within arms reach. All we have to do is be prepared to reach out for it.

Without these skills and new way of thinking, we are destined to remain where we are right now.

Is this what you want? I suspect not or you would not be reading this blog, right?

All of the skills we need to live a dream lifestyle and achieve financial freedom are available to us!

One of the key reasons that people fail to create a successful home based business is that they fail to focus all of their efforts in a laser like manner.

They become easily distracted by everything else that is going on in their life. Every new business opportunity that comes along they join and then do nothing.

If we want to be successful and live our dream lifestyle, we must learn to stay focus like a laser.

What do we want to focus on then?

We could easily focus on what many other people do and focus on the things that is not critical or do not carry any impact to our success like:

- The product was delivered a day late or somebody was terribly late
- Someone said no or reject the request
- We fail to make a million dollars in our first week

but the question is 'Is this the most important thing for us to focus on to achieve success?'

Of course NOT!

We must focus on critical areas in our new business that will lead us to success.

Yes, there are always going to be things that go wrong.

Yes, there are always going to be negatives if we look for them or find fault with them.

Unless we learn to stay focus on what is most important to us in achieving our success and financial freedom, we are destined to immerse ourselves in those things that lead to failure or perpetually stucked in rat race.

Last but not least, just focus all of our efforts on areas that will lead us to success!

I still remember what my first millionaire mentor taught me on how critical it is to take advantage of timing. When you understand this strategy you will be able to quickly narrow down all of the potential business opportunities out there to just a few.

The fast track to escaping the rat race is to take advantage of perfect timing!

Coincidentally, one of the common key to incredible success of all my mentors is taking advantage of timing when opportunities lie in front of us!

They also explain and highlight to me that their success was mostly due to the fact that they get the right timing was perfect.

So, the key to accelerate our success is to look for an opportunity in which we can take advantage of perfect timing.

For instance, those who grab the opportunity and go into the business when the business is building its foundation, most of the time, they achieve rapid success. If we are fortunate enough to recognise a brilliant opportunity during its foundation stage, we can take advantage of timing.

When we are positioned in the foundation of a business, we will be there when it goes into hyper growth. Those who are involved in the foundation of a company usually enjoy the benefits of hyper growth. Hyper growth is where true wealth is created.

Now, I am not saying you can't be successful by joining a more mature company, but it is certainly easier to get there during the foundation period.

So, do as my mentors did and position ourselves in front of a business or
industry that is about to go into hyper growth.

We can definitely accelerate our success easier by taking advantage of perfect timing!

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