What Should I Listen to in My Car?

Turn your car into a mobile learning center! Use your commute as an opportunity to listen to CD's and DVD's.

So, here I am swaying you into believing that you will create more wealth simply by spending more money!

That is not what I am saying at all.

What I am saying, however, is that if you listen to CD’s in your car, as opposed to merely buying and collecting them, then you will in fact gain wealth. It is an unavoidable result.

Does this seem too simple and straightforward to be true? Too good to be true? It’s not. This stuff really works!

But how do we know?

Why We Become What We Think About

Personal development legend Earl Nightingale said this: “We become what we think about, most of the time.”

The Bible refers to the force “actuating our mind”.

Different words, same idea: Thoughts lead to actions; Ergo, if we want to change our action (or habits) then we need to change our thoughts.

This is a simple truth, but it is powerful. – Thoughts lead to actions.

Thoughts push our lives into the direction of our thoughts, just like the wind carries leaves in the direction that it is blowing. It is simple nature.

Therefore, the more that you expose yourself (educationally speaking) to good, productive, wealth building thoughts and information, the more likely you are to start implementing real, life changing and permanent habits.  These habits will propel you to wealth.  The right CD for you is like getting a million-dollar mentor for only $14.99. – How can you top that?

                          “We become what we think about, most of the time.”

But don’t collect them, use them! Listen to them! Get to the point where you catch yourself regurgitating the information by repeating it out loud, in your own words, as if you were trying to teach it to a struggling friend. That is when it has begun to be internalized. That is when it has begun to sink in and take root.

If you only take to heart five of the lessons in this book, please make this one of them.

Listen your way back to financial freedom.

If you’d like to start doing this, but have no idea where to start, please take a look down below at our list of recommended titles.

Recommended List: 

The Millionaire Mind – Thomas Stanley
The Millionaire Next Door – Thomas Stanley & William Danko
Eat That Frog – Brian Tracy
No Excuses – Brian Tracy
The Total Money Makeover – Dave Ramsey

I have personally read and/or listed to each of the titles referenced above several times. You can listen to Dave Ramsey’s audio recording in just three hours. It’s a great crash course.

My personal favorite is Brian Tracy. I find that while I am listening to him I start implementing things immediately, even while the video or audio recording is still running! He has hundreds of instructional YouTube videos that are five minutes or less and they are all great.

Best Opportunities to Listen

Question: Has anything at all resonated with you in this chapter? If so, just imagine inundating yourself with the same constructive form of information twice a day while you are commuting.

All-of-a-sudden that horrible forty-five-minute drive has been transformed into an opportunity to grow and learn.

                          “Thoughts lead to actions.”

In addition, if you listen to CD’s on the way to work, then you will make better financial decisions while at work:

1. More likely to redo a W-4 (if you are having too much taken out for withholding)
2. Less likely to spend a small fortune on lunch
3. Less likely to go nuts buying stuff online, that you don’t need

Finally, if you listen to more of the same when you are driving back home, then you are much more likely, when you arrive home to:

1. Work on your budget
2. Work on your goals
3. Create shopping lists
4. Clip coupons
5. Re-evaluate monthly expenses that are not necessary

You will also be less likely to:

1. Overspend at the grocery store on the way home
2. Stop be the mall for some “retail therapy”
3. Order take out on the way home
4. Order delivery when you get home
5. Vegetate in front of the television with a bottle of wine or beer
6. Waste time thinking about buying all the things you see in television shows

Are you starting to see how we become (migrate toward) what we think about? This is a truth that is known by every successful person in the world. Anyone who is financially free was at one time financially strapped, and inevitably needed to change their way of thinking.

You can too, it’s your time! Go out and get some CD’s and start stoking the fires of personal growth and change!