On the morning of Friday, April 24th, 2009, I felt the deep presence of a mindset that I haven’t really felt for a few years. I’ve named this mindset “raw financial achievement”, and I am now very glad that it has come back, because I think it is going to help me in life.

What I mean by being in this state of mind is having a high priority in life for extreme financial achievement and the willingness to prioritize that above most all other things. This is not the norm in life at all. Some people live in this mindset, but almost all don’t. A lot of people, who think they have this mindset, do not have it completely and rather just primarily hold their perspective here. However, it is more rare to have this reach the deeper parts of one’s continuous state of mind, like their emotions. But, when one does, it can make one into a stealthy machine who is able to pull off some great things. The same thing can be said about narrowing the focus & simultaneously increasing the intensity of one’s mindset on anything else in life. With me, the focus here just so happens to be on financial achievement.

So, basically what I’m saying here for myself, is that I out of the blue experienced this raw financial achievement state of mind after a few years of it being absent, but then thought about it on a deeper level and analyzed my position in life through it. From that, I determined I would probably achieve much more of what I want in life & be more fulfilled in the long run, if I was able function from this mindset of raw financial achievement for a consistent portion of my life now.

Originally, I was in much more of a mindset of raw financial achievement, however, I didn’t realize the power of my personal limits of confidence & diligence. Back in this time of my life, I didn’t hit the goals I wanted to because of these personal limits and the immediacy of my goals. Eventually, without taking on these personal limits and not having a way to circumvent them inside of my desired timeframe, a part of me gave up on these goals for the time being (but not my Ultimate Goals). I instead looked to advance my life & personal capability primarily through fulfilling my human needs. An example of this would be getting lots of human connection in your life so then you feel on top of the world and have more strength to go out and achieve big things. However, I lagged on that too. So, for the past few years, I haven’t been hitting my modified personal goals through that model like I’ve wanted. Feeling connected to the raw financial achievement mindset recently made me reconsider it and I saw some advantages to it that I didn’t before.

I think the raw achievement & human needs models are both good. Ultimately, we are talking about creating motivation in yourself to take persistent action. The human needs model is about feeling more of the essential things you want to feel in life but don’t, so that you feel stronger & more motivated as a person. The raw achievement model is about lowering cravings for those feelings that fulfill you and turning yourself into a colder machine of achievement that can pump out work despite having less. I think you can see how a lot more people are going after the human needs way of achievement and not the raw achievement model. Stripping down the emotional & human side of you to want less vibrant awesome experiences & feelings in life is not always easy. In fact, it is the exact opposite of what most people want out of life, me included, since one of my Ultimate Goals is to experience extreme personal happiness on a daily basis from an outrageously abundant state of mind & quality of life. However, I feel it is the right move at this point in my life and may have some fundamental necessity to it for me.

When I reanalyzed my life from the perspective of raw financial achievement, I picked up on a few advantageous distinctions of this mindset…

I’ve been primarily engaged in entrepreneurship for the past few years out of a feeling of necessity from not being able to effectively execute on buyouts in the immediate term. However, I re-realized something pretty big while thinking from the mindset of raw financial achievement. That is that I can’t be very certain that I will get anywhere meaningful in positioning myself for my Ultimate Goals with a strategy primarily based on entrepreneurship, even if personally taking massive action. I felt sick because I could see my goals & my dream life slipping away based on what I was currently doing. I could feel that it was right to pursue asset acquisitions big-time and largely forget about entrepreneurship again. I got real with myself on my projections for actually making things happen as a professional asset acquirer and based on what I have been up to (entrepreneurship), it didn’t look good. So, this caused me to reaffirm my commitment to transition full-time into buyouts ASAP.

However, taking on this fundamental mindset shift is no easy feat. Remember, my current natural mindset is one of seeking personal fulfillment through my human needs & goals. So, I don’t expect to have this mindset deeply engrained overnight. Because it will take some time & work to securely install this raw financial achievement mindset, I’m not going to attempt to build my buyout firm at this point. I’d probably fail right now. Instead, I am going to work on stair stepping my way up to it by positioning my life in a way that gives me the strength to succeed in a couple years or so.

Here is my basic plan…

Being in Manhattan, NYC, as I have planned to be for some time now, as well as establishing these preliminary ventures of a business mastermind & investment education company should very well stair step me up to the right position for starting up my buyout firm. I’ve been technically qualified for a number of years now to start doing multi-million dollar business buyouts, however, I have killed my own opportunity a number of times due to not being personally ready to take on the challenge of building my firm.

The mindset of raw financial achievement is probably going to be a tough pursuit. I don’t even give a shit about money, other than using it as a tool to get access to my Ultimate Goals & Dream Life. I actually sometimes feel sick when people offer me ample amounts of money to do stuff for them. I would be much happier in the short-term forgetting about the pursuit of making billions of dollars and indulging in the side of me that loves deep human connection, passionate creativity, & exploring the meaning of life. But, in reality, my identity is forged to my Ultimate Goals, and I don’t feel good not pursuing them to the best of my ability, which at this point means going and making billions of dollars acquiring assets. Also, in the long-term, I know that I will be much much much happier than I will ever be now when I am living a truly outrageous life and can seriously pursue the obtainment of my Ultimate Goals. That, combined with the knowledge of the alternative likely not working out, is what makes taking on the cold, machine-like mindset of raw financial achievement worth it to me.

Although, if things go well, then I should be experiencing a large amount of happiness & fun in life by virtue of this pursuit, sooner than later. But I’m currently willing to persist despite experiencing this. As I’ve said before, this mindset is really a prioritization of achievement over fulfillment in life. But, I will still be pursuing fulfillment as well, however, just doing so through the filter of raw financial achievement. Pursuing fulfillment in this way will likely reduce the level of happiness I can experience, and possibly to a level below the point of my fulfillment. Like I said, though, I logically don’t care as long as it leads to the end-result of achievement that I want.

So I am doing a deal with the dark side of psychology & attempting to take on the cold, machine-like mindset of raw financial achievement in order to make billions to change the world & live my dream. The risks are that I could crack due to the psychological pain or be attracted out of the mindset by what naturally makes me happy. So, I need to carve this mindset deep into myself. One key to that may be maintaining the belief that I won’t get what I want without this mindset. Ultimately, I want to achieve my goals, remove this raw achievement mindset, and get back to the super happy natural me. However, I have determined that I am willing to give up 15+ years of my life now in order to achieve my financial goals under this raw financial achievement mindset.

Wish me luck!