I’m late on my update for the double a dollar a week. It’s been a little hectic.

This week I didn’t do as well as last week, but I did exceed my target of $16. I made $33 this week! This is getting exiting.

Next week my goal is $32.

We’ll see how I do…

Talk soon.

Does this sound familiar?

“I can’t buy that eBook, I need the money to pay the electric bill…”

“I can’t find someone to be in a relationship with, I just don’t have the time to look”

“Sure that business coach could really help me get my new business off the ground, but I can’t afford to pay him because my car payment is due”

If you’re hoarding every dime you make so you can have enough to pay the bills…you’re probably getting just that- just enough to pay the bills. But this is the poverty mentality and this is the exact attitude that is going to keep you in “poverty”, keep you from becoming successful. It’s the Law of Attraction – in action. You get what you constantly focus on.

When you’re pinching pennies every where you go. You going to get more of that.
You absolutely must break out of the poverty mentality line of thinking. Stop focusing on what you don’t have and don’t want and focus on what you do have and on what you want in life.

One thing I find with people who have this mindset, usually are too scared to invest in their future….which is one of things that keeps them in the same place. People who are successful in any area are always investing in themselves to continue their education.
Invest both your time and finances in the things that will get you want you want – like investment/business books, seminars, coaching. I’m not implying that you should spend, spend, spend on everything and get yourself into debt. But like I said in the How To Easily Create The Millionaire Mindset post, spend like a millionaire and the millions will come.

This is what will get the energy of money flowing to you.

And when people try to pull you back into the poverty mentality, RUN….run like your life depended on it….

Because it does

Okay this week I was supposed to make $4.   I made $3.55.  Not great, but not bad.   I’m not sure why I didn’t get my $4.  But it’s still progress.

I’m going to focus on what I need to do to make $8 next week.

Keep track of my progress here:  Attracting Wealth: Double A Dollar

I was going through some old MS Excel files while doing some reorganization and I ran across a file named “double_a_penny”. I opened it and I was pleasantly surprised to see a chart I did about 10 years ago that calculated the amount of money you’d have by doubling a penny every day.

It’s a pretty neat concept, in that by day 30, you’d have over 5 million dollars. It went something like this…

DAY 1 $0.01
DAY 2 $0.02
DAY 3 $0.04
DAY 4 $0.08
DAY 5 $0.16
DAY 6 $0.32
DAY 7 $0.64
DAY 8 $1.28
DAY 9 $2.56
.
.
.
DAY 25 $167,772.16
DAY 26 $335,544.32
DAY 27 $671,088.64
DAY 28 $1,342,177.28
DAY 29 $2,684,354.56
DAY 30 $5,368,709.12

I used this in my financial seminars to explain the concept of compounding. If you would like a copy of this just email me at doubleapenny {a t} antoniothornton.com (obviously, just replace {a t} with the @ symbol)
Anyway,

As I was sitting there, a really funky idea hit me….

What if I did the same thing for my new business..but just on a bigger scale.

What if I focused on making 1 single dollar this week;

then focused on making $2 dollars next week;

then $4; then $8; then $16…

By week 12 (only 3 short months from now) I’d be earning $2,000 per week ($2,048.00 to be exact) from this new venture.
That’s not bad.

Well, just one month later…If i continued the doubling, at week 16, I’d be at $32,768.00 – PER WEEK! That’s about $130K per month.

Now here’s the interesting part…as you know, last October I made $100K in a week. Which, at that time, was the most money I’d made in that amount of time.

The tricky part to this in week 18, the income is $131K per week. Now, this may seem like a lot of money…and it is. But there are people I know personally who are making this amount of income week-in and week-out. BUT, the truth is…

I don’t believe I can make that amount of money consistently.

So guess what? I won’t. The Law Of Attraction states that you’ll only attract to you what you believe you will. Beliefs are what create your thoughts, your feelings, your words, your actions, and ultimately, your reality. So you can only achieve what you believe…and admittedly, I don’t believe I can earn $130K per week right now.

But let’s jump back to week 16 – The $32K week.

I’ve made $32K per week before so, I can feasibly wrap my brain around making that kind of income.

But here’s the funny part. What if I did this entire process and got stuck at $32K per week?

Would that be such a horrible thing? Would it be terribly disappointing to earn almost $130K per month from a new business venture after 4 months?

So, here we are…Jan 4th, 2007. I just checked my stats and I’ve earned $.41 this week. So I’m a little under halfway there to making my dollar for the week.

I’m going to do a couple of things to make my other $.59 for this week, then focus on $2 next week. Then $4 the next week. Up to my $32K per week in April.
I think this will be fun.

Anyone want to join me?

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