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TRUMP UNIVERSITY WEALTH BUILDING 101

Balance

I wouldn’t dream of teaching you how to create wealth without teaching you

how to create balance first. Money without balance is the surest way down
that slippery slope to a living hell.
You need to create and maintain mental, physical, relational, and then
financial balance. When your priorities are in order, wealth will come easily

and readily to you. You’ll be happier and much more effective.
Notice the order I laid out: mental, physical, relational, and then fi nan-
cial. Most people reverse the order.
Balance begins with good mental health, otherwise the battle to create
wealth is nearly impossible. Paying attention to your mental “diet” shapes your
ability to succeed. Just as junk food makes the body sluggish, feeding your mind
“junk food” makes your mind sluggish, too. Millionaires and successful entre-
preneurs pay close attention to what they read. Most read and study the biog-
raphies of people who have succeeded before them, and avoid reading the
newspaper every day, since much of the news is sensationalized and fi lled with
gossip. Focus your reading on content that is positive, uplifting, and teaches
you something useful.
Since your thoughts create your emotions, taking control of your
thoughts automatically allows you to respond rather than to react. Instead,
your needs now become your desires; this allows you to do what’s most effec-
tive, rather than to react because you feel your rights have been violated.
Having “rights” sets you up to be wronged. In the world of making money,
you may often be offended. Surrender to the fact that business isn’t fair.
Once you accept that, you won’t experience the emotional charge you get
from feeling that someone took advantage of you. You will simply learn the
lesson and move on.
Balance means you understand that time spent with family, time spent
contributing to your community, and time spent with your “higher power”
are all essential to creating not only wealth, but also satisfaction.
I travel a great deal, and realize that the most valuable asset I have is
my time, not just as it relates to generating income, but also because it cuts
into the time I am able to spend maintaining the balance for which I strive. For

these reasons, I gave up flying on commercial airlines a long time ago. On any

given trip, I spent three and a half hours extra flying through a commercial air-
port, rather than one of the 5,000 regional airports that are usually 15 minutes
away from anybody’s home. I had to park my car, get in line with hundreds,
even thousands, of other travelers, go through security, reach the gate, and

then pray that my flight would be on time. Once I finally deplaned, I had to

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