Recently after one of my Wealth Academy introductory seminars, a man came up to me and told me how he wanted so much to achieve financial freedom and after listening to my 3-hour free seminar,he was even more inspired. However, he kept hesitating to sign up for the course.

What kept him from signing up was his fear and limiting belief that he was a slow learner and that he would not be able to learn and use all the strategies I had to teach. he kept saying that he was bad at math and that he found investing too risky to try. He kept lamenting that he has no self-confidence and that he had many bad habits (like giving up on things half-way) that would prevent him from benefiting from Wealth Academy. Then he came up with another reason that paying $3,000+ for the course would be equivalent to his one month’s salary. He was just not willing to invest one-month of salary for a course that he did not believe could help him because of all his own limitations.

At that moment, it reminded me of a story I heard long time ago. It is a true story of how tribesmen caught monkeys in Africa. What they would do would be to take a coconut and make a hole that is just big enough for a monkey’s hand to go into. However, once the hand is closed, it will not be able to come out. They would tehn tie this coconut to a tree. Next, they would place a handful of peanuts (not the NKF one…the real one) into the coconut and leave a trail of it along the ground all the way to the nearby forest. They would then sit and wait patiently.

Sure enough, a monkey would soon appear and start picking up the peanuts one by one. Upon reaching the coconut, he would plunge his hand into the large fruit and grab as many peanuts as he can. The next thing he knows, his hand is trapped in the coconut. With his fist full of nuts, he cannot take his hand out.

Once knowing that it has been trapped, the monkey will then scream and shout and alert all the tribesmen who will then come along and capture the monkey! This poor monkey would then lose its freedom forever.

Now, at any point in time, could the monkey have ACTUALLY escaped? Of couse he could. All he had to do was to LET THE PEANUTS GO. But you know what? The nature of the monkey is such that it would NEVER LET GO of its peanuts. Why? Because it is so afraid of losing it. As a result, the monkey loses more than just his peanuts…he loses HIS FREEDOM!

I told this story to the man and told him, do you realize that you are acting like this monkey right now? I said it with as much tact as I could to prevent being slapped in the face. You hold on so tightly to your limiting beliefs, habits and $3,000 that you miss out on your chance of escaping from the rat race and the mediocrity of life and achieving FINANCIAL FREEDOM.

Is it really worth holding onto all these things just because it feels safe and comfortable to do so? How long are you going to be trapped and keep on complaining? I said to him, ‘let go of your past, your peanuts and go for something much bigger in life that your deserve’. ‘Go for your success and financial freedom’. I am happy to report that he will be joining me in the next Wealth Academy in April 2007