Millionaire Mindset

The guide says a number carries no emotion, so you cannot get excited or passionate about it. Instead you picture how you would spend money and enjoy your new freedom. He even says not to picture the mortgage being paid off, but what you would do with the extra money afterwards.

The first floor is a room in strong colours you associate with wealth. The second shows movies of successful people you admire, plus moments when you felt successful yourself. The third is a black, empty room where you leave negative beliefs. The fourth is a white room, a clean slate where you imagine your future.

It is where you set down ideas about money that came from parents, culture and past experiences. The room is described as absorbing those misconceptions so they stop wearing you down. On the way back up, you wave goodbye to everything you left there.

You give the voice some space and hear what it says. Then you change its tone, making it sound silly or playful, and turn the volume down to a whisper until it fades. The idea is that the words lose their grip once you change how they sound.

Ford stands for belief: his line about believing you can or you can't comes with the point that imagination and belief lead to action. The pencil story about Joe Vitale, who was once homeless, is there to build gratitude, starting with what you have now, even simple things like air to breathe.

On the ride back up, the elevator passes through the rooms in reverse. When you reach the colour room again, the colours have changed, a sign that your new impressions of wealth have changed how you see yourself and the world.