Real Estate Investor Magazine South Africa June 2014 | Page 64

LESSONS

BY SASHA ENDEMANN

Inside A Millionaire’s Mind
If you want financial freedom you need to change yourself first

M

ost South Africans know him as a trainer
from T. Harv Eker’s Millionaire Mind
Intensive training programme. We speak
to Doug Nelson, a best-selling author, international
trainer, and multi-millionaire entrepreneur about
how he became a great success.

“My journey started from humble means, growing
up in a poor family in Minnesota, North America. I
remember that as a child we didn’t have running water
in the house. But I also remember a part of me that knew
that there was more I could do. I did not know how I
was going to do it, but I knew I would. I quickly realised
that in order to have control of my destiny, I would have
to have my own business. I started several traditional
businesses and did well, but I was working very hard,”
said Nelson.
As he grew older, Nelson started to see that there was
a different way to operate. “It was pointed out to me that
there was a better way to create abundance and wealth
without working your life away. That I could work
smarter. I took this advice to heart. I was also told – and
this is the best advice I ever got – that if you are not doing
as well as you would like to, there is simply something
you do not know yet. That changed everything for me,”
he explained.
It took the pressure off and I became open to learning. I
started to read books, and attend seminars. It took three
years from the point where I got this information to
becoming financially free. I have worked my entire life
prior to that just to make a living, and in just three years,
doing it in a different way, I retired financially free.
And just when he had thought things were going well
for him, his life took a massive change of direction.
“In June 2002, I was involved in a massive gas explosion
in my home basement where I burnt 60% of my body
and spent six weeks in a coma, and another nine months
getting back on my feet,” he said.

Multi-millionaire entrepreneur, Doug Nelson
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One of the things that kept Nelson going was the plan
he had to share his findings about acquiring wealth.
“Throughout that time, where I fought for my life,
there was one thing I had on my mind: money. I knew
that the plan was to share my knowledge of creating
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