Maui Millionaires

Hi Everyone,

I have a treat for you this week, a special report titled, The Three Biggest Obstacles to Your Becoming Wealthy.

I’ve been working on writing it for some time now and I hope you not only enjoy it, but that you find it inspirational and empowering.

I want to say a special thanks to the Maui Mastermind™ graduates who helped by being the real life “doers” who did the work I’ve highlighted in many of the case studies and examples.

At the end of the report I have included information about Maui 2008 for those select few who are ready to step up and take your businesses, your investing, and your lives to the next level. If in your heart of hearts you secretly yearn to build, create, enjoy, and share more, then make sure you read the entire special report. If not, just read up to the end and stop there.

I'm working on another special report on masterminding that I should finish in the next 30 days or so and I promise to send it to you right away.

Thank you for being a part of the Maui community. I hope you have a great week!

David

The Three Biggest Obstacles to Your Becoming Wealthy!###

Dear Friend,

Last weekend at a workshop I was teaching I had the good fortune to have conversations with over a dozen of our Maui Mastermind™ graduates.

I was talking with them about their experiences using what they have learned and leveraging the relationships they’ve built out of Maui.

A distinct pattern emerged from these conversations that initially surprised me, but after deep reflection really struck home as both important and very evident.

In a moment I’ll share with you what the key insights I gleaned from these frank discussions were, but first, I want ask you a question: What do you think has been the single greatest roadblock for you to get past in your wealth building? What’s been the biggest obstacle to you becoming financially free?

From my work with the Maui Mastermind graduates over the past several years, and from my conversations last weekend, here are the three biggest obstacles that I’ve seen them face. See which of these three most matches up to you and your personal situation. (Maybe you’re facing more than one of them!)

The Three Biggest Obstacles to Your Becoming Financially Free

Obstacle One:Isolation

First, was the obstacle of building wealth all on their own. Without question one of the biggest things I consistently hear from all the Maui grads is that before they went to Maui they were isolated in their wealth building.

They didn’t have a core mastermind group with whom they could openly share their challenges, brainstorm ideas, leverage contacts and skills, or celebrate their successes with.

As you can imagine this really made it difficult for them to enjoy the level of success, connection, and financial freedom that they really knew in their heart of hearts they could attain, if, and this was a big if for them before Maui, if only they could find a group of ambitious, positive, like-minded, supportive doers to help each other succeed.

I know that for me this has been a very big challenge for me to face. After selling my half of one of the main businesses I built I thought I was going to retire. But I missed the spark of creating and building a business. And I also realized that I missed working with a mastermind team.

That’s why over the past two years I’ve focused on building a new mastermind team and expanded peer group for myself so that I could tap into the energy, feedback, and contacts of a powerful group of proven achievers.

But most people don’t have access to a rolodex with even 5 to 7 big players who are committed to stepping up and playing full out together. And it’s essential that you build a mastermind alliance with at least this many people, if not more. If you aren’t able to do this, you’ll always struggle and won’t ever be able to reach the highest level of wealth and happiness that you are capable of.

Over the years I’ve made this point in dozens of different ways. And I’ve seen how it’s been the single greatest determiner between massive success and total failure.

Alone you are vulnerable and will never reach your fullest potential. But when you connect with the right mastermind group, the chemistry will literally propel you to heights you never dreamed possible.

In fact, the biggest reason why people attend Maui to begin with is to get plugged into the Maui community and have an instant peer group of movers and shakers.

Can you imagine how must faster you’d reach your goals and how much more fun you would have along the way if you were a part of a community of elite wealth builders who could support you every step of the way? It’s not rocket science to see the powerful advantage and edge this would give you on your journey to financial freedom.

Obstical Two: Fear

The second obstacle to people building all the wealth they can is fear. This fear can be in many forms, but at it’s most basic level all Maui grads have learned that in order for them to live the life of their dreams they have to learn to take action in the presence of their fears.

Take the example of Kelly, a six-time Maui grad. When Kelly and her husband Rob first came to Maui they had over $75,000 in credit card debt. Going to Maui wasn’t just a stretch for her, it was a gigantic leap of faith.

How did it all turn out for her? Well, in the five years since attending that first year’s Maui, Kelly has started a wildly successful new health business, done several large commercial deals including buying a 216 unit apartment complex, purchasing a 156-unit, and being a partner in a condo conversion project.

In Fact in less than three years Kelly went from being $77,000 in debt to becoming a Maui Millionaire™.

How did Kelly go from $77,000 in debt to over a million dollar net worth? By repeatedly getting herself to step up and do the things that scared her.

For example, at Maui that first year during a “hot seat” session, the Maui Advisors strongly suggested that Kelly quit her job as a police officer to create the time to focus on her passion—building wealth by investing in real estate.

Can you imagine how scary that must have been for her? We asked her to let go of the “security” of her job (if you can really call being a police officer in Los Angeles “safe”) and instead focus on the financial freedom she really wanted. As a result of this critical shift she got both!

So what’s the fear that’s stopping you?

Maybe you’re like Stephen, a three time Maui grad and now one of the Maui Advisors. Before Stephen came to Maui that first year his biggest fear was that he wouldn’t be able to raise the money to fund his real estate deals. He was afraid that no one would find him credible enough to lend him the money, or partner with him on deals.

Well, after Maui, Stephen’s bought several million dollars of real estate with other people’s money. In fact, on just one deal he did Stephen raised over $2 million to fund the deal by negotiating a zero down, 100 percent owner financed purchase of a package of investment properties! He’s learned to just step up and accept the challenge of raising money for his deals even if it still scares him a bit.

In the past 24 months Stephen has raised close to $10,000,000.00 for various development projects. And he is currently in the final stages on closing on a $54 million funding package for a large development project he is working on in Colorado.

Do you think Stephen could even have imagined he would be raising money in the tens of millions of dollars when he first came to Maui? No way! But, and here is the key but that has made all the difference for Stephen and every other Maui grad, when you have a peer group of big thinkers and high achievers pushing and stretching you anything, and I do mean anything, becomes possible.

How about you?

What are you going to do when you are confronted with something standing in the way of your dreams?

Are you going to hang your head low and slink away? Or are you going to acknowledge your fear, and then step up and take action anyway?

What would you do if you were not afraid? What one dream would you dare to dream and go after if you knew you could not fail?

What are you waiting for? You will get no better chance at life than this moment!

Obstacle Three: Confusion

The third major obstacle I’ve observed our Maui grads had to overcome was confusion of just how to get started. They had heard so much conflicting financial advice over the years that they quite simply didn’t know which direction to move in.

Can you relate to this feeling of overwhelm? In my opinion, one of the most important parts to Maui for our graduates was that it simplified the complex world of wealth building so that they had a crystal clear, specifically defined, plan of action to pursue their personal wealth building, with a powerful process to tweak that plan along the way.

Take the example of Dina, a two-time Maui grad. Years earlier Dina had built a highly successful business. But because she didn’t know a few key principles on how to build a saleable business, when she wanted to get out of the business to start her family, she just let the successful business go. It wasn’t marketable as a business.

After her time with the Maui community Dina has learned exactly how to build a business that not only generates huge cash flow for the owner, but also is saleable as a business. Not knowing this several years ago literally cost her hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions.

Or take “Shelly” (I changed her name to be respectful), a first-time Maui grad. About one year before Shelly came to Maui she made a poor investment decision which cost her $1 million. This loss was completely avoidable if only she had understood how to better structure the investment to secure her interest more effectively. I remember talking with her about the key lessons a few months ago at Maui. Understandably Shelly felt real pain about the financial loss. Thankfully she has now learned from that lesson and is on the path to building back up her investment portfolio.

Don’t let that happen to you. If you’re committed to step up and play with the big dogs you got to learn what they know because what you don’t know CAN and WILL hurt you!

So there you have the three biggest obstacles that I’ve watched our Maui graduates overcome. Are any of the three a factor in your own personal wealth building?

Now it’s time to shift gears and focus on another question: What is your comfort level with massive wealth.

I’m not talking about a hypothetical scenario here, I’m candidly asking you how you feel about earning the big dollars. How do your really feel about large chunks of money showing in your bank account, or a steady stream of passive, residual cash flow that gives your total financial freedom?

Down deep many people find it both exciting and scary. It’s as if they are driving with the gas floored and the brake pulled tight!

After working with over 200,000 wealth builders over the past decade I’ve observed that every single one of them has a set program and comfort zone with wealth that completely determines the amount of money they allow in their lives.

I call this money program your Wealth Operating System™, or W.O.S. for short. Your W.O.S. is the sum total of your emotional associations and belief system about money, wealth, and your ability and worthiness to allow money to flow into your life.

In fact, upgrading your Wealth Operating System™ is the single most powerful way for you to instantly increase your ability to earn, enjoy, and grow your wealth easily and automatically.

When you are talking about earning what the big players earn, it’s not about effort, it’s about their total confidence that they are able and deserving of earning that kind of money.

Take the example of one of our Maui grads Stephanie. She and her husband Jack came to Maui with a significant track record of success. They had built up a hugely successful, multi-million dollar, high tech manufacturing business.

You might wonder why she and Jack would come to Maui not just once, but three times! The answer is simple: every single year at Maui Stephanie and Jack upgrade their W.O.S. and their wealth tools which has resulted in millions of dollars to the net worth.

Plus, they also get to spend a full week with a select group of some of the nicest, kindest, most focused, ambitious doers in one of the most inspiring locations you could even imagine.

So, understanding that a critical part to having wealth flow into your bank account and your life is your W.O.S.

Or take Gurpreet, a surgeon from the mid-west. Gurpreet and his CFO come back to Maui year after year because he’s used Maui as a springboard for new businesses he’s launched.

For example, at last summer’s Maui, Gurpreet and I were sitting down at lunch and he shared with me a “challenge” he has in his medical practice—collections from insurance companies and Medicare. We spent about 30 minutes sketching out a new business that he could launch that would not only solve this challenge, but become a significant profit center for his practice.

I just saw Gurpreet last weekend. The results of that single idea he and I discussed in Maui? He’s started up a Level Three collections company that nets him $10,000-20,000 per MONTH of passive, residual cash flow! This is a great example of Maui thinking—looking for ways to turn your “challenges” into larger opportunities and profit centers.

Keeping Real Wealth In Mind

With all this talk of making money I want to make sure we step back for a moment and look at the bigger picture.

We all know that money is only one layer of real wealth, and certainly not the most important.

One of the most gratifying moments I’ve had in the past few years was a trip I took to Juarez, Mexico. Heather and I went down there with a dozen Maui grads to spend the weekend helping several area orphanages. The highlight of the trip for me was the full day party we threw for 100 children from 4 orphanages. I can’t describe how moving it was for me to listen to the laughter and cries of joy as these kids who had had their childhood stripped away from them were able to regress and just play.

Looking around at the orphanage called, Casa de la Nueva Vida, I felt chills. You see, five years ago Sergio, who runs the place, was getting evicted. With no money and no visible means of raising the funds to keep the orphanage going, Sergio was faced with closing the place down and turning the children back onto the streets.

That’s when Rob, a Maui attendee, convinced a group of Maui Masterminders to help. From that single seed and the $10,000 that Maui donated to the cause, Sergio was able to actually buy a piece of property and build a facility of his own for the kids.

Five years later and Maui grads support four orphanages in Juarez and have raised over $100,000 for that one cause. Plus Maui grads have raised money and time for other causes like safe drinking water in third world countries, victims of the gulf coast hurricanes, St Jude Hospital, World Vision, Rwanda, and many other deserving charities.

If you ask me, this is the real wealth that is coming out of Maui— these seeds of goodness that have gone on to touch thousands of lives.

We are totally committed to making this year’s Maui a wave of light that touches the world in healing and powerful ways.

That first year in Maui we raised $110,000 for charity.

The next year we raised $560,000 for charity.

Fast forward to 2007… Last year as a Maui community we raised over $5.1 million for worthy causes around the world. Plus we raised thousands of hours of talent and time for these causes too.

Is this something you can get behind and believe in? Making a ton of money, and sharing your wealth in ways that bless the lives of other people? Because ultimately this is what Maui is all about.

Real wealth must be about more than just the money. It must include the relationships, the faith life, the health, the freedom, and the lasting legacy of giving that goes on well beyond our short time on earth.

This brings me to my final part of this special report— sharing the opportunity with you.

Right now we have a few more spaces available for this exclusive event. And maybe, just maybe, you’ll be exactly who we’re looking for.

But first I want to be totally clear that this event is NOT for most people who are reading it. In fact, what I have left to share won’t even apply to 99 out of a 100 people reading this special report. What I have left to say is something they simply aren’t ready for at this point in their investing. And that is perfectly okay.

If you think you might be the type of person who would not only benefit by being there with us for a whole week in Maui, but more importantly are totally committed to taking your wealth-building five levels higher as fast as possible, then by all means, please keep reading.

One of the reasons I am most excited about Maui is because this is going to be a chance for our very best clients to mix and mingle not only with each other, but also with people like Kelly, Dina, Stephanie, Stephen, Gurpreet, myself, and the other Maui Advisors.

Forgetting the actual teaching time we’ll spend, can you imagine what you could learn hanging out for the afternoon with the other participants and advisors, getting their one to one input on your wealth building efforts?

We’ve already had the lion’s share of the limited spaces taken up by the 70 percent of graduates who signed up and paid again to join us this year!

We have a few remaining spaces for this soon-to-be sold-out event. And I can promise you that they won’t last long!

Here are the three bottom line facts about Maui:

First, Maui is an exclusive week-long event that is only available to a select handful of our collective BEST CLIENTS and their partners. That’s it. And once these few remaining spaces are gone—and that will be very soon—then your window of opportunity will be gone.

Second, the week isn’t cheap. In fact, it’s the most expensive, five-star event we’ve ever done, and we want it to stay that way. It’s the single best way we know that ALL of the people at the event are 100% committed to playing at the highest levels. No wannabes allowed!

Third, it’s only for the real doers out there who are committed to building something special out of their wealth building. This isn’t going to be a “seminar”. It will be an intensive networking and masterminding event where we will actually be focusing on large breakthroughs.

You might ask why are we limiting it to so few people, especially considering the fact that over 70 percent of last year’s Maui participants paid to come back again which took so many of the scarce spots?

We’re being so careful to keep the event small because we understand, just like you do, that an event like this will be a huge success and produce incredible results for the people we invite ONLY by us bringing together a SMALL and highly select group of high achievers.

In fact, while there will be advanced workshop sessions each day, I personally think the biggest benefit that you’ll get will come from the mastermind sessions with the other participants. That’s what the past Maui participants told me.

Remember this event isn’t just about learning more “how to” build businesses or investing techniques. To be frank, that’s not what it really takes to get you to the highest levels of success.

Rather, the real purpose of this event is to saturate your mind with wealth producing thoughts and associations so that you literally attract more wealth into your life.

And ultimately this is why we will only be inviting a few more people out of our combined 100,000+ clients past and present. We are only able to spend this time with the best of the best.

It’s not going to be cheap, but you wouldn’t want to be around people who couldn’t afford the $30,000 investment.

The price tag ensures that every single person in the room will be serious about creating lasting wealth.

This way you’ll only be with the real “doers” who make things happen.

We’ve arranged to have this be a FIRST CLASS affair. In fact, if you are one of the special few people selected, we’ll include your hotel accommodations and all your meals for you and the guest of your choice.

Let Uncle Sam Pay His Half!

Knowing my CPA like I do, I’m sure he would tell you and his clients who are attending that it’s fully tax deductible for most of them.

Think about it, by having your corporation or business pay for the event you’ll literally save close to half of the cost of the event.

It’s like you get a tax deductible vacation along with getting some of the most powerful business networking and consulting available!

This is actually one of several reasons why a part of me thinks the price should have been much, much higher.

Actually the biggest reason it should have a price tag of $50,000 or $100,000 or more is because I KNOW the real outcome of the five, concentrated days will be to help our Maui participants make an extra $250,000 or more in the next 12 months—EASY!

How can I be so sure of myself?

My confidence is based on working with thousands of investors over the years. I know that the only thing that holds people back from making $250,000, or $500,000, or $1 million or more each year is the lack of a consistent peer group of even wealthier and more successful role models to spend time with. That will be the real gift myself, the Maui Advisors, and the connection with the other participants will give you.

Just like last year, I will personally interview every attendee for Maui to make sure we carefully select the best blend for the event. I’ll be the one making the final selection with all acceptances provisional on this final interview.

To be fair, we’ll do the interview on a first come, first serve basis. Once the remaining spaces are gone, that’s it. (Please understand our need to make this so cut and dry in order that no one gets their feelings hurt when we run out of room for the event.)

I know it may seem like we’re going overboard on this but you need to understand that the only way this event will be as powerful as we are committed to making it is by being VERY careful who we let attend. Character and financial status are contagious. By only hanging around other successful investors we know that each of the participants will reap huge returns from being at the event.

Who Are We Really Looking For?

Most of all we are looking for people who are willing to face their fears and commit to taking their investing and business to the highest levels.

Do you want more from life? More wealth, deeper relationships, greater health, powerful and fulfilling spiritual life—more of all the biggies that make life such a gift?

We are also looking for someone who will be a positive presence to the group and is committed to making an impact on the world, whether this be by getting a friend to smile or funding a literacy program or volunteering at their local women’s shelter. We are looking to turn Maui into a step in making a dramatic improvement in the world both by sharing the abundance we are collectively creating AND by being a model for creating wealth.

If my sense is accurate right now and your gut is screaming at you to make sure you get one of the remaining spots I urge to call Amy at 1-866-214-6619 as soon as possible!

Amy or Stephen will do the initial interview and if appropriate set up a selection interview with me.

Please call right now because these few remaining spaces will be taken so fast.

Now is the time for you to step up and seize the opportunity.

If you’re ready to commit to playing at this level, to spending a full week with a select handful of other doers in an environment that will challenge and push you to even higher levels of achievement and success, then please call Amy at 1-866-214-6619 right now to get on the interview list.

My best to you,

David Finkel

P.S. There is so much wealth waiting for you to create in your life. I urge you to get on the interview list as early as possible so that you’ll have a better chance of being selected. Don’t wait. Call Amy at 1-866-214-6619. Do it right now!