So-called experts can write or talk as much as they want but their words do not change peoples lives for the better. Words dont leap off the page well enough and wrap around us in order to apply the pressure we need to meaningfully engage us and move us consistently in a better direction. Judging by the number of personal finance related books released into the market it appears that people have an affinity for a solution but theyre stuck with books that promise quick and easy riches and then these books rarely deliver on anything more than common sense. If you wake up each day and rethink 90% of what you thought yesterday youre suffering in a semi-permanent anxiety unless those thoughts were some of the happiest youve had or contributed to a sense of contentment. Thinking rarely helps, people seek happiness but when have they thought themselves into happiness? If you think that 90% of your problems can be solved with money then youre not fully aware or thinking in broad terms. Everybody thinks they have problems, the person with $10 in their bank account and the person with $10 million they just have different problems. A perceived lack of anything can make a person feel miserable. Gurus love to preach that becoming rich is a matter of deciding to be rich and acting on it. Not so. Deciding on it and acting on it is nothing more than a symbol of your thinking and your thinking may be rather limited. You have to tap into the market, meaning that you simply have to understand transactions, your net profit times the number of transactions will tell the story of your wealth, or you have to get one person to pay you seven figures.