People Love to Give You Money — and Great Deals on Cars!

“If you look up, there are no limits.” — Japanese Proverb 

Goal setting is very important to achieving our dreams.

We have to know what the target is before we can hit it.

But goal getting is the next step—taking action to get the goal you set. 

And you won’t even try unless you believe it’s possible to get it . . .

When I enrolled in Roger Lane’s The Finance Course, he sent me a form to fill out listing the things I wanted.

Then he called me to find out what I had on the list. I told him one of the things I wanted was a brand-new Mercedes Benz.

He said, “Great!” and asked me, “What model?”

I said, “Uh, I don’t know.”

Then he asked, “What color?”

I said, “I don’t know.” 

“How much does it cost?”

“I guess I don’t know that either . . .”

Pretty wimpy, right? 

Roger got impatient with me at this point.

He said, “Well, you’d better find out exactly what you want because that’s what we’re going to do in the class—get you the things you want. You can’t get anything if you don’t know what it is.”

I perked up at that and said, “Oh! I’d better go shopping!” 

Now, you need to understand that at this particular moment in my life, my business was going very well and I was making good money, but I thought that there was no way I could really afford to buy a Mercedes Benz.

My belief was that those cars were driven by billionaire rich people and movie stars.

Well, I wasn’t that rich and I certainly wasn’t a movie star, so I “just knew” I couldn’t have one.

I had given up before I started! I had already looked at and was ready to buy another, medium-priced car. 

As luck would have it, two days after this conversation with Roger, I went to a networking group and a woman who sold Mercedes Benz automobiles stood up and said that there was currently a special savings on car leases.

I made an appointment to see her the next day.

When I walked into the Mercedes showroom, there in the middle of the room, sparkling in the sunlight, was a beautiful metallic teal-green sedan with gold pin-striping.

I was in love.

Barbara came over to me and I told her, “I want this one.”

She, good salesperson that she was, said, “You can have that one!”

“Yeah, sure,” I said, disbelieving. “Show me the money.” 

She proceeded to calculate numbers and then reported to me, “I can get you in that car today for $500 a month.” 

My mouth dropped open. 

“Is that all?!” 

She smiled and said, “Yes!” 

I said, “I had no idea. I was ready to buy an Acura for $468 a month. This Mercedes is only $32 a month more! I’ll take it!!” 

Barbara had the car washed and I drove it home that day.

And then I drove it to Roger Lane’s workshop that weekend. 

When I walked in the room, he said, “Hi, Chellie. Do you know what color Mercedes you want yet?

I smiled and said, “Yes, I do. Green. Want to see it?” 

His mouth dropped open and he said, “You got it already?!” 

I nodded and he said, “Come on everybody!” And the whole class trooped out to the parking lot to see my new car. 

Afterwards, I thought about how many times I might have stopped myself from having things I wanted merely because of a mistaken belief about the price, my worthiness to have it, what bad thing might happen in the future if Indulged myself . . .

How about you?

Are you stopping yourself from the rich life you deserve? 

Goal getting is knowing what you want, investigating what it will take to have it, and then taking the action steps to have it.

Add positive affirmations and what often happens is that you get it a lot sooner than you expect! 

Today’s Affirmation: “I am a money-making machine and I’m making a lot of it today!”

Chellie Campbell, Financial Stress Reduction Expert, is the author of bestselling books The Wealthy Spirit, Zero to Zillionaire, and most recently From Worry to Wealthy: A Woman’s Guide to Financial Success Without the Stress. She is widely quoted in major media including Redbook, Good Housekeeping and more than 50 popular books. She has been treating Money Disorders like Spending Bulimia and Income Anorexia in her Financial Stress Reduction® Workshops for over 25 years. Her website is www.chellie.com.