Money is a concept. You can’t really see or touch it (unless you are holding a gold bar in your hand). You can only do that with some physical symbol of it like bank notes or a cheque. Bits of paper, yes, but bits of paper with enormous power.

The concept of money comes with a lot of baggage to most of us. We have an inherent belief that it is good or bad and that wanting it is good or bad. That loving it is good or bad. That spending it is good or bad.

What I am going to suggest in the first few Rules is that maybe, just maybe, how we think about wealth might be holding us back from having wealth. If, in our heart, we believe (even subconsciously) that money is a bad thing and having lots and lots of it is a really bad thing, then chances are we might be undermining our own efforts, unwittingly, to get lots of it.

I am also going to get you to look at how much effort you are prepared to put into making money. It’s a bit like a sport – the more you practise the better you become. Likewise you can’t make money while being lazy. You’ve got to put in some work here, you know.

You’ve also got to know pretty intimately what you want, why you want it, how you think you are going to get it, what you are going to do with it after you’ve got it – stuff like that. No one said this was going to be easy...