In what ways are you striving to build a million dollars in equity? What options exist? In what ways do you invest time, energy, and resources to pursue the best option.

Today's podcast offers strategies to guide your thoughts.

When authorities released me from 26 years in prison, I wanted to build $1 million in assets and I had to consider options. I considered starting a business, the stock market, and real estate. To make a good decision, I considered strengths and weaknesses. Like everyone, I knew I had strengths in some areas. I had weaknesses in other areas. To build $1 million in equity, I had to focus on strengths.

I chose to invest in assets that stood a strong chance of appreciating in value. The more assets I built, the more I increased my likelihood of earning millions.

Get started in building assets. You may earn $1 million or more, too! Visit https://michaelsantos.com/ for strategies that worked for me and that can work for you.

Do you know what happens when you keep everything you say, everything you think, and everything you do in harmony? When we keep everything we think, say, and do in harmony, we develop a success mindset. Use this strategy to grow and become more successful. It will help you build a pathway from where you are to where you want to go. I kept everything I said, thought, and did in harmony while I climbed through 9,500 days in prison. The strategy influenced the books I read, the people with whom I interacted, the lessons I learned. Because I could build that success mindset, I opened opportunities to publish. And by publishing, I built a stronger support network. And by building a stronger support network, I got out of prison successfully-with opportunities to build business, contribute to society, and create prosperity. If you want to build more prosperity, start by investing in yourself. Develop a success mindset and you'll achieve more. Visit https://michaelsantos.com for more details.

In 2008, the venerable Wall Street firm, Lehman Brothers collapsed, wiping out assets worth trillions of dollars. That collapse led to the greatest recession of our lifetime. The stock market collapsed. The real estate market collapsed. Credit dried up. It was a tough time for many families. Since then, markets recovered and even soared to new highs. In the event of another correction, will you be prepared? A success mindset will help. In this episode, I talk about strategies to prepare for war in times of peace. Like many Americans, I've had a prosperous several years. Yet assets worth millions of dollars do not solve all problems. Think ahead. Prepare for turmoil ahead. At https://michaelsantos.com I show the different strategies that I'm using. Acquiring real estate with leverage is one strategy. To fund assets, I create opportunities to raise capital. I prepare every day. I encourage you to do the same. Apply strategies and tactics to build your success mindset.

Are you ready to start building more success in your life? Then change the way you think! In today’s Michael Santos Mindset episode I reveal how a success mindset it like connecting dots. I had to start connecting dots at the start of a journey that would carry me through 26 years in federal prison. I’m revealing those dots on the My Story section of https://michaelsantos.com in an accordion fashion. The story is long, so I model the message after what I learned from #GaryVaynerchuk; if you haven’t listened to @garyvee I highly recommend him as a resource. I learn a lot about creating digital content from Gary's work. Readers who want to see how a success mindset carried me through the journey can see how I connected dots that led to academic credentials, publishing credentials, raising capital, investing in stocks, building businesses, and earning millions of dollars—even though I began the journey from deep in the bowels of America’s prison system. I hope you subscribe and share.

I’m 54 years old as I record this podcast, on September 9, 2018. The Michael Santos Mindset podcast teaches others how to reach a higher potential, to break free from struggle, to build more success by changing the way we think. In episode three that I published yesterday, I revealed those ten-steps to a success mindset. In today’s episode I reveal how a success mindset led to my building $5 million in assets during my first five years of liberty. Anyone who applies these strategies and tactics to build a success mindset can build more relevance, meaning, and success in life and business. If the strategies and tactics of a success mindset could work for me, they can absolutely work for anyone else who applies themselves. Remember that a success mindset requires a pattern of visualizing the best possible outcome. Creating a plan that will take you from where you are to where you aspire to go. Putting priorities in place. Then executing the plan every day. Visit https://michaelsantos.com

What is the Success Mindset? In this episode,​ I reveal more about the curriculum I’m creating at https://michaelsantos.com to the very clear pathway that will lead to a success mindset. I learned these techniques while I was locked inside of a jail cell as I was starting a sentence that would keep me in prison for multiple decades. By changing the way I think—developing a success mindset—I created opportunities that allowed me to grow. That success mindset led to new opportunities for building prosperity upon release. Now I teach that success mindset to others. Carole, my wife, is using the success-mindset techniques to launch a new business related to hospital consulting. You can use these success-mindset techniques to reach higher levels of performance in your life. Have you thought about steps you can take today to become more successful tomorrow? Today’s episode will give you the strategies that have worked for me and that can work for you!

Creating success after struggle requires incremental action steps. After 26 years in prison, I knew that I had to take specific action steps to build stability for my wife and me. What strategies are you using to build prosperity? To get to the next level, my wife used the same type of mindset strategies that motivated me through prison. We thought about ways that we could raise capital to acquire real estate. Since traditional financing like mortgages and bank loans were not available to me when I got of prison, I used creative financing techniques. By thinking creatively, we succeeded in acquiring real estate. And during the first five years of my liberty, we conducted more than $9 million in real estate transactions. Those strategies were possible because of our mindset. Now we’re using the same strategy to prepare for the next five years. It’s my way of incorporating lessons I learned from Professor Marshal Goldsmith’s book What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.

Revealing background on how Socrates inspired me to change the way that I think. I was locked inside of a federal prison, facing a life sentence. Rather than dwelling on the struggle, I learned how to think about what I could do to make things right. By changing the way I thought, I could seize or create opportunities. Adhering to a values-based, goal-oriented strategy empowered me and brought discipline. I used that same strategy to begin building my career after 26 years in prison. By changing my thoughts, opportunities opened for me to acquire assets and prepare for prosperity. I encourage listeners to use this same mindset to build their lives.