What Drives a Wealth Mindset?

Break through limiting beliefs and build your wealth mindset!

Having a wealth mindset is not the result of quick tips or financial hacks. It results from a breakthrough in your perception of yourself, your core values, and your sense of purpose. Dr John Demartini, author of “The Breakthrough Experience”, has created a value-based method to dissolve your emotional blocks that keep abundance out of reach. 

Dr Demartini’s book, from which he has created the Breakthrough Experience seminar and workshop, is available on Takealot. Demartini’s approach is a proven process that has helped many people collapse their limiting beliefs about money, success, and self-worth. This enables them to live with clarity, power, and purpose and achieve their dreams or goals.

Demartini Breakthrough Experience seminars/workshops

Dr. Demartini has recently held Breakthrough Experience seminars in Cape Town, South Africa. He is set to come back to Johannesburg from 26-27 July 2025 for an in-person 2-day event at the Sandton Sun. These 2 day workshops are immersive applications of the Demartini Method. 

They are held worldwide by Dr Demartini and aim to equip South Africans with emotional and psychological tools to reshape their inner world, and achieve their outward goals and for many, achieve wealth. If you can’t attend the event, Demartini also offers online workshops and weekend Breakthrough Experiences. This allows you to shift your mindset from the comfort of your own home.

Wealth mindset quotes from Demartini

“Words of Wisdom and Power”:

• What would I love to do?
• If they can do it, I can do it.
• I maintain fair exchange in everything I do.
• I set a value on my time and life, and I receive what I set.
• I fill my life with high-priority actions because time is precious.
• Did I do everything I could, with everything I was given?” (Dr John F. Demartini, The Breakthrough Experience. Page: 236).

These wealth mindset quotes offer a deeper meaning: reaching a position of wealth and personal fulfilment is less about external contributions and more centred on internal alignment with your dreams and goals. Your perception of your challenges as channels of feedback directing you towards your purpose, means you will no longer fear failure. You begin using each experience you undergo as fuel for growth. Dr. Demartini’s Method helps individuals “collapse” their illusions of lacking something and their tendency to compare themselves with others.

Wealth mindset guidance taken from The Breakthrough Experience

The wealth mindset guidance drawn from The Breakthrough Experience has practical and psychological applications. John Demartini offers guidance so that you aspire to live in alignment with your ultimate values, to gain a sense of clarity and discipline. These two core components you will need to build wealth.

Demartini’s method involves:

1. Collapsing your “emotional charges” surrounding financial fear or past “failings.”
2. Balancing your perceptions by seeking to learn from the hidden benefits found in life’s challenges.
3. Reconnecting with your personal intrinsic goals, not merely borrowing another individual’s goals. Rather seeking your true intrinsic goals and aiming to meet them.

This method allows you to stop chasing after monetary gains and opportunities in a reactive way and instead attract opportunities that align with your purpose. When your actions reflect your true values, you will manage your money better, invest with wisdom, and meet your long-term wealth goals with a strategy in place. For a South African, this could mean stepping into entrepreneurial endeavours or investing in property.

The wealth mindset: understanding the path to wealth by obtaining emotional balance

1. Your breakthrough starts from within: A strong wealth mindset is honed when you stop seeing money as the goal to reach and start seeing wealth coming from inner alignment. Demartini explains that the first breakthrough is personal, not financial. When you come to know your unique values and focus, and also help others through it, your income will follow.
2. Structure comes from vision: Once you have gained inner clarity, outer action follows. Your financial planning will improve, your goals will be on point, and your follow-through will reap rewards. This is known as the wealth mindset and understanding the path to wealth. It is a fine balance between emotional regulation, creating clear priorities, and executing your goals. 

“[Genuine wealth] is the experience of a life worth living and one that is aligned with our true, highest and most meaningful values and/or principles; not only as individuals, but also collectively as families, communities, cities, states, nations and someday worlds.” (Source) 

“It is the actual condition of our collective wellbeing (spiritually, mentally, vocationally, financially, familially, socially and physically) that make up true and genuine wealth… and implies total or whole life wealth.” (Source) 

South African property-investment success stories

IGrow Wealth Investments: from a property portfolio crafter to a leading property investment company founder

IGrow’s Founder and CEO, Jacques Fouché, began his investment journey with one buy-to-let property and a defined vision and goal in mind. He went on to found IGrow Wealth Investments in 2006, almost 2 decades ago. 

Jacques explains that much of his success began with aligning his financial goals with his values, the same alignment that Demartini teaches. The IGrow team has gone on to help thousands of everyday investors begin their property journey with just one buy-to-let investment property, to blooming property portfolios. 

Read more in our blog about the latest interest rate cut that has carved a path for IGrow clients to begin investing or grow their portfolios: The May 2025 Interest Rate Cut Means Property Investment Prime Time is Now!

Young investors are already making property investment moves!

Throughout Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town, there is a wave of young professionals stepping into the property market. Beginning small with one apartment, they use their insights drawn from seminars like The Breakthrough Experience.

IGrow’s library of handy, free educational materials also helps you grow your knowledge on property investment. Jacques Fouché’s eBook, Property Investor Training Videos on IGrow’s website and highly insightful weekly webinars are useful tools for investors looking to gain insider knowledge on property investing.

How to foster a wealth mindset using Demartini’s techniques

1. Attend The Breakthrough Experience: Join the live seminar taking place in Johannesburg (26-27 July 2025 at the Sandton Sun) or attend a virtual seminar online. Or buy the original book: “The Breakthrough Experience” on Takealot, which has handy sections you can work through and fill in.
2. Apply the tools from the Demartini Method: Practice the tools you learn weekly to reframe your emotional “charges” surrounding money matters, failures, and self-worth.
3. Set clear values: Use Demartini’s value-determination exercises to come to understand what fuels you, and how you should direct your financial goals and efforts.
4. Make high-value decisions that create positive patterns in your life: Spend your time and money wisely on what brings the highest return, not merely financially, but also emotionally.
5. Build momentum: Review and refine your financial habits every month to align with your evolving awareness and purpose.

Final thoughts

A wealth mindset isn’t created overnight, but it can begin with a breakthrough. Dr. John Demartini’s The Breakthrough Experience offers a method to help South Africans overcome their mental and emotional barriers and start walking on a clear and empowered path toward wealth and general prosperity, both financially and emotionally. 

Demartini’s Method aims for you to reach “genuine wealth” spiritually, mentally, vocationally, financially, familially, socially and physically.

Whether you attend a seminar in person, an online workshop, or simply start applying the method in a personal journal, you’ll soon find that your path to financial freedom begins from within.

The IGrow team understands the value of a wealth mindset, something that our Founder and CEO, Jacques Fouché, has adopted since he began his journey in property investing. Jacques adopted a strong, determined wealth mindset that led to his very first property investment and the founding of the top property investing company, IGrow Wealth Investments. IGrow helps many investors use grit and determination to achieve financial freedom!

Speak to an IGrow Property Investment Specialist today and begin growing your property portfolio through a sound wealth mindset.