Today we will learn about Finance and the keys to building lasting wealth.
Wealth today, has become a very critical aspect of our lives.Most of the tensions in life, relationship problems and self-esteem problems is because of lack of wealth.
People don't see who or what you are, they see WHAT YOU HAVE. We are often judged by our economic status.
We fail to remember that "Money was made for Man, and not Man for Money".
True, wealth is important, but so also are human values. You may have all the wealth in the world but you may be too old to enjoy it, or you may have a major illness which does not allow you to enjoy your wealth. Then what use is the wealth?
When we are young, our whole life goes by working hard in our jobs to create wealth. Then after 30 or 40 years are over we find out that the wealth needs to be maintained so we work more hard to keep our wealth and we spoil our health and lose all the money that we earned to doctors and hospitals and medical treatment. So the solution I think, is to keep a healthy balance between hard work and investing your money.
Creating wealth is simple. Yet most people never build it because they have holes in their financial foundations. These can be found in the form of internal value and belief conflicts, as well as poor plans that virtually guarantee financial failure. Remember the power that our beliefs have to control our behaviours? The most common reason most people do not become financially successful is that they have mixed associations to what it would take to have more money, as well as what it would mean to have excess money, i.e. money beyond what they need to support their current lifestyle. Your brain knows what to do only when it has a clear association about what it needs to avoid and what it needs to move toward. For money, we often send mixed signals - and so we get mixed results.
We tell ourselves that money will provide us freedom, a change to give to those we love, a chance to do all those things we've always dreamed about, a chance to free up our time. Yet simultaneously we may believe that in order to accumulate an abundance of money, we'd have to work so much harder, and spend so much more time that we'd probably be too old and tired to enjoy it. Or we may believe that if we have excess money, we won't be spiritual, or we'll be judged, or someone will swindle us out of it anyway, so why even try?
These negative associations are not limited to ourselves. Some people resent anyone who is doing well financially, and often they assume that if someone has made a lot of money, he or she must have done something to take advantage of others. If you find yourself resenting someone who is wealthy, what message does that send to your brain? It's probably something like "Having excess money is bad." If you harbour these feelings for others, you're subconsciously teaching your mind that for you to do well would make you a "bad" person. By resenting others' success, you condition yourself to avoid the very financial abundance that you need and desire......
(To be continued)
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