Originally posted by dR-Green
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Below isn't directed to you, it is just my story...
I grew up not just financially broke but mentally broke too - which are inseparable. My dad was enlisted in the Air Force for 20 years - that is not much income. My mom had to work part time jobs when I was younger. I always heard "money doesn't grow on trees", "we can't afford that", etc... Basically a broke poverty consciousness just like what most of the population has. Until I was 29, 11 years ago, I never even made $10,000 in one year. I was getting paid $1000 per month salary (while helping one company make $700,000 in the first 9 months) and was supposed to have 5% of the shares in the company as a director on the board - NOT - doctor was a crook. I helped them make a fortune while I got peanuts.
Anyway, about 3-4 years prior I was turned onto to some someone that set me straight. I knew what he taught intellectually but it took a while before I internalized it wasn't until about 2004 until I actually became who I needed to be in order to finally get past my self destructive thinking that always kept me broke.
Most people that don't have a lot of money have parents that never had money and their parents didn't have money. And they took most of their financial advice from their parents, etc... so basically broke people teaching their kids how to be broke. Until I knew different, the only financial advice I got was from my parents and they certainly were not qualified to teach me anything. This is like getting marriage advice from someone that has been divorced 5 times. As crazy as this is, this is exactly where almost everyone gets their financial skills from.
Success breeds success and poverty breeds poverty. This is just the facts of life.
Bottom line, it is how we think and perceive the world around us. That is what gives us the results we have. People can blame the economy, etc... because the economy I certainly took some hits, but my income has gone up every single year since I closed my store in Sep 2006. That is because I chose to take matters into my own hands and rely on myself.
Obviously many people do this and try to make a go at business and most fail - they simply haven't had the right training and there is an art and science to every business. Retail store business, network marketing, etc... they have to get a mentor that has the success so they can impart the facts on how to do it right. It isn't going to be learned in school, that's for sure.
If someone has been duped into working for a real pyramid scam (corporate America) and thinking that is how you get secure, well, after they lost most of their retirement because of all the crashes, etc... it seems obvious they should start something on the side and start building it. But unfortunately so many people are so conditioned to work from paycheck to paycheck, they're under a false sense of security. They know the paycheck is something they can count on and they go to the next company and next and next.
If a mailman is walking into someones yard to deliver the mail and they get attacked by the dog. How many times do they have to walk in there and get bit by that dog until they learn it isn't a smart thing to do? But that is what keeps happening in the job/corporate market to people on a daily basis and they choose to keep getting bit by the dog. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result.
Anyway, if I was starting from scratch and needed money, I would keep whatever job I had of course but I would start a business on the side. Whether it is the opportunity we present or something else, it is crazy not to. Even if it is just a structure setup and there isn't much profit - ebay biz or whatever, it is worth doing for the tax benefits alone. Just by having a legitimate business, the average family can save several thousand a year on taxes from legitimate write offs.
Anyone with money issues or otherwise, I'd recommend reading Think & Grow Rich - http://sellcasa.com/think-and-grow-rich.pdf
It is not a "get rich quick book" - it was a real study over 20 years by Napoleon Hill on why rich are rich and poor are poor. The difference is how they think, period. I know many people that discount this book and say, "I've read that" - but that doesn't mean anything unless they actually take it on and apply those principles as if their life depended on it. I did. Anyone that read it and doesn't have what they want out of life, I'd recommend stop reading it and start studying it with an obsessive passion and apply it. It is one of the most incredible mind power books ever written.
Synchronicity for me was that Napoleon Hill's inspiration was Charles F. Haanel who developed the Master Key System - found out he was a business partner with one of my great grandfathers.
And it isn't just about making money. Those are the EXACT principles to manifest anything we want in life. Relationships, etc... whatever. It is the definitive bible on how to get out of poverty consciousness. It should be required reading by every high school student in the world in my opinion.
That was one of the most influential books in my life as was The Power of the Subconscious Mind by Dr. Joseph Murphy.
Attitude is everything and we can't get ahead unless we fix our broke thinking. It is one of the most challenging things for people to do - it took me many years - I had a very slow learning curve with that one.

I am pretty sure his books were one of the main sources for 'The Secret'


But to balance things out, as against the concept of money that I am, the one argument FOR it that I've heard that I must agree with, is that money regulates our usage of finite resources. I mean, imagine what would happen if the oil and coal and all that cost nothing, based on our current level of consciousness. The only thing that's preventing complete destruction is money.
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