I remember when i was a little kid.
i'd sit around and watch the news with my parents every single night.
"people knifing each other, people rioting for a raise and all kinds of miseries were displayed"
and just like any other night i would hear the typical affirmation from my dad:
"listen son, all this poverty, all this hatred, is the doings of these filthy rich people"
"they harvested all the money, that's why we're poor"
"that's why the government is unable to provide for us anymore"
and since it's so easy for a child to get affected by his surroundings
i grew up with poor person mentality.
everytime i walk into a hotel or a big corporation
i would always assume how much of an asshole the owner is.
and how much money he had to steal to build his company.
this kind of coaxing is called "verbal conditioning"
the beliefs that you verbalize aloud to your children
will have a major impact on their future lives and on the way they interpret things.
poor people are unaware that they are actually teaching their children
how to be poor for the rest of their lives.
if by any chance their child notices a business opportunity
he will ignore it, thinking that money is associated with Evil and immoral people.
rich people on the other side, prime their kids to be rich.
it's not that poor parents are evil or anything, they themselves have inherited their beliefs
from their parents and grand grand parents.
as a middle class teenager, the unexpected is that i made a friendship with a rich kid..
it felt like we were living in vastly different dimensions.
eventhough we were close friends, i secretely resented him so much
because of what i've been taught about rich people.
one day, while gazing at my friend's big mansion, a magical thought poped up into my head
"why is my family poor in the first place, while my friend's father is filthy rich?"
"what makes a poor person poor?"
these questions were enlightening enough
that i decided to set aside what i've been tought in my childhood.
and look up to rich people sincerely for advice.
sooner or later i figured out the cause for this dilemma:
most of the rich were once poor, the only thing that made them rich
is the quality of thoughts they allow into their minds throughout their entire existance.
the rich person has a millionaire mind, the poor obviously has a poor person's mind.
and if somehow the poor man can get a glympse inside a millionaire's mind
he will eventually figure out how to become one himself.
a millionaire's mind has a bullshit filter, it lets through only positive affirmations
and hinders negative thoughts and beliefs from coming through
such as complaining, gossiping, blaming others and so on.
rich people had to out-grow that stage to be able to think clean thoughts
that will lead them out of misery.
as for poor people, they're stuck in that negative stage where they still bitch and complain
and blame external circumstances as the root cause for their financial problems.
a millionaire, as i said earlier, was once poor himself.
but he came to the conclusion that complaining will produce nothing but headaches.
so he began analyzing what was actually going wrong in his life
and he decided to put the blame on himself for being broke and began looking for the solutions.
luckily i've seen in my life practical examples for this so let's take a look at them.
in high school my philosophy teacher was a great example for the millionaire mind.
unlike the other teachers he decided to learn how to play an instrument.
the next thing you know, the guy started a band and became a musician.
and although it didn't make him rich or anything.
it did generate a decent amount of money and this helped him out a lot with his financial issues.
all of this happened because of his willingness to stop complaining and to start thinking
about the countless ways of creating a second source of income.
in that same year I met my history teacher, this guy was really positive, and aside from teaching at school
he became a self-development coach and was giving seminars every weekend, eventually
eventually this became a steady source of income for him
and as far as i can remember, by the time I graduated, he began coaching people online
and his financial situation improved dramatically.
these examples really hit me on a deep level.
especially when i come home from school
and look at the way my parents spend their spare time everday, watching the news and complaining
the only difference between my parents and my teachers is simply
the quality of thoughts they allow into their minds.
i truly believe that the possibilities are endless if you really desire to improve your life.
all you have to do is change the way you think and that's it. and remember that
POOR PEOPLE BITCH AND COMPLAIN while RICH PEOPLE FOCUS ON SOLVING THE PROBLEM
RICH PEOPLE HANG OUT WITH WINNERS POOR PEOPLE HANG OUT WITH LOSERS
if we take a rich person and throw him off to hang out with poor people for the rest his life
he would certainly start to believe that poverty is the norm.
this phenomenon surely reminds me of that proverb:
"you're identity is the sum of the people you hang out with the most"
wich is absolutely true, when a person finds himself constantly hanging out with a distinct group.
that community provides a unified feeling that causes the person to trust whatever he hears
from the group, as pure truth and so there is no reason to think for himself anymore.
this phenomenon is also known as "group think"
"oh i'm related to this group" we are the poor guys, the modest people"
"and the other group is for the filthy rich assholes"
so it's reasonable for me to remain poor, and it's more humbling and noble" yeah
generally speaking, poor people always seem to stick around together
and that's what makes them poor
WHY? because there's a one percent chance that a poor group of people
would discuss ways to improve their finances.
you would always hear the typical: "oh hey guys did you hear about that uh, millionaire douchebag the other day"
"he bought another ferrari and started a new business"
the idea here, whatever Vibe or energy you surround yourself with
you will suffer the consequences of it's effects.
fact is, people feed off of each other, they're like sponges.
and if you want to better any aspect of your life.
surround yourself with like-minded people who strive for the better.
that way, whenever you're demotivated..instead of weighing you down
they will bring you back to reason.