Money is good. And in today?s world, money is essential. But very few people become wealthy. Just as an example, in his book: ?You were born rich? Bob Proctor wrote:
?In 1923, at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago, eight of the world?s wealthiest financiers met. These eight men controlled more money than the United States? government at that time. They included:
The president of the largest independent steel company
The president of the largest gas company
The greatest wheat speculator
The president of the New York Stock Exchange
A member of the President?s cabinet
The greatest ?bear? on Wall Street
The head of the world?s greatest monopoly
The president of the Bank of International Settlement.
Certainly, one would have to admit, that a group of the world?s most successful men was gathered that place at least, men who had found the secret to earning money.
Now let?s see where these men were twenty-five years later:
The president of the largest independent steel company, Charles Schwab, lived on borrowed money for five years before he died bankrupt.
The president of North America?s largest gas company, Howard Hopson, went insane.
The greatest wheat speculator, Arthur Cutton, died abroad, insolvent.
The president of the New York Stock Exchange, Richard Whitny, was sent to Sing Sing Penitentiary.
A member of the President?s cabinet, Albert Fall, was pardoned from prison so he could die at home.
The greatest ?bear? on Wall Street, Jesse Livermore, died a suicide.
The head of the greatest monopoly, Ivar Krueger, killed himself.
The president of the Bank of International Settlement, Leon Fraser, also died a suicide.
Each of these men learned well the art of earning money, but it would seem that not one of them had ever learned how to live the ?rich life?, which was their birthright.?
It is stories like this one that have caused many people to say that money was bad that money is the root of all evil.
Money is not the root of all evil. In today?s world, money has become extremely important. We cannot do anything without money. We can?t get food without money. We even buy water with money. In fact, that makes money the second most important thing in life. The first being the air we breathe, and that is free.
Unfortunately, most of us are raised with the wrong perceptions of money. We learned to be the servant of money, and that is what is natural to us. We always have to remember that we are either slaves to money, or the master of money. In fact if you look at all the rich people you know (or know of) you will find they have this in common: They are the masters of money, and they teach their children the same.
How can you become a master of money in stead of its slave? Here are a few ways to increase your money:
Keep 10% of everything you earn. This is where the path to becoming wealthy starts. You have to keep at least 10% of all that you earn. This rule is only broken by those who have no money ? and no, that 10% is not for holidays, a new car, a new house or anything for you. It is only to invest wisely so that it makes you more money. I can guarantee you that this is how the wealthy get their wealth. And if you are poor, the reason for that would be that you ignore this rule.
What you want to increase, you need to give away. So it is a good idea to give 10% of your money to charity.
It is also a good idea to develop a prosperity consciousness. This you do by becoming comfortable around money. You need to feel comfortable with it. The way to help you do this is visualise yourself as having a lot of money, and visualise yourself as being where you want to be and doing what you want to do and having what you want to have. If this is difficult, start by ?giving? yourself a certain amount of money every day and then deciding what to do with it. Write it down in your diary or somewhere where you can work with it each day. On the first day, give yourself $1,000. Decide what you would do with it. On the second, give yourself $2000. On the third, $3,000 and so forth every day you decide what to do with it. After a while you start going out of things to spend it on: How do you feel now?
That is Prosperity Consciousness. If you feel it, you will attract it.
Hannah du Plessis, an ex schoolteacher currently living in New Zealand started her first Network Marketing business in 2005. Early in 2006 she discovered the joys of Internet Marketing and now has her own Traffic Exchange and Article Directory
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