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Basic Rules for Financial Freedom: Get in the Wealthy Mindset
The concept of money comes with a lot of baggage to most of us. We have an inherent belief that it is good or bad and that wanting it is good or bad. That loving it is good or bad. That spending it is good or bad.
What I am going to suggest in the first few Rules is that maybe, just maybe, how we think about wealth might be holding us back from having wealth. If, in our heart, we believe (even subconsciously) that money is a bad thing and having lots and lots of it is a really bad thing, then chances are we might be undermining our own efforts, unwittingly, to get lots of it.
(Excerpted from "The Rules of Money" by Richard Templar)
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Anybody Can Make Money -- It Isn't Selective or Discriminatory
The lovely thing about money is that it really doesn't discriminate. It doesn't care what color or race you are, what class you are, what your parents did, or even who you think you are. Each and every day starts with a clean slate so that no matter what you did yesterday, today begins anew, and you have the same rights and opportunities as everyone else to take as much as you want. The only thing that can hold you back is yourself and your own money myths
Of the wealth of the world, each has as much as he takes. What else could make sense? There is no way money can know who is handling it, what his qualifications are, what ambitions he has, or what class he belongs to. Money has no ears, eyes, or senses. It is inert, inanimate, impassive. It hasn't a clue. It is there to be used and spent, saved and invested, fought over, seduced with, and worked for. It has no discriminatory apparatus, so it can't judge whether you are "worthy" or not.
I have watched a lot of extremely wealthy people, and the one thing they all have in common is that they have nothing in common -- apart from all being Rules Players, of course. The wealthy are a diverse band of people -- the least likely can be loaded. They vary from the genteel to the uncouth, the savvy to the plain stupid, the deserving to the undeserving. But each and every one of them has stepped up and said, "Yes please, I want some of that." And the poor are the ones saying, "No thank you. Not for me. I am not worthy. I am not deserving enough. I couldn't. I mustn't. I shouldn't."
Next: Decide on Your Definition of Wealth
From The Rules of Money Copyright © 2007, FT Press. Used by permission of FT Press, and Pearson Education. All rights reserved.
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