What is Poverty - Consciousness and How Do You Know If You Are Poverty-Conscious?

FEAR OF SUCCESS IS A LIMITING BELIEF

You know what you want but you are afraid of going all the way to get it. Everything is going great; your plans are in motion and you are seeing tangible results. But you stop. Self-doubt takes hold despite the evidence of your progress. That is a sign that you are afraid of success and change. It is limiting belief which is coming from your past because you were taught to think in poverty-conscious terms. It must be rooted out!

POVERTY-CONSCIOUSNESS EQUALS DEPRIVATION

Do you frequently think about what you don't have? Are you always depriving yourself and despite that money still seems to flow through your fingers like water; no matter how you scrimp and save for that "rainy day"? Do you wonder why it is always so hard? That is evidence that you are living a poverty-conscious life. Continue to think like that and you will get a lot more of it.

Man's power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest. Frederick Bailes

POVERTY-CONSCIOUS THINKING FROM THE CRADLE

Far too many people believe that having a lot of money - being wealthy - brings you heartbreak and ruin. You don't know how "they" made their money. You will be out of your depth, out of your class and you won't know how to act with "those" people. You won't know who your real friends are - as if they know now -, and in any case, money doesn't last, and it doesn't make you happy. Rich people take drugs, they are degenerate; you don't want to be like them, do you. Rich people are not like us.

Or as I was recently told, and quite vehemently, by an American-born and bred couple in their late thirties who are extremely proud of their middle-class status "people are supposed to be common, not snobs like them". Then the wife said "I hope Michelle (Obama) doesn't wear expensive clothes". Don't you find that shocking? I did. I had never heard such nonsense from educated people before.

Here's a tip: You will never get very far in life or have a life of ease with that kind of thinking. Get a more balanced view about wealth from DailyOM's An Instrument of Change: Wealth is Neutral

A WINNER'S STORY

A person of modest means unexpectedly receives a large sum of money. They never had so much "spare cash" before. They spend, spend, spend and can't seem to stop. They have lots of new friends who, before the windfall, were just "Hey Fred, Hi Jane, Mornin' to ya".

The spending spree ends with a thud after a long stretch of highs and more highs, and they are suddenly back where they started. This person feels let down. They don't understand what happened. How could it have finished so fast? It felt great. The urge to buy things they did not want and spend money on people they did not like was irresistible.

Men are not prisoners of fate, only prisoners of their own minds. Franklin D. Roosevelt

This winner now needs a job. They return hat in hand to the dead-end job they hated. They are welcomed back with cheers and commiserations from everyone, and that's the way the world is shrugs. Some expressions say hey, you gotta work hard for your bread; things like that don't last.

Everyone is pleased; never mind the whispers when they left. Over a beer after work, the salute is We always knew you were a good guy who wouldn't let us down; or Great to have you back hon, it's good to see you back where you belong.

If anything in this article resonates with you in any way, decide to change your life now. What you think today is the basis for your tomorrow. Decide which you want.

This is Catherine "Yours Truly" Hidalgo signing out.
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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. Dale Carnegie