Changing our Brain Wiring
to Manifest Prosperity

Those who have the easiest time figuring out how to manifest prosperity first succeeded in getting rid of their negative money programming.

Many of us think that money is something over which we have no control, and we’ll correct that misconception in other sections of Power Wealth Creation –- but for now, let’s see how many of us have come to view money over the course of our lives. See if any of these scenarios ring true for you.

Whether you grew up poor, middle-class or wealthy, the concept of hard work was probably front and center in the lives of your caregivers.

In order for your family to manifest prosperity, your parents were taken from you for a good part of the day -- which may have even caused them to miss out on some of your school functions, birthday parties or other special events. There is no wonder, then, that money took on an adversarial quality. In your formative years, money was competing as much, if not more, for your parent’s attentions as might a sibling rival.

When your parents were away at work, they were invisible to you. You were given no sense of what they did or said to manifest prosperity into their lives (or into your life by extension). At home, if a parent’s boss or a co-worker called, your parents probably took the call into another room.

Even if your parents took you to their offices once in a while to let you see what they did for a living, their focus was on you and not on whatever they did to generate income. Although young, your mind probably detected how staged and artificial those visits really were. Your parents were never really wearing their “money hats” in front of you, so you could not get a clear picture of what they did to manifest prosperity. There is no wonder, then, that money took on a mysterious, elusive quality.

Unless you grew up in the upper classes, you probably struggled to pay for college. Tuition and financial aid might have taken up a good deal of your family’s dinner table conversation. Maybe there was a question as to whether your family could afford to send you at all, an unthinkable prospect given the importance of college according to your high school guidance counselors.

You may have pursued scholarships that eluded you or, if you won them, only served to reduce the amount of financial aid in your college grant package, leaving the same family contribution gap as before. You may have found it impossible to reduce the required parental contribution through efforts of your own. This was the point at which money became associated in your mind with frustration and want.

You may have seen your family take a second mortgage or an extra job to cover tuition. This was the point at which money became associated with guilt and shame.

Or, maybe your parents flat out refused to pay for college or forced you to go somewhere that you didn’t want to go as a condition to paying. Maybe you were disowned midstream and had to pack your bags and stave off toward a different future. That was the point at which money became associated with disappointment, manipulation and abuse of power.

If you graduated from college, you may have been shocked by your inability to manifest prosperity right away due to weak, low paying job prospects. Like so many others, you may have been forced to think about moving back in with your parents because post-graduate salaries did not cover the costs of rent and food. That was the point at which the promise of money deceived you.

If any of these experiences ring true for you, take heart. You are not alone -- far from it. These experiences and similar ones shape our money perceptions to such a point that our disillusionment coding becomes deeply ingrained and passed down to our children. 98% of society is still swimming in a sea of misconceptions about what money really is, and they have no idea how to teach their families how to manifest prosperity in their own lives.

It may surprise you to know that many people making an executive level income feel the same way. Some lawyers and doctors put themselves $150,000 or more into debt in order to obtain their degrees -- and when they graduate, they dive into a sea of complex and stressful realities as they strive to manifest prosperity and realize the promise of their hard academic careers.

Doctors do not see money for years after they graduate from medical school. They defer tens of thousands of dollars in student loan interest that continues to compound while they take low paying residencies that last sometimes for five years or more. By the time they are done with their loans, they have paid out twice the cost of the medical tuition sticker taking into account the compounded interest.

Lawyers suffer a humiliating "squeeze" when they start working in law firms, on the one side by partners who resent how much junior lawyer salaries subtract from their partnership profits, and on the other side by support staff who are envious of their earning potential. Support staff freely snub junior lawyers knowing that they are not likely to complain to partners and get branded as troublemakers.

These highly educated professionals have no more personal satisfaction or financial freedom than you do. But they have taken on a host of workplace worries that may be even worse than your present circumstances. The feeling that prosperity and financial freedom are a wild goose chase spans many professional tiers and you are not alone in the struggle.

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