Overcoming the Poverty Mentality:
Interpreting Historical Quotes
The secrets to overcoming the poverty mentality have been available to us for centuries through historical quotes. However, they hit our ears as something less empowering than what they were meant to convey – something more in line with how we have been preconditioned to think about our destinies.
For example, the Buddha said:
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."
But this quote has been misinterpreted by religious leaders to mean, for example, that if you get fired from your job it’s up to you to spin this misfortune in your mind into something that won’t let it ruin your day. The "every cloud has a silver lining" lesson gets in the way of the Buddha’s true meaning, as well as the poverty mindset’s "accept your lot in life" lesson.
The real moral behind the Buddha’s teaching is far more brilliant and magnificent than it may initially seem to be.
What Buddha is really saying is: You get what you think about most.
Those with a millionaire mentality know this: they take risks that the rest of us would find staggering, because aside from having educated themselves on the risks, they know that as long as they have the single-minded goal of money generation, money can never be far out of reach.
Great fighters know this: warriors such as Napoleon and Alexander the Great have won battles that from the outside seemed impossible to win because they were single minded in their visualization of victory.
Battling the Poverty Mentality
These secrets of the millionaire mentality sound easy to implement, don't they?
I would love to tell you that everyone could take them out today and launch them like kites in a stiff wind. But here is why they aren't so easy.
These secrets have more to do with psychology than action, more about getting into the millionaire mindset than about working hard. I believe that most of us work hard, very hard in fact! But hard work is not enough to truly master wealth.
We are a product of intense socialization that causes us to fight against the millionaire mentality, and it takes specific decoding to get rid of that socialization. Many go through life never discovering how to do this.
Ridding ourselves of these messages is similar to the process for rejecting our distaste for money. In the same way that our negative beliefs about money hold fast, the millionaire mentality runs against strongly held beliefs.
Without even knowing it, we look for ways to keep each other from developing a millionaire mentality and attracting wealth and power into our lives. It is one of our most prevalent social preoccupations.
Next: How to Create Wealth by Overcoming Negative Influences
Return from Poverty Mentality to Millionaire Mentality
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