Prosperity Mindset. Are You Programmed For Lack Or Luxury?
Posted on 15. Jul, 2010 by Keith O'Brien in Leadership
There are a number of ways to become wealthy.
You can inherit it.
You can win it, as in the lottery or gambling.
You can preserve and grow it, such as in investments.
Or, you can build it through a business venture.
Regardless of how you do it, having prosperity consciousness is paramount. Why? Because our results in life will eventually align with our mindset…there is no way to avoid it.
This is why 33% of lottery winners are broke after 5 years, regardless of the amount.
This is also why short-term business successes don’t last for many people.
Most people’s prosperity consciousness is NOT supportive of the life they say they want.
They say they want wealth, but their predominant thoughts say otherwise.
Having a prosperity mindset is far more than just wanting nice things. It’s really much more about perceiving the world as inherently abundant.
When you come from a place of abundance…you ALWAYS see possibility. You become very proactive and creative as opposed to reactive.
We all know people who seem to live with their glass half empty. Actually, many people live thinking they don’t even have a glass.
This is not about what is happening in the person’s life. This is about their view of what is happening and their desire, commitment and belief in shifting it.
Unfortunately, much of the world tends to program people for lack and limitation.
Look around you at the media. Look at how you were raised. Look at your friends and family. There is no judgment here, however most of us were not given the tools to see the world abundantly and to believe that we truly deserve to live out our greatness.
Instead, we are constantly surrounded by messages that tell us we aren’t enough, that we don’t have this or that, that we can’t do this or that and that success is a matter of fate, luck or some other force outside of ourselves.
I’ve done seminars for years with young people and have talked about prosperity consciousness. In rooms of hundreds I ask them to finish the statement…
Rich people are _____________ .
What do you think the answers are?
Stingy, stuck up, lucky, arrogant, mean, jerks…
Occasionally, we get some supportive ones like generous, friendly and happy. But almost without exception, 75-80% of the responses are negative descriptions.
Ironically, 95% of the room say that they want to be wealthy.
If you understand this very basic idea, you are more than halfway home to understanding how to create wealth.
If you believe that rich people are…say…jerks, then subconsciously you will continue to sabotage your success because you don’t actually want to be a jerk. As long as you continue to relate being rich with negative attributes, you will undermine your own efforts to create success.
The reality is…
Rich people aren’t anything…other than rich. Everything else is subjective and based on the individual person.
I know plenty of broke people who are stingy, stuck up, lucky, arrogant, mean, jerks…
Money has nothing to do with it.
To begin creating wealth, you must rewire yourself for abundance.
Take inventory of how you view wealth, money and success.
Take inventory of how you hold your self-worth.
Begin seeing possibility in everything…even if you go with your first choice. Look for options. Prosperous people always see choice, rather than limitations.
When faced with seemingly either/or situations, stop and try and figure out how to have both.
This is a great practice in prosperity.
Know that you were born into this world whole and complete. You are still that way regardless of how many messages you hear to the contrary.
Choose now to take on one area of your life. How can you shift your mindset to be more abundant? How can you create greater choice?
Pick an area – business, relationship, self, spirituality, health – and design exactly what you want from a place of total abundance.
Squash any thought of lack or limitation as you do this.
Decide your course of action and just go for it.
Take action now. Your dreams are closer than you think.
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http://www.jimhageman.com Jim Hageman
