Today’s post will be the first in a series to help understand why the rich get richer and how seemingly ordinary people such as you and I can harness some of the mentality that got them there.

The most common misconception is that rich people are totally different from poor people. That is nonsense. If that was the case, there would be no point in me writing this blog, because unless you are a certain way from birth or by some divine selection there simply wouldn’t be a chance that you could improve your station in life.

Fact is that rich people are 99% like the rest of us. They breathe the same oxygen, use the same water and have two arms and two legs to a person. So if they are not physically different, what else could it be then?

T. Harv Ecker wrote a brilliant book about the ‘Millionaire Mind’ outlining several key factors that seperate the rich from the rest. But it doesn’t even have to be that deep or that detailed to get the main point of this post.

The bottom line is that the availabiity or lack of money in your life right now has 100 % to do with you and nothing else. Once we understand that and take full responsibility for it the biggest obstacle is starting to crumble.

Next we have to demistify this thing called money, because the more we read into it the more it seems to hold us back from reaching it. But before I get philosophical here, just do yourself a favor and think of money as your servant to get things done. PERIOD! I read in a very good book a long time ago that money makes a dreadful master but a lovely servant.

Since I’ll be devoting more time and space to this range of topics in the near future, make sure to sunscribe to the RSS feed if you haven’t already done that. Otherwise you may miss an important follow up post.

That’s it for today, I’ll be in Vegas for a few days, but will have some new and exciting updates for September and October lined up.

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I was originally going to write a different post today, but being prompted by a conversation I overheard a few days ago, I decided to share this story with you instead.

I had a conversation with a fellow hotel guest in the hot tub about eating out and family lifestyle and the likes when a third man entered the health club area and starting chatting with his friend and me. It turned out that the guy I was talking to, let’s call him John for now, was complaining about getting bad sleep after eating a big meal at a diner while on the road.

So, naturally, his buddy asks him what he has eaten that night. John answers that he had a big steak with baked potato and an appetizer. The friend then asks him if he wants a couple of beers from the store nearby.

John says he had already had 3 beer with his dinner, but a couple more wouldn’t hurt. And here my friends is where the story grabbed my attention. John says that they have this great new medicine out that let’s you eat lots of junk food, have several beers and with only one pill you still sleep like a baby without any indigestion or heartburn.

He forgot to mention the fact that he is about 60 pounds overweight and this diet simlpy cannot be good for you in the long run.

But wait, we are not done with the story yet, it is getting even more obscure. So the other guy, a bit older and skinny but complaining about his ailments also, adds the following comment: Yeah I know, my wife and I are on this drug that let’s you eat what you want and not even gain weight and it is even without a prescription.

Now people, let’s be honest here for just a second: Is this a disturbing situation or what? Neither of these guys are healthy or attempting to be by changing their bad habits and getting better nutrition. But they both are swearing by prescription drugs that will magically cure all bad and let them do whatever they please.

Well, I have news for you ! It doesn’t work like that. The phrase “Garbage in, garbage out” comes to mind although it is usally used for computer data, it applies to humans as well. If you are mistreating your body with junk food and lack of exercise then non pill in the world will help you long term.

I am not opposed to modern medicine and while I do accept that drugs may be helpful for treating certain ailments until we can accept a firm belief of health and wellbeing to replace outside substances to keep us well, this story makes a wonderful point.

You cannot change anything in your life or improve the outcome of any situation no matter what it is by putting a band aid on the problem. You will always just be covering up a symptom rather than treating the root cause of your issue.

Applying this to the topic of your financial situation it would look something like this: if you are finding yourself in a spot where you are always short of money to pay your bills or to do what you would like to do then it is not good enough to get another credit card, max it out and not have a plan to get out of the bad symptoms you are experiencing with money or the lack of it.

Instead, you have to try and go to the root of the issue and either find legitimate ways to make more money than you spend or find a way to spend within the budget you do have. I knwo that the second solution is not very exciting or gratifying, therefore I propose to look at the beliefs you hold about money and then change them to get a different outcome and better symptoms.

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Don’t worry about the title of this post, ok! I haven’t lost my positive attitude or suddenly felt the urge to write about somebody on their death bed.

Actually, it’s a lot less dramatic a much lighter than that. I am writing this post to point out a stubborn issue that is often coming up when people mean well, but then don’t take into account the law of attraction’s rules when they state their desires.

Here’s an example: Let’s go and have an anti-war rally. HMMM. That may sound like a pacifist thing to do, but one of the main reasons we still even have wars in this day and age is the fact that we keep mulling them over in our mind so much.

I think it was none other than Mother Theresa who said: I won’t be joining the anti war rally, but let me know when you have a peace rally and I’ll be first in line.

That really illustrates my point very well. Do not look and articulate the events or issues that you DO NOT want or the law of attraction will find a way to bring them to you.

Here is another favorite of mine: “Breast Cancer Awareness month….or the fight to end breast cancer.”

Well, of course I agree with most people out there that breast cancer is a terrible thing. But, as the title of this post says very clearly: what are the last words in this sentence….?

Correct, you got it: “Breast Cancer”

It is a never ending fight because the awareness of it will create more of it just like the charity to help the poor will somehow NEVER run out of finding poor people to help.

Turning this around is a very simple task that can form a habit and yield wonderful dividends for yourself. Next time you are becoming aware of a negative issue that bugs you, try and state it in the opposite and make that statement an affirmation.

Going back to the anti war really you could say: I allow peace and harmony into my life now. And instead find a cause that gets it right. Again, fighting pretty much anything will just bring you more of that sentiment, namely more fighting and more struggle.

Let me conclude this post with an observation from the words in the McCain speech. Although I am not a GOP supporter at all, he has done a pretty decent job at moving the audience with his war stories. But here is the catch: Since McCain is thinking in terms of fighting for anything in life and in his political career, that is exactly what he gets - constant fighting for everything.

Whether it is his days as soldier or his “fight” for the nomination. So here is my final tip for you John McCain: Next time you sate that you “hate war” try saying ” I love peace and intend to bring peace and prosperity to the United States of America. It somehow worked for Barak Obama…

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