Money 03 (Sep 11 - Dec 13)

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"Spend less money on yourself and more money on other people - you will be happier."

- Michael Norton

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What anyone else has or does not have has nothing to do with you.

The only thing that affects your experience is the way you utilize the Non-Physical Energy with your thought.

Your abundance or lack of it in your experience has nothing to do with what anybody else is doing or having.

It has only to do with your perspective. It has only to do with your offering of thought.

If you want your fortunes to shift, you have to begin telling a different story.

---Abraham

Excerpted from the book - Money and the Law of Attraction


Source: www.abraham-hicks.com

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Are Billionaires Smarter Than You? by Carl Delfeld

Do you have to be a genius to be a billionaire?

I certainly hope not.

But a recent study by Jonathan Wai of Duke University suggests a strong link between brains and billions. The study says “the top 1% in wealth highly overlaps with the top 1% in brains.”

The research shows that 45% of billionaires are in the top 1% of cognitive ability.

Even more interesting was the study’s breakdown of brains and billionaires.

For example:
• Billionaires are smarter than Fortune 500 CEOs.
• Billionaires who made their money from investments and technology are significantly more likely to have high IQs than other billionaires.
• Billionaires who hit the jackpot in fashion, retail, or restaurants required less brainpower than most industries.

My take is that while being smart is crucial in some areas, such as creating new technologies, it can also get in the way of being focused and using common sense. For example, there are many wealthy people who made their fortunes using “street smarts” in the real estate business.

If forced to pick what characteristics were most important in becoming uber-wealthy, I would pick being opportunistic, patient, decisive… and contrarian.

Let’s look at a few examples.

Street Smarts

John Templeton was a Rhodes Scholar, but it was his contrarian desire to scour the world for bargains ignored by the herd that put him in the investment hall of fame. And the patience to hold on until markets recognized the value was a key part of this successful, common-sense strategy.

Sam Zell also displayed street smarts in building a $4 billion real estate empire. Zell bought deep-value real estate in down markets in the 1960s and following this strategy over the next 40 years yielded huge gains.

In 1990 when Argentina was going through a currency crisis, a young Eduardo Elsztain had the guts to walk into the New York City offices of George Soros and talk him into investing $10 million in Argentine real estate.

With a little patience and some luck, Elsztain turned the $10 million into a $500 million real estate portfolio. Investors who joined him and Soros in their Dolphin Fund would have turned $100,000 into $1.9 million in a decade. And Elsztain is now the CEO of Cresud (Nasdaq: CRESY), a huge Argentine real estate company.

You can call it courage, common sense, an opportunistic personality or just plain patience. But I call it smart investing.

You don’t have to be a genius to be a billionaire. You just have to make bold moves.

http://www.investmentu.com/2013/May/are ... n-you.html

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My own definition of poverty is that it is a disease of the brain.

Poverty originates in the brain.

It is a malfunctioning of the brain.

So, if we can get the brain to work better, then there will be no poverty. This is the only solution I know of to eradicate poverty.


~ Dr. Pillai

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Poverty thinking originates in the logical brain which freezes reality and creates time. That area is primarily the frontal lobe or the cortex area.
~ Dr. Pillai

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..:. money .:..

Give up trying so hard to get rich. Your money flies away before you know it, just like an eagle suddenly taking off.

Proverbs 23:4-5


Source: Life Changing Words

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The contemplation of beauty and the contemplation of abundance should be in your consciousness.
~ Dr. Pillai

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Why do we accumulate?

It seems to me that our many problems can never be solved until we approach them as an integral part of the totality of existence.

We cannot understand the totality of existence as long as we break it up into compartments, as we are doing now.

The difficulty is that our problems are so intense, so immediate, that we get caught in them; and not to be caught in them, the mind must begin to be aware of its own process of accumulation, by which it gains a sense of security for itself.

After all, why do we accumulate property, money, position, knowledge, and so on? Obviously, because it gives us a sense of security.

You may not have much property or money, but if you have knowledge, it gives you a feeling of security.

It is only to the man who has no sense of security of any kind that the new is revealed because he is not concerned about himself and his achievements.

- Hamburg 1956,Talk 4


Source: www.jkrishnamurti.com

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3 Tips on how to stop repelling money

"Yuck."

The truth is, THAT is how most people subconsciously relate to having money and wealth (and 99% of the time, they don't even realize it).

If you suspect that you're subconsciously repelling money from flowing into your life…

Here are 3 ways that you can stop it right here, and right now, so that you can begin receiving the abundance the Universe has waiting for you.


TIP #1: Create a Compelling Why

So often, people get fixated on wanting more money without defining WHY they want it.

What do you plan to do with it once you get it?

How will you use it to better your own circumstances or the circumstances of others?

Get clear on why it is that you want this money, and focus on that instead of on feeling like you simply don't have enough right now.

It's a small, simple change in focus, but from an energetic Law of Attraction perspective, it makes a world of difference.


TIP #2: Admit That You Want More Money

So many people feel guilt or shame around wanting more money.

They feel that by admitting this to themselves and others, it makes them appear shallow or even ungrateful for what they already have.

But clearly and confidently stating what it is that you want is the first step to receiving it!

So each day, make it a point to affirm to yourself in the mirror:

"I am rich, I am wealthy and I deserve it and love it."

Say it with as much emotion and feeling as you can.

It may feel a bit silly at first, but stick with it! The goal is for you to get comfortable stating that this is what you want.


TIP #3: Become a Better Receiver

So often, we personal growth lovers are way more comfortable giving to others than allowing ourselves to be given to.

For example:

Chances are you're probably much more likely to pay for someone else's lunch than to allow them to pay for yours, right?

This subconscious way of being, this inability to receive, can also manifest itself in your relationship to money.

To start shifting this so that you'll be a better receiver of abundance and prosperity, do what you can to get better at receiving in all areas of your life.

When someone else offers to pay for lunch or even pay you a compliment, say thank you and do so without feeling like you need to do anything else in return.


Source: Mind Movies

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Every being is always receiving that which is a vibrational match to whatever they are offering.

- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in Lincroft, NJ on October 15, 1996


Source: www.abraham-hicks.com