Money 02 (Jun 10 - Sep 11)

[b0rderc0llie]

boss W,
money is a useless paper and yet day & night people are chasing after her...this is greed, inborn in human nature. Usually, one will realised this when he is about to leaving this world.

digital money is the worst, easily key in from computer keyboard, how many zero(s) you want also no problem, no need a warehouse to store the huge pile of useless paper.

Frightening, the world is moving towards my father times the 'Banana Note' era...1 pc of bread cost you $1,000.

Any plan to capitalise on the situation?....Oops! pay for advice, no problem, bro will donate to yr forum.

Money is a medium of exchange and is supposed to be a useless paper. Instead of chasing money, I chase my dreams and get the money needed to pursue them. Then I use the money to fulfill the dreams.

If we think that inflation is going to be bad and 1pc of bread will cost 1k, an easy way to capitalise on the situation will be to be short on cash and be long in the other asset classes.

[winston]

Always be around people who have abundance consciousness. Then you will know how people with abundance consciousness think.

The rich dad teaches differently than the poor dad.

The sound BRZEE will help you get rid of scarcity consciousness and to attract abundance.


~ Dr. Pillai

[winston]

Poverty is scattered attention. It is a matter of attentional disorder.
~ Dr. Pillai

[winston]

Five Steps to Prosperity By Anya Dee

If you want prosperity, where do you start? It is no secret that we all want it, but how do we get it?

Here is a list of FIVE things you can do to get well on the road to prosperity right now:

1.Visualize it. The Universe can't give you what you don't define. It's like asking your mother what she wants for her birthday. My mom gave me the "mom response" time and again. "I want your love!" And I'd respond with, "NO- something I can buy you, mom!"


2.Figure out your hang-ups. We all have them. Let's say you have wanted prosperity, but have never been able to achieve it. What is the problem here? Most likely there is some hang-up that maybe even you don't know about.

Thoughts are energy. If you put out one super-positive thought, but then immediately follow it up with a super-negative one, guess what happens to that energy? It's like adding +1 and -1. They cancel each other out and you end up with zero.

3.Change your hang-ups. Sound difficult? The key is to start listening and paying attention. Listen to your thoughts throughout the day when you get a "brilliant idea" or see something you "love."


4.Be grateful. Did you ever have to talk to someone who is completely negative? You see their life as an outsider and think, "They got it pretty good!" but they don't see it.

The Universe loves grateful receivers. Take time throughout your day to stop and say, "Thank you." Thank the Universe for your job, your family, your life right now as it is...you would be surprised at how much being grateful can push you forward in your life and quest for change.

Practice being happy and satisfied. It is a sure fire way to keep yourself open to more blessings.


5.Take inspired action. This is where some people get tripped up. Some people believe that they don't have to DO anything to receive. This isn't entirely true.

This where you have to have some faith in yourself and in the Universe. Again- pay attention and you are going to find little directional road signs that tell you where to go and what to do. Keep your eyes open and it will come.

I heard a statement once: "Everything you are looking for is looking for you."

So the point is to define what you want, find and change the blocks, reman grateful and finally take inspired action.

http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/five ... prosperity

[winston]

Poor VS Super Rich By David Samuel

For some people, struggle gives purpose, which is why people who are not rich, stay that way because if there is a struggle to survive, they have a purpose in their life.

There is nothing worse than a life with no purpose and any purpose will do. Survival is a good purpose, so they maintain their limited financial level to guarantee they have a permanent purpose throughout their life, struggling to survive.

For simplicity of the analogies in this article, I will divide everyone into two groups, rich and poor. Poor constitutes anyone who still wants more money.

On the other side of the scale, what are the super rich people doing with their money? They certainly have no need to struggle or worry. This is not exactly the point. Although that gives you a tangible item to look at, the question is 'why do they keep working and making more money?'

Why does Warren Buffet keep investing, or Richard Branson keep building new companies? Why get into something that takes so much of your time that you cannot read a book or go to the beach or fishing, play golf or whatever your pleasures are. Why undertake a project that will occupy so much of your life that you do not have the freedom to just do whatever you want?

This is what poor people simply do not grasp, the point of working. The desire to do what you enjoy, and if you do what you love the money will come, is not so that you can sleep in late and never have to work.

That is NOT the point of wealth. The super wealthy keep working, they do things with their money because they have to do something. The problem is in poor people's conception of work. My definition is that work is something you do that you do not want to do but must do for any reason.

The super wealthy do not work. I have been involved in more than 15 business projects since I retired, I say I have not worked, yet people think I worked. I did not have to do any of those projects, I did not need the money, I chose to because I found them interesting.

Another problem is the laziness. Poor people want to be lazy, to just do what they want and not work, that is their idea of being rich. FALSE! That is just being a fat cow in a lush pasture, getting fatter until you die.

The super wealthy are very active in continually CREATING. They create and to average people that is called work since very often it is a business venture, and thus they make more money.

Why do they continue to keep so busy? Understanding this is what makes the difference between success or failure. In order to succeed, you must accept that we cannot just do what is fun, we must do what is necessary in order to be happy which comes when we are producing something. What we produce is secondary, but that we are producing something is what matters.

This is why I disagree with the monastic path for westerners, because that is hiding and we cannot hide from our self and its nature. But the necessity of a suitable school for your individual path is unavoidable. There must be both the active and the contemplative.

I have met many people who are very intelligent and capable, one was even a (non-practicing) doctor, but they cannot make themselves work or do anything, they have lost the motivation to live. The common factor in every case is that they are or feel alone in their life.

In every case it is the same, they feel alone and so have lost their energy to move forward and use their mind. This will happen to anyone who aspires to a life of inactivity under the guise of success.

The super wealthy continue to work because they, like everyone else, have no choice, it is the nature of the human being. They know this and follow nature. If you follow nature obediently without objection, conditions or conflict, you will have a good life. This is respect to Nature.

You will find that the super wealthy certainly do it for the money, and enjoy the wealth and power, but that is not the only point. It is for the fun of doing it that is the key difference.

The rich do not think of wealth as the stopping point, they just keep on working, no matter how much money they make. It is not just about the money, and that is the difference, poor people do it for the money.

If you do it for the money alone, you will not succeed. But poor people look at the rich, and think the rich just want money and that is not at all a complete truth.

When you want money because it is like a gold star saying you have done a good job, and the more money you get means the better job you did, and you do the best job for the sake of doing the best job and NOT for the money, then you can succeed.

It takes quite a shift for poor people to comprehend this because poor only THINK they understand what I am saying. It takes quite a bit of work to really understand it. Work for the sake of doing the best job you can, and then the rewards come.

However, thinking you are and actually being that way are very different. The test is your level of success. If you are not succeeding, then you have the proof that you are motivated by laziness so you can just not work, and that has to change.

Someone asked what I meant with "Poor people want to be lazy, to just do what they want and not work, that is their idea of being rich." This is the concept of language, what being rich means. To a poor person it means being able to do what they want and enjoy life, go on the boat and fish all day.

To a super wealthy person it means having a tremendous amount of more work and obligations. Not as a burden to deal with but an obligation that is also an honor. They are being honored with the privilege of taking care of great wealth and power.

Poor people only think of money to ease their pain and desires, but that is not at all the point of having it, it is to be used to do things, and the things you buy are to help you do more, quicker and better.

When you stop thinking of yourself and do the best you can for the sake of doing the best you can at any job or business, you will succeed greatly. Money does not exist. It is not a thing at all. If I have bread, I eat. If I have a hammer, I can build something. But if I have money and do not know what money is, meaning I have this piece of paper in my hand, what can I do with that?

Think about it this way, I cannot eat a hammer, nor can I build a house with a loaf of bread, but with money, I can eat and build a house and do so much more, even though in itself, that note which we call money, is completely useless.

Money only becomes useful when it is used to do things with, which could mean multiply itself so that here is always a plentiful supply to do more things.

Nature tends to give things to the people who will (not just think they will or can) make best use of it. When you view making lots of money and a big success the starting point rather than the ending point of your active business life, then you will find yourself flowing with the stream of life and success should not be far away, if you are sincere.


http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/poor-vs-super-rich

[winston]

Creating Abundance - 2 Harmful Myths About Creating Abundance By Rishan B

Recently, because of the release of The Secret, folks have talked rather a lot about being wealthy. Together with all of that discussion has come a couple of destructive myths. Let us speak about these wrong beliefs in this particular article.

You will have a simpler time working on being wealthy if you just comply with the tips mentioned in this particular article. Regrettably, when you continue to play by the rules of these myths, the entire mission of creating abundance would be a lot difficult than it should.

In my personal experience, creating abundance needs to occur from a place of ease, peace and flow. Anything that detracts from this state, creates resistance. If you resist then you can be harassed thus blocking the flow of wealth into your life. To discover how to create a lot more flow in your life try my free Attracting Abundance Blueprint.


Wrong Belief #1: You need to think constructive thoughts all the time!

From my very own experience, and those of my clients, that is simply not true. You really can't control what exactly to think each minute of the day. The task is just impossible.

In addition, if you force your self to do that, you may be disappointed with your self if you're a bit pessimistic. This causes even more resistance. It is a bad cycle.

To break out of this dreaded cycle simply choose to let go of disapproving of yourself for having detrimental thoughts. Just consider whatever that enters your mind.

Of course, you would choose to just have positive ideas, however disapproving of your self or trying to alter what is, is counter-productive.

You have the alternative to take time off through the day and think that you've already accomplished your objective. Throughout those occasions, just be positive and really feel that you already accomplished what you've always dreamt of.

As you continually apply yourself throughout these set periods, you may find that your recurring ideas naturally shift to being constructive. You will be surprised that you do not have to try as hard since this occurs naturally.


Myth #2: Attracting anything anytime, is possible.

This is a difficult one. The reality is, energetically and vibration wise, you truly can attract anything you desire almost immediately.

Then again, so as to match up your vibration together with what you're wanting to draw needs a certain level of belief. Unfortunately, regardless of how much we may consciously force ourselves to believe something, our unconscious mind might have other ideas .

This is just a reality of having grown up in the world around us. Try not to fight this battle. You need to allow it to be part of life and deal with it.

So as to achieve something, it is much better to start with small goals. In doing so, you possibly can develop the process of truly believing you can achieve it then you could go for your greater goals. This will actually make things better.

Those are far away the two biggest and most detrimental myths on the subject of creating abundance. The next thing you should do after reading this article is to know how you have to battle those destructive ideas. And then, you ought to release these detrimental ideas.

Everyone is at liberty to be rich and I hope that this particular article will enable you to achieve your goals.

http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/crea ... bundance-0

[winston]

You Deserve Financial Distress (?) By Tom Justin

I was looking for something in my file cabinet today and pulled out this faded scrap of paper. I instantly remembered writing this on the beach at La Jolla California, many years ago.

It was a dark period financially and emotionally too. I needed at least $20,000 within the next month just to get caught up. Things seemed to be going wrong all around me.

I was in a rut. So I went to church on Sunday, something I hadn’t done for some time. The minister’s sermon, which I didn’t know in advance, was, “You Deserve Financial Success.”

Now, I’m not a very religious person within the man-made religions, but am a big time believer in God and prayer.

The latter I have treated like a forgotten relative at times. The former, an exercise that I know works but for some reason I fail to do for periods of time.

So, that Sunday I marveled at my excellent timing and maybe even prescience for showing up at this particular church in San Diego, which was over 150 miles from my home.

I had driven there on an impulse that morning because I especially liked the preacher, Terry Cole-Whittaker, and I needed some spiritual sustenance. I probably passed 500 churches on my way there. Why there?

There was a prayer box in the lobby. So I filled out my slip with a prayer that described my need for $20,000 within four weeks.

After church I drove to LaJolla, where I sat down on one of the most beautiful beaches and views in the world, and worried.

I thought about all that had gone wrong. All the mistakes I’d made. I focused on my lack of consciousness that led me to this place.

Then I heard a voice behind me that said, “You deserve financial distress.”

It was if all other sounds, the oceans, beach goers, helicopters and the breeze all stopped. Just that voice from someone right behind me.

I whipped around to see . . . nobody. At least nobody close enough to have said that so clearly to me.

I turned back quickly towards the ocean. All sounds were up full volume again, the kids, the surf, the laughing and my heart pounding.

That voice was so real, so vocal, right in my ear. And what did it mean?

Something else that was weird too. Though the voice was so absolute, yet I had no sense of it being male or female. But the words echoed through my mind and seemed to be bouncing right into my soul.

I shivered a moment in the warm air. Once I settled down, it took awhile, I began to think about it.

The minister said I deserved financial success. The voice said I deserved financial distress.

I walked for awhile, not seeing or hearing the beauty or sounds around me. How could I deserve financial distress? I wondered.

I walked back towards the village and stopped in a convenience store where I bought a writing pad. Then to a little cafe overlooking the beach.

While I don’t hear “voices,” I know that I’ve been directed in the past to do certain things. I know it was always my choice, and if my Intuitive Click was strong enough, I usually followed it.

So, I began to doodle on the pad. This process will often help me create an idea or find an AHA! I recall writing this first page, like a cover page.

“You Deserve Financial Distress (?)”

Then, on the next page I wrote the question, “Why do I deserve financial distress?” As soon as I wrote the question mark, I wrote this; “Because you had a choice. Distress or success. You chose to distress. So, you deserve what you choose. You always do. That’s the gift.”

Distress as a gift, I thought. But then, no, that’s not the message, the gift is choice. We always have a choice.

Not just in what we do but how we react before and after what we do. The gift is how we use our control mechanism. Do we act and react as a victim or do we product as a positive force for good, ours and that of others whom we touch?

In an instant the worry left me. I had a sense of completion of that “need” for $20,000 more dollars. Had I given it much critical thought I would have doubted it all.

What, no more worry? Completion? No stress about it?

Thankfully I didn’t think much about it.

Within days I got a new consulting client. The fee was $20,000 exactly. The previous events didn’t even hit me until I had the contract and check in my hands!

But all of this was not the lesson. The lesson was that I had to relearn the real lesson over and over. I have a choice. Every decision has a consequence, good or bad. Our subconscious is the driving force.We are the programmers of our subconscious. So, we can reprogram anytime, right?

I’m seeing stuff today from gurus and others in the Law of Attraction (LOA) work about “effortless success.” I’m sure they don’t mean no work needed, just effortless in mind and spirit.

It’s true. It can be very difficult to drop the “armor” of worry and distress. Somehow, those feelings almost seem protective. That’s like saying Heroin is okay for you because it makes you feel so good.

Maybe those feelings of “negative comfort” are God’s little test for us? I don’t know.

Of course, it’s not just financial, it’s all success from relationships to how we deal with our daily lives.

We deserve what we choose. So, if you’re not happy with what you’ve been deserving lately. I have a couple of ideas.

Here’s what I know. It worked for me then. I forgot about it, went through the same cycle later. Rediscovered it. It worked for me again. I forgot about it again. Recycle time, ad nausea.

So, today, when I discovered that single scrap of paper. “You Deserve Financial Distress (?)” it brought back that episode from when I first wrote it.

Now, here we are today. I relearn this lesson once again and share it here because that’s what I think I should do.

It’s so simple, I have to wonder why it was so difficult to maintain.

Now, thanks in part to you, I think I know how it will work better for me and for you. I’ll simply share this in a bigger way.

No other agendas. If this resonates with you, then I’m doing service. You can pass it on too. Let’s just keep reminding one another and pass it on.

Long ago I learned to listen to my intuition or my "Intuitive Click." I also learned what happens when I ignore. it.

http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/you- ... l-distress

[winston]

Shift your mindset around the concept of money and attract more
By Maria Martinez

What comes to mind when you think about “money”? I find that the concept of money and its significance varies from person to person depending on who you ask.

Overall, I think it is important to start SHIFTING our mentality about money. There is much written about money and its energy. In essence, the belief is that if you think of money in good terms, you will attract money.

Just a few things to ponder:

* Men and women have different concepts of money; women want the safety and security while men typically want to be providers. Hence, the different perspective.

* Some cultures and religions teach/associate money with sin or negativity; in reality if tracked down to its origins, many of these beliefs may actually be associated with power and control and not with money, itself.

* Money dictates the quality of life you live; the house you live in, the food you eat, the car you drive, the vacations you take, the clothes you wear, the schools your children attend and the activities you partake in, just to name a few.

* When you have money, you can still be who you are. You can help those around you, support the causes that you believe in and overall, be in charge of your situation.

So, when it comes down to, money is whatever you want it to be and means, whatever you want it to mean. Are you struggling with this idea? I know that you are not alone, but I want to share a couple of ways to start shifting your mentality around money and start realizing that you deserve a better quality of life…and there is nothing to be ashamed of!

1. Think like a millionaire; sounds silly but in reality you have to think like someone that enjoys abundance; it is the first way to start attracting and not appealing money.

2. Confront your own feelings about money; where are they rooted? What is your perception of money, or earning it and of spending it? Once you have control over those areas, you will be better able to make the amount of money that will support a better quality of life for you and those around you.

3. Start a series of positive statements around money; some ideas include: “I have all that I need,” “I am comfortable having money,” and “Everything I do supports my goal of making money.”

Shifting perspectives is of paramount importance when it comes to many values in our lives…we’ll discuss them together on this blog.


http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/shif ... tract-more

[winston]

You do not have to have money to attract money, but you cannot feel poor and attract money.

The key is, you have to find ways of improving the way you feel from right where you stand, before things can begin to change:
By softening your attention to the things that are going wrong, and by beginning to tell stories that lean more in the direction of what you want instead of in the direction of what you have got, your vibration will shift; your point of attraction will shift—and you will get different results.


--- Abraham


Source: abraham-hicks.com

[winston]

You cannot be less than you are now.

You cannot achieve a vibration that is less than the vibration that you have achieved.

That's why when someone achieves an empire and then something happens where it is lost or destroyed, they still have the vibration that they've achieved, and the empire will come back again—you see it all the time—because it is the vibrational status that the Universe is responding to, not the financial status.

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in Philadelphia, PA on Wednesday, May 7th, 2003 #658


Source: abraham-hicks.com