In your pursuit of wealth don’t make money your aim. Money is good and lots of it but it shouldn’t be your aim. When you make money your aim you take the focus off the intrinsic value you bring to the table and place it on external conditions and circumstances. The pursuit of money alone may work in the short term but it will not give you the joy and satisfaction that you are ultimately seeking.
Have you ever heard someone make the statement, “I need to make some money fast”? If so, just remember when you hear this statement that the person who makes it has no clue on how to manifest money. First of all, you don’t make money, you earn money. Secondly, money is the by-product of providing either goods or services in the open market place. The better able you are able to bring to the market what they want, the more they will willingly pay you. So many people bring little value to the market place but they still expect to be paid millions of dollars. Where money is concerned the market place is the purest method to find how much value you are bringing.
As you get better what you do gets better. Becoming a more conscious human being should be your aim not money. When you incrementally improve who you are I can will guarantee that you will see a spike in income. Most people who desire to make more money or make money fast have not done anything to improve themselves yet they expect to get a bigger prize. They come from a place of entitlement rather than a place of service.
Currently you are getting the exact amount of money you deserve. Now that may seem like a harsh or unfair statement to many of you but when you delve deeper into the meaning you will find that much truth resides there. Money and self-worth are not synonymous terms. There’s no human calculator that can measure how much you’re worth. Where money is concerned I think it’s best to leave self-worth out of the equation unless you plan to use it to help you to be more and not as a measuring stick of how much money you should be earning.
There’s a way to incrementally improve whatever you do whether you are a garbage collector, postman or a waitress. Unfortunately, most people see what they do as merely a job rather than an adventure. An even bigger injustice is that most people see themselves as having little or no choice in what they do. You will never be able to earn lots of money or come close to being wealthy until you abandon such beliefs.
All the money you could ever desire lies in the ether all around you right now but you do have reach out and claim it. I believe that any amount of success is obtainable but it rarely happens chasing the money. Recently Steve Pavlina did a post on his blog entitled “Awesome Goals vs Crappy Goals” that is an excellent read. To me, awesome goals are not arrived at by making money the aim, instead you set and reach awesome goals because of who you decide to become in the process.
Is money your primary aim? What would happen if you decided to reverse engineer the whole process of earning money?
That’s my spin on it.
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