Now I know many of you are thinking “Of course Amit!”
But deep down do you really believe it?
Consider this…
At church yesterday our swami (our equivalent of a priest) went on a tirade against making money and getting rich. He defined greed as as striving to get anything beyond your “basics needs.”
He declared that it wasn’t enough that greed was on of the “seven deadly sins”, but you need to go out of the way to fight it. He went on to stay how “greed” (his definition) has caused nothing but bad and how poor people are happier than rich people, who he claimed suffered lots of stress and anxiety over all the money they have.
His best line “It’s more enriching to do without!” (Tell that to all the poor people worldwide living on less than a $1/day)
I almost barfed.
This is the same insidious message that much of organized religions has used for hundreds of years (particularly the middle ages) to keep people down - as long as people stay poor it’s easier to control them.
“Money is bad, rich people are evil. And it’s spiritual to be poor!” Right?
Nothing can be further from the truth. And no other message can be more harmful to your prosperity and self esteem.
If you’re wondering yeah, I’m WAY happier, way more fulfilled now that I’m wealthy and successful.
Beats scraping by on $1277/month, unable to support my wife (we got help from our parents) and living in a place the size of a walkin closet. There was NOTHING noble or spiritual about THAT!
And what’s cool is I’m making a positive impact on the world doing what I’m doing (as apposed to all the spammers and black hat affiliate in our industry who are selling people acai berry pills using fake blogs - that’s the type of greed that should be rightfully condemned).
Being rich beats being poor any day of the week.
It’s the drive to make money and create value that has lifted and continues to life much of the world out of abject poverty and has greatly enriched our lives (keep that in mind next time you pull out your iphone!). Even the non-profit world has realized this with the success of micro loans.
Of course you already know this, but here’s the problem….
Most people have been programmed with negative lack beliefs from a very early age. It’s in their subconscious.
So when they’re 25 and decide to become rich they very quickly hit a brick wall. If you deep down believe that money is bad and rich people are evil then your subconscious mind will sabotage any effort
you make towards getting rich. Afterall you don’t want to end up evil, selfish and unhappy do you….?
If you seriously want to become rich you’ll likely have to carefully examine the beliefs that you’ve been feed since you were young and carefully examine everything that you’re taking in (TV, movies, news, church, etc) and ask yourself how all of this is programming you.
YEAH programming! Everything you watch and listen to goes right in you subconscious mind and is programming you at some level.
The #1 reason most people fail to get rich is because they’re programmed with so many destructive anti-prosper beliefs that it stops em dead in their tracks. Seriously it’s sad to see so many people fail when we live in a country (increasingly in a world) with such abundant opportunity.
Yes there’s abundant opportunity RIGHT NOW even while we’re in the middle of an economic meltdown. If you don’t see it then you need to stop listening to all the doom and gloom mass hysteria about the economy. Outside factors have NOTHING to do with your prosperity…I’ll get more into that point later.
If you want to live a rich and prosperous life then start by questioning and think critically about all the messages and programming you’re being exposed to. I’m VERY careful what’s goes into my brain, and constantly keep my guard against negative programming.
Do you even know what you believe?
PS Deadline for PPC Coach applications are 11th of Feb. And if you’re just interested and getting time with me and not willing to put some serious work in, don’t bother sending in an application.
February 19th, 2009 by 
Amit 
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