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You
don’t have any money because you don’t have any money.
The rich
get richer and the poor get poorer. Why? Because there's a universal truth that
value, discipline, knowledge, time, and money attract more money. How does a poor person become rich? By giving value (working), using discipline
(spending wisely), getting a better education (continuously learning), waiting
for opportunity (time), and being prepared (saving).
Attributes of a Rich
person
|
Attributes of a Poor
person
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Wears warm clothes
in the winter
|
Has a warm house
|
Uses fans and open
windows in summer
|
Air conditioning
24x7
|
Drives a 10 year old
Honda civic
|
Leases a new car
|
Changes his/her own
oil
|
Gets service at the
dealership
|
Buys food in bulk,
cooks, and freezes
|
Eats take-out 12
times a week
|
Owns outright and
lives in a tent with no indoor plumbing (i.e. whatever it takes).
|
Rents a nice house
and allows grown family members to stay for free.
|
Gives time and
energy at every opportunity
|
Takes whatever is
not locked down
|
Works 60+ hours a
week
|
Works 22 hours a
week, or not at all.
|
Reads for an hour or
more a day
|
Buys lottery tickets
|
Listens to
motivational CDs, watches instructional DVDs
|
Has 187 channels on
cable and leaves the TV on 24x7.
|
Understands the joy
of hard work
|
Searches for a free
lunch
|
·
The
secret to long term healthy relationships is extremely low expectations.
·
If
you want peace in your relationships, love the ones who loves you, not the one
you choose.
·
Time
tells all things. After a period of time
when two people spend a lot of time together, there are no secrets and the true
inner character of each person is known to the other.
·
You
don’t know what you don’t know.
The tragedy
of wasted potential is present in all of us.
Each person evaluates his/her world through a filter built by the
experiences of his/her life. To change
your experience, you have to change your filter by changing what you feed your
mind.
People who
are very wealthy pay far less than you do (or nothing) for everything they buy
or control. You can’t be wealthy like
them because you don’t know what they know.
To learn what they know, you have to spend a lot of time making mistakes
and learning the hard way or get them to show you. They don’t publish books. You need to look for opportunities to help
them (for free) and do this for an extended period of time with no expectation
of return. At an unexpected time, one of
them will feel charity and tell you about opportunities you didn’t know existed
or send you in directions you didn’t know were available and it will make a 10
fold difference in your income.
·
You
have to prove yourself by being successful with small things before you will be
successful with big things.
·
God
loves orderliness and accurate measure.
He blesses people more when they organize his province and account for
it accurately.
·
Borrowed
money is poison. You don’t need it. It will only slow you down.
·
Every
change you make involves a measure of power and a measure of force.
When you
use power to accomplish something, the change is complete and will continue
when you are no longer present. Power is
liberating. It gives the ability to do
something and move on to something new without looking back.
When you
use force to accomplish something, there is an opposing force that seeks to
undo the change. The change will stand
only as long as the force is applied.
Force is enslaving. It drains
your energy.
Attributes of Power
|
Attributes of Force
|
By God’s mercy and
grace
|
Trying to fix it
yourself
|
Savings
|
Debt
|
Discipline
|
Diet
|
Effortless
|
Hard
|
Small steps
|
Radical change
|
Clear goal, plans,
and a budget
|
Out of control
spending, no end in sight
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This is an amazing testament to God's grace and wisdom! I love this and think I will use it a a reference in some of my seminars.
ReplyDeleteKaren
There's a whole lot of wisdom here!
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