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A hefty toolbox full of tools is essential to developing your money mind (aka: the mindset of the rich) and one of the most important tools you can acquire is a strong sense of optimism.

This doesn’t mean ignoring reality. It doesn’t mean just happily thinking everything will turn out fine no matter how much effort or planning you put into life. Optimism means expecting the best from yourself and the Universe and not accepting anything less.

Tom Butler-Bowdon says, “Optimism is power.” Claude Bristol referred to it as “the magic of believing.” How many truly successful people can you think of who didn’t have the belief that they could succeed, even when faced with the prospect of failure?

I can hear some of you thinking right now, “But I wasn’t born an optimistic person” or “Nothing in my life has given me reason to be optimistic.” Well, that’s why you’re here reading this blog, isn’t it? Because you didn’t get the silver spoon, right? Me neither. But optimism is the same as money, you don’t have to be born with it and you don’t already have to have it to get it. You can give yourself optimism no matter what your life up to this point has been.

Look at optimism like a mindset or a muscle; to make yours strong and get the most power from it, you have to develop it and exercise it. The more you use it, the more you’ll realize you can depend on it. But optimism is one thing you shouldn’t take baby steps with. Optimism is magic and if you’re going to believe, you might as well believe big. Expect the best, because if you don’t set your sights high enough, your motivation probably won’t be strong enough to see you through setbacks.

True, it’s hard to hold onto optimism when times are tough, but that’s precisely when you need to cling to it the most. Think of your climb to wealth as climbing a cliff and optimism as your rope. If you’re really out on that cliff and your foot slips, do you let go of the rope? Not a chance. You grab on even tighter. It’s your lifeline. You can’t let go without falling. You can’t let go and continue to climb.

Creating a wealthy mindset takes tools; optimism is just one of them.

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Overcoming a scarcity mindset is an important aspect of the Thinking-Rich blog and I’ve been posting more on that lately after checking search stats to see what readers are looking for when they come here.

But I’m disturbed by the number of people who search for guidance on becoming rich, finding abundance or overcoming their scarcity mindset by using the search term “unworthy.”

I can’t say this enough - and you can’t say this enough to yourself and others - no one is unworthy of abundance.

Another wealth related quote by Sidney Madwed may help:

To be healthy, wealthy, happy and successful in any and all areas of your life you need to be aware that you need to think healthy, wealthy, happy and successful thoughts twenty four hours a day and cancel all negative, destructive, fearful and unhappy thoughts. These two types of thought cannot coexist if you want to share in the abundance that surrounds us all.

Two points are very strong here:

• “… cancel all negative, destructive, fearful and unhappy thoughts.” This includes any thoughts or feelings of being unworthy, not good enough, or somehow wrong to accept wealth and abundance.
• “… the abundance that surrounds us all.” That’s right - all of us are surrounded by abundance.

That even includes people society may feel shouldn’t be worthy. People that take advantage of others, people who truly hate others, thieves, killers, tyrants, dictators … all of us are surrounded by the same abundance.

If Universal abundance is available to people we consider evil, how much more will the Universe offer us as we try to do good in our lives? The decision of worthiness has already been made. It’s not up to us to decide if we’re worthy or not. It doesn’t matter what our parents, neighbors, enemies, governments, or anyone else thinks; they have no influence on what the Universe has already made available to us.

Please keep this in mind. Doubt will creep in at times no matter how hard we try to push it away. Let it come, but don’t let it affect you. Let it come and let it flow over you and not into you. Cancel the thought by letting it go and then learning to ignore it; by fighting it, you only give it power. Reach for your strength and remember what the Universe has already set aside for you.

You are worthy.

You have always been and always will be worthy.

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When you have too much month for your paycheck, then what you need to do is realize that there is abundance all around you and focus on the abundance and not your lack and as night follows day abundance will come to you.
Sidney Madwed

A scarcity mindset is perhaps the number one reason most people don’t achieve wealth.

If you have a scarcity mindset, you can overcome it. It won’t be as easy as changing jobs or learning a new skill to start your own business. When you gain a skill or a better job, if you haven’t lost the limiting effects of your scarcity mindset, you’ll soon be dragged back down to focusing on what you lack instead of what you’ve gained.

So how do you change a mindset? You can start by examining where it came from. You weren’t born with it. As you developed in your mother’s womb, you were more than likely provided evrything you needed. In fact, if your mother wasn’t taking in the vitamins and nutrients you needed to develop, those that were available would be taken from her body and given to you. You were protected from scarcity to every extent possible.

But once you left that “you-centered” world, things may have been different in a hurry. You may not have received the comfort you needed as soon as you felt you needed it. You may not have received enough nutrition, attention or mental stimulation. Fortunately, most of us were not deprived as babies or as we grew into toddlers.

It’s when you started becoming more and more aware of the outside world that the concept of scarcity came to your awareness. Maybe you started hearing people say they couldn’t afford this or that. You listened as they discussed what a waste of money certain things were. Maybe you started to hear that your family was poor or couldn’t keep up with the Joneses, couldn’t make ends meet or didn’t start out with the same privileges others did.
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