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My experience with material wealth is admittedly limited - that’s the reason for this journey after all - but I’m quickly learning that the scarcity mindset (or poverty mindset) is perhaps the greatest obstacle to gaining wealth. We must be able to see ourselves rich before we can become rich.

So some of the things that we’ll have to face as we move ahead include the reasons behind the mindset of scarcity… the fear of never having enough, never getting, never being able to make ends meet. And the fear that strikes when we do see a slight glimpse of light in the darkness that we aren’t worthy of wealth.

But we are. Unless your plan for riches involves dishonest means to acquire money, you do deserve wealth. You deserve it. You familly deserves it. Just by being born onto this world of plenty, you’ve earned your share. Despite what some people say, we were not given the knowledge of our lives and deaths and the burden of consciousness in order to suffer. Suffering is not a natural state. Suffering is a symptom of disorder.

Getting out of the scarcity mindset involves more than we may realize. Shifting consciously to a mindset of abundance is only scratching the surface. As we move toward material wealth - even as we begin to think about wealth - we may be hit with any or all of the following: feelings of guilt; fear of losing what little we do have; fear of appearing selfish or even sinful; thoughts of unworthiness or ingratitude… this list goes on. Things that we can’t even imagine at this point may crop up, but I promise you, we will deal with them. And we will overcome them.

I want to share my weakness and failures as much as I do my successes. Our fears are given the most strength when we are unable to speak them. I plan to fail at times and from that failure I plan to learn exactly what to do so my next step will not fail.

I know I’ll be weak at times and by acknowledging that weakness and pushing through it, I will become strong.

I will do my best to avoid any prospect that smacks of “getting rich quick” because this kind of wealth is an illusion. Getting without giving cannot be sustained. If we haven’t learned to think rich, we probably don’t have the skills to maintain richness.

So much to deal with. But again, I make you the promise that as we live and learn and think ourselves rich, we will become able to overcome any doubts, setbacks or bogeymen that creep up on us in the night.

Today I want to end with the biggest misconception that many people have been led to believe: “Money is the root of all evil.” That statement is as close to a lie as you can get, but many people believe it. It’s a bitter pronouncement that deliberately takes the truth and attempts to fit to someone else’s belief. The full context of the quote is: “The love of money is the root of all evil.”

The love of money. Not the joy of being able to provide a comfortable and happy life for your family through the use of money. Not the knowledge that by giving you also receive. Not the use of money to better yourself, your neighborhood, your country, your world. The love of money as in collecting it as a means unto itself… as in doing anything, ethical or otherwise, to gain money. To store it and hoard it and gloat over it until it becomes an obession that excludes all else. This is the greed we are warned against, not our simple desires to improve our circumstances.

Money only has value when it is traded for something of value. And our true love must be based on our values. Money is nothing to love. What we do with it will be the true expression of our love.

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