What is Poverty? Can It Really Be Measured By Income - or The Lack of t?
As they say, poverty does not start from the pocket; it begins from the mind.
That’s to say, for one to be rich (physically, to what people refer to as richness) one must firstly fill one’s mind with virtues, thoughts, in line with the kind of lushness one desires.
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| Ideas are conceived in the mind |
Fact; at every age, everyone – big or small, old or young, male or female, has the capacity to draw wealth from its source. It’s been proven that the source of every wealth is like sealed well full of fortunes, unlocked destinies and yet to discover greatness.
Therefore, your age does not limit your future but your mind, hence the late Napoleon Hill said:
“Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve regardless of how many times you may have failed in the past.”
Believe it, your mind is the bedrock of your wealth. Use it well, imagine big, think fabulous, and aspire profusely.
If your mindset is not right, then you will not fully succeed at what you want to achieve.
If you don’t believe that you will be successful, then your mind will find a way to prevent that success from ever happening.
Our mind is a machine complex than a computer which works 24/7 and reacting on whatever we see and whatever we want to believe.
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| The size of our dreams matters |
It’s not only about imagining and thinking; it’s about believing as well. And, this is where so many people get it wrong. If you don’t believe, you can achieve something your negative thoughts will make sure you don’t achieve. In fact, if you’re like the average person, chances are you won’t even try something new if you think you won’t be successful.
Often time, new self-help gurus tell people not to worry about the size of the thing they want (to achieve) since size does not matter to the Universe. Hell No! This is where they get it wrong. Size may not matter to the Universe but it matters to me and you, in our daily living, especially when our aspirations are at stake! We got to think big and dream large. In this context, the size of our dreams counts, of eminent significant and must be immense enough to house all our aspirations.
For example, one can spend the whole year trying to attract a new Ferrari but unless he believes that it’s possible, he is not going to succeed buying it. Even, he may say positive affirmations to the effect that he’s already own the car to the extent of cutting out pictures of the car and stick them on the walls of his room. He may visualize how he’s driving the car on the way to visit his girlfriend. He may also experience feelings of joy and happiness when thinking about the car, telling himself that the car is already his and waiting for the Universe to deliver it. But, the right question here is 'does he really believe it'?
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| know the tune of your conscious and unconscious mind |
You see, it’s often easy to believe something with our conscious mind. We always want to believe it. But, unless we believe it with our unconscious mind as well, we do not really believe it. The problem is that in most cases we have no idea when our conscious mind and unconscious mind is not in tune with each other. The best way of knowing that they are not in tune is when we don’t get what we want.
Your conscious mind may want to think that you already own a Ferrari and that you are just waiting for the Universe to manifest the car, while your unconscious mind believes that you will never own a Ferrari and that you should rather focus on getting a good used Toyota Celica. So, size matters to your unconscious mind! Deducting from this few points, one could simplify that our unconscious mind plays a bigger role in achieving our dreams than our conscious mind, so we must cautiously guide and guard our mind with all diligence.
Remember, that the mind – your mind, my mind, can go as far as you can stretch it. Meaning that whatsoever your mind can imagine (without doubt) is achievable.
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| Conceived Ideas? Don't Doubt It |
So, stop settling for average, that’s not sign of excellence oriented mind. Yes, don’t you dare accept excuse for an answer; for it’s the sole sign of mediocrity, a visible indication of mental weakness and it’s no less than
poverty of the mind, emptiness.
Build your ‘I can do mentality’ today. It’s the true spirit required in every field of life. No manager or employer in his/her right mental state would dare employ one or want to have such a person of poor mind in his organisation.
Meditatively, how much mind exercise do you do every day?
Have you ever heard that "the human mind is poor by doubt but rich by faith"?
Certainly, when you stretch your mind, it gets you to things and places no one else has ever imagined. That’s when it gives you the results that you desire.
Do you think that the principle of “seed time and the harvest time” – Genesis 18:22, will change because of the poor state of your mind? Better wake up. For where you are today is a product of your mind and where you will be tomorrow is still the product of your mind.
Keeping the product of your mind constant, fast-track; time flies, years go by, age changes, the result you will get – your position then, would be the same with today.
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| Only renewed mindset can give you a new result |
Reason, the result you get in life – your life gives to you, is proportional to the seed(s) you’ve sown in your mind. No man reaps what he did not sow. It’s unnatural, impossible to harvest from the field that you didn’t not cultivate in (except by miracle which I believe) lest you are dubious; a thief.
Thus, if you see yourself in the sky tomorrow, you are right, that is where you will be. If you still see yourself stuck around many excuses, you are still right as well and that is where you will be. You have to aim fatly, target higher and work diligently to attaining it.
Always remember that there is no known law that restricts one from thinking big. What is required of us is simply opening our minds, our inner-eyes to seeing lots of possibilities. The potential of greatness is in me and in you, hence the adage "there is drop of greatness in every man".
Does your mind have functionality limit? Does it obey the scientific law of elasticity? Or is there any point in your life when you can’t stretch it further to reasoning, imagining, dreaming, and visualizing the big pictures of life?
Explicitly, the main thing that stands in your way of getting what your conscious mind wants is your limiting beliefs. And, "unless you address your limiting beliefs, your unconscious mind will veto what your conscious mind would like to believe". Your unconscious mind needs a complete scrutiny whenever you find yourself in this kind of scenario. Subject it to thorough check; inspect it prudently and examine it painstakingly at all times until it does no longer cogitate to that pessimism.
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| Positive Mindset Redefines your life |
One good way of getting in touch with your limiting beliefs is to take a blank piece of paper and draw a line down the centre of the page. On the left side of the page write down as many reasons as you can think of why that Ferrari you want is already yours, and on the right side of the page write down as many reasons as possible why you won’t be driving that Ferrari any time soon. The reasons on the right side of the page are your limiting beliefs and unless you are able to address them, you are going to find it very hard to manifest a new Ferrari.
Please note that limiting beliefs are, more often than not, not valid reasons why you can’t get what you want. Funny, we all have our own set of limiting beliefs and in most cases these limiting believes were transferred to us by our parents, our teachers and we have been carrying them about like cross with us for years without even knowing it.
Here is one of my own limiting beliefs that I got as a child from my father: “It is not for us.” He often use to say this when I remarked about the things other people have than we don’t have. Is it an absolute truth? No! But, only when I realized that I can also have a nice car and a huge house, and that I don’t have to settle for less because of who I am did I manage to dissolve this limiting belief that I carried with me from my early childhood.
As Napoleon Hill rightly put, "what your mind can conceive and believe it can achieve". Take note of your limiting beliefs and see them for what they are. Once you can overcome your limiting beliefs, your conscious mind and your unconscious mind can be in tune and you can achieve that which you can conceive and believe.
