Three Warning Signs of Poverty Mentality
Three Warning Signs of Poverty Mentality
by Randy Gage
When was the last time you gave any serious thought to your
priorities, and where you expend your energy? Can you say with
certainty that you are completely focused on ‘abundance’ and not on ‘lack’?
I don’t think people are born with an abundance mentality or a
lack mentality. I think for many of us our priorities are the
result of subtle, subconscious ‘programming’ that determines our
approach to just about everything in life. Instead of being
programmed for success, most people are programmed to avoid
failure.
This programming controls how you react to hundreds of
situations, each and every day. And the way you react reveals
what your programming really is.
There are many different warning signs all around us that we are
suffering from lack programming or a poverty mentality, but none
of these red flags will be of any use until we open our eyes and
start looking for them.
Like posted traffic signs and speed limits, these warning signs
are there for our benefit, helping us raise awareness of our
programming. Three of the most common warning signs I see are
the following:
Warning sign #1: Constant Money Fixation What do you think about
money? When you do think about it, are you concerned about how
much of it you lack, or how much you can manifest? Have you ever
thought about why you want to manifest money in the first place?
Most poor people spend all their time thinking about money (or
more specifically, their lack of it). When I was younger and
broke, that’s what I did. I was fixated on money. I thought
about all the things I didn’t have and couldn’t get. And I was
very jealous of the people who had them.
Warning sign #2: "I Hate Rich People!" Being jealous of all the
things other people had that I didn’t help matters. Know where
it led? Jealousy soon turned to hate. Soon I hated all rich
people because they had what I wanted -- nice homes, exotic
cars, expensive clothes. That’s when the real problems started,
because as much as I hated rich people, I was working hard every
day trying to become one! That set the stage for a whole bunch
of internal conflict that I had no idea was going on.
I ended up surging forward to success, only to sabotage myself
every time I got close. I snatched defeat from the jaws of
victory more times than I can count.
I thought I was programmed for success, but was actually
programmed for poverty.
Warning sign #3: Fear-Based Decision-Making Making decisions based on fear of loss or failure never leads toward prosperity. In fact, fear-based decision-making can rob you of any sense of happiness or joy of success, and distort your behavior.
Have you ever seen someone experience more anguish at losing $10
than earning $100? Ever seen someone drive around a parking lot
for 10 minutes to avoid a one-minute walk to the store?
These scenarios are fear-based, not prosperity driven. The
decisions are not made on what the possible benefits are, but
made in order to avoid a possible negative outcome.
How do you know what kind of programming you have? If you really
want to know if you have prosperity programming or a poverty
mentality, look for your answer in the previous scenarios. Do
they sound familiar?
If you make decisions--particularly money and career ones--based
on the "moving away from fear" model, you’ve got poverty
programming. If your decisions are made based on a positive
"move toward prosperity" model, then you have success
programming.
What do you do if you test poverty programming?
You’re already doing it. Raise your awareness of your
programming and recognize it for what it is. Of particular
importance is regulating the influences you’re getting from the
TV shows and movies you watch, books you read, etc.
I applied the principles of a prosperity mentality, and you’d be
hard pressed to find anyone who has had a greater degree of
turnaround. This only happened because I was willing to confront
my weaknesses, discover and eliminate the insidious poverty
mentality I had, and replace it with positive programming. To
this day, I am ever vigilant, mindful of what I allow myself to
watch and listen to, and the people I associate with.
The more you experience success and prosperity, the more you’ll
start to realize how little they have to do with opportunity,
chance, luck--or even training, education, or skill. It has
everything to do with consciousness, beliefs, and even
subconscious programming that you aren’t aware of.
You see, poverty is not an absence of money and things -- it is
a mindset.
Prosperity is not an abundance of money and things--it’s also a
mindset.
When I began studying the laws that govern prosperity, I had to
get out of my comfort zone, face fears, and really examine my
belief system. It was hard work, and sometimes still is, but the
results are well worth the temporary discomfort. I share all of
this with you in the hope you too will benefit from its truth. I
want you to be healthy, happy, and rich!
--RG
For more than 20 years, Randy Gage has been helping people transform self-limiting beliefs into self-fulfilling breakthroughs to achieve their dreams. His motivational story of rising from a jail cell as a teen, to a self-made multi-millionaire has inspired millions around the world. To check out some of Randy's transformational works
check out his website RandyGage.com
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