Author: Steven Aitchison (399 Articles)
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A lot of people are poor thinkers, which will limit them when it comes to bringing money into their lives. By a ‘poor thinker’ I mean someone who thinks they are relatively poor and will never be anything more. Most people won’t even realise it.
Ask yourself, right now, how much you think you are worth in terms of your employment. I can almost guarantee you the figure you came to was based on your current salary. Now add a ‘0’ onto the end of the figure you came to; how does that make you feel? If you thought ‘there is no way I am worth that’, then you are a poor thinker.
This article will show you 10 ways to get out of the ‘poor thinker’ mode and open up a wealthy mindset.
- Get used to the higher figures in your life. You are surrounded by high figures; your mortgage, your car loan, your credit card statements, etc. These figures are all debt figures and are figures that you dread when you look at them. Now it’s time love the high figures, not the debt, just the figures. Ask yourself every day how you can pay off each debt, one at a time and learn to love making that £10,000 to pay off the loan, or that £15,000 to pay of your car loan. When you learn to love paying off your debt as quickly as possible you will be thinking in big numbers and get used to them. When your debt is cleared you will already be used to thinking big and start living the life you want.
- Think of 1 way every week to make an extra £10 per day. Believe me there are a million ways to do it; sell your old junk on eBay, write a report and start selling it, take your neighbours dog for a walk every day and many more, and much more creative than what I’ve just mentioned.
- Take action; don’t spend too long thinking about making that extra £10 per day, pick a few and take action, if it doesn’t work leave it and move on.
- Although it might not be possible to start socialising with wealthy people it is possible to start interacting with people who are taking action to become wealthy. These people are online and reside in a place called Forum City. Join a forum to start mixing with wealthy thinkers and wealthy action takers. These forums can be inspirational and get you thinking wealthy thoughts.
- Believe, truly believe, that you can become wealthy. Truly believing you can become wealthy takes a lot of hard work, especially if you have had the ‘poor thinking’ mindset for a long time. More than likely it started in childhood and continued on through adulthood, so don’t give up and keep believing and taking action to becoming wealthy.
- Become committed to becoming wealthy, don’t take it light heartedly. Wealthy people are thinking about building their wealth every day. Becoming committed means thinking about it often and taking action on those thoughts.
- Right now, you are worth more than you get paid from an employer. You are used to trading your time for someone else’s idea of how much your time is worth. It’s time to start setting your own rates. I don’t mean pack your job in and start a business. I mean start doing something on your terms and on your rates. If you think that your babysitting is worth £20 an hour instead of £5 per hour, set the new rates and start advertising.
- Becoming wealthy means giving up the time you spend watching TV, getting up early, and stop wasting time ‘faffing’ (faffing means wasting time doing insignificant activities).
- Becoming wealthy also means thinking wealthy thoughts. Get rid of the ‘faffing’ thoughts and concentrate more on how to make more money. I would rather think about living the life I want than thinking about what I watched on TV last night.
- Think long term when it comes to wealth. When you have started making money and getting used to the bigger numbers start making your money work for you both in the present and the future. Then when you have all bases covered start making your money work passively for you, meaning less input from you and more money.
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Thanks for the great article. We are going to start a journey on a boat for environmental research and education. Unfortunately we will need an income for this. We found that instead of dumping our entire savings (which by the way would still not be enough) that there are plenty of ways to make an income, especially online. We are trying very hard to find a few things that work for us. I am sure that these tips will work and help us out.
You mentioned eBay. We have found that Amazon is a really great place to sell stuff, especially books. We both kept our books from our College and University education. Those books were great sellers, some selling for more than what we bought them for. Check it out it could be a good money maker for someone like use who loves books and needs to get rid of a few.
This is truly a profound posting! Thanks so much for the inspiration, Brad
Excellent post. This is the kind of stuff that reminds us that we all have the ability to become wealthy. It takes work, but it isn’t out of reach. Thanks for this post, and for everything you do here at ChangeYourThoughts!
Hi Coach, good to see you back here. I have bought a few items from sellers on Amazon and it is a great way to get some extra income. Thanks for the comments and good luck with the boat trip.
Hi Etavitom, thanks for the comments. I have to say I am loving your site just now.
Hi Ibrahim, thanks for your comments on this. I really do believe everyone has the ability to become wealthy if we could change our thoughts. Thanks again.
Great article Steven! I would love to change your #7. Being an Entrepreneur has a potential to fast track your wealth creation. In addition, have an entrepreneurial mind set in most all other things in life. Always think of Return on Investment (be it investment of money, time, effort, etc)
The biggest mistake that people make is under valuing their what their time is actually worth. I think it was in “The Trick to Money” by Stuart Wilde was where I first read it, but if you want to get wealthy, immediately triple what you charge for your services! This simple concept changed my life. I was alway under charging for my services… (Dan by the way never had this problem, so he’s been really good for me in this area.)
Hi Steven,
I found this a great informative and inspirational post. Very simple and easy ideas to impliment.
Thank you.
at first I was going to type in here is ‘my 2 cents worth’. But then I thought….hey this thought isn’t worth 2 cents it’s worth a million, so here is my million dollars worth!
“you get back what you give” so the question is always, what extra can I give my employer or my client, that others don’t.
Edward
Great article! I think those kind of people are just contented with what they have in their lives.. they don’t aim for more! And another thing, they are lazy!
Great article Steve with some very sound and sensible advice, made even better by introducing the word faffing to the Americans that read here!
I used be that poor thinker. Thanks for helping get the message out. Many of us who were brought up in working class homes had no models for thinking about wealth. We need to find it from places like this and people like you.
I think most people are thinking on how they will become wealthy! But personally, having good values is what makes a person wealthy already…
Hi there
Thanks for this – superb article. It is all about mindset and motivation. We can do anything if we put our mind to it!
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Hey Steve,
very inspirational post.
thank you for this.
Cheers,
Chrissy
I think wealthy all the time. I’m still stuck at a dead end job doing the same thing that I did when I started. I’m a little frustrated, but what gives me motivation is the prospect of a new opportunity. I’m always someone who needs to be moving and doing something. As much as I want something like this I know that the possibilities of finding something like this are slim but I still have faith.
We have to be careful not to mistaken being rich for wealth. Wealth, in my opinion, is not measured by how much you have. Rather, it is measure by how many people you can share it with. A little naive and corny but thats the kind of thinking that gets me through the day.