Reasoning With Staying Power
The last time we talked we talked about how those excuses that deny money and wealth are just justifications for poverty. They’re pretty prolific justifications, too, but if you want to improve your life, find the freedom that wealth brings, and be in true control of your life and time, you need to understand that these justifications are just excuses, and that they’ll always keep you down.
Where’s The Staying Power?
For this discussion, let’s consider that one of the hallmark characteristics of an excuse versus a real reason is that an excuse does not have any staying power. Excuses come and go, and only serve their purpose for a short, fleeting time, just to make us feel better for a little bit. A reason is something more lasting, something steadier, which may need to be overcome (and of course it can be). Now, if saying things like “money doesn’t matter to me,” or “who needs money,” or “money is evil,” of “money changes people,” were a real reason that really represented and truly justified your true feelings about money and wealth, then those ‘reasons’ would work for you a lot longer than they do.
How long does that type of justification last, though? How long after you use such a line to convince yourself that you are happy does the comfort that you’ve created by saying it last? Or was there ever any comfort?
Here Today, Gone Today
When we say things like this and deny the fact that we really do want money and wealth, it never lasts long, does it? Usually these things only last about as long as it takes to get out of the house, or face the next bill, or need to go back to work to a job of paid slavery.
I would argue that if we really didn’t need or want money then these flimsy excuses would last much longer—they’d carry us through our days and we’d live happily in our lives. But we don’t. We live discontentedly and wish for something more, something better. But there is no need to wish for wealth, when all the wealth-building tools you need to achieve it are right inside your head.
Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 – 2009
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