The Road to Riches is Paved by Your Mind

America is truly the golden land of opportunity. For over two centuries, men and women have been immigrating to this great land seeking to make names for themselves. American history is full of stories about those whom, through hard work and patience, paved their own way from rags to riches.

You and I both know that you're looking for the same thing. Everyone wants to make money. It's desirable to have the means to both look after yourself and your loved ones. Unfortunately, not everyone is born with the knowledge necessary to get ahead in life. That's where I come in, along with this blog.

I'm here to help you. But I can’t promise you this success. The fruits of prosperity never come in an instant. The labor put forth to produce those fruits is entirely in your own hands. All I can do is motivate you with my own knowledge and experience and perhaps give you some of the great tips that have led to my own personal success.

Creating wealth is much like constructing a building. There has to be a basic structure but what's primarily important is the foundation that you lay. The foundation to building wealth is the development of your own personal outlook on the world around you.

I’m sure you've heard that before from other motivational writers and speakers. It's very true. The only limit upon the wealth you can earn lies within what you choose to believe about the reality around you.

You must decide at the outset the answer to a question that is purely a matter of choice. Which do we live in -- a Malthusian world of limited wealth or a world of abundant prosperity?

I wouldn't dare answer that question for you. I've got my own answer to that question which defines my own reality, but it'd simply be out of place for me to define your paradigm for you. All I'll say is that if wealth is limited and money making opportunities are both risky and few and far between, then your ability to prosper and make your fortune is severely hampered. If you believe in a world of limited wealth, I can't help you. That wealth is obviously spoken for. I guess some of us just lucked out in the wealth game and the rest are doomed to scraping together their existence from our table scraps.

In such a scenario, there just isn’t much material with which to build your foundation and you might be better off sticking to your boring 9 - 5 job, whatever it may be. There is no shame in that.

If, however, you are willing to live in a reality of ample prosperity, where opportunities exist wherever you are willing to make them, then there is hope! The next step for you is a very big one. It'll sound very hokey, but it's quite necessary for a wide variety of reasons.

Just do it and don’t ask questions… don’t even entertain questions for a second.

Close your eyes and imagine the wealth you desire. Imagine yourself living in the house of your dreams, sitting on the couch of your dreams watching TV on the big plasma TV screen of your dreams. Your son or daughter calls - they need you to pick them up from school. You walk out to your garage, in which sits the car of your dreams. You pull out into the driveway, stopping for a second to appreciate your beautiful yard… as you pull out into the road, the mechanical gate shuts behind you.

You get the idea.

You have to imagine the wealth you desire, but that’s only the first half of this step. The second half is that you must force yourself to realize that this wealth already belongs to you! It's yours, even as you read this blog entry! The trick is that you must accept that all you have imagined really belongs to you. It might not be in your possession right at this very minute, but you have to open your eyes and see that it's truly yours!

God WANTS for you to have your hearts desire. The catch, however, is that it can't simply drop these things in your lap. Due to some hidden clause in the Contract of Life, you have to be both willing and able to receive what God wants to give you. I’m not going to get into details, but it’s not as simple as God inspiring some wealthy stranger to write you a check for several million at random… the intricacies of THAT occurring are far too complex.

Instead, what's required is that you help things along. Your goal, in making wealth, is to find ways to enable God to funnel your wealth to you. This isn’t about getting rich - it’s about enabling the world to give you that which is rightfully yours.

If you take that to heart, this blog will certainly be an aid to you in your journey. If it is simply beyond the bounds of what you are willing to accept as your reality, however, then perhaps that reality is just not for you.