Through evolving our perceptions, attitudes and actions, naturally our financial situation will also be affected.
Financial freedom is opposite financial dependence, a symptom of which is living a "check to check" existence.
Passive or portfolio income is often equated with the "American Dream". But for the average Jane or John "Q" Public, investing enough to achieve our dream is seemingly beyond our immediate means.
However, people have often become rich in their spare time... at their kitchen table or in their garage.
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If you are starting life with very little and want to retire young and at the rich or ultra-rich levels, you will most likely need to forsake job security and take the "fast train".
In order to take the fast train, a person will need an open mind, "high speed" ideas and better business and investment education.
In other words, these people will need to operate from a different mental context and content than that of the masses.
Or perhaps it's a matter of financial education.
It is only our consistent thoughts about it that have limited our access to money. We are not denied money by "other people, "the "system" or anything like that.
So many of us find it uncomfortable evolving beyond our current personal reality... the contexts in which we hold our lives, and the content which fills our minds.
Taking on bigger financial challenges is often risky. Most people wrestle all their lives with financial problems they feel "comfortable" with. "They remain poor but pretty swans rather than risk becoming an ugly duckling again" in acts of financial trial and error.
To get rich quicker, it is a matter of going beyond the comfort of your current realities and into the realm of new possibilities for your life.
An entrepreneur builds teams that take on problems that no one individual can do on his or her own.
The reason most people remain small is because they solve problems they can solve themselves.
So an entrepreneur takes on tasks that require a team.
An entrepreneur does not get paid unless his or her team is successful.
Network marketing organizations for example offer a powerful tool in this same context to average people like you and me.
A willingness to make mistakes (and perhaps look "ugly" doing so) is a must. It is the only way that thorough learning takes place... learning which takes us from conscious incompetence to "second nature" knowing or unconscious competence with respect to our fiscal education.
Playing it safe and working to save a "nest-egg" can cost you a lifetime.
And what's really important from a self improvement and evolving values standpoint is the person you become while striving for financial freedom, while becoming worthy (in your own eyes) of such success.
Its when you drop those feelings of unworthiness that financial freedom "becomes" you.
Be willing to make changes and be flexible. Consider financial advice that may seem counter intuitive.
Be willing to drop the poor person's mentality.
Financial freedom is a symbol of becoming someone capable of achieving their dreams.
Place emphasis on becoming, on the value of personal development, and financial freedom becomes effortless.
Many people run from mom and dad's shelter to the shelter of a company or the government.
Many expect someone else to take care of them, or be responsible. That is why they seek job security.
Too many people spend their lives looking for guarantees and spend all their lives avoiding risks, avoiding growing up and looking for a surrogate parent to take care of them.
The faster we grow up and face reality, the better.
In the Information Age more of us need to grow up and grow away from old industrial ideas of expecting someone else to be responsible for our job security and financial security.
Growing up is a lifelong process, a process that many people are avoiding by still seeking job security and financial security provided by someone else.
Our perception of money rules our accumulation and use of it. Scarcity and lack needn't be a part of your financial picture... despite how circumstances appear.
Think of money as free flowing abundance and it will find its way to us much more easily.
Money has no emotions or judgments but we have many emotions and judgments about it. Our beliefs about money are handed to us by well meaning parents, teachers, preachers and society in general. But how many of them enjoy financial freedom?
The type of occupations we have, the way in which we get paid (salary, commissions, fees, etc.) and the amount of money we earn are direct reflections of the quality of our consistent financial thoughts. "They are direct reflections of the blend we make between our empowering financial thoughts and our limiting ones. It is the balance between them that we settle for."
I'm reminded of the bi-aural beats of today's audio-enhanced meditation. One audio "frequency" is introduced into one ear and another, slightly altered frequency into the other creates a "standing" (brain) wave phenomenon. "Entraining" behaviors and decisions is the result in this case, not just brain waves.
We all have empowering and limiting financial thoughts and the amount of money we make tends to land at the balance point between the push and pull of these opposing forces.
We've all heard the adage, "A hard days work for an honest day's pay. this is a financial prison.
There are only so many hours in the day so trading hours for a paycheck will only take you so far. We must make our money work for us.
As the limiting thoughts fade and the empowering thoughts gather momentum, our financial awareness, decisions, attitudes, etc. bring new opportunities into focus
Most people try and solve their financial problems with what they know, rather than expand what they know so they can solve a bigger problem. Self perpetuating, passive income producing opportunities can be easily found as a result.
We know we are capable of becoming much more, we just don't do it. Working jobs we don't particularly like cause us stress, ulcers, etc. Financial freedom means relief from that.
We have been conditioned to solve our problems with our left brains - to figure out the "how-to's" first and then proceed toward our achievements. But it's our right brains that find the creative solutions. These are the solutions that count.
We all have limiting thoughts standing between us and financial freedom. As we become aware of them, an entirely new self-image shows up.
As our limiting thoughts surface and are addressed, we begin to perceive ourselves as "credible" and worthy of financial freedom. A sense of congruence results as we find ourselves taking bigger actions.
This realization came for me in the form of finding this website at the top of the search engines listed ahead of those I consider mentors and wise men and women. Imagine that. Little 'ol me!
But I had long considered myself to be on their "level". These concepts, beliefs and opinions have changed my life (and continue to).
I felt (and still feel) I bring a unique perspective to these topics. It's my desire to be a respected advisor and share these insights with others.
Change begins with thoughts and beliefs. This is true whether we want to change social structures or our own income.
"Let it be easy" is an "EFT" mantra that I appreciate.
Easy money isn't a myth, but it requires changes in our thoughts, actions and attitudes toward money.
The person getting ahead the fastest is the person who seeks to have both his or her context expanded and content increased by tried and true financial education.
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