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The level of your thinking is directly proportional to the level of your wealth. If you got out of bed in the morning and went to work because you wanted to, you are in control of money. If you got out of bed in the morning because you had to, money is in control of you.
Across the world, 99% of the population is being controlled by money. The effect is a lack of money. The cause is thinking. Albert Einstein once said, “a problem cannot be solved at the level of consciousness in which it occurs.” Knowing this, champions raise their level of consciousness by studying how the world class creates wealth.
Role of Formal Education
The middle class believes formal education is the answer to acquiring wealth, yet very few academics are wealthy. They seek advanced degrees and certifications and are confounded when these things don’t bring them riches. While the great ones are strong advocates of higher education, they don’t believe it has much to do with acquiring money.
The middle class trades time for money. The world class trades ideas that solve problems for money. Money flows like water from ideas. The middle class often scorns the world class out of frustration over a lack of money. Ideas and it’s execution, this is such a simple concept that the majority misses it.
The poverty class talks about the past; the middle class talks about other people, and the world class talks about ideas. Professional performers know money doesn’t care which direction it flows. They know the world will bend over backward to make them rich if it will help them solve their problems.
What About a Million-Dollar Opportunity!
About 150 years ago, Karl Marx was sure the working class, as a whole, would rise up and overcome oppression if they had a chance. What Marx didn’t figure into the equation was the poverty-driven thought process of the people. Give people operating at middle-class consciousness a million-dollar opportunity, and they will find a way to make it back to the middle class. It is where their limited self-image tells them they belong. The difference has nothing to do with reality. It’s all perception in the mind of the performer.
If you want to become wealthier, begin by raising your self-image by upgrading the self-talk you use regarding money and finances. If all you do is chase more money, you are simply attacking the effect. The cause is how you think, and if you improve the cause, the effect will take care of itself.
You might have heard or read news related to popular TV show winners. They become winners with a hefty amount of money but within five years of time, the majority of them come to their original level. It became almost impossible for them to expand their thinking in line with their winning amount. Their mind especially, the subconscious mind provides various ways to spend their extra money (winning prize) to prove the correctness of their original consciousness about money i.e. their limiting belief about money.
“Wealth is the product of a man’s capacity to think” – Ayn Rand
Middle Class vs. World Class
- The Middle Class competes — the World Class creates.
- The Middle Class avoids risk — the World Class manages risk.
- The Middle Class lives in delusion — the World Class lives in objective reality.
- The Middle Class loves to be comfortable — the World Class is comfortable being uncomfortable.
- The Middle Class has a lottery mentality — the World Class has an abundance mentality.
- The Middle Class hungers for security — the World Class doesn’t believe that security exists.
- The Middle Class sacrifices growth for safety — the World Class sacrifices safety for growth.
- The Middle Class operates out of fear and scarcity — the World Class operates from love and abundance.
- The Middle Class focuses on having — the World Class focuses on being.
- The Middle Class sees themselves as victims — the World Class sees themselves as responsible.
- The Middle Class slows down — the World Class calms down.
- The Middle Class is frustrated — the World Class is grateful.
- The Middle Class has pipedreams — the World Class has vision.
- The Middle Class is ego-driven — the World Class is spirit-driven.
- The Middle Class is problem-oriented — the World Class is solution-oriented.
- The Middle Class thinks they know enough — the World Class is eager to learn.
- The Middle Class chooses fear — the World Class chooses growth.
- The Middle Class is boastful — the World Class is humble.
- The Middle Class trades time for money — the World Class trades ideas for money.
- The Middle Class denies their intuition — the World Class embraces their intuition.
- The Middle Class seeks riches — the World Class seeks wealth.
- The Middle Class believes their vision only when they see it — the World Class knows they will see their vision when they believe it.
- The Middle Class coaches through logic — the World Class coaches through emotion.
- The Middle Class speaks the language of fear — the World Class speaks the language of love.
- The Middle Class believes problem-solving stems from knowledge — the Wold Class believes problem-solving stems from will.
(Content Credit to ‘177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class’ by Steve Siebold)
