Motivational Article (1), Your Attitude and your Money by Oma Edoja
With regard to money, what do you think and expect?
-To never have enough?
-To have to borrow?
-That it will never come to you?
-That you are not capable of earning enough?
-You have to do criminal things to be rich?
-Godly people cannot have money?
-There is none in this country; you have to leave for “greener pastures?”
Brian Tracy says, “When you confidently expect good things to happen, good things usually happen to you. If you expect negative things to happen to you, you are usually not disappointed.” Your situations mirror back to you what you expect. If your expectations and attitude toward money are negative, you will have an unpleasant money situation. The opposite is also the case.
To change your financial situation you will therefore need a different attitude to money. Money is a much-needed resource in this life. There is nothing evil about it. It is the love of money that engenders evil, not the money itself. You must be in control of your resources, not them in control of you. Focus on using money to bless yourself and others, not on the money itself. It is a means, not an end.
Anyone can have money if they will learn the rules to getting and keeping it. No one is destined to lack. We lack because we do not play the game by the rules. Incidentally, the rules for prosperity are laid down in God’s word, the Bible. See Dwight Nichols’ book in our listed Success Resources for Biblical principles to making and keeping money.
If you operate sound financial principles (budgeting, saving, investing your savings etc) it is because you expect this to yield positive results. Those who will not budget their expenses, learn to save money and invest it, or give charitably, do this because they do not expect any positive outcomes. And these are the very steps to managing and multiplying your money. You reap what you sow; healthy financial practices lead to healthy finances. Unhealthy practices lead to unhealthy finances.
Review the way you have handled your money in the past. Have you handled it respectfully, as a seed capable of multiplying, or with disdain – after all, it never “stays with you,” you never have enough of it, it hasn’t been “fair” to you.
The way you store your currency notes also reflects your attitude towards money. Incidentally, those who squeeze money into their pockets, write phone numbers on it, hold it with soup-stained fingers, are the same ones who complain that they never have enough! Watch men and women of means and you will find their money placed flat inside a wallet or purse, counted carefully, and handed to others, not thrown around, all crunched up.
What is your attitude to money? What money habits have you been practicing? How do you handle currency notes? Whether you believe it or not, this all works together to determine how much of it you have. And come to think of it, if you were money would you stay where you were ill-treated? I think that deserves some thought!
Copyright 2005 Oma Edoja
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-To never have enough?
-To have to borrow?
-That it will never come to you?
-That you are not capable of earning enough?
-You have to do criminal things to be rich?
-Godly people cannot have money?
-There is none in this country; you have to leave for “greener pastures?”
Brian Tracy says, “When you confidently expect good things to happen, good things usually happen to you. If you expect negative things to happen to you, you are usually not disappointed.” Your situations mirror back to you what you expect. If your expectations and attitude toward money are negative, you will have an unpleasant money situation. The opposite is also the case.
To change your financial situation you will therefore need a different attitude to money. Money is a much-needed resource in this life. There is nothing evil about it. It is the love of money that engenders evil, not the money itself. You must be in control of your resources, not them in control of you. Focus on using money to bless yourself and others, not on the money itself. It is a means, not an end.
Anyone can have money if they will learn the rules to getting and keeping it. No one is destined to lack. We lack because we do not play the game by the rules. Incidentally, the rules for prosperity are laid down in God’s word, the Bible. See Dwight Nichols’ book in our listed Success Resources for Biblical principles to making and keeping money.
If you operate sound financial principles (budgeting, saving, investing your savings etc) it is because you expect this to yield positive results. Those who will not budget their expenses, learn to save money and invest it, or give charitably, do this because they do not expect any positive outcomes. And these are the very steps to managing and multiplying your money. You reap what you sow; healthy financial practices lead to healthy finances. Unhealthy practices lead to unhealthy finances.
Review the way you have handled your money in the past. Have you handled it respectfully, as a seed capable of multiplying, or with disdain – after all, it never “stays with you,” you never have enough of it, it hasn’t been “fair” to you.
The way you store your currency notes also reflects your attitude towards money. Incidentally, those who squeeze money into their pockets, write phone numbers on it, hold it with soup-stained fingers, are the same ones who complain that they never have enough! Watch men and women of means and you will find their money placed flat inside a wallet or purse, counted carefully, and handed to others, not thrown around, all crunched up.
What is your attitude to money? What money habits have you been practicing? How do you handle currency notes? Whether you believe it or not, this all works together to determine how much of it you have. And come to think of it, if you were money would you stay where you were ill-treated? I think that deserves some thought!
Copyright 2005 Oma Edoja
To return to main page please click BACK in your browser.
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