by Thomas Baskin

Created on: September 17, 2010

There are millionaires created everyday through a variety of avenues. How many times have you asked yourself “why can't I be wealthy?” Especially in these economic times, we wish that there was a way we could become rich over night besides winning the lottery. The reason why most of us are not rich is because we were not given the tools to become rich.

“Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and u feed him for a life time” From the day we are born, we are taught a lot of things and being rich is not one of them. Education is the first step in anything we do. Plain and simple we are not taught enough about finances to go out and make ourselves rich. We are not taught about how money works in the world, therefore we do not truly know what to do with money to make ourselves wealthy.

“A man is but a product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes”. If you think you have low self esteem, you do. If you think you are always broke, you are. If you think you can never get a date, you won't and if you think you can never be wealthy, you will never become. Even wealthy people go through stretches of bad but they can see the positives instead of the negatives. Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

“The people, who risk nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow.” For every wealthy person that has worked to become wealthy, there have been risks that they have had to take in order to get there. Where there is risk, there is reward and sometimes that reward maybe how to avoid the next risk. Understand that all risk is not created equal and you should be well aware of what risk you want to take but doing nothing and expecting something will get you nowhere.

“To love what you do and feel that it matters, how could anything be more fun?” Do you think wealthy people got where they are today because they don't like doing it? People chase money and end up in jobs that they hate to even do. That's not creating wealth. That's just making money to pay the bills.

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