YOU ARE RICH-JUST DEAL WITH IT!

"Why can't I be rich?" This is the wasted warble of almost everyone I know. Oh, correction...this is the wasted warble of everyone I know that has no sense of him or herself or his or her inherent richness. Granted more money for someone who is accustomed to being poor can mean a greater sense of peace and personal security and I am even prepared to believe that on some level more money can translate into some sort of perceived "happiness," But in all honesty, without a person having some true sense of his or her own emotionally rich and highly individualized identity, the highly sarcastic inquiry of "why can't I be rich?" will only have you perceived as "negative" by your neighbors and will make the financial status that you so-much-struggle- for seem impossible to attain.

Why can't you be rich? YOU CAN! You just have to change your perception of what "richness" truly is and be prepared to bask in its wonder until you can come up with creative, practical, and true-to-oneself ways to achieve the financial richness that you so desire.

But realize that the financial richness is only achieved through a creative mind that is coupled with genuine hard work and a true drive and momentum to carry things through. Also realize that financial richness is low on the totem pole compared to the glory and grandeur of emotional strength of character and that all happiness on every level in inexorably intertwined. This means basically first things first. Center. Focus. Be. Come Into Oneself. Then Prosper. Always.

Without a willingness to slow down and to accept that you alone cannot control the order of how "richness" is actually attained, it is highly improbable that you will live to see a time in your life when you actually attain it. And without a willingness to fully accept what you already have versus what you wish you could have, you will always carry with you a sort of stoic anomie that will be an automatic inhibitor to all the joy that is truly meant for you.

The bottom line is that you, I and all others on this planet are already rich and it is our job to embrace that richness and use each and every one of our special talents to better the world and our fellow man within it.

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