Ridding poor mentality

Most of us were prepared from young, by our parents, guardians and our education, simply to conform to a set of rules. Society teaches us nothing more about money other than to go and get a decent job - that is, to sell our time.

Whether we join blue-collar professions or whether we sweep floors in the office or whether we work at the supermarket check-out counters, it amounts to the same thing: when we stop working, the money stops.

We spend over a decade in school and leave knowing how to do little more than survive financially. Enough to cover our monthly loan repayments. Since the majority of us become an employee and have jobs, the majority of us will simply sell our time for the whole of our lives.

The "time sale" keeps us poor and it was passed on to us by our parents, and we will pass it on to the next generation and so on ... And so the "poor" mentality continues.

Although we wake up everyday and day dream of being rich, we observe the guy or girl in the new car that costs more than our house. This ignite our desire to become rich. We dream what it would like to have more money than we know what to do with and for a short time, relieve ourselves of reality by playing make-believe and becoming a child again.

And to those dreaming of becoming rich quick they would probably invest in lotteries in hope of striking big. Now, not only you are dreaming but you also hoping for lucky star to shine.

Sadly, for most of us, this is as close as we'll ever come to achieving riches. We soon snap back to the real world, real mediocrity, held back by a fear of stretching the boundaries. Fear of venturing out of our comfort zone.

But the relative few, the braves, the risk takers, who do not lose their dream in this way will set off on a different journey - a journey like no other they have ever experienced, a course so challenging, so demanding, and yet so exciting, that it brings new meaning to the way they live their lives... They decide to go into business for themselves.

Unfortunately, in the end, many of these dreams are shattered too, when a business ends in failure. The majority who fail do so not because of a lack of dreaming, not even for a lack of desire, but for the lack of one simple thing ... Knowing what rich people know.