It’s a popular belief that to be wealthy you must not spend any of your hard-earned money. Since you aren’t spending this money, you’re able to stockpile it back into a savings or retirement account. Sure, this is accurate, and a great way to live if you can manage to find a healthy balance. The problem comes when you obsess over not spending money so much that you allow yourself to generate a poor mindset.
Refusing to pay for things that can greatly benefit or change your life may one day be the crux of your downfall.
-No Place Like Gone
The wonders of sitting down with a therapist and talking through past trauma, stress, and anxiety are excellent. The magic of hiring someone to cut the grass instead of you doing it yourself every single time, so that you can finally allow yourself to have a day off. Hiring a family-friend as a babysitter for just two days a month so that you can connect again with your loved one, tremendous. The benefits of bringing on a part-time or contract employee for your business when there’s always too much for you to overwhelmingly handle, you may never know.
Having a poor mindset isn’t about actually being poor, contrary to popular belief. Having a poor mindset is more about how you poorly perceive money and what it can do for you. Saving money, good. Investing money, great. Deciding to do everything yourself because it saves you from ever having to spend money, poor mindset. There is value to be found from paying for another person’s service, or product. There’s no way for you to realize that if you continue to believe in this poor mindset.
Of course, there can be boundaries of what you pay for. That is ultimately up to you to decide, because there’s no strict guideline. The joy of life is about how you live it, and growing into a rich mindset is up to you to choose it. Although I can give great recommendations, as I did in a previous paragraph. Allow yourself and any family member or significant other to sit down and create a list of things that could provide value to you. I encourage you to seek out what services or products your money can buy you. Flip the thought process, into a rich mindset.
When you finally decided to hire that babysitter, you reconnected with your significant lover in what feels like years, every since your two year old was born it’s been hectic. You were able to have a fancy dinner, see a funny movie, and enjoy the most intimate of nights. All of this because you paid for a babysitter one single day.
Through a paid therapist, you were able to realize that there is a bright side on the other end of all of this baggage that you’ve been carrying around. You’ve allowed yourself to have a depressive mood and behavior for such a long time. This allowed you to become lazy, gain weight, and continuously decide to not care about yourself. Now that’s over, and you’re back in the driver seat of your wellbeing.
With a hard-working go getter on your team, your business has saw a significant bump in revenue this month. Instead of making your usual business income, you were able to almost double that amount. This money enables you to pay that new wonderful employee, take a raise in pay for yourself, oh and also most importantly allowed you to have more time off to be with your children.
Can you feel it yet? The power of possibility, and what could happen if you find new ways to pay for value? No longer do you need to feel like every penny must be saved, so that you can become wealthy. Poor mindset. Now you can decide to look for the potential of how much VALUE can be created if you chose to spend those precious pennies. Rich mindset.
No Place Like Gone 