Where Does Money Come From? – Part 5

Friday, May 14th, 2010 at 12:49 am

From $16.2 million To Living On Food Stamp In 12 Months

So far I have shared about the spiritual side of money. We will get on to some strategies for building wealth soon.

In fact, I will give you a step-by-step process of how to make money and create financial abundance regardless of your present circumstance, age, country, race, colour, situation, skill, education or ability. However, the reason I have spent time on the non-physical aspect of money is because it is the root cause of poverty and lack in people’s lives.

You cannot have abundance and prosperity while you think or focus on lack. Even if you are given or win a large amount of money, you will dispose of it rapidly down to your own self-image of what you believe you are worth.

Some say that 96% of all lotto winners are worst off within five years than before they won the money. I don’t know the exact statistics but I do know it is extremely high. I have spoken to at least three people who have won over a million dollars and each one said that it made their life a mess and they wished they had never won!

Here is just one story I found on MSN.com:

Living On Food Stamps

William “Bud” Post won $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania lottery in 1988 but now lives on his Social Security.

“I wish it never happened. It was totally a nightmare,” says Post.

A former girlfriend successfully sued him for a share of his winnings. It wasn’t his only lawsuit. A brother was arrested for hiring a hit man to kill him, hoping to inherit a share of the winnings. Other siblings pestered him until he agreed to invest in a car business and a restaurant in Sarasota, Fla., — two ventures that brought no money back and further strained his relationship with his siblings.

Post even spent time in jail for firing a gun over the head of a bill collector. Within a year, he was $1 million in debt.

Post admitted he was both careless and foolish, trying to please his family. He eventually declared bankruptcy.

Now he lives quietly on $450 a month and food stamps.

“I’m tired, I’m over 65 years old, and I just had a serious operation for a heart aneurysm. Lotteries don’t mean (anything) to me,” says Post.

So what I am trying to get you to understand is that the acquiring and accumulation of money is not about hard work or the right job or winning lotto. In fact, I believe that trying to acquire wealth through any form of gambling is in direct opposition to the natural laws of the universe.

Getting money and keeping it is always dependant on your mindset.

Napoleon Hill in his book “Think and Grow Rich” states that you much work yourself into a white hot burning desire for the money you want. You must first decide the exact amount of money you desire and why you want it.

Tomorrow I will share with you the exercise which changed my life and my back account. I’ll show you how I started to get checks in the mail instead of just bills! I went from making less than $5,000 per year to creating over $1,000,000 in one day using the principles I’ll show you.

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