IF YOUR MOTIVATION FOR ACQUIRING MONEY OR SUCCESS COMES FROM A NONSUPPORTIVE ROOT SUCH AS FEAR, ANGER, OR THE NEED TO ‘PROVE’ YOURSELF, YOUR MONEY WILL NEVER BRING YOU HAPPINESS.
I can’t emphasize enough the importance of the wealth principles and money files that are mentioned in the book ‘Secrets of Millionaire Mind’. To become wealthy, you have to adopt to think in ways that can support your happiness and financial success. Here I want to share one of the wealth principles regarding the motivation for success.
Why is that? Because you can’t solve any of these issues with money. More money can’t dissolve the fear. Because money is not the root of the problem; fear is. What’s even worse is that feat is not just a problem, it’s a habit. Therefore, making more money will only change the kind of fear we have.
As with those of us driven by fear, many people are motivated to achieve financial success to prove they are ‘good enough’. Realize that no amount of money can ever make you ‘good enough’. As with fear, the ‘always having to prove yourself’ issue becomes your habitual way of living. You don’t even recognize it is running you. You call yourself a high achiever, a hard driver, determined, and all these traits are fine. The only question is why? What is the root engine to drive all this?
For people who are driven to prove they are good enough, no amount of money can ease the pain of the inner wound that makes everything and everyone in their lives ‘not enough’. No amount of money, or anything else for that matter, will ever be enough for people who feel they are not good enough themselves.
Remember that your inner world reflects your outer world. If you believe you are not enough, you will validate that belief and create the reality that you don’t have enough. On the other hand, if you believe that you are plenty. You will validate that belief and create plenty of abundance. Why? Because ‘plenty’ will be your root, which will become your natural way of living.
By unlinking you money motivation from fear, anger and the need to prove yourself, you can still install new links for earning money through purpose, contribution and joy.
Now, it’s time to examine what our inner motivation for success is and keep practicing to adopt new ways of thinking.