Always Tell Yourself You're Rich

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There's one little mind trick that sometimes helps someone to realize what they have, value it, and hold onto it. It's like using cash instead of credit cards or debit cards. When you can see something, it has more value in your mind, and as I have said so many times when it comes to money, the mindset matters more than the dollar amount, whether it's what you have, or what you earn, or even what your bills happen to be. If you put a $100 in your wallet and spend it down, you feel that. You see it. And it makes you stop and think as the dollars wind down to zero. The closer you get to zero, the slower you might spend because it doesn't feel good to have an empty wallet. When it comes to credit cards and debit cards, it's all out of sight, out of mind. How you feel about something has a lot to do with how you react to it. Thus, telling yourself you're rich, even if you are not, has a hidden value attached to it. If you feel rich, you are going to want to stay rich, and it's going to change the way you feel about spending any of what you have. Big or small. I remember back when I had $9,000 to my name. I said, "I'm rich." Of course, I wasn't hardly rich at all. But so long as I told myself I was, it made me want to keep as much of that $9,000 as I could, and even to make it bigger. On the flipside, had I told myself, "Pffft. It's $9,000. So what?" spending it down would be much easier. If I wasn't rich in my mind, what did I care if I didn't have that $9,000 tomorrow? It wouldn't matter. If you have $9,000 in the bank and tell yourself you're rich, you will more than likely soon see $10,000. But if you tell yourself you're poor, it'll be $5,000 and then zero in no time. Always tell yourself you're rich. No matter how much you make. No matter how little you can save. No matter how much is in the bank. Tell yourself you're rich and your money WILL stay in your pocket AND likely grow. How you THINK about money has way more to do with how much wealth you actually will achieve than how much comes in each week in your paycheck, and how much goes in the bank. Being rich is a mindset. Not a number. BUT if the mindset is right, you WILL be rich in numbers eventually.