Do You Want To Be Rich?

Being rich is a state of mind. Poverty is also a state of mind.

You cannot become rich by accident. To become rich, you must have a burning desire to become rich. It is a deliberate effort towards a certain goal, driven by the desire to get there at any cost. Be prepared to get out of your comfort zone, as the discomfort is also necessary to propel you towards your destiny.

“Everything that happens in your life is moving you in the direction of your goals.” – Bob Proctor, author of You Were Born Rich and The Science of Getting Rich seminars

The way to success, riches, wealth and happiness is like the way to heaven. It is narrow and winded, and only a few see it, and there are quite a few hurdles on the way.


What’s a desire?

A desire is a vacuum of need. For example, suppose you need a life partner. That’s a desire. The desire will drive you to various places including the Internet. But since you may not have taken time to train yourself on how to find the right partner, your five natural senses will probably lead you to the wrong direction and you may end up with the wrong partner. But then since a partner is also a fellow human being and a life-long companion, it may be both difficult and costly to get rid of her/him in case you discover later that he or she wasn’t the right one.

I might add here that unless you fulfill a desire, you will neither be comfortable or happy. Likewise unless you are uncomfortable with your present situation, you cannot see the need to fulfill a desire.

It is usually said that if you have such a strong desire to get something – so strong that you can die for it, you will eventually have it.

"Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment." – Robert Collier


Naturally, people have three priorities in life:

1) To be secure
2) To be comfortable
3) To become rich


To be secure

The need to be secure is the number one priority for many people. This is what your parents, your teachers, your professors taught you again and again: Go to school, study very hard and get good grades in order to get a good secure job in a big corporation. And that’s what most of us did.


To be comfortable

Naturally, the next priority is to buy car or take a mortgage or loan to buy a house, and perhaps even get a family and raise children. At this stage, many people usually change their lifestyles, often borrowing money to finance their new more expensive lifestyles. And since they lack basic financial education, they usually find themselves deeply in debt. Many people therefore, go back to college to further their education or to obtain a qualification for purposes of getting a better paying job or getting promotion. They think that more money will solve their financial problem only to discover that they need even more money to finance their new lifestyle and the cycle continues. They are in the RAT RACE!


To become Rich

For many people, to become rich is usually an afterthought. Many people think that in order to become rich you have to become secure first, and then become comfortable. This is not usually the case. In order to become rich you have to re-arrange your priorities so that they look like this:

1) To be rich
2) To be comfortable
3) To be secure


This explains why there are many people who are rich today, who either never went to school or they were school dropouts. Do not mistake me. I am not advocating against going to school. You should go to school in order to get a quality education and perhaps that good, secure job. After all, we can’t image going through life without a quality education in today’s competitive world. As I said earlier, being rich is a state of mind, so it is possible to go school and still become rich. After all, there are many well-educated people today who are very rich.

“You will never get rich working for someone else!”
– J. Paul Getty, author, How To Become Rich.


Just remember that in order to become rich you must forfeit:

1) To be secure and,
2) To be comfortable.


In order to make “to become rich” be your number one priority, you must have a desire to become rich, and you must also have a passion for something that will make you rich.

It is important to note that you can’t have a passion to become rich. You can have a desire to become rich but you can’t have a passion to become rich – you will never become rich this way.

What should you do then in order to become rich?

You should have a big DREAM.


What’s a Dream?

A dream is basically what you imagine in your mind you want to achieve or what you dream at night. What? Many people think that what they dream at night is just an illusion of the mind to be dismissed. This is not correct. Remember what I said earlier in an earlier article that we are spiritual beings. When you go to sleep, the body and the mind go to sleep, but your spirit doesn’t. As a matter of fact this is when your spirit is most active. Remember your life extends beyond your consciousness. What you dream at night is also part of your life – And a very important one. More of this later…

Anyway, the kind of dream I am talking about is something like owning a big home, owing a 10-acre ranch, owning 5 cars, becoming a multi-millionaire, taking your family on a vacation to Cancun, Mexico, feeding the hungry, building a church or a temple, building a home for the homeless, building a school, landing the first human on mars, inventing a new machine that would make life easier or discovering a new vaccine for cancer.

It is good practice to record your dreams in a journal – what you imagine during the day and also what you dream at night are both important. You never know from where your dream will come – That life-changing revelation that will propel you to your success.

The bigger the dream, the better.


Do you have a Passion for Something?

Passion is something you love to do, possibly for the benefit of others, even if you don’t get paid doing it. Everybody was born with a certain unique attribute, a talent. It could be an art like acting or drawing or singing or dancing. Or it could be writing (like I’m doing right now), cooking, racing, boxing (like Mike Tyson), or encouraging others. Just as there are many people in this world, there are as many different attributes and even if you are an actor, you cannot do it exactly the same way as Chalize Theron, Leonardo Di Caprio or Sylvester Stallone. Everybody is unique in his or her own way, and everybody has something to offer or something people can learn from. By the way, you could even be more talented than Sylvester Stallone and not know it. The difference is that you’ve never exercised your talent.

You should know that people will not give you money unless you give them something they need. And you cannot continue to give people something they need when they don’t pay you unless you have a PASSION for it.

“You cannot give every man or woman more in cash market value than you take from him or her, but you can give them more in use value than the cash value of the thing you take from them”.
– Wallace D. Wattles, author, The Science of Getting Rich.


Do you have a big dream?
Is your dream to become rich, successful and happy?
Do you have a strong desire for your dream?
Is your desire driven by passion to do something?
Are you prepared to sacrifice some comfort in order to achieve your dream?

If your answers to the above questions are YES, then you are on the right path.