We have all been programmed, I am slowly beginning to realize that now. I'm not sure when or how or why we were taught to think backwards, but we were. At least, I was. I had been programmed to believe that you should trust in someone else to employ you, to invest in you and then to demand that investment back in the form of my labor. And that's completely fair, too; if they are the one who invests in and trains me, it's only fair that they get to leverage my efforts for their benefit, right? But when was I taught that's how things should be, instead of me investing in myself?
The truth is that my experiences are no different from most Americans. In The Wealth Files by T. Harv Eker, the author gives 17 ways in which rich people think differently from the non-rich, and every last one of them rings true. The first one, in particular, is something I have been guilty of many times in the past.
Rich people believe "I create my life,"
Poor people believe "life happens to me."
Wow, that's me alright. Is it also you? Have you ever seen a successful person and said, "that kind of stuff never happens to me?" I've done it too many times to count. I would then write their success off to luck, or family wealth or good genes or the phase of the moon, or anything at all other than what it truly was: somewhere along the way, somebody took a chance and worked hard and invested in themselves. They didn't offer excuses why they could not do something, they simply did it. They created their life, instead of waiting for life to happen to them.
But the vast majority of people will never do this. I know, because I see it every day. They will continue doing what they have always done and hoping something will change, because they have been programmed to believe that is what they are supposed to do. Only a very few will ever take control of their own life. I'm glad I'm one of them.
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