Last week, I shared some ideas on how to begin creating more money as and when you need it – and indeed, whenever I teach the four masteries of money that is the skill that people seem most interested in learning. Yet I have always found it curious that most people in the United States will earn over a million dollars in their lifetime and still somehow manage to retire in debt or with less than $50,000 in assets.
Are you a slave to money?
I don’t mean in a literal sense, but how much of what you do around money is because you feel you have to?
I am somewhat infamous in my family for having responded to my parent’s plea that I express gratitude to my favorite aunt and uncle for their gift one holiday morning with the line “Thank you for the yucky present.”
Over 700 years ago, the Fransiscan friar William of Ockham posited a simple idea that has become a universal tool for sifting through the numerous theoretical constructs that abound in nearly every school of science, philosophy and theology.
Are you a dream killer or a possibility person?
I had always assumed I was a possibility person, and in many ways I am – after all, I’ve coached and taught tens of thousands of people how to make their dreams come true.