Poverty: How to get out

After relaxing for some minutes in my armed-chair with my feet up on another chair, I decided to clean my working table of all the unsorted garbage, the old dog-eared folders, old notes, news clips,etc. I got down into this piece which I remembered I wrote way back 2002 when me and my wife were chaircouple of the Marriage Encounter Community in our area in Pasig City. I spent little time reading it back. Then I recalled that in our weekly prayer meetings where every one was encouraged to share his feelings, his present state, problems, success or failures. I noted then that almost 90 percent of the sharings were all about extreme poverty and financial problems. Few weeks earlier I finished reading a book "Dare to Fail", the author I could not recall. That day I was encouraged to write this piece with some portions I quoted from the book. I prepared some 200 copies then and distributed all to our members. As to whether or not my initiative helped I did not bother, but some gave thanks. I chosed to post this today because in the Philippines my countrymen, about 70 percent (of about 94 million souls) still live in extreme poverty. They felt their conditions as if they are being detained forever in an insurmountable prison wall, that is poverty.

Poverty: how to get out of it "The best thing we ca do to the poor is not to be one of them."
Poverty is a state of the mind. Think poor, stay poor, think rich stay rich. So the saying goes.
Your mind your conscious and subconscious thoughts determined what you are and even how much money you have and will have. When you say and declare, "Mahirap ang buhay, lagi ako walang pera." life is so difficult, as always I have no money This is the statement that is programed in your mind. You will even look for a difficult job that is low-paying because that is your level. Your environment and the company that you will have will justify and confirm your belief system that life is so hard. You may even feel comfortable with the environment and the people around in your job, that you may not look any more of new possibilities of improving yourself. This will be the kind of 'belief system' that is programed in your brain cells.
If you will recall in your life, there were times you had extra money. During those times you felt strange things were happening to you. Having EXTRA money is not normal to you. So you declare to yourself "pambihirang buhay to may pera pa ako, kailangan makabili na ako" This time I have extra very abnormal"so you spent your extra money and you got back to your normal life. Money is just money. Bro. your kind of poverty is self-created.

HOW TO BECOME RICH AND FINANCIALLY INDEPENDENT

Working extra hours in a hollow block factory and even making more blocks per day will not make you rich. This time you will have to declare and create the new statement. You will have to create the new' belief system and that you will have to reprogram your mind. Say "Today I will have extra money and I will begin to save and spend what is left". After your job at the factory make sure you have extra time, extra hours. Look for other possibilities like extra job or other' sidelines'. Never stop looking for new possibilities of getting more money .

Money is neither good nor bad. These are some of the things you will have to do to make more money.
* Decide and commit yourself to be prosperous. When you have the decision, put the necessary efforts in combination with the right attitude and your new belief system.
* Save first and spend what is left. In your previous program you spent first and save what was left but none was left. Put now as your plan or goal to save first and spend later.
* Ask for some help. You will be surprised to see that people are very willing to help you if the saw you are really serious in helping yourself. You should know how to ask in order for you to improve your ability to receive.
*Observe rich people. Spend some time around with them. Find out the difference between you and them. Curioudly watch their qualities traits and attitudes that made them tick. Try to pick all their positive and attractive points and apply the to yourself.

Make Plans and set goals.
1 Always look for new possibilities to improve your present job or business. You can learn from other successful people, read magazines and newspapers, listen to rdios and watch television, attend seminars,etc.
2 Do not blame your parents, the weather, the government, your job, your education for how you are doing.
3 Consider the problems that come your way as oppurtunities for you to grow.
4 Remember that poverty is a mental disease and as such it can be cured. Like any other disease it may be difficult to cure- but just cure it, because if you stopped you are in trouble.
5 If in your place you see that you are the only one doing well and becoming prosperous do not feel guilty or be uncomfortable because it will hold you back from success.
6 In my own observation, a rich man I know told me " I did not start really making money until I stopped really working for it". So sometimes or accassionally spend your own money and enjoy it. It can serve as an incentive for you to get more.

Remember God encouraged us to help the poor -but not to be poor.#Mel bye