Why You Can Have Goals, Be Wealthy,even A Millionaire, Yet Lose It All
Let's say that you wrote down some really successful goals and repeatedly visited them every day. As a result you noticed that your bank balance expanded, you have money in your pocket, a new car and a big detached house and garden. Then a few months down the road you suddenly realized that your bank balance had shrunk, you are suddenly short of cash and you are having struggle paying the mortgage.
You had also acquired two speeding tickets. As fast as the money was coming in, it was going out. It was as if the Wicked Witch the West had taken hold of your life and was taking away all the blessings that had suddenly been showered upon you. All the effort of the preceding few months of constructing goals, planning a strategy in order to attain them and the wonderful moments of achievement had been in vain. Why is this happening to you?
When you wrote your goals you were building a brand new vision of the yet to come. As a result of you drew those things towards you which you recognized as opportunities. You then took advantage of them and they turned into profit. These sorts of opportunities are around all the time, but when you set goals it means you are thinking about them for most of the time at an unconscious level. Not only that, because of your mindset, you expect profits to derive automatically from the actions you take.
Unfortunately you also have buried memories which create pleasant and distasteful feelings. For example, when you were always broke many of your friends appeared to feel sorry for you and treated you to the odd drink. They were really sympathetic. They also listened to you and you felt wanted, dare I say loved. Some folk are particularly friendly when the other party is "down".
Now that you have money in your pocket you seem to have a tendency to be profligate, less wary of speed cameras and inclined to squander too much money on superfluous items, often very expensive. As a result all the money you have swiftly acquired is quickly being lost.
You see in years gone past, it was nice to have a drink with your friends and to secure their sympathy by telling them your troubles. When they purchased you a drink, it was a good feeling, a feeling of being appreciated. When you had not much money it was a lovely experience to give it to sales people who flattered you when you wrote large cheques for their products.
When feeling "in the money", despite being broke, it was terrific to fling it around a bit, to drive that bit faster -- like Jack the Lad -- and think " nothing can touch me". The feelings associated with those actions have become part of your belief system and in direct opposition to the new mental picture you have created via your goal setting activities.
As a consequence you find ways of getting free of the superfluous money in order to experience the pleasant memories from the past.
In contrast, once you are noticeably well off and your business is thriving, some of your colleagues are jealous and some even ignore you. This disagreeable memory trumps the nice ones, so that your mind prefers at one level that you've have very little money.
So by concentrating more on the feelings of embarrassment of having no money and additional time thinking about how enjoyable it feels to be flush you can overcome those destructive memories and step forward into a wealthy future and not be held back by poor peoples' coping method for dealing with poverty.
