WWW #2: Why Be Rich?
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For today's workshop, we ask ourselves an obvious question: Why would we want to be "rich" anyway?
The obvious answer is that anyone who wants to be able to do the things for themselves, their families or for the causes they'd like to support, you gotta achieve a certain minimum level of success in this world. This world runs on money. If you have to money to live a good life, then why wouldn't you want as much of it as you could make so long as you make you money in positive and healthy ways?
Do you want to send your children to great schools?
Then you're gonna need some money!
Do you want to be able to afford to retire one day without having to be a financial burden to your family or, worse, become dependent on the government for your care?
Then you're gonna need some money!
Do you want to live in a nice house, drive a nice car and take a vacation to a nice place now and then?
Then you're gonna need some money!
Do you want to be able to focus on helping others without concern for your own well-being?
Then you're definitely gonna need some money!
Wally explains to us that we have "The Right to Be Rich" in the very first page of "The Science of Getting Rich":
WHATEVER MAY BE SAID IN PRAISE OF POVERTY, THE FACT REMAINS that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich. No man can rise to his greatest possible height in talent or soul development unless he has plenty of money; for to unfold the soul and to develop talent he must have many things to use, and he cannot have these things unless he has money to buy them with.
Money, you see, according to Wally, is never an end in itself. Money is only a means to an end. The proper goal, Wally suggests, is DEVELOPMENT.
The object of all life is DEVELOPMENT...
Finally, Wally tells us exactly what kind of DEVELOPMENT we should seek once we've gained enough wealth to do so:
Man's right to life means his right to have the free and unrestricted use of all the things which may be necessary to his fullest mental, spiritual, and physical unfoldment; or, in other words, his RIGHT TO BE RICH.
Isn't that a very different attitude than most of us have been taught all of our lives? How many of us were taught as children that we have a RIGHT TO BE RICH? How many of us went through our schooling with the motivation that we were training ourselves to one day DEVELOP ourselves into the most completely fulfilled human being that we could become?
If you were, then what a wonderful gift you've been given and what a clear advantage for which you must be very, very grateful!
For the rest of us, however, if we are going to cast off the mental, emotional, psychological and spiritual shackles of poverty of all kinds, then it should help us to understand in the most clear manner that the personal wealth to cultivate happiness is our birthright!
This blog is the creation of Kurt Maddox, an Internet Entrepreneur, Consultant, Motivational Speaker and Success Coach living in Orange County, California. Kurt welcomes you to contact him anytime by sending an email to kurt@kurtmaddox.com or by phone at 1-800-274-8151!
