Rich or poor, which category do you fit in?
Most people want to be rich, but most of them are poor, why?
There must be some differences between rich people and poor people. If you study carefully, you will find out why rich and successful people are able to produce amazing results in their life, and why some people are living in poverty.
To be rich and successful, you don’t need to be lucky, extremely hard working or you need to have a college diploma or a university degree.
What you need, is the right mindset and the right mindset will form the right habit. As a result, the right habit will lead you toward the financial abundance kind of lifestyle that you always desire.
So here are the 7 main differences between rich and poor people…
1. Rich people believe that they create their lives while poor people believe that life happens to them. Can you see why rich and successful people are able to create amazing results in their life right now?
It is simply because they are in control of their lives. They believe that they are the ones who is responsible for their lives, they are the ones who is creating their future, not the economy or the knowledge or luck.
On the other hand, poor people will always give excuses and blame on the circumstances. When they failed in their business, they will blame the economy, their boss, their family or anything that did not go according to their plan.
Whenever you believe that life happens to you, you will lose the power to change and the power to control your future. You must believe that you’re the one who is creating your future, not other people or events.
2. Rich people play the money game to win but poor people play the money game just not to lose money. This is a big mindset difference.
Have you ever seen people invest in the stock market? Some people are so afraid that they will lose their money and they form a mindset that blocks their creativity. They formed the mindset of ‘investing not to lose the money’.
However, rich and successful people know exactly how they need to think in order to win the game of money. They will think and act from the view of playing the game to win. Unlike poor people, they will never invest just not to lose the money.
3. Rich people think and focus on opportunities while poor people focus on obstacles. When you face with problems, what are you focus on?
Are you focus on the problems, thinking how bad the situation is going to be? Or are you focusing on the solution and thinking about how you can solve or even turn the situation into opportunity?
Think about this carefully. No matter who you are, you will definitely face with all kinds of choices in your life. And when you need to decide to move on, try to notice on you thinking, what do you focus on, the solution, or the problem?
4. Rich people dare to dream big, poor people think small. When I tell my parents that I want to make a million dollar, they will tell me, “Why do you need so much money? You can live a very good lifestyle if you got a job that has a good pay. You don’t need to be a millionaire.”
I don’t know about you, but this statement happens to me all the time. And I definitely believe that poor people will tend to think small while rich people always think big.
To poor people, they will think that rich people are greedy because they always think big. Is it true that you are being greedy if you think big? I don’t know if I buy this, but to me, I’ll think of it as a waste if you’re not using the resources available (your thinking) to you at full.
Don’t you owe it to everyone around you to create a better life for them? Don’t you want your family to live good? So think big and create the abundance lifestyle for these people right now.
5. Rich people are committed to their dreams, poor people are just dreaming about their dreams. Yes, this is an obvious one.
If you’re not committed to be rich, you can never be rich. How many times have you heard people say that they want to be rich, but they never do anything about it?
This is the mentality of poor people. They will just think about how good it is going to be if they are rich, but they will never do anything about their dreams. They know that they cannot afford a luxury car if they have a low pay job. The thing is, they never do anything to change it.
On the contrary, rich and successful people are committed toward their dreams. They will do whatever it takes, in the boundary or moral and ethics of course, to achieve their dreams.
6. Rich people associate with rich and successful people. Poor people will associate with poor people. Do you have any rich friends? Or all of your friends are poor?
I’m not suggesting that you need to stop making friends with poor people, what I’m suggesting it, try to get to know more about rich people. The more you mix with them, the more you will think like them. And if you think like them, you will start to create amazing results just like them.
If most of your friends are poor and their working salary all are below, $2,000, you will be having the same range of salary most of the time. However, if you associate with rich people who are making $2,000 in just a day, you will start to see the possibility of what you can accomplish in your life.
And this will change your thinking of what you can achieve in your life. $2,000 will become a small amount for you once you changed your mindset about money.
7. Rich people good learners while poor people think that they have learned everything in the world. One of the fastest ways to be financially abundance is to learn directly from people who have already achieved this status.
And if you’re not willing to learn, you will never be able to be successful. If you want to get the best pay, you must be the best. And the only way you can be the best is to learn from the best and learn to be the best.
You now know what are the 7 main differences between rich and poor people. Do what rich people do and try to avoid the adopting the mindset and habits of the poor.
This will guarantee you a financial abundance lifestyle.
February 1st, 2010 at 3:49 am
Sorry, but you have no clue what you are talking about.
Misconception is hurtful as ignorance, which you have exhibited both.
February 3rd, 2010 at 5:12 pm
Hello Maja, I don’t really understand what you mean.
Mind to explain more?
February 14th, 2010 at 4:24 am
Just read this article and I can relate to it. I have a friend who has been poor for 68 years of his 68 years on this planet. He get’s very disgusted with himself because he has tried many businesses and has failed to some degree. He has no home to call his own and he continually berets himself for being poor. He’s on social security and is barely living on this income. He has tried different avenues to make money and at times has even attained employment in the fast-food sector just to make ends meet. I have observed his behavior and the article describes some of his attitudes and mind set. He’s afraid to lose money. He’s very careful how he spends his money and comments on how I spend my money. I not rich, but I not struggling and he get’s uncomfortable when I encourage him to invest or even buy things. He has a habit of taking advantage of “free” stuff. He makes sure that he gets all that he can. That tells me a lot.
February 16th, 2010 at 2:38 am
So, im poor because i don’t have the right mindset?! You make rich people sound like their great!
CEO’s Salaries
John Paulsen - 3.7 Million
Mark Holden - 16,054,2002
T.M. Soho - 13,223,409
Sidney Taurel - 9,649,413
And Its right that they can give give themselves raises whenever they want, claiming that it helps the economy (trickle down theory) when their out sourcing jobs, so it doesn’t do $(#$^ for us!
Its right that they have more money than they can spend, money that could be fueling they economy, getting homeless people off the streets, etc.
GOD JUST LISTEN TO YOURSELF!!!
“poor people believe that life happens to them. poor people focus on obstacles. poor people think small. poor people are just dreaming about their dreams. Yes, this is an obvious one.Poor people will associate with poor people.oor people think that they have learned everything in the world.” YOU TALK ABOUT POOR PEOPLE LIKE WERE STUPID, MINDLESS RATS! JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN BE RICH DOESN’T MEAN YOU’RE A ZEN MASTER!!!!!! I’m porr you jerk! Is this how i am?!?!?!?!
February 16th, 2010 at 2:43 am
Hey, Susan, if this dude spends more money than he has, he looses all of his money! He’s barley scrapin by, so why in gods green earth would he spend more money than he has?! And Free is better than spendin money! Im 13 and i know this stuff! Come on! Of course hes careful eiwith his money! I really hate saying all this stuff, but, im getting you to open your eyes! instead of observing his behaivor, help him out!
February 19th, 2010 at 10:45 pm
I like this statement.
March 2nd, 2010 at 10:21 am
I like you info i think you right i usually like to read books like Napoleon Hill and is truth if you think in big you will have a lot big thinks.
March 11th, 2010 at 1:45 am
The is the very basic concepts of how things work in life but it is obviously very correct for the most part. The concept that I learned in life is that when people figure out who they are they do what they need to do to accomplish themselves in life. Sure everyone wants to be rich but the majority of people dont eat sleep and live money, the average person as long as they are making a decent amount of money are happy and go on to have kids and live their small minded life. These people dont really undestand how rich people think because to them material objects and power dont have that much value to them unlike people who are rich or want to be rich cannot live without these ammenities. Everyone is genetically different and we can see when one guy spends all his time trying to pick up women while another isnt concerned with a small minded task and is concerned about getting a lamborghini and running a succesful business before he turns 21. The bad thing about being a small minded person is that they fail to realize that 99.99% of almost anything is dictated by money, not religion or good conscience its all money and I feel that this scares some people that we all are expendable in the eyes of the government and the people. It all comes down to choices in life do you want to be a sheep or a wolf? If you choose to be a sheep us wolfs will try keeping you guys happy and making you belive there really is god because the poor far outnumber the rich and could turn this world upside down but small minded sheep will hopefully always be peacefully hearded.
March 11th, 2010 at 11:11 am
No poor peole in the house? no one to agree with me? *sigh*