We must first get rid of the mentality of the poor.
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Editor’s note: Money is not everything, but no money is absolutely impossible. The new crown virus pandemic has put many people’s lives into crisis, especially the working class. Many people’s jobs have been threatened, and they are facing a greater threat of having no money to make a living. How can we get rid of this threat? Ayodeji Awosika proposed that, first of all, it is necessary to change the mentality that has been distorted by wrong education for many years. Originally published on Medium, the title is: The Mindset You Must Adopt to Make More Money
99% of people in the world care about money. Except for monks, priests, nuns, and some really dedicating (and weird) minimalists, money is always the first thing we think about in our heads, because in most cases no money is nothing Never.
Unless the world suddenly needs to circulate in another currency, such as toilet paper, you’ll focus on money all your life. If you are like most people, you will think about money the wrong way.
But if you can change that way of thinking, you can make a lot of money.
Someone teaches you to have a mentality of the poor. Many people fall into poverty because of others’ faults. It’s too easy to get into a poor state of mind when you have no money. Poverty has led people into a mentality of retreat. Even people who are not born poor are not educated about getting rich.
You can go bankrupt, but you never want to be poor. When you have the mentality of the poor, you have erected a psychological barrier to you invisibly, which makes you unable to make money because you do not want to make money at all. Who will blame you? Of course not me.
I’ll make it clear- It’s not your fault .
You have been misled. The right way of thinking about money doesn’t seem natural, because what others have taught you most of your life is wrong. We have to reach consensus on this point. I know where you come from and why you think of money this way,But now is the time to make a difference.
A change in mindset is critical to making more money
A lot of money. Everywhere. Even now.
If money is everywhere, then why do you feel so scarce?
Others teach you to think about money in a narrowest perspective. When you get a source of income from your employer and have been doing it for many years, you see it as the only possible means of making money. Yes, the ads on Facebook that tell you how to build an online business look cool, but you don’t really believe it.
You know the existence of entrepreneurs. You also know that investors exist. But others make you believe that you don’t belong to these two types of people, and can only share the remaining piece of cake.
So how can you change that mindset and see the money everywhere?
Just start paying attention to how the economy works:
You are always part of the transaction. You buy what you want, value it, and the other side gets the money. Think about how many times you have done this. Do you really think you are powerless and cannot be part of that equation?
When you buy what you want, you almost never feel like you are giving money to others. No, you look at it from the point that you get what you want. If everyone values what you provide, they will feel the same way when they buy from you. You dare not sell because you do not understand your worth.
Put aside capitalism and corporate welfare, fundamentally, trading in goods and services improves the quality of life for everyone as a whole. The media is telling this scarcity story. After the free market, basically anything you want can be delivered directly to your doorstep. You can watch anything you want, anytime, anywhere, and buy It was something that was once a luxury in the past.
Why can money never form a “trickle effect” for you?
Because you are in the wrong position in this equation .
You have to consume, you have to buy things, you have to bear a lot of expenses to pay others, but you can only create value by one means, which is your job. Not only is your job limited, it’s not even safe. As long as some variables are adjusted, your work will disappear immediately.
It’s important to understand this. Finding a job doesn’t actually mitigate the risk, it actually increases the risk. Unfortunately,We are experiencing this during the New Coronavirus pandemic. Just because of an accident, how many stable and guaranteed jobs have been killed? And these people who lost their jobs can not immediately learn new skills that can make money, so they are in trouble, and now they are short of money.
This is a lesson for you. Stand to the right of the equation so that the next time this happens, you can plan ahead.
To change your mindset, understand that of all the available capital in this world, some of the parts you need to live a wonderful life are actually very small.
Suppose that number is $ 100,000 for you. Can’t you get $ 100,000 in the big economic cake of 19.3 trillion dollars (Editor’s Note: the total economic volume of the United States)? of course can. You just need to start doing it.
Choose a model and stick to it
Too many business models that can work, especially those online:
E-commerce
Affiliate marketing (even in the current environment, you can still start one of these businesses for less than $ 5 a month and learn SEO)
Blog and self-media
Freelance (there are too many options) + the ability to hire employees and become a brokerage agency
Coaching
Content creation, such as YouTube and podcasts
Look at the less sexy businesses you can start doing:
Real estate-I’m not an expert in this area, but a person who gets a reasonable pay and slowly saves money can buy a house and add value to the house.
Franchise-I used to work for a digital marketing company. One of our clients owns the franchise of dozens of cleaning companies, and in the end he uses it to buy apartment buildings. You can buy the Steak n’Shake franchise for $ 10,000 and make $ 120,000 a year.
A variety of blue-collar businesses-although these tasks are not sexy, everyone has to repair the toilet, cut the lawn, remodel the kitchen and so on. Of course, the goal of doing this is to learn how to scale up, not just self-employed. (For how to do this, take a look at