If money were no object what would you do?  If you could do or buy anything, go anywhere, without regard to cost, what would you choose?  Conversely, if you had to do something but knew you wouldn't be paid for it, what would you do for the sheer joy of it?  If you didn't have to "earn a living," what would you do with your days, with your life?

Some people have all the money they need.  They are not motivated by accummulating more.  Some are motivated to give it away, some are motivated to use it to start organizations to help others.  Some just indulge their every whim, not caring about the rest of the world.

Others need more money than they have.  Some say they are not motivated by money, so they don't actively try to bring it into their lives.  They may think it's bad or that somehow having money makes them less "real."  Some work hard and earn a little bit of money, but they never really have enough.  Some chase after money as if it were the only thing that matters. 

Saying it doesn't matter can be an excuse for not following a dream or not working very hard.  Chasing after it as if it's the only thing rarely brings the happiness we think it will.

Money is simply a tool, an energy by which we exchange value, but people have lots of different reactions to and fears about money.  More than the money itself, what matters is what you believe to be true about it, and your relationship with it.  Our feelings about money are usually reflections of our family and how we were taught, mostly by the example set by the people closest to us.  We carry these beliefs into adulthood, consciously or unconsciously, and they are continually reinforced by events that we see through the lense of our experience.

If you have an adversarial relationship with money -- whether it's feeling bad because you have too much, or feeling bad because you have too little -- take a good look at your belief system.  Chances are you are creating the circumstances to support your beliefs with your behavior, and you don't even know it.  

I think it was Henry Ford that said, "Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're right!"  How you think makes a huge difference in your experience of the world.  If you want to bring more money into your life, try reading the classic book by Napoleon Hill Think and Grow Rich.  Written way back in the days of Andrew Carnegie, it's a fascinating insight into the minds of the men (and in those days they were all men) who made their fortunes in industry.  Hill discovered that there were common traits among the successful, and he shares those for the benefit of those who might like to do the same.



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