How to get rid of the thinking of a poor man and become richer: tips from financial bloggers
'10.05.2019'
Source: lady.mail.ru
Belief in the fact that all the money the world does not make, prevents many people to change their lives for the better. Why do something if nothing happens? Such thinking is called “poor thinking”, and dozens of personal growth coaches are trying to expel him from the brains of their clients.
We asked four financial bloggers - nominees for the “Best blogger-2018” award. Mail.ru Lady - about what “thinking of the poor man” is and how to get rid of it. It seems to many of us it is time to understand how to stop saving and start, finally, to live the life that you want.
What is “poor thinking”
Elena Amagyrova @amagyrova
I always have the following phrases in comments: “It’s impossible to save money in this country,” “The government is guilty of everything,” “Even if you start saving, you will lose everything,” “There’s nowhere to earn,” “I won’t earn money,” and so on. I think this is the thinking of the poor man.
Alina @alina_telling
The thinking of the poor is the division of the world (goods, things, services) according to the “expensive / cheap” criteria.
I think if you want to become richer, you need to replace the criterion "expensive / cheap" or "high price / low price" with "whether this product / service is worth its money or not." And what will I get by buying it.
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For example, I will not buy water in a coffee shop for 500 rubles. It's expensive for me". Just because half a liter of water (if we are not talking about the desert) cannot cost 500 rubles. But I will buy a business class ticket to Thailand or to New York. Because it is my health, my dream, my comfort. I will get good health for this money, I will not have 2 a day off due to fatigue, I can immediately start work on returning home.
"Thinking of the poor": water is cheaper than the flight. So, I can afford the water, but business class is not.
The "rich" are more likely to lay out goods and services for cost and understand how much it actually costs. And whether it is adequate to the amount for which they are trying to sell it.
If adequate - buy. And we can talk, roughly speaking, about the "Chupa Chups". Rich does not buy candy for 100 rubles. Although 100 rubles - a little money. But big ones are for candy. The poor more often evaluate the purchase in terms of “I can / cannot afford”.
Maxim Temchenko @temchenkoru
Thinking rich and poor manifested very simply. When making some financial decisions in the head with two voices. First: "You can do it, you will succeed." The second: "I will not succeed, I have already tried, I have already lost money." This is called the "rich" and "poor" brain.
Poor people think that they cannot influence anything. Everything is divided, salary depends on the boss, business depends on the season. The rich think differently: "Everything depends on me." The poor think that everyone knows, and the rich learn. The poor are looking for rich flaws, jealous, angry. The rich, on the contrary, look at the richer with interest, admiration and want to learn something from them. Poor people usually prefer to be in a zone of comfort, peace of mind. The rich challenge themselves and seek solutions. The poor try to just survive. The rich aim to live the life of a dream.
In fact, there are a lot of differences, but the principal thing is that the poor perceive wealth as a random factor, and the rich - as a result of effort and labor.
Kristina Grigoreva @grigoreva_k
As a person who grew up in a poor family, I happened to see with my own eyes what it is. Mainly, it is the unwillingness to change one’s life, to try to do something.
When the hands are lowered, and people do not believe in anything, they do not want and cannot recognize and try new things. This is when everyone around is guilty, except for you, this is eternal discontent with everyone, the habit of saving and littering the house for everyone. In most cases, people lack financial literacy.
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How to change the thinking of the poor man
Elena Amagyrova @amagyrova
Stop envying the rich and scold them. It is necessary to stop looking for ready-made solutions and answers (I do not want to think, tell me where to invest), but look for your own way - try, do, make mistakes, create your own strategy.
Choosing a job, think not only about salary, but also about the experience and opportunities that work will bring.
To think not only about salary increase, but also about capital increase. The poor think about how to spend money, the rich - about how to increase. The poor think "I can not afford it," the rich - "how can I afford it."
Alina @alina_telling
Just change the environment. Communicate more with successful, rich, broad-minded people. Monitor their perceptions, actions, purchases, deeds. There is no other way.
Maxim Temchenko @temchenkoru
Thinking is some information in the head that has come from somewhere and fixed. The poor and rich people have this information of a different nature, therefore, in order to work with convictions, with thinking, first of all you need to work with the information that surrounds you.
First, you need to carry out any information channels through the filter: does this information, which I now look at, lead to what I want, to wealth, what does this teach me?
The second is to understand who are the people with whom you communicate, to assess the environment. We, as a rule, listen to what people say, it seems to us that it is so right. On the other hand, being surrounded by people who use a certain informational slang related, for example, to investments, money multiplication, we ourselves begin to penetrate this information.
The third factor is what is called training your own brain, learning. What do you learn: to rest and do nothing, or to properly allocate your funds? Learning is one of the most powerful and accessible tools for changing thinking.
And finally, it is a disciplined work with attention: what you concentrate on, what do you think more about. If you think more about problems and obstacles, about what difficulties money brings, then the brain thinks this way. And if you encode yourself with thoughts about your dreams, about opportunities, abilities, level of life, then you yourself will start moving in this direction.
Kristina Grigoreva @grigoreva_k
The concept of “thinking of the poor” is closely related to the psychological mood of a person. The most important thing that needs to be done in order to break this vicious circle is to admit to yourself that you have problems with money.
I believe that this problem can be solved by yourself without the help of specialists. First, you need to stop whining. It is necessary to stop shifting responsibility for your life to someone else, to blame other people for their failures. Only you are responsible for your life and the events that occur in it, and it must always be remembered.
Secondly, it is worth starting to act. Constantly develop, learn new things, look for ways to earn money and increase income, surround yourself with motivated people, study the stories of successful people. And, of course, the right attitude plays an important role.
As the French playwright Marcel Achard said: “They believe that success comes to those who get up early. No: success comes to those who get up in a good mood. ”
