For almost everyone, part of being successful is having enough money to do what they please. Money is a great way to buy freedom. Whether it is freedom to go where they want, when they want, or
freedom to make unlimited choices, there is often no easier way to get it than through having money and building wealth.
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One of the biggest obstacles to success is feeling unworthy of great wealth. Many times when I’m beginning my work with clients they will ask, “Who am I to be worth so much wealth? Isn’t it bad to want so much money? My answer to these questions is always the same. I simply tell them the story of the flow of money.
Money, in and of itself, is really meaningless. In fact, when you think you “have” money you really don’t. What you really do is “control” money. When money comes to you, you have to put it someplace (unless you really want to keep a pile of cash buried in the backyard). In
a way, it is like a flow of energy. You can’t contain it, you can only direct it. Imagine money as light. You can’t contain light but you can focus it on something important to you.
There are many places you can focus your money. You can invest it in the stock market or CDs or bonds. In this case, you are loaning your money to a corporation or bank and they, in turn, are spending it or they are loaning it out to someone else. Either way, you don’t have the money, you just control where it flows. You are focusing it somewhere with the expectation that you’ll get back more than what you put in.