Great thread Player. I'm glad you bumped it back up as there is no way I would have found it otherwise.
The subject you have covered here is in fact the main thing that has been holding me back because most of the other fundamental elements of wealth creation are available. They include the ability to earn more than I need to survive, the ability to invest in appreciating assets, the support of family/friends and colleagues.
It is the feeling of deserving wealth that has eluded me and the subconscious programming I have been exposed to that makes me feel guilty to aspire for more. I am working hard now on the mindset so that the feelings of guilt can be replaced by more worthy feelings. For me that means turning it around so that my goals and priorities can be linked in a positive way to wealth creation. Things like being able to reunite my wife with her family on the other side of the world more often as I know she misses them terribly even though she loves living here with me and our daughter and she sees it as her home. Being able to provide my daughter with the resources so that she can achieve her dreams. Was it Warren Buffet who said give your children enough so that they can do anything but not so much that they do nothing? Being able to contribute to charity in a more significant way and give back to the community on a larger scale. To look after my mother and father-in-law as they are now in their seventies and are surviving on pensions.
I grew up being told that the love of money is the root of all evil and at church always remember hearing that it is easier for a camel to walk through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. I try now to compartmentalize these "beliefs" and recognise them for what they are/were. The battle continues and more like minded people are sought after in the effort to overcome this obstacle that appears small but is quite powerful in its application.
Thanks again for sharing.
The subject you have covered here is in fact the main thing that has been holding me back because most of the other fundamental elements of wealth creation are available. They include the ability to earn more than I need to survive, the ability to invest in appreciating assets, the support of family/friends and colleagues.
It is the feeling of deserving wealth that has eluded me and the subconscious programming I have been exposed to that makes me feel guilty to aspire for more. I am working hard now on the mindset so that the feelings of guilt can be replaced by more worthy feelings. For me that means turning it around so that my goals and priorities can be linked in a positive way to wealth creation. Things like being able to reunite my wife with her family on the other side of the world more often as I know she misses them terribly even though she loves living here with me and our daughter and she sees it as her home. Being able to provide my daughter with the resources so that she can achieve her dreams. Was it Warren Buffet who said give your children enough so that they can do anything but not so much that they do nothing? Being able to contribute to charity in a more significant way and give back to the community on a larger scale. To look after my mother and father-in-law as they are now in their seventies and are surviving on pensions.
I grew up being told that the love of money is the root of all evil and at church always remember hearing that it is easier for a camel to walk through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. I try now to compartmentalize these "beliefs" and recognise them for what they are/were. The battle continues and more like minded people are sought after in the effort to overcome this obstacle that appears small but is quite powerful in its application.
Thanks again for sharing.
