As kids, my rich dad did not pay us (or his son Mike or me) for the work they did for him. Some people were upset by this because we thought it was exploding. But my rich dad actually was doing us a favor to mike and me. The main reason why rich dad refused to pay us while we worked for him was because he did not want addicts not to come back to work for money. “If you get addicted to money he said, “You’d be hard to break that addiction.
The money is a drug?
Rich dad called the money a drug because noticed people were happy when they had money, angry or moody when you do not have. Just as heroin addicts when the drug is injected, is sulk or get angry when they do not.
Rich dad also noticed that people felt comfortable with their dealers (distributors) when it came to money and found it difficult to rely on other ways to make money. Beware of the addictive power of money he often said. Once you get used to receiving this addiction keeps you attached to how you get it.
Put another way, if you receive money as an employee, then you will get used to this form of purchase. If you get used to earn money as a self-employed, often be difficult to break the addiction to earn money that way. And if you get used to government handouts, that too, is a difficult pattern to break.
Break the addiction
Rich dad believed it was difficult for people to learn how to go from being an employee (E) or self-employed (A) (the left side of the cash flow Quadrant money) to be an owner (D) or investor (I) (the right side of the cash flow Quadrant money) because it was difficult to break the addiction to the way we are accustomed to earning our money.
The hardest part of moving from the left side of the quadrant, the right side is the attachment you have to the way you’re used to earn your money,” he said. “It’s to break a habit is breaking an addiction. That’s why we never stressed out Mike and me to work for money rather encouraged us to change our thinking and focus on growing how people , rather than make money.
Know your patterns
The first step in breaking addiction to money and the way you win is to identify the patterns that you have conditioned. The real problem is the change we need to ride within yourself and who you become in the process. For some, the process is easy. For others, it may be impossible.
For Kim and me, the most difficult to try to become people who generate their income in quadrants “D” and “I” part was that all of our past conditioning were holding us back . When we were really broken and more than $ 1 million debt, while trying to build a new business, it was hard to hear our friends say, “Why are you doing this? Why do not you want a job? “. For us it was very helpful to remember that this desire for job security was actually a defect of our conditioning. The world of money is a gigantic system, and all operate with certain patterns within that system.
When a person feels the need for money rich dad said, “An ‘E’ will look for a job, and ‘A’ will do something on your own, a” D “will create or buy a system that makes money, and ‘I’ will look for an opportunity to invest in an asset that produces more money. Break your addiction to money and how you win it requires an understanding of these patterns and how you operate when you face the fear.
Focus on your passion
Once you know the patterns of money and how to respond when you need money, the key to overcoming your addiction to money and the way you win is to focus on your passion rather than make money. You should be more concerned about keeping your dreams alive to survive financially.
Fear can often push our passion wayside. You will require courage and willingness to focus on your passion when afraid, but it’s the only way forward. The alternative is to simply give up and surrender to your natural patterns. But things never change that. Today, make an assessment of how you are living. Are you surrendered to the patterns caused by your addiction to money? Or are you breaking your addiction and following your passion?