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Scarcity or abundance?

- What about my second question? Whether you’ve answered ‘yes’ or ‘no’ depends on your money mindset, which largely reflects your upbringing and your peer or reference group. If you’ve answered ‘no’, meaning you believe there is a defined maximum income y

answered ‘yes’ to my first question, you’d be technicall­y correct in asserting there is indeed a limited amount of money in the world... for now. between people who plod and those who soar financiall­y are imaginatio­n, creativity and tenacity.

Many of the world’s super-wealthy today started out with modest means or less. Most of their peers from those early years remained average all their lives, while these exceptiona­l ones broke free, from their socially-forged chains of financial mediocrity, and soared.

What caused them to succeed? Interestin­gly, a high IQ wasn’t the key differenti­ator. While being smart is better than being a dunce, the real distinctio­n seems to be the person’s capacity to identify areas of need in others and then being able to provide solutions in exchange for money.

People have endless needs and wants. We all know this. What I don’t know is whether you’re willing to work at providing them with some solutions.

It costs nothing to dream and imagine. It costs little to think deeply and read extensivel­y. Also it doesn’t matter how old you are; remember KFC’s Colonel Sanders! What matters is your ability to nurture within you the seeds of imaginatio­n, hope and service.

Siebold writes:

“...if money flows to ideas that solve problems, and ideas are limitless, money must be limitless. Once you understand the impact of this philosophy and integrate it into your consciousn­ess, you are on your way to a life of economic prosperity most people only see in movies.”

Malaysia is a free country. Therefore, each of us is allowed to decide for ourselves whether we believe we inhabit a universe predominan­tly saturated with scarcity or one that’s astonishin­gly aflame with abundance.

Choose well.

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