What is Your Wealth Image?
As Published in Mentors Magazine - July 2002
by Christina Gage and Shelly Gore
A positive wealth image™ is the key to your success. Like a self-image that can limit or expand your ability to prosper in business and your personal life, a wealth image™ is the wealth esteem™ and prosperity confidence that determines how far you'll go on the road to financial success. This is why your wealth image™, the sum total of your conscious and subconscious feelings about money and success, has such a powerful and profound affect on your financial life.
Over the years of teaching people how to create wealth and success in business and life, we've discovered an amazing secret: It doesn't matter how many techniques or strategies you know, if you have a negative wealth image™, you will fail or continue to stumble along the road to success.
One of the most important steps you can take toward your financial freedom and success is to discard your negative thoughts and ideas about wealth and develop a limitless, positive wealth image™. If you are not currently living at the wealth level you desire and deserve, chances are that by making some wealth image™ improvements you will open the floodgates for abundance to manifest in your life.
Here are three practical tips that you can do right now to instantly boost your wealth image™.
Tip #1: Question Your Money Assumptions
What you have learned to believe about money profoundly affects your ability to attract and manifest it. Just as many of us have a negative self-image after a lifetime of being inundated with unrealistic advertising featuring "perfect" people and ideal situations that have nothing to do with reality, many people also have a negative wealth image™ from years of being bombarded with false ideas about money. These influences, whether subtle or overt, have been instrumental in defining your current wealth image™.
We've mentored many people who have parents or grandparents that grew up during the Great Depression and passed on a legacy of their own financial fears to their children. These children, as adults, then passed it on to their own children. Instead of growing up with a psychology of abundance, there was a constant 'waste not, want not' feeling of lack.
In the same way, our peers, educational system, communities and society have passed on other limited beliefs and emotions about money. For example, how many of us were taught that "money is the root of all evil" or that wealth corrupts one's integrity? Do you know that the actual biblical reference is "the love of money is the root of all evil" and that wealthy people are often great philanthropists who use their wealth to benefit society by giving billions of dollars to charity every year? Yet somehow these "myths" persist and affect how many people perceive and relate to the abundance of money.
Take some time to write down all of the things you've learned about money and all the impressions you've developed about abundance or a lack thereof. Look for subtle influences and emotions about money, especially fear and doubt. With an honest assessment of your current wealth image™ and how it was developed, you can radically change your financial future by simply freeing yourself of these limiting beliefs.
Tip #2: Project a Positive Wealth Image™ to Become a Wealth Magnet
We get back from the world whatever we give out. Worry, doubt and fear can be self-fulfilling prophecies. And so can positive thoughts and emotions. When you exchange negative beliefs and emotions about money for positive ones, you are in harmony with receiving money, and you start drawing money to you.
This principle can be seen in harmonic resonance. If two guitars are next to each other, and a string is plucked on one, the vibration will resonate on the other. Harmonic resonance works with people, too. Your positive wealth image™is contagious, and will cause people to support you and help you in your success. It will also cause other successful and wealthy people to want to be around you and to do business with you. When you resonate with a strong wealth signal and a vibrant and positive wealth image™, you get back strong wealth results. This is why the rich get richer.
The majority of people have an income that is the average of the money earned by their ten closest friends. Boost your wealth potential by using your positive wealth image™ to attract millionaire friends or mentors into your life. Take seminars from people who have extraordinary wealth esteem™. Read stories about successful people who have overcome obstacles to create outrageous success and let their story become your story. Follow these steps and you too will become a wealth magnet.
Tip #3: Carry Your Wealth Esteem™ With You Wherever You Go
Always carry at least one crisp $100 bill in your wallet. This will immediately affect your wealth image™. It is equivalent to the hip new haircut or outfit that can completely change your self-image simply by having it. With your $100 bills, you will immediately feel the influence of having wealth in your pocket wherever you go.
You will also get some direct feedback on your own money emotions. Do you fear losing your $100 bills or do you feel unworthy or uncomfortable carrying them? Feel these things, but just keep carrying the bills until their influence starts to fade. As your wealth esteem™ grows, you will feel comfortable and happy always having wealth present in your life.
Create a Positive Wealth Image™ for Life
Just as our self-image is constantly under attack by our own doubts and fears, as well as unrealistic advertising and media pressure, there will always be external influences on your wealth image™. Cultivating a positive wealth image™ is an active, conscious process of consistently letting go of any limited ideas about money and embracing a new reality where wealth and success are easily attracted and nurtured. Soon your wealth image™ will become the great habit that rewards you with all the riches that you deserve.
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Christina Gage and Shelly Gore are the founders of MillionaireWomen.com, a network of mentors dedicated to helping others manifest their greatest dreams and live a rich and abundant life. Millionaire Women, Inc. offers audio programs, teleseminars and personal mentoring for success in business and investing. For information or inquiries, please send an email to Success@MillionaireWomen.com.
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