Let's Talk About Money

I was in Washington D.C. over the weekend visiting some friends and we went to dinner at one of my favorite French restaurants. I used to go there frequently when I lived in Washington, and did some consulting work for the owner at one time. It was a wonderful suprise to see my old friend Julien there, who is the owner of this fine establishment.

Julien immigrated from France over thirty years ago with nothing and has now become a successful restaurateur on the East Coast. We talked for while about how he built his restaurants into such a success, and I asked him when did he know that he had become rich?

His said to me, "I was rich when I was sitting on a park bench without a dime in my pocket." He said that there had not been the slightest doubt in his mind that he would soon have all the money he needed to do the things he wanted to do.

This is the perfect example of the way money works. Money is a product of your state of mind. How you think and feel about money determines not only how much you have but also how much value it will have for you.

Actually, it isn't only what you think and feel about money that determines the level of your financial security; it is what you think and feel about everything in life. Life's riches are measured not so much by the actual amount of money you have as by the content of your consciousness, your inner feeling of well-being, peace and security.

Are you rich inside? Are you free from worry, fear, feelings of inferiority, greed, selfishness and anxiety? You'd better be, because those states of mind will make anyone poor, no matter how hard he or she may work to make money.

Money isn't produced by hard work; it is produced out of our inner states of thought and feeling, our consciousness. Of course, hard work is necessary as a follow-up to our ideas and ambitions, but hard work by itself won't produce money.

Here's the most important lesson you'll ever learn about money: Money doesn't come from outside; it comes from inside.

Redirect your thinking about money, and the result will be a consciousness of prosperity. Know that you can be what you want to be, do what you want to do, have what you want to have, and go where you want to go, if you do within yourself what is necessary to make those things possible.

Begin to think prosperous thoughts; develop an attitude of positive expectancy. Know that the answers you need will come to you at the proper time.

Jonathan Swift said it best, "A wise man should have money in his head, not in his heart." When it comes to money always remember this: Money does not come from outside; it comes from inside.