It's a Matter of Training- Why The Rich Are Getting Richer While The Poor Get Poorer by Dannielle Fritz-MacDuff

One of the reasons that so many of us struggle financially is because we are trained to work hard for money rather than to look for opportunities that will make our money work hard for us.
All through out our academic careers we are trained to get good grades so we can get into a good college and a college education will get us a good job. With a good job we can work for 30 or 40 years and retire with a golden parachute and a pension plan. During most of our adult lives, we are taught to go out and get a job. There is the common consensus that getting a job is the only way to get money. We are trained through out our lives to look for jobs. The problem with this training is that a person's financial potential is limited to the amount of time a person physically works. If the person does not work, the person does not get paid. In addition, when you work for money, you are partnering with the government. With your time, you earn the money and then the government takes thier part before you even see the fruits of your labor. The government's share can be up to 48% just to the federal government when we add in state and local taxes, the government share of your hard earned money can be as much as 60% . It is much harder to get ahead financially when you are working hard and only getting to use 40% of what you have earned.
Our schools, society and ,many times, our families train us to work hard for money. The key to getting off of this financial hamster wheel is to retrain your mind to look for opportunities rather than looking for a job.
Have you ever noticed that when you are looking for a specific type of car, suddenly that car is everywhere? When you are looking for a new home, you begin to see for sale or for rent signs everywhere. When you want a job, you find a job.
If you want more financial control, you have to retrain your brain to look for opportunities that make money for you, with out a lot of time or effort from you rather than looking for a job.
The opportunity of a lifetime comes along about once everyday. If a person takes the time to retrain his/her brain to look for opportunities rather than look for a job, opportunities will begin to pop up everywhere.
I have a challenge for you:
Spend one hour everyday looking for an opportunity. You do not have to spend one hour all at once. Spend 10 minutes looking through the classified adds or driving a different way to drop the kids off at school. Take note of opportunities during your regular routine.
The opportunities that you find will be your opportunities and different from my opportunities. Your opportunities will come a combination of your creativity and what you see.
Then persue those opportunities. Do not let what you see limit your potential.
Forget the idea that there is only one right answer to any given situation. Rather than saying 'I can't do that because I don't have this.' Ask yourself 'How can I do that?'
Happy Hunting.