A Poverty Mentality
Creates Destructive Thoughts

Change Your Thoughts To Positive Thoughts

You and I both know that a poverty mentality leads to destructive thoughts that will not change your life for the better. It's only when you change your thoughts to focus on postive thoughts or ideas is when change will happen in your life.

Many lottery winners, especially those who take a lump sum are now poor. How could that possibly be? Many people think that if they could just win the lottery, their whole life would change for the best.

They think that once they win all that cash, then all their problems will disappear. Therefore, week after week they buy lottery tickets, hoping to win.

People Loosing Money After Winning The Lottery

There was a man in Pennsylvania who took home 16.2 million dollars after taxes. He had a lump sum of 16.2 million dollars! All of that money is gone and he now lives on social security. These are not isolated incidents. Circumstances just like these continue to happen repeatedly. What is the reason?

A recent study of people who come into a windfall shows that they will typically prioritize buying a house as number one in a list of twelve choices, while investing is at number eleven.

I've never met anyone who said, "I like being poor." It's just the opposite, is it not? Most poor people would readily admit that they don't like being poor. They are tired of just getting by. They are tired of scrimping and doing without just to make ends meet. They are tired of one financial crisis after another.

Perpetually Living In Lack

And, worst of all, they think that none of this plight is their fault. They see themselves as victims in this cruel life. They don't see anything changing. They see themselves destined and shackled to a life of poverty, unless of course, they win the lottery.

So, what happens if they do defy the almost impossible odds? Winning the lottery may give them some cash, but it doesn't change their poverty mentality mind set. They may be distracted for a while, but they still carry the same poverty mentality wherever they go, and whatever they do.

Change Your Thoughts And Form A Better Relationship With Money

It is our habitual mental attitudes that do shape our lives. Your lives can and will change as you change your thoughts, and change what we dwell on. This is true for positive and negative thinking. The Bible says, "As he thinks in his heart, so is he." That is absolutely true for positive thinking as well as negative thinking.

Change Destructive Thoughts To Positive Thoughts

Change your mind by focusing on the things you do desire, instead of thinking, focusing on and complaining about the way things are right now. Continue to think about where you desire to go and what you desire to accomplish.

Change always starts with thoughts first. When those thoughts get into your heart there will be change.

Change your poverty mentality!