6 Common Motivations for Money Guaranteed to Make You Fail (Hint: You’re Doing At Least One of These)

There are seven common motivations that compel people to exchange their time and energy for money. All of them but one are completely insane.

Pick your current poison:

1. Survival

You need a few pairs of clothes, 200 square feet of shelter per family member and roughly 37 percent of the food you’re currently eating to “survive”—that is it, and that is all. Really you don’t even need motivation to get survival money. Do you own a cell phone? Congratulations. You’re officially an imperial space alien from another dimension compared to your great grandparents. If you could travel back in time to surprise them, they’d probably freak out and worship you once they saw all your stuff.

Survival shmurvival. Nobody just survives anymore—no one with Internet access to read this article anyway.

2. To have a lot of money

No lie, I know people who work themselves into illness trying to get money just to have a lot of money for money's sake. They don't even buy nice stuff or go anywhere. They just count it. Millionaire Next Door types. All of them need psychotherapy and Jesus.

I mean it's not even real money…. It’s pieces of paper representing debt. Maybe if it was gold and silver I could reduce their sentence to just "Jesus" and skip the psychotherapy, but… it's not. Off to the shrink they go.

Money is stupid in and of itself. Why not collect construction paper? At least there's a bunch of different colors, and you can cut it into fun shapes and stuff.

3. To impress other people

Literally this is the most insane reason I can think of for wanting money. Let me just say this, if this is you (Is this me? should be going through your head as you read this if you're wise. We always need to be double-checking): As you're digging your own grave every day in the marketplace frantically trying to fit in with the rich and foolish, just keep this one thought in mind…

No matter what you manage to accomplish, there will always be lots of people that make your level of wealth and fame look like you are the V.P. of the home renter's association in the projects by way of comparison.

Bought (leased) a Ferrari? Wow. Someone else owns one in every color. And a Bugatti. And a Phantom. And a staff of drivers. And every other car in existence (Jay Leno). And then there’s the actual manufacturers of the cars. And the international bankers that allow the manufacturers to be in existence. I could go on.

Got a big house? Define big. Does it look like these (top 10 biggest houses in the world)?

Slaved over a business and sold it for a few million dollars? Incredible. A 23-year-old kid was just offered 3 billion dollars from Google to buy a phone app that probably took six months to create. He's not impressed. Carlos Slim, the Mexican Mogul worth $79 billion (richest man in the world), probably thinks the 23 year old's company is "cute.” You're not impressing Carlos Slim, man, I hate to break it to you. You're not even impressing the kid. Or anyone.

Even if you somehow managed to become the richest man in the world, you're still just an ant eternally speaking. Picture the richest people in the world with the biggest and fanciest cars, houses, jets and yachts. When you wake up on the other side of eternity you are going to see clearly that they were less than the equivalent of a toddler playing with plastic toys. It all means nothing. 

Does this mean you shouldn't have nice cars, houses, jets and yachts? Of course not! If life hands them to you, by all means take them. I do. But I sure as heaven don't give a rat's crap what anyone thinks about it. I never have, and I never will.

The mistake we make is thinking other people are somehow inherently better than us. They're not. We're all equal no matter what we do or own. So for what reason should I want to impress them? That's like me walking into a class of kindergartners and trying to be the cool kid in class. Kind of.

Listen carefully because you're going to find this out the moment you achieve your definition of "success"…. No one cares! Not only does no one care about your success, they don't even care about Slim’s success! The richest man in the world, and no one cares. Guess what they care about? Themselves.

You want to impress someone? Care about them. That is the only way to genuinely shock and impress anyone. The reason? It's rare. Sad, but true.

4. To be able to party at the highest level possible

Admittedly, I empathize with you on this one. I used to live to party. Monday through Thursday did not even exist to me. But there is no escaping the end of this road. Don't watch the Wolf of Wall Street because it's disgusting, but ask someone who saw it what happens. OK fine, I saw it; I'll tell you. He ended up miserable, divorced, bankrupt and in prison.

Just… party at a lower level or something.

5. Power

Why do people seek external power? Because they have no internal power. Only weak people seek power over other people. And that is why we have the world the way it is… insane. 

Real power comes from within and it needs nothing from anyone. It seeks to give not to take and control.

6. To buy more stuff just to have more stuff

Ever see the A&E reality show Hoarders? Insanity.

7. Freedom (or "options")

Freedom is the only reasonable motivation for building wealth (in my mind at least).

Freedom to give what you were meant to give, freedom to live how you were meant to live, freedom to go where you want or need to go, freedom to provide properly for your family, freedom to take care of your health preventatively, freedom to enjoy more of the world.

Freedom to surround yourself with beauty. This is one of my personal favorites. I truly appreciate and am inspired by beauty. I always live in waterfront homes for the sake of beauty not vanity. I could drive a Lamborghini if I wanted, but I drive a Fisker Karma (that I got at half price) because I think it's the most beautiful car in the world. I wear diamond jewelry because I personally like sparkling. I make no excuses for it.

Freedom to _____________________ (fill in the blank with whatever you're currently not free to do because of a lack of that paper everyone calls "money").

So again… Why do you want more money? Your answer to that question may determine whether you actually get any or not.

My answer: freedom.

“I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.” – Gianni Versace

Article Source: 6 Common Motivations for Money Guaranteed to Make You Fail (Hint: You’re Doing At Least One of These)

What Is Your Center Of Influence

There are already plenty of books written about belief system, both scientific and motivational. What I would like to do is to share with you how my belief system works. Maybe it works for you too.

You see, I was never cut out to be successful in the first place.

I never did well in school - probably because I lost focus, playing around too much then. So I stopped after high school; I've never studied in a college or University before.

My job is rather "futureless" -- I ended up working on the streets selling greeting cards, door-to-door.

I don't come from a rich or well-off family -- that's also the reason why I didn't further my studies; it's too painful to take my folks' hard earned money that way. There wasn't any financial support for me to pursue what I wanted to do. We're your typical middle class family - my Dad's a cab driver and my Mum's a housewife. But most importantly, we're happy. I've never felt upset that we weren't rich and I'm proud of my Dad for driving a cab to take care of our family.

I don't have any special or unique talent -- I mean, there are people who are highly talented in sports, inventions, programming, arts, music, etc. that allows them to become millionaires. I don't recall having any of those talents.

I live on a small island -- not one of the big cities where there are plenty of opportunities. Although environment does influence one's success, I can confidently say that it's not entirely true. With today's technology, you can be rich anywhere you live.

I don't have any "connections"- some people became wealthy because they know the "right" people who can elevate them to the next level. I didn't have any entrepreneur friends or know of any millionaires personally at that time; nobody was around to guide me with advice about wealth and success.

I could have gone on, continuing with my ordinary life as it was... if it wasn't for a "vengeance" that I had.

Nothing evil. Not the kind of vengeance where it makes you want to kill someone or anything like that.

It's a feeling that makes you want to prove to the world that you're better than that.

But actually, in retrospect, I was just trying to prove it to myself.

It's the time when you deny your situation; denying that you're incapable of achieving more in life, that you're stuck with your existing, futureless life.

That makes me hungry.

You see, you got to have that kind of hunger, that kind of drive to BE successful.

When I was trying to achieve success then, I was beaten up emotionally from so many angles.

If you've been to motivational seminars, you probably know that you are supposed to network with other attendees. I mean, the Gurus teach that networking is important for success, right?

I kid you not, I was a very positive fella. But it seems like not many people wanted to network with me or wanted to exchange cards because I was nobody then.

You know something -- the more the environment and people dissent you, the more powerful you should become - not the other way around.

Instead of focusing on weakness, I choose to focus on strength.

The more they say I cannot do it, the more it fires me up to show that I can do it.

This is where I want to differentiate positive thinking from optimistic thinking.

Positive thinking is saying...

"It's okay, it doesn't matter that these people do not support me because I'm a positive thinker - I don't let negative thoughts affect me. They probably don't mean it anyway."

Optimistic thinking is saying...

"They don't support me - I accept that, even though I don't like it. It sucks; I wish it wasn't like that. But since that's the reality, what good can come out of this?"

And the answer to that question from an optimistic thinking standpoint is...

I'll take that as a challenge and I'll prove to you who's right.

But I guess the biggest breakthrough when it comes to tuning your belief system for greatness is...

"What is Your Compelling Reason to be Successful?"

If you CAN answer that question, you have the strength to walk you through the journey to success.

I've already given you mine. And it has become the major influence that propels me to become successful in both personal and business life - to become a millionaire, best-selling author and be at the same level as some of the most successful authors and speakers.

Now, compelling reasons usually don't come in a material form. For instance: a car, house or anything like that. Those are not your true compelling reasons.

Why? It's because your mind will ultimately "give up" and let you settle for less. So if your dream car is a Ferrari or something, at one time, you'll make the decision to say that it's fine... even if you don't drive that Ferrari. You'll just drive a more affordable car and forget about your compelling reason.

A compelling reason usually has a strong emotional attachment to it.

It could be an incident that happens in your life.

It could be something that you value – more than any material things in this world.

It could be your hunger for something greater, and you know you have to become wealthy in order for you to achieve that.

Have a compelling reason for yourself.

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