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Plenty of millionaires still work like they’re struggling to make rent. Sometimes, this is because they didn’t set their business up to be sellable and release them from key responsibilities. Other times, they went nuts with their spending and now have to make more money to maintain their lifestyle.<\/p>\n
These people may have business success, but do they have freedom? They have lots of money, but do they spend their money wisely? They drive better cars, but do they still complain about traffic?<\/p>\n
As I laugh about it with my friends now, we still have problems but we have what we call rich people problems. My life partner Michelle also calls them champagne problems.<\/p>\n
These rich people problems may sound ridiculous, but it doesn\u2019t matter. To the mind a problem is a problem.<\/em> It doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019re rich or you\u2019re broke, middle-class or whatever. If you\u2019ve got a problem, your mind makes it the end of the world, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n For example, when I was broke, my problem was I didn\u2019t know how I was going to pay the rent that month. Now, when I find out that one of the resorts that we\u2019re planning on going to at Christmas time doesn\u2019t have any ocean-front rooms left, my mind goes, \u201cWhat the hell? I can\u2019t believe it! Two days ago it did. What happened here?\u201d<\/p>\n I know I sound like a jerk, but it\u2019s not me that\u2019s the jerk. It\u2019s my mind that\u2019s the jerk. You see, that mind is still the same. \u201cI have to get what I want. I\u2019m not happy if I don\u2019t get what I want. I deserve it. I\u2019m entitled. I should be this. I should be that.\u201d Blah, blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n All of these are just unhappy thoughts. So I notice it, and I think, \u201cWow man, okay, listen. There are hundreds of millions of people that can\u2019t even eat tomorrow, and you\u2019re worried about a frickin ocean-front room? Get a life, man.\u201d<\/p>\n I take a breath and I get over it, but it doesn\u2019t mean I don\u2019t feel the problem right away.<\/p>\n A problem is a problem. My reaction to the problem is the same reaction. I just get over it a little more quickly, and I know in the back of my mind it\u2019s not really a problem. I\u2019m just making up a big deal out of nothing.<\/p>\n So what I\u2019m saying is, rich is fantastic, but you have to allow rich to be fantastic just like you have to allow anything to be fantastic, so be now who you want to be later, especially if later is rich.<\/p>\n In other words practice being a person who doesn\u2019t worry; a person who enjoys their freedom as it is now; a person who doesn\u2019t let little things bother them.<\/p>\n We\u2019re creatures of habit. You take yourself with you wherever you go. If you want to be a happy millionaire later, practice being happy now. Stop waiting to achieve a certain level of success to be peaceful, practice being peaceful now.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re the kind of person that, even when broke, allows the best of a situation to emerge without it coming from a place of fear, or entitlement, or lack, then yeah, being rich will be awesome…if you let it be!<\/p>\n Share a thought or a story, we want to hear from you!<\/p>\n For Your Freedom,<\/p>\nChanging Your Mindset<\/h3>\n
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