Rich is evil, poor is virtuous.

I read with amusement the thread about the report on “Today Tonight”. Since I am new in this BB, I did not know about that MAP program and so had to guess a bit among the flaying tomatoes and other more subtle criticism.

Some rabid criticism I had a chance to glance at before they went the way of the dodo, and some acrid responses, made me think that perhaps I should write once more about my favourite subject.

I discovered 2 years ago that all I do and all the decision I take are based on information stored in my subconscious mind. Such information I learned, is the result of a life long of subconscious programming by all the people I take notice, and all the people that are more or less close to me, even the one that drop a sentence in my ear and disappear never to return.

Such values are unfortunately more times than not, a handicap to my progress. Someone convinced me that I cannot fly, I believed him. Later they told me I am not good at walking either, so I was using my wings as crutches, hopping and limping true life around imaginary obstacles.

This handicapping thoughts, Catherine Ponda calls “Limiting beliefs”, come in all shapes and forms but the one that has become my pet hate since then, because I not only discovered in myself but in about 95% of the population, is the universal concept of “Rich is evil yet poor is virtuous.”[8]

This boldface lie is preached in different variations from TV, radios, newspapers and pulpits all around the globe, and its nefast influence makes and keeps more people in poverty than third world country bank loans, Ayatollahs and equatorial heat put together.

It would seem to the untrained eye that on a BB like this, such concept should be already eradicated and that you should be all well versed in subconscious programming, and eliminating your limiting beliefs.

Well, the thread in question and others I have seen reading here and there, make me think that perhaps my words will not be wasted, and so I want to remind whoever wants to read this far, that in order to prosper, we must first become prosperous in our own mind.

Now perhaps you want to first define prosperity
What is prosperity for you?
That is personal of course but just a reminder, prosperity is money . . . . Yes! Shock horror! It IS money! And, … yes, also a lot of other things, I leave to you to share your own definition of prosperity if you want.

How can we prosper? Steve has written a fantastic book on one practical way to became wealthy with Real Estate.

Is that how we become prosperous?

No, that is not how we do that.

You can buy 100 properties, you can purchase 1000 properties yet, if you are not prosperous in your own mind, you will be as poor as when you first began with 0 properties. In fact you will find a way to sabotage your plans, to take the wrong turn, make the wrong decision that will turn you as poor as your thoughts are on the subjects. IF YOU ARE CONVINCED THAT RICH PEOPLE ARE CROOKS, EVILDOERS, SINNERS, MERCILESS EXPLOITERS OF THE MASSESS, your “conscience” the one that dictates your life from the safety of your own subconscious mind WILL NEVER ALLOW YOU TO PROSPER BEYOND THE LEVEL YOU THINK IT IS OK.

Do you think it is wrong to charge rent? To increase it? To possess houses when others don’t have one? Do you think it is wrong to drive a new Mercedes? What about a Rolls Royce? You think it is immoral to have a 80 footer and a Jet Ranger helicopter on the back deck to go shopping. What about getting a bunch of Tulips flown in from Holland for your wife? Take an international flight to have dinner in an exotic location and return the next day?

Well I say this to get you thinking that perhaps your belief system is not serving your purposes, and that perhaps you don’t know it but you also gloat over Renee Rivking’s incarceration and have a secret satisfaction when so called high flyers, “hit the dust”

I say that if you are one of those who are happy over other people’s misfortune (if those people have more money than you), well then perhaps rather than trying to find a way to purchase that elusive +cash flow property you should use your time in making your belief system positive and working for you.

Our prosperity starts in our mind, and then becomes reality in the material world. Unless we eliminate all the bias and resentment we have against other people’s success, unless we become able to celebrate such success in others, and believe that we deserve to succeed and that there is nothing wrong with wealth, we are wasting our time here. Start a Trust, buy properties but hate success and you will fail, that is mathematical.

I am Christian, as fundamentalist as they come, but I also say that the Bible is a very prosperous book.

The bible has been used and misinterpreted for centuries by many factions for political purposes. God does not want you poor; there is nothing virtuous in poverty, just like there is no inherent evil in prosperity.

God want you prosperous, a winner in all sense, spiritually as well as materially using the God given talents to the fullest. Read the parable of the talents, it is a revelation.

Love success, love it in others, celebrate others achievements and believe you deserve such wealth as well, see the other side of the coin, eliminate the satisfaction from others misfortune, and you will start prospering. The good RE deals will fall in you lap and you will not even know why or how.

May God bless you
and prosper you.
Marc