Are the Rich Evil?

If you want to get some big reactions from people, start proclaiming loudly, “I love money.” A senior Australian journalist once said in the Sydney Morning Herald, “Bashing the rich in Australia isn’t something we do, it’s our national pastime.”

Now, it’s not okay to speak ill of religious minorities or different races, but when it comes to the rich, it’s open season.  However, this “pastime” comes with a giant price tag. For example, if you don’t like Protestants, could you ever become one of them? If you don’t like people from a certain political party, could you ever join that party?

Obviously not.

It’s the same if you judge those that have money. If you judge them, it’s hard to join their ranks, but before you proclaim you don’t, you might want to check this out.

An Eye Opener

I have had tens of thousands of people attend my seminars for over a quarter of a century. The vast majority of those people proclaimed they had no judgment on the rich – until we put them through some highly-advanced processes and questionnaires.

It turned out the majority of those people actually had made some big judgments on those who had money. They were often staggered at this discovery. And yes, those same people often struggled with money!

Now in case you are starting to think, “Gee, this Brendan Nichols guy is just into the money,” let me just say that money is only good for two things: To get a life and to give a life.

It is to create a life for yourself and to create a life for others.

Money provides freedom for you and your loved ones, and it is also for giving away to some great charities. That is its only purpose. If you are trying to create an image for yourself and impress others, then I think you are missing a big point.

At the end of your life, the only thing you take with you is the person you have become. The money stays here, so you might as well enjoy it while you are around and become a person you and the people you care about can be proud of.

Your Thoughts Can Alter Your Reality

Some of you may be asking the question, “How can a simple thought or negative judgment affect my ability to make money? Surely thinking is innocent. It couldn’t possibly affect my reality.”

Well, it turns out that scientists have proved that our thinking does affect our reality.

In one example, a group of scientists conducted experiments to find out whether the basic building blocks that make up our universe are either wave or particles. What baffled the scientists was that each scientist obtained different results whenever the experiment was performed. This made them look at monitoring the experiments in a new light.

They learned the results were altered by the expectations of the scientist who was conducting the experiment. Depending on their expectations, the basic building blocks of our universe showed up as either particles or waves. If the scientist anticipated they would be waves, that’s how they appeared, and if the scientist expected them to be particles, that’s how they appeared.

In other words, their thinking altered their reality, and that is apart from the obvious example I gave in the beginning: If you judge a certain group, then it is certainly difficult to become one of them.

So, Are the Rich Evil?

At the beginning of this article I asked the question, “Are the rich evil?” Here is what I can tell you:

Money is leverage. If someone is a jerk, then having a lot of money seems to make them a bigger jerk. If someone is generous, then money seems to make them more generous.

Money is inert. By itself, it’s not good, bad or wrong. It’s the same as a rock. You can use rocks to build beautiful cathedrals, or you can pick up a rock and throw it at someone. You wouldn’t make rocks wrong for that, would you? No, because they are just rocks.

It’s not the rock that’s good or bad, it’s just what you do with them that makes a difference.

It’s sometimes hard to believe that our thinking can determine our level of wealth. In my experience, it’s the primary thing. Andrew Carnegie, the world’s first billionaire, was the one that prompted Napoleon Hill to write the classic, Think and Grow Rich. The title of the book isn’t, “Work really hard, struggle, scrape and eke out a living, and then become rich.” The key word in the title is, “Think.”  

Want more proof?

Andrew Carnegie said, “I am no longer cursed by the affliction of poverty, because I have taken possession of my own mind.”

In other words, the rich aren’t evil; they have discovered the key to wealth creation by using their thoughts and actions wisely.

By Brendan Nichols

Brendan Nichols has the audacity to believe you should work a little for a lot and shows his clients how he averages three months holiday a year. He is financially independent and a best selling author, published by the giant publisher, Harper Collins. He has appeared in the media dozens of times and about a million people watched an exclusive ABC television documentary on him. He has trained tens of thousands of people, on three continents. He originally started from nothing and had several successful businesses before he was an educator. One of these businesses was a highly successful Real Estate project marketing company, where he launched major campaigns.Brendan’s specialty is showing you the steps to make more money and have an amazing life in the process.To get more information, go to www.brendannichols.com.