Do you fear poverty?
The fear of poverty is the most destructive fear and the most difficult to overcome, as it comes in so many forms and is often masked behind seemingly good thoughts and intentions. Allowing manifestations of this fear in your life will put obstacles in your ability to take actions to actually rise above poverty and become a successful person.
In order to understand if this fear is currently holding you back from action, you should check yourself for its tell-tell signs. Some of the symptoms are common for some of the other basic fears (especially fear of criticism and fear of old age).
Self-evaluation questionnaire
If you want to evaluate if this fear is holding you back, start asking yourself the following questions:
- Do you have no ambitions?
- Do you willingly tolerate poverty and accept whatever compensation you receive in life without protest?
- Are you lazy?
- Is your initiative on the low end?
- Do you lack imagination?
- Do you lack enthusiasm for what you do?
- How underdeveloped is your self control?
- Do you permit others to do your thinking for you?
- Is it difficult for you to set goals for yourself?
- Do you create alibi-es and all sorts of excuses that are designed to cover up for your failures?
- Are you envious of those who are successful?
- Do you criticize those that are more successful than you?
- Are you usually finding faults with others instead of finding them within yourself?
- Do you drink alcohol or take various types of drugs?
- Do you spend more than your income allows you to?
- Are you not careful of your personal appearance?
- Do you always try to find the negative side of every situation?
- Are you thinking and talking about possible failure, instead of concentrating on succeeding?
- Do you know all the possible ways you can fail, but do not search for the plans to succeed?
- Are you always waiting for the right time to begin?
- Do you remember only those who have failed and forget those who have succeeded?
- Are you a pessimist?
- Is it your habit to postpone until tomorrow what should have been done last week?
- Are you trying to find excuses and spending more time at it, than would take to actually do the job?
- Do you avoid to accept responsibility?
- Are you willing to compromise rather than fight for your goals and desires?
- Are you planning what to do if you fail, instead of making retreat impossible?
- Do you have low self-confidence?
- Is your enthusiasm on the low side?
- Do you expect poverty, instead of demanding riches?
- Do you associate with those who accept poverty, instead of seeking company of those who are more successful than you?
How to overcome the fear of poverty
To maximize your ability to obtain any form of material or spiritual riches, you should refuse any thought that is linked to poverty and start seeing yourself in possession of what you want.
In order to overcome the fear of poverty you should decide to start going forward with whatever wealth you can accumulate without worrying.
You should destroy the habit of worrying in all its forms. Use your will power to achieve this, as you need to reach the decision that everything that you can gain in life should not be traded on worries.
Say this to yourself every day until it embeds in your subconscious, at which point you will have faith it is so.
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