Fat Cats and the Filthy Rich

I was doing some research yesterday for a programme I am running showing people how to improve their finances.

The programme shows people how a negative way of thinking can impact on their finances, in particular its important how we view the wealthy.

Googling for images for the programme I was amazed how many negative images there were of the rich. Now don;t get me wrong some wealthy people are hard to like (especially the younger ones with inherited wealth!!!) but it's not healthy to have such a poor image of wealth.

Try it yourself, google 'rich people' or similar phrases and see what it brings up.

I was amazed talking to a friend who told me stories of how differently he gets treated when he drives his Bentley as opposed to his Audi. How strangers shout obscenities at him for being 'rich', how harder it is to find a gap in the traffic and how often the car has been scratched.

So what does it matter? Why am I bothered about the rich getting a bad press?

Well I'm not bothered about them, I'm bothered about you.

If we are surrounded by bad images of the rich, if the names we attach are "filthy rich", greedy, pigs how will that affect us?

Our unconscious mind is more powerful than our conscious mind. We can tell ourselves that we want to be rich but if we have poor images of rich people are we really going to want to be rich?

Are we going to want to be one of those people that our family and friends dislike and resent?

What will our friends think of us if we succeed? Will our family talk to us, will we have anything in common?

Negative thinking like this will hold us back in our wealth goals no matter how often we tell ourselves we really want to be rich.

So do yourself a favour and next time you see the guy in the Armani suit step out of his Aston Martin give him a hug, rich people are human too and they deserve to be loved ;-)

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