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Yes, I want to be rich. I am on the way of being rich. Money might create further problems but it also opens mysterious doors. Take it for what it is, a tool to open doors.

Like it or not Money rules the world. Whether thats a good thing or bad thing is arguable. But thats just the way it is.... In order to live a good life, provide for your family, enjoy the finer things in life, you have to make a nice income.

It also depends how you use your money and how you approach making money.

In this business a lot of people just want to take your money and run.
You have to treat people the same way you would treat yourself and not think of them as just another source of making money.

Money will always come if you have a good work ethic, good attitude, good to people and always being happy with what you have.

Ideally, yes, I would like to get rich. But honestly I wouldn't want to hit big money until my mid 40s at the earliest. I would imagine that scoring big money at my age (23) would make the rest of my life seem too easy/uninteresting. That and I would prefer to accumulate money gradually, to throw manipulative relatives and fake slip and fall scammers off the scent :p

I just want to live comfortably, be able to travel, and most important have control of my own life, not slaving away 9-5 for people profiting from my slave labor.

As Tevye the milkman said in Fiddler on the Roof when he was told that money is the world's curse: "may the Lord smite me with it! And may I never recover!"

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This is not about getting rich. It's about FREEDOM NOT MONEY! Imagine a life where you're completey free, carefree and independent. That what this Internet lifestyle can give you...it's awesome!
Having lots of money will not make you any happier than you are now. If you are unhappy now, you will also be unhappy if a Ferrari stands in front of your door...it's true.
If you think all you need to be happy is money, than that's bad news for you.
On the other hand, becoming free and working for anywhere in the world is what it's all about.

Cheers

Alen

You're right... We should give it all away and become monks or move-in with the Amish!

I see what you're saying, but you might be better off asking your friends this question in your fb status. Pretty sure anyone on the WF wants to make as much money as possible and not because most of them are greedy.

If you're afraid to make a bunch of money because someone might kill you, then I don't know what to say to that. I highly doubt someone is going to kill you for selling some ebooks.

I think that it's the LIFESTYLE people are interested in having more than the money itself. Money, by itself, has no intrinsic value. You can't eat it, you can't drink it and it won't keep you warm on a cold winter's night (unless you burn it).

What money does is it allows you to trade it for the things you REALLY want.

Honestly, I don't really have a desire to be rich.

I have a desire to meet my basic needs with a passive income-based business, so I can spend all of my daily time doing whatever I want.

tl;dr: I just want to be comfortable

There is a saying that once you get x amount of millions then the rest is irrelevant. In the millionaire next door it says once you earn $100,000 a year salary then more than that is not really neccessary for wealth building purposes. Sounds good in theory and probably for most that works as an axiom.

Sounds to me that you want to feel secure and your security is based off of a couple thousand a month. Good luck to you.

I've been poor, I mean don't know where I'm going to sleep, not sure I'm going to eat poor. Let me tell you not having to worry about money is the best thing in the world. They say money can't buy happiness, maybe not but it can stop a lot of the stress and buy the things that can make you happy. You don't have to live like a rich person or even let anyone know you are, but it's very nice knowing your going to be fine in just about any situation.

I want to be the dude that pays the rich people.

This about sums it up for the lottery example

If more money equals more problems
And More problems equals more money

Im going with cause a lot of problems

lol who doesn't want to be rich?

Money gives you options and it solves problems.

Agreed, I would rather be Wealthy because there is Rich and there is Wealthy but the Wealthy write the Rich's pay checks.

It's all about your relationship to money.

If you allow money to control your life, you will always have a tough time to be happy.

Money is nothing more than a meaning; for someone, money means more than for someone different.

If you make more money, you can do both invest and spent more.

I think if a person says money is not important to him or her, then I think this person lies in other areas of life as well.

more money more problems is just a P.Diddy lyric, you will have more expensive problems. But just think in your daily life how many problems are caused by lack of money.

How many of your problems can easily be solved with money. I know it can't fix everything but it beats living in fear of not having money if your car breaks down or something.

I love solving problems. I love challenges.

Making money is beautiful. The fact that people can vote by giving me dollars based on what we give, value, etc, is a good thing. And when they come again with a vote, it shows that we are doing something well.

It's like sex you both get something out of it.

If you don't like money you likely wouldn't like bartering. Imagine you have to give something of value to get something of value, so if it isn't working for you with money, then it wouldn't work with other ways!

It sounds like you have a bad association to money. Listen there is nothing wrong with money you just have a really bad association to money. Your perception amount money is very negative. If this is the case with money it's the same way with other areas of life. You need to change your perspective . You don't have to be negative, be positive

Prehaps it is good to quiet down your mind to see what you think about yourself as a whole. If you think well of yourself, you will see the good in what money can do to enhance your life. Money can't buy you real relationship , loev or kindness but it gives you the power to help those in need, help those in pain and help the extremely sick and poor.

It depends on which side of the coin you want to stand. If you think money is the root to all evil, then it will always be!

Just my two cents!

I don't care if I'm rich or not, but I would like to own a wonderful house on the lake with some land and an RV and a boat and some expensive toys. I would also like to have enough money to easily pay for the taxes and upkeep of all of these toys.

And honestly, I love money and all things money and I do believe that as long as you find money "disgusting" you will never, ever be rich monetarily. It's a law of reality or something.

I've always been fond of the line, "Money can't buy happiness, but it can sure as heck rent it!"

Hi cashtree,

You have got a very interesting point-of-view on money.

1) Money is awesome. It isn't evil.

2) I respect the fact that you are "rich in other area's of your life". Do you think money would take that away from you?

3) Watch this video right now: Dr. Dain Heer, DC | Access Consciousness

You owe it to yourself. The man is awesome; and has helped me.
Allow yourself to open up your views on money. Stop resisting.

Just because there may have been bad experiences for you on money, or you have seen other people abuse their 'power' with a lot of money, or all the things that were told to you about money when you were growing up - doesn't mean it's true, and it doesn't mean you would turn out the same if you had a lot of it.

I sincerely wish you the best on your path to understanding that money can actually HELP us move FORWARD to do beautifully-awesome things for ourselves and others in life. All the best!

"What if you were the difference the world requires" ~Dr. Dain Heer.

Hey Cashtree,

Your post made me start investigating a little. I know I was being a bit cheeky with my response and apologize if I came off as a douche since you seem to have more of a point than I originally thought. This little statement kind of sums up what I found:

People who start earning(not winning the lottery) a lot of money very quickly AREN'T MENTALLY PREPARED for it. And what happens is they sabotage - start partying too much, doing drugs, thinking they're having a good time. Thinking "I'm just doing this now because I'm celebrating my new lifestyle". Then it starts dragging out into months of constant self abuse and it starts to unravel without them realizing it because they're in a haze of alcohol and cocaine. Marriages fall apart, they may gamble it away - and after a while they start to lose control of everything, their businesses suffer and they wind up worse off than they were before.

I don't even think you NEED to make a bunch of money for this to happen, it's just that a whole bunch of money all at once facilitates it so much more.

Luckily, most of our businesses will grow more gradually --and that's a good thing, because we won't have that "Wahoo!" lottery winner effect and go flying off the deep end.

I don't think being targeting by other people who want to harm us is what we even need to worry about. It's ourselves.

Not to digress, but I've been a professional musician since I was 16 years old, working as a sideman in different bands. I picked up lots of bad habits very early on. Being a musician can be a real lowdown grind even if you're a "name" player. I saw some pretty unbelievable things along the way. When performers would start to get a bit of success they would start to spiral out of control like you can't imagine causing themselves tons of pain.

I don't even think you need to make lottery money for this to happen. What you said in your post is FAR MORE VALUABLE than I originally thought. We all should keep this in mind --even though most Warriors here are probably a lot more level headed and stable than I am and wouldn't be as likely to go nuts with the crazy party lifestyle !!

Thanks for sharing Cashtree --you definitely made me think about things.

Not really. Just the thought of it scares the crap out of me.

Isn't that a oxymoron? You just told us what is holding you back in your sub conscious from making a ton of money. Its up to you to change your sub conscious thought so you do not think of money like this. Your mind will not allow you to make a ton of money because of how you think of it.

as P.Diddy would say "mo' money mo' problems" that being true, it gives me a chance to make those ones i love and care for happy.

I'm sure it would be more money less problems for me

Money is not disgusting, people are. If you give money to a "disgusting" fellow, he will become worse and vice versa.

Since I am a decent person (and I am being polite ), I definitely want to make a lot of it. Only good things can come out of it

Tanvir

Why do people say, "more money, more problems". Thats simply not true at all. My father (and mother) are Billionaires. Yes that is with a B. And they have WAY less problems than I have. It does bring a few different issues up, but they are much better problems to have.

Would have been nice to win the MegaMillions jackpot and live off the interest.

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I think you have to work on your mindset. If you think of money as such a negative thing then it becomes almost impossible to attract into your life. Changing your mindset is the first step to wealth.

So many people have a fear of money on a sub-conscious level and don't even realize it. It will hold them back because they fear how money will change their life in a negative way so they never make it.

Yes, I want to be rich not just in money but also in attitude of handling it I want to use my money as well as possible.

Thanks for all great responses, I love the insight. I hope you all make a lot of money and are able to manage it properly when you do. I read that one of the lotto winners who won 300 million something in the past, they still clip coupons...and give to charities each year. That kind of stuff is awesome to me, that they *get it*, and i'm happy they won.

Here's where your entire post starts going wrong.

More money does NOT equal to more problems. Quite the contrary: More money equals to more means to solve problems.

I've been in both ends of the spectrum, both literally broke and wealthy, and I can assure you that it's MUCH easier to deal with problems when you've got money backing you up.

Since when having money is a bad thing? have we gone crazy or what? Geeez... :rolleyes:

Yes why not? being rich is one thing, and known publicly for being rich is another thing that inevitably brings all those problems you mentioned!

It's not just about money, it is about the freedom to do what you want with your life.

One of my motivations is to be able to give to those who are less fortunate than me. Of course I need to have enough money myself first ...........

Money helps provide a certain amount of freedom, so it's always nice to have lots of it!! But more importantly is to be able to find joy and fulfillment in life, no matter if you have a little money, or a lot!!

Money with a fool is money soon gone.

Money is always a problem, with little money you have problems, with too much money you will also have problems.. people who said they will have NO problems after making x amount of money have no idea what they are talking about.

Personally, I would rather have the problems of having too much money!

i guess money has the power to change your circumstances for the good, however it can attract a few bad aspects along with it, as mentioned in the first post, people treating you differently etc!
i personally want to be rich or a millionaire purely so i can provide for myself and my family, i dont intend on letting it change me by me giving up my job and becomming flash or a snob!

You don't hate money. You hate only currency notes - which rich people don't use much, anyway.

Lotto winners problem is understandable. When somebody is given more money than what he would probably save the whole life, it is only natural that they start having problems. You need recurring income to have better life, nothing feels as good as getting lot of money in your bank account every month.

The lotto winner didn't earn/work for the money, so didn't "build him/herself" up to owned it, hence it will flow away quickly - and attract all the troubles. He/she did not learn how to handle these.

A millionaire earned the money working on himself/herself and hence will be able to keep it/make more.

That's why if a millionaire looses his/her millions, he/she will be able to make it back.

Money can't buy happiness, but it sure can help you in trying to find it.

I, personally, would love to be very wealthy (think billions). If for nothing more than to experience that type of lifestyle for a period in my life.

Money is POWER. It depends on each person how to handle it whether for good or bad purposes. In this part Character plays important role. Money is a tool to help you control your destiny so you can live the life you want and reach your goals.

Is your money becoming too much of a burden? An extra bit
of coin and a growing bank account got you down?

To all those who believe more money equals more problems,
feel free to unload all excess cash to me whenever your
supply starts getting a bit too bulky. I'll step up to the plate
and accept this sacrifice for all of you.

I take payment via cash, credit card, check, and good ole'
PayPal. We can work out an ongoing relief valve for your
income streams if needed.

Your pm's await.

Sincerely,
James