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Are You a REVERSE Money Snob?
Ann Vertel
We developed our attitude toward wealthy people from the messages we received while growing up and we all have some bias toward wealth or the lack of it.
Women tend to be almost twice a biased against the wealthy as are men,
believing they are greedy, snobby, selfish, and self-centered. I've heard this
myself when talking with women who praise themselves for being able to survive
on so little and feel superior because of it. Because they view the wealthy with
such disdain, they will never allow themselves to become one of them - they are
reverse snobs.
Your ability to become wealthy depends largely on your view of wealthy people.
If you see them as inherently frivolous, unhappy, and lacking in values, you are
not likely to allow yourself to become one of them. You might console yourself
in your misery by feeling that you are somehow "above" those people. Its false
flattery and a trap that will keep you perpetually mired in debt and lack. Don't
fall for it.
Choose wealth.
You will not become a different person simply because you become wealthy. If you
are stingy now, you will be stingy then. If you are generous now, you will be
generous then ? probably more so. And if you live a life of moral righteousness,
what on earth makes you think that your morals can just be bought with money? If
you are morally upstanding now, you will continue to be so when you are wealthy.
But then, you will also be a more visible model for others to follow.
If you have allowed yourself to be an under-earner and under-achiever, making
far less than you are worth simply because it alleviated any guilt you might
feel for being wealthy, you are also a reverse snob.
You have given yourself permission to feel superior by being poor. This is
simply ridiculous.
God did not design you to be average or content with mediocrity. He blessed
you with the ability and the opportunity to become enormously wealthy so that
you could go out and do more good in the world. He expects you to live up to
the life he gave you. Would you want any less for your own children?
Now go be a millionaire! About the author: Ann Vertel,
http://www.MondayMillions.com,
Success Coaching for Women Entrepreneurs!
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