Money doesn’t solve everything but it usually helps.
Money isn’t inherently evil – it’s just a way to exchange goods and services without using barter or clam shells or some other method.
You swap your time and abilities for an amount of money and then you swap that money for things you want and need.
Ideally without selling your soul to the devil or relying on getting an unexpected windfall.
How can you attract more money into your life and still keep your values?
Our society works by paying people according to how much “value” they deliver to other people.
I put the word “value” in quote marks there as it’s very subjective.
Personally, I don’t pay much attention to sport. So the value to me of a world class athlete is as close to zero as it’s likely to get.
But a lot of people like watching sport so they’re prepared to pay a lot of money to do that, buy the associated merchandise and generally send money to the athletes involved.
Which means that a few sports stars are amongst the highest paid people around.
Likewise some pop stars (and it usually is popular music, not classical) and some movie stars (again, movies, not stage) get paid millions to entertain people.
Of course, the majority of people in these areas – as with all other areas in life – get paid a lot less.
But the potential for more money is there.
In contrast, the average cashier in a shop doesn’t add much value.
Maybe a smile and maybe pointing you to where an item you couldn’t find is located. But, in reality, not much more than could be done by a machine. Which explains why self service tills are increasing – they’re cheaper, don’t take sick days (although they can break down which I guess is their equivalent) and are generally more consistent than a cashier.
Likewise a lot of other low-ish paid jobs.
Which means you need to take a step back and figure out how you could add more value to what you do.
For instance, some cashiers have discovered that they have a knack of knowing what would suit people best and they’ve turned themselves into personal shopping assistants, advising on clothes or decoration or other things. That usually pays rather more than the minimum wage.
Burger flippers have morphed themselves into either owning the restaurant they used to work in or owning their own restaurant or catering events for other people. Much the same job in essence but with higher added value.
You need to work out what you can do differently to attract more money
Self help protagonists would claim that all you have to do is think about what you want and you’ll attract it into your life.
To an extent, that’s true.
The law of attraction works for us to attract what we focus on.
If you’ve not investigated the law of attraction, check this out – it’s one of the better programs I’ve used.
But it’s a lot more than just thinking positive thoughts.
It’s focusing those thoughts so that you’re not continually side tracked.
So if you have trouble keeping your focus, start training yourself to do one thing at a time rather than pretend you’re multitasking but are really just being a busy fool.
Then work out what you enjoy doing and whether you could turn that round to earn yourself more money.
That could be almost anything – painters manage it (some even manage it in their own life rather than posthumously); chefs manage it; odd job people can attract more money – there’s a lot of people who need help around the home doing small, fiddly jobs and they’re prepared to pay for it.
There are even people who attract more money by assembling flat pack furniture for those who always end up with a wobbly construction if they do it themselves.
So you don’t have to be ambitious to attract extra money.
You just have to think slightly differently.
Maybe that needs to start by overcoming a fear of money – deep down, a lot of people repel extra cash in their life because even deeper down they’re actually afraid that it would change them for the worse.
More money isn’t bad!
A lot of the most generous philanthropists were extremely rich.
They gave a lot of their money back to society – Bill Gates is doing that with his charities, Andrew Carnegie did it a century or so ago, lots of rich people do it.
Or they put money into “fun” but risky projects.
We wouldn’t have private space launches without that kind of investment. And they come from people who have the spare millions to take a punt on something that could benefit a lot of the world.
So it’s definitely not a bad thing to have more money in your life – you can do a lot more good work with a few spare thousands or millions than you can with a bit of small change.
I’d go so far as to say that you are actually obliged to earn more money so that you can bring the benefit of it to more people.
Money is near enough limitless in amount – there’s more on the planet than there ever has been and that’s still increasing.
Standards of living are improving and will continue to improve.
All because some people have decided that attracting more money into their life benefits more people than just themselves.
So make a decision to increase your value to other people, earn more cash and then do more good things with that cash. Whether it’s expensive “toys” for yourself or travel or charity spending or anything else that fits with your purpose in life.
And if you need help with attracting more money, check this out.
Our society works by paying people according to how much “value” they deliver to other people.
