Free Your Mind And Your Wallet Will Follow
In the past few posts, we’ve been looking at how to work yourself free from wage slavery.
We mentioned:
And now we have to recognize the truth about wage slavery. It’s just a mentality. It’s a state of mind. To change, you have to be ready to take on a new way of thinking.
People choose occupations for a range of reasons. Some of them are good. There are people who like what they’re doing and would do it no matter what. However, if you’re stuck at a job that you dislike, the most prevalent emotion that drives you to work each day is probably fear.
We’re afraid to lose money. We’re afraid to lose our job. We’re afraid to look bad on the job. We’re afraid to let our colleagues down.
Fear rarely leads to success. It leads to control and more fear.
To shed the wage-slave mentality, you should start thinking confidently. Thinking confidently leads to confident actions. When you start taking action, you can transform yourself from becoming a wealth-creator, not a wage-earner.
You say you’re not ready to make the leap? Great. Gaining confidence doesn’t have to be an overnight change.
Just take the first few, small steps. Next week, we’ll explore how you can slowly and steadily change from working for a living to just living.
is one of my favorite financial books of all time. It's an allegory about a guy who has a terrible job, and how he overcomes challenges to achieve his dreams.
