Is acting being wealthy secret of being wealthy?

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Is Acting being Wealty the secret of being wealthy?

I recently had the good luck to spend a few days with some one who, for all the way he spent money, was living the way the other half lives.

He would think nothing of flying long hauls first class. He would spend lavishly on food, and as I saw it, waste money needlessly. I saw him have wads of money in his hands, and deal notes out to his less fortunate relations, as one deals out from a pack of cards. In that action there was no pride in him, no condescending attitude, but just a feeling of gratitude to God that he was able to do so.

With my recently found way of looking at things, I am left wondering if this person could act the way he could because he was wealthy, or was he wealthy because that is the way he was acting?

Whilst these thoughts were whirling in my mind, I received this email, which I cut and paste:


"I know so many people who work very hard and diligently and sacrifice greatly in an effort to create wealth. But they haven't changed who they are, and until they begin to think and act like wealthy people they'll never attract the wealth they seek. Wealthy people don't think and act the way they do because they have wealth. They have wealth because they think and act that way.

How many people are on a diet today who don't stand a chance of losing (and keeping off) any weight because they're still the same person who gained all that weight to start with. Let me repeat again, so you'll grasp how important this is: Slim
people don't think and act the way they do because they're slim. They're slim because they think and act that way.

To get what you want, you change who you are, and you change who you are by simply changing the way you think and act. And one technique for doing that which is promoted by a lot of wise teachers is to "act as if." If you "act as if" you're slim long enough, then one day you will attract slimness even though you may be 100 pounds overweight today. If you act as if you're wealthy long enough, then one day you will attract all the wealth you can imagine even though you may this moment be destitute and homeless."


I take this to mean that I do not spend beyond my means, but as I am spending, develop the feeling that I give this money graciously, with a lot more to come my way.

Wishing you all the best, Shree-1