Frugality creates a sense of scarcity.

You've probably heard that to be rich you have to be frugal and keep a kind of spartan life style squeezing cents.
It is a trend in now the U.S., get all discount coupons as possible and always borrow things.
Sell ​​your possessions, and buy only generic brands and always be deprived of everything that is considered a luxury.
Well, this is fine for a limited period of time or if you are overwhelmed by debts and creditors are chasing you and the bank too.

But you see, by always living a very frugal lifestyle with a mean and lean spirit you're telling your subconscious that you are always poor, what are you saying to your spirit?
We're saying that there is nothing, no resources, wealth and prosperity that you will always be poor. It is a message of scarcity and constant need.
I know that you will say this: after all you've written about frugality, spend less and invest the rest and all the rest, now you say you do not have to be frugal and go the opposite way?

You have to balance things of course! Now, if you pass in front of a flower shop and see the most beautiful bouquet of flowers there for the woman you love: buy it!

The question is that frugality as a lifestyle is part of a strategy in limited periods of time, for example if your account is in the very low numbers and you have a lot of debts, then get out of the trap first, because having many debts keeps you from living in peace and makes you a work slave.

After all, it is much more creative and interesting to invent new ways to make money than sacrifice your self and your family to see how to save it.

Just balance things, love is first, obsession is craziness.. and life is so beautiful!

When you focus on concrete needs you become a slave of poverty...

    .. Once he reviewed  his life, he got conscience that the only time that he wasn’t poor were the years where he did not have concrete needs. And it became clear that poverty is a state of being and his concrete needs overwhelmed him.

Sayings of Don Juan, from the books of Carlos Castaneda.

And Don Juan explained when he’d lost the feeling of detachment and of freedom, he also lost abundance.

Money and abundance are a little bit as a couple: if you stick too much you lose your inner independence and lose important objectives in your life and that’s the beginning of problems.
But Don Juan had to have abstract needs or goals of freedom and then money and abundace came in automatically.

To make money do not get obsessed with money

And the fact that you get obsessed with every new cent, with every new earned dollar, makes you turn your search of the Holy Grail of the financial freedom into a banal way of materialism.

And on the other hand there are those who get obsessed so much with  saving and living a frugal life that they turn the way to economic freedom into hell.

Balance

After all it is better not to get obsessed with anything but: which is the correct attitude?
It is not  a question of confusing detachment with lack of concern and negligence.

You have to be careful and take the responsibility  to live a better life and not waste it. Negligence and obsession are two forms of materialistic slavery, there are those who are really  poor even having fabulous income but they live as real slaves.

There are those who worry about not having enough to fulfill their minimal daily needs, these also are poor.

Make your life simple

And keep yourself from having so many things as they impose you by the mass media: just disobey, you don’t have to do exactly as  the others do, nor to buy exactly the same things as all the others just because it is trends or fashion.

But this is necessary to do it without resignation or sacrifice, but just because all those things are not important anymore, because we are heading to more valuable and more lasting things.

One of these things can be the freedom of living without credits and without paying exaggerated interests rates that hinder our freedom of choice.

What really counts is our perception of things ... what we really want from the bottom of  ourselves.

When was the last time that you did something that really you wanted to do, without being concerned with the opinion of others and without waiting for the approval of the others?

When will be the next time that you will do it?

Why do the rich get richer and the poor remain poor?

What do your coworkers talk about?

Poker, football, ...and all kinds of critics and gossip and if you happen to talk about money, personal finances or a different way of life they look at you as if they were seeing an alien.

In the mean time they play the game of running after the carrot without ever reaching the goal, like in the rat race, as if work were a god and the only visible target.

Is a rich person smarter than you, or more beautiful than you?

Of course not! But it is a person who just know the tax laws, knows how to pay less taxes and get taxes exemptions and if he doesn’t know he will pay a counselor who knows. He sees the opportunities, rather than complain about the crisis, and is always searching for new business opportunities and buy assets cheaply.

This is my advice: learn personal finances, learn how it works and control your money.

Why does a football player make so much money?

Because they are smart, because his career "only" lasts until age 35, because they have the gift of speech? no!
Simply because there are millions of eyes that look at them! They make their living from the mass effect, that's all and they don’t even need to be the best on the field.

You have the right to not like it, and even to desire to forbid it .. I know how easy it is to design an enemy, a face, a profession that bother us.

Our boss has fired himself, he has earned enough millions and is retired from the game, he has become really rich! And that gives us something to do something to criticize to give us the impression that we are right and above everyone else so we don’t have to question ourselves and our own lives.

You can be right or get rich, that's up to you, and when I speak not necessarily of having millions to be wealthy.

Wealth is a state of mind that is inside you

There are certain conversations which are monologues, in which you can not convince anyone nor be right, be vigilant and keep your eyes open, the poor and their "good" counsels are everywhere and while they talk about their banalities I think of riches and the abundance that I have in the middle of this world.

Those who live a life of wealth are truly discrete and think in a completely different way and they don’t need to convince others with their beliefs to always be right, they just have the courage to be true to their own ideas and have the courage to live them.

What do you think?