We regularly hear people saying that they cannot start a business because they lack the initial capital. Others who have managed to gather this starting fund, they actually go into business but the money slips through their fingers and they lose it all. We have even seen people win large sums of money in the lottery, win a good contract, then a few months later find themselves empty-handed and sometimes even with large debts. At what level can we situate the real problem and try to explain this controversy?
It seems to me that the problem may lie at the very level of our perception of financial success. Because it is not enough to have an initial capital, win the lottery, get a good contract to automatically experience financial success. You can have an initial capital and not know how to sell, nor know how to welcome customers or even release energy all the time that pushes others away instead of attracting them to you. Some engage in business not to serve others but just to get rich. Still others do the business while constantly rehashing in their mind thoughts such as: times are tough, money is not flowing, I am not going to make it, the rich are boastful and thieves etc. How can you want one thing and its opposite at the same?
Often, we attribute failure in business to bad luck. Chances may play a role. But luck only smiles on people who are prepared. Because it is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. But you also have to be the right person, that is to say a person equipped with the skills and abilities needed at that time and in that place. It will be difficult for you to experience financial success if you do not have the ability to generate money and keep it without losing it, or to meet the challenges inherent in getting rich (increasing your market value, good management of your income, taking calculated risks… in short, increasing your financial intelligence).
How can you reach financial success without starting by doing your homework, that of working on yourself (your ways of thinking, your beliefs, your character, your state of mind, etc.)? Do you know that the program that determines your results resides inside of you? Does your inner program condition you to think and take actions that lead you to success? And if you are conditioned to succeed, is your financial mindset () tuned to achieve the amount you seek – T. Harv Eker talks of financial thermostat because the reality is that most people do not exploit their full potential? This is why, I like to say that each of us must determine at what level he/she wants to play the money game.
It should be emphasized that to experience financial success, we must avoid focusing only on the physical reality, “the capital” but; we must also take care of our inner world: mental, emotional, and spiritual which accompany us in the process of carrying out our projects. “The energy is contagious. If you want to fly with eagles, you will have to stop swimming with ducks” T. Harv Eker.
Coach Jacques Mutikwele.
