Why are some countries rich and others poor? Why is someone poor and someone rich.

Many minds of humanity are trying to discover the origins of wealth and poverty. And in accordance with their understanding of these concepts, they advise us different ways achieving the first and avoiding the second...

Business coach and popular lecturer Natalya Grace, in her book “Grace's Laws,” also tried to answer these eternal questions. She believes that there is a Law of Genetic Poverty, which is where real reason human poverty.

We bring to your attention 4 reasons for poverty, which unmistakably reflect the realities of our lives.

Factors of genetic poverty

Mentality

As children, we often jumped on the sofa at a classmate’s house while the adults were away. We were very pleased with the springs, which in some places came very close to the surface; I was delighted by the dust that flew from the sofa in clouds from our jumps. When twenty years later I went to visit my childhood friend, I was horrified to see in the corner the same sofa on which we jumped as schoolgirls.
As far as I could remember, he had not changed much, but now I was struck by the poverty and wretchedness of the situation. I mentally calculated how much it could cost to buy a new sofa, replace greasy chairs, and a mirror that was broken and sealed with chocolate wrapper. While we were talking, in my imagination I was whitewashing the ceiling and changing the wallpaper.

I wanted to wash the windows covered with flies, throw out the sticks and cardboard sticking out from under the sofa, the broken flower pot tied with a stocking. “What if money is bad?” - I thought... But my brain resisted and suggested that I buy at least an inexpensive adhesive film in the color of wood and cover the table with it. Everywhere I looked, my gaze came across some kind of damage, dirt, stains and debris.

My brain suddenly said to me: “Why do you think there is always dirt next to poverty?” Now I ask you the same question.

Even if you replace the word “always” with “almost always” or “often”, it doesn’t make it any easier. Dirt is not a manifestation of lack of money, but of mentality. Think about it: dirt is a manifestation of the corresponding mentality. And since dirt and poverty are neighbors, poverty is a kind of mentality.

Poverty is in an unwashed head.

Philistinism

At school I had an amazing literature teacher - Tamara Grigorievna, of extraordinary intelligence, a very insightful woman. She once dropped a phrase that I remembered for the rest of my life. Someone asked her what philistinism means, and she answered: “Philistinism means drinking from an old shabby mug when a new one is in the sideboard.”
This is the custom in many Russian homes: money is put aside for a rainy day, a new cup is kept in the sideboard for a rainy day, only a white day rarely comes, and the whole life is filled with black ones.

For those who live in anticipation of the future, it never comes. And then I realized this: it’s a shame to be poor, it’s a shame to be dirty. It’s a shame to have devastation in your head, which inevitably affects both the home and the mentality of children.

Living by waiting for the future leads to destruction.

Cinderella complex

I know one woman who saved money for more than twenty years to buy a dacha. She raised two daughters alone. The girls lived from hand to mouth, on nothing but porridge, and the eldest of them told me how ashamed she was to go out into the yard in old corduroy trousers with patched knees.
The girl grew up, and every year her pants magically grew. The fabric tucked underneath unfolded, centimeter by centimeter. It was not as faded as the rest of the trouser leg, and this betrayed the beggar's cunning. Apparently, this is where the expression comes from: “The need for invention is cunning.”

It’s not worth telling that the system in the state does not allow you to earn enough. I don’t criticize the system, but the rot in the brain. With the same money you can look decent or beggarly. When the mother finally bought a dacha, both grown-up daughters did not have the slightest interest in this dacha, but endlessly reproached their mother for not teaching them what it meant to be a woman.

The girls have developed a Cinderella complex. They, accustomed to seeing worn-out chairs and old dishes, shabby towels and coats from seven years ago, later, as adults, were afraid to spend money on themselves.

Every time they bought something, their mood deteriorated: they seemed to feel unworthy of new good things. This, my friends, is called in two words: genetic poverty. She is already in consciousness, in cells, in blood, in bones.

The fear of spending money on yourself makes you poor.

Subconscious programming

Children who see shabby corners are unconsciously programmed for poverty. Already in adolescence they begin to realize its severity. Even Anton Pavlovich Chekhov noted that shabby walls and dirty corridors have a bad effect on a student’s ability to learn.

Do you know why some are poor and others are rich? Why do some people work hard to get by, while others roll in money? Why does money come to some and multiply, while to others, if it comes, it goes away just as quickly? You will find answers to all these questions in this article.

1. Feeling sorry for yourself.

Poverty-minded people feel sorry for themselves and believe that they are not destined to be rich. Some people feel sorry for themselves for being born a woman (because men have more opportunities), others feel sorry for themselves for full figure(because thin people get better jobs), some people mourn their height, nationality, skin color, religion of their ancestors, some people feel sorry for themselves for not getting married yet, others cry because of a ring on the ring finger or because of a divorce stamp, the young see the source of problems in inexperience, the elderly - in their age. What do you think, if a person feels sorry for himself because of some unimportant fact and focuses on it all day, what will the people around him do? Feeling sorry for yourself is a great way to gain a multi-ton anchor that will stop you on the path of personal development and ensure eternal poverty. Feeling sorry for yourself is the best method of finding a low-paid job and finding a miserable existence.

2. Greed.

A constant search for a price tag with the inscription “Discount” and a store with a “Sale” banner, an unwillingness to pay for a good education for your children (because no one helped you), the desire to force employees of your own company to work as much as possible for as little money as possible - these are the right ones signs that poor people's second habit is already in you. The desire for total savings is not a sign of wisdom, but an indicator that you are experiencing an imbalance of income and expenses and are approaching its resolution from the wrong direction. A person programmed for wealth is ready to pay their real value for things and generously reward the work of his assistants - and expects the same from others.

3. Doing things you hate.

Katya hates washing dishes, but no one wants to help her. Ivan hates walking the dog, but is too lazy to build an enclosure for it. Sergei Petrovich becomes furious at the need to prepare a quarterly report, but none of his deputies are able to do it. Lisa despises being an auditor, but this is the only way she can pay for the loan she took out to buy a car last summer. All these people are ready for failure and poverty - the reason for this is the feeling that the need to do unpleasant things evokes in them. The key to breaking the poor man's third habit is to do not what is necessary, but what gives the most satisfaction. Only in this area will you achieve excellent results!

4. Measuring success with money.

A poor man is sure that only having a certain amount of money can bring him joy. Only a certain amount in the bank account can give him the opportunity to feel happiness through designer clothes, a beautiful mansion, travel, independence from his husband or parents, or quitting his job. But practice shows that happiness never comes. A successful person measures happiness in units that are more meaningful than dollars, rubles or yuan. What exactly - everyone decides for themselves.

5. Spending more money than you can afford.

Credit cards and smiling bank employees will be happy to help you get out of debt. After all, a person who does not want to become successful does not want to understand the difference between a useful loan taken to develop his own business and a disastrous loan to buy a luxury foreign car or a huge mansion.

6. Choosing instant benefits.

The desire to receive immediately and to the maximum is an eternal characteristic of poor people. They are unable to understand that when applying for a position with average salary in a reputable company, you can have much more in a few years than if you pay attention only to how much you get in a month. Students who are ready to fail say that the institute only takes away their time, which could be spent on “making profits.”

7. Whining.

Is life hard? Just terrible? There is discrimination, corruption, rudeness, crime all around - for you, to a normal person, there is no road to success? Every potential loser would agree with all this. The vaccine against this habit is creativity. Find unique opportunities to fight vices external environment, emerge victorious from an initially unfavorable situation for you!

8. Comparing yourself with others.

Petya thinks that he is better than his classmates, because he is the only one who graduated from the eighth grade with excellent marks. Vasya is sure that he is worse than all his friends, because he is the only one who does not work for summer holidays. Roma despises his brother because he doesn’t yet have a Lexus, which Roman bought yesterday. And Lena wants to strangle her friend because she has more fans. All these people have a well-developed eighth habit of a loser - the desire to compare themselves with others. Think about whether you need this habit or whether it’s better to avoid it. external world seizes control of the internal?

9. Measuring wealth in money.

Truly rich people have not only broken the connection between happiness and banknotes(having gotten rid of the fourth habit of the poor), but also crossed out the equal sign between the size of the account and the concept of wealth. Real wealth is the ability to attract money, create it from scratch, organize new types of business - and then you won’t be afraid of any tax taxes. prosecutors, no robbery or stolen credit card numbers. For real successful man does not depend on the volume of your own bag of gold.

10. Isolating yourself from your own family.

The greatest losers are those who withdraw from their family because their family members are unwilling to support them. Hard time, borrow money, understand, share beliefs and the like. They do not understand that the family is an excellent source of internal support that can be turned to when there is nothing else left in all other areas of life. Only the love of loved ones can help you rise from your knees when there is no hope left - and then true greatness is achieved.

Often people with almost the same abilities have only one difference: some are rich, while others are poor. Why is this happening? Why are you poor if you are so smart? Scientists have found the answer to this question. In order to become rich, talent and energy are not enough, experts have found the main ingredient for success.

Rich and poor

All the wealth in the world is distributed according to the 80 to 20 scheme: that is, 80 percent of the wealth belongs to just 20 percent of the living people. It turns out that the fortune of eight people in total is equal to the income of 3,800,000,000 of the poorest inhabitants of the planet, reports Rusbase.

There is an opinion that the more talented and more active person, the richer and more successful he is. Allegedly financial literacy and the right investments will help you become millionaires. The problem is that skills and talents are evenly distributed among all people. For example, the average IQ is 100, but no one has an IQ of 1000 or 10,000. Some people work more than others, but no one works thousands of times more hours than others. The only difference is that with approximately equal IQ and time spent at work, some receive 10 thousand rubles, while others receive millions.

How do people become successful?

To answer this question, scientists have created a computer model of human talent and how people use their skills. Everything turned out to be very simple: the richest are not the most talented. They are the luckiest.

In their computer model, scientists created thousands of people with different levels of intelligence and income. The program was supposed to demonstrate whether the smartest would become the richest in forty years. As it turned out, this did not happen to any of the most “promising” characters, even after thousands of cycles of the model.

The researchers concluded that maximum success never coincides with maximum talent, and vice versa. You are poor not because you are stupid or untalented. You're just out of luck.

I immediately suggest that wealth is understood not only as a big house, a beautiful car and a successful business. This is definitely important. But they are also important to me a good relationship in the family, five children and the opportunity to work only three hours a day, so that the rest of the time he can admire his beautiful wife.

I determined for myself the main criterion for wealth and life satisfaction - so that I don’t want to ask a goldfish for anything. Now I would let her go back to sea without extorting three wishes.

Just 10-15 years ago, my family lived in poverty. A car loan, a hired job for which he arrived in the dark and left in the dark. The worn-out wife - she looked much worse then than she does now. Eternal moving between rented apartments.

There is no secret, everything is like in nature - strong animals live better than weak ones. To be a tiger or a rabbit - the choice is obvious. Therefore, in my life, every day I chose paths, actions or actions that strengthened me. And also, if possible, he refused those that weakened him.

I'll start with friends and envy

If you are jealous, you lose power. If they envy you, you feed, take someone else's power.

During that difficult period, I saw how my best friends became more successful and richer every year. We bought new foreign cars, went on vacation abroad and dined in expensive restaurants. From time to time they invited my wife and me to visit and generously treated us. And my dull life then posed unsolvable problems for our family. For example, how to place two children in a budget hotel for free and without a queue kindergarten? How can I pick them up from there at the required 6:30 p.m. if my wife works until 7:00 p.m. and I work until 8:00 p.m.?

Then every meeting with friends was held for me under the slogan “I am a complete loser.” They treated me to cognac at 5,000 rubles per bottle, and I didn’t have money for a taxi to get home from another friendly party. To stop being hurt, I decided to temporarily cut off communication with some of my friends. And it saved me a lot of effort. I stopped feeling like a perpetual loser.

Wealth is fine, thanks to charging

Everyone knows that sport gives beauty and health, but I do sports for something else. I feel that it is especially important for the work of a manager.

I once got a job as a small boss at a newspaper with a staff of only 10 people. Some of the employees were older and more experienced than me. There was discord in the team, my orders were disputed, and often they were simply ignored. Then I accidentally started going to the gym and noticed that within 1-2 days after my training, for some reason my subordinates were not stupid and were afraid to fight with me. Apparently, some natural vibrations appeared in the voice, people caught this power and obeyed without a creak.

After a couple of days, this effect weakened, and I had to go to the gym again. Since then, no matter how busy my schedule is, I always train three times a week. Sometimes I go to training at 7 am, and then I go to work. Moreover, it doesn’t matter what sport you do, as long as you work up a sweat and without skipping a beat. Thanks to the gym, I became a “strong” manager.

About women's sports

My wife is forty, she gave birth to five children and does not manage anyone. But the desire to charge her batteries makes her work diligently for herself. She runs 20 kilometers every week and sweats for hours in the gym. Even when she was pregnant, Tanyusha always looked great. My wife is a witch. She feeds off the energy of the men and women around her who give her sincere compliments. This saturates her with feminine power, which she brings into the family and distributes between her husband and children. Compliments like these are worth sweating for.

Since we're talking about women

Behind every success of a man there is definitely female support. When we were poor, my wife never doubted her choice and my potential. A woman is the most powerful nourishment, a source of male strength. Tanyusha filled me to the brim with her words, care and patience. (Thank you, my love). And in the evening I returned home finished. She received me and fixed me up. Using a jack and other levers, I raised my ever-falling self-esteem.

If you are unlucky with your wife, I can reassure you. I also had no luck with her at first. During the first years of our marriage, she did not know how to nourish and charge me. And then I gradually learned through trial and error. How? Better ask her. An important criterion for assessing whether your wife is of high quality is the difference in her husband’s states when entering and leaving the house. If you leave your woman dead in the morning, it means she didn’t charge you.

Therefore, everything acquired in the family is definitely an achievement of both partners. Although my Tanyusha has been on maternity leave for the last 11 years, without her support I would not have even been able to earn enough for a good steak, which, by the way, is also an important source of strength.

About alcohol

In my opinion, alcohol gives our body pleasure and helps us fight stress. Builds bridges between people or adds courage. But these values ​​come at the price of loss of power.

One day eight years ago, while analyzing my state during the week, I realized that every Friday and Saturday I drank with friends, and the following Sunday, Monday and Tuesday I slowly came to my senses after a fun weekend. It turned out that five out of seven days a week I was out of condition, thirty percent effective. That is, he was a strong leader at work and a good husband in the family only on Wednesday and Thursday.

One day the moment came when I realized that my boring life was not in full swing, but was a sour swamp, and I decided to completely quit alcohol. For five years, not a drop in my mouth, even on holidays. During this period, I became incredibly strong energetically, like a flying locomotive, and the charisma of a leader emerged in me. Thanks to this, my wife and I fulfilled an old dream - we moved to live in the south, from Perm to Rostov (That's how it was).

I also had the strength to leave my hired job at a publishing house and build an enterprise with small branches in 15 million-plus cities with my partners. These were Butterfly Parks and Petting Zoos. We made a powerful leap, because I needed to invest somewhere the additional 70 percent of the energy that appeared thanks to giving up alcohol.

I'll admit, in the last two years I've returned to moderate friendship mode with beer and wine. That is, I don’t drink at all for eight months of the year, and the remaining four summer months I sometimes allow myself to have fun with bikers, hooligan friends and relatives. At the same time, I am aware that the flying locomotive slows down significantly because of this.

By the way, a little earlier I quit smoking. Not because of health, but because of the persecution of smokers by society. As soon as smoking was banned in offices, buildings and on porches, I felt disgraced. After all, I used to smoke in the office, at home, everywhere. Now I had to worry about how to quickly get to a safe place in order to take a drag.

A lot of energy was spent precisely on the fight against the outside world, which was opposed to tobacco smoke. Constantly met with sour expressions from supporters healthy image life trying to educate me. As soon as I quit smoking, the useless struggle with progressive humanity ended, and I immediately became much stronger.

Sleep is a source of strength

A person who does not get enough sleep is half weakened energetically and physically. He himself and everyone around him feels it. Therefore, every evening I go to bed strictly at 23:00 with the most boring and useless book about some kind of personal growth. And at 23:01 I’m already sound asleep. But at 5:30 I wake up on my own, without an alarm clock, process corporate email, read, write, study. These valuable two morning hours of conscious life alone, when the family is still sleeping, are very energizing.

Fresh and enjoying the new day, at 7:30 I plunge into the crazy world of transporting five children to schools, kindergartens, sections. In a frantic race to run errands big city. But always well-rested, therefore strong and pleased with himself.

How much rest do you need to recharge?

Once upon a time, my wife and I made mistakes by investing the small remains of family money in the hackneyed Turkey and Egypt. Usually we returned from an all-inclusive vacation upset, not wanting to plunge back into dull everyday life.

One day we were very lucky - the vacation began, but the money ran out. There was only enough for pasta by the fire and gasoline to the nearest sea. It turned out to be not even salty - Azov. For twenty days, with three children, we lived in a tent on a deserted beach, where, besides us, crazy surfers hung out. We were twice blown into the sea by the wind and flooded during a storm. It was the best and cheapest vacation of my life. It cost only 25 thousand rubles, including the cost of gasoline Perm - Dolzhanka - Perm. After this rest, I was able to demonstrate the miracles of unsinkability at work and get out of any difficult situation.

For ten years now, my family and I have been traveling with tents throughout our vast homeland every summer. Once a year I definitely go alone on extreme tours such as climbing Elbrus. Or on a motorcycle along the Great Silk Road.

After all, a holiday at a resort in a hotel does not energize you and as an investment of time and money is absolutely useless.

How to crawl out of a dull life when your always dissatisfied wife nags you? When younger children are sick and cannot go to kindergarten. Do older people come home from school with bad marks and comments? When your boss squeezes the last juice out of you and changes the rules of the game every time, trying to outsmart you. When you have nowhere to live and never have enough money? When not a single dream came true?

I will answer - we need to continuously introduce into our lives actions and habits that make us stronger. It doesn't cost anything. Often it is just a matter of choice or discipline. At the same time, it is important to give up everything that weakens us. Then if a lucky bird flies nearby, we will have enough dexterity and strength to grab it by the tail.

:))
Well, if you so wish, then here is a list of my positive affirmations.

Everything works out just great for me. Every day I enjoy life.
I'm very lucky. I am always lucky in everything. I attract success to myself.
I can do anything and am not afraid of anything.
Anything is possible if I want it.
I believe in my lucky star.
My life is wonderful and getting better and better.
I am filled with energy and joy of life.
Everything turns out easy and simple for me.
My health is great....:))

Tell me, Shura, honestly, how much money do you need to be happy? - asked Ostap. - Just count everything.
“One hundred rubles,” replied Balaganov, regretfully looking up from his bread and sausage (c)

In order for money to love you, you need to take the first step and also truly love money. So who doesn’t love them, you might argue. However, the whole point is that most people like money from the point of view of scarcity, not abundance. Often the very thought of money causes so much negative emotions, such a strong feeling of inferiority and discomfort that money begins to avoid a person!

Egor is a wonderful, intelligent young man with a wonderful and people need specialty of a massage therapist - ekes out a completely miserable existence. He receives a pittance for his hard work, allowing his employers to literally fleece him. At the same time, he often says that he knows many rich people who have a lot of problems, and that he would never change places with them.
Once in a conversation I heard the following phrase from him: “Or maybe I don’t need money at all? I'm fine as it is".
With all my sympathy for Yegor, I am forced to note that he is a typical example of a person professing the psychology of poverty. Until he changes his attitude towards money and values ​​himself and his time more, his income will remain at the same low level.
Money loves those who really love it.

For example, some people, having found themselves in an expensive store filled with beautiful things, instead of discussing the merits of, say, a luxury car, begin to look for its shortcomings, irritated at the thought that they cannot afford to buy it.
Irritation grows, transfers to the world of wealth in general, and as a result, people leave the store in a state of severe frustration. A familiar picture, isn't it? If only they knew that this behavior literally pushes money away from them. There is an “impression” in the Universe that money causes these people exclusively negative emotions, and if so, then, of course, money begins to avoid them!

PRACTICAL LESSONS
Exercise to attract money

Open your wallet. Look at it with a fresh look, as if from the outside. What does it say about you? Do the bills lie there, carefully selected according to their denomination, or are they crumpled, crumpled and mixed up? There are no small things when it comes to money. Money is a very strong energy and they love to be taken care of and cared for. Don't forget this. Make it a rule to tidy up your wallet every day, smooth out all the crumpled bills, arrange them by value and with one (front) side facing you. During this pleasant procedure, stroke your money, say kind words to it and end this “money massage” with an affirmation like:

My income is constantly growing;
Money loves me;
I am attracting more and more money to me.
This is me, briefly))