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Do you want to stay poor ?

Well do you?

Heres the thing. It takes a selfish person to stay poor.

Not being poor but staying poor.

Yes, lots of people tend to think of poor people as being kind, and wealthy people as being greedy and selfish, but I believe that the truth of the matter is the longer you stay poor, the more selfish you really are.

Let’s think about this a little before you start throwing things at me for calling poor people selfish.

Is this you? – you run out of money right before payday…

You are only one paycheck from being homeless as they would say…

You think only about yourself and those closest to you…

How will you eat, how will you pay the rent, how will you make the car repayment, how will you get to the next payday?

Now sometimes you show your kindness by helping out one person here or there, as long as it doesn’t stop you from eating.

But really – are you changing the world? NO.

Mostly your everyday actions are pretty selfish; thinking about you and yours.

You aren’t thinking about starving people in Africa – after all there are starving people in your own house!

Yet rich people are selfish and greedy, right?

Some people may give a donation to the causes, but for many people they need a donation themselves.

Now lets look at those folks who have money so they aren’t struggling ? Yeah, rich people.

Have you ever stopped to think how many diseases their money is curing?…

How many people’s lives their money is saving…

Nope, because they are the greedy ones…

My niece asked me about this one day. She said ‘ why do you say that it takes a selfish person to stay poor?’

I said ‘Okay, lets look at it this way.

If you are poor who can you help?

If you cannot buy food for yourself and your family, who can you help?

If you don’t know if you will have a place to live soon, who can you help?

She said ‘no one’. I said ‘exactly’…

We live in America, the land where there are one million new Millionaire households every year…it takes someone who is really all about themselves to stay poor.

After thinking about it for a few minutes her face lit up as she had another question

Well, she said – what about Mother Teresa?

Well Mother Teresa was backed by the Roman Catholic church, and everyone knows it has millions in money and property, so really she helped millions of people through this money from the Roman Catholic church so I’d say she really wasn’t poor…

If all she had to work with was a paycheck could she have made the same impact on the world?

You can say yes, but I believe the real answer is no.

She could only help millions because she could afford to spend her time doing that…she wasn’t worried about the money to help them, or how she would eat.. it was all taken care of for her.

The world is waiting for you to make your unique impact on it.

How can you help anyone if you can’t help yourself, so why don’t you choose today to make a greater contribution to this world and the people around you?

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