The most classic ways to make money is to go to work or to sell something. Sometimes selling something feels like it needs to bring the worse out of you. Or if you have never sold anything before you might associate selling as something someone deceitful does. That leaves us to think money is a form of reflection of your self worth. After all, the harder you work the more you are worth… Right?
Well if you think along these lines it is going to be difficult to amass wealth. You will be self sabotaging yourself whenever you try to relate earning money and not putting in effort. You will probably also struggle to see past your own morals. Surely not everyone needs to be a millionaire, but a bit of extra money wouldn’t hurt, right?
Once you have conquered this self defeating thought, you open yourself up to bigger opportunities. The rich are not always evil, and life doesn’t have to be just about how hard you work to reach success. You can potentially have the cake and eat it too.
One way to do that is to consider money as just a tool. It is a tool that can be exchanged for other useful and frivolous things. It can be exchanged to give you experiences that are hard to obtain. But most importantly it is a tool that can make you even more money. The tool may need to be used in many different ways to generate more of itself, or it can be exchanged for something you need there and then. It’s just a tool – no need to be overly righteous about it.
In time you will then see that most forms of investment are similar, you are just using that same tool to make more of itself.