Why You Don't Have To Be Smart To Be Rich

In fact being smart sometimes increases your chances for
financial difficulty.

At least that's what Jay Zagorsky, a research scientist at Ohio
State University, found in the US study published in the
Journal Intelligence on Tuesday.

The US Bureau of Labor and Statistics survey consisted of
interviews of over 7,000 adults who had been interviewed several
times since 1979.

They are now in their mid-40s and their 2004 answers revealed
that having greater smarts did not translate into greater wealth.

So if being smart doesn't make you rich then what does?

How you use your smarts.

You see we all have a Creative Mechanism inside of us that if we
learn to use it can allow us to solve problems seemingly without
effort.

It can help us learn ways to make money even when no one else can
see how.

And it can do thousands of other things for us if we know how to
give it the right instructions in the form of compelling images
in the Theater of Our Mind.

I suspect that those who had more wealth had at least one thing
in common--being wealthy was part of their self-images.

And I suspect that those who did not have much wealth despite
their high IQs had at least one thing in common--being poor was
part of their self-images.

This is why wealth and poverty are generational.

If you grow up rich you develop a rich self-image.

If you grow up poor you may develop a poor self-image.

But of course you can change your self-image using techniques
from Psycho-Cybernetics.

You can wake up each day and remember what you've done well in
the past and see yourself as the successful person you are meant
to be in the future.

You can do this so often that your mind begins to act on these
images.

You develop a greater sense of confidence and start moving
towards your dreams.

Forget about whether you have the talent, the intelligence, the
beauty--none of that matters.

What does matter?

That you change your self-image so that you will automatically
believe you have what it takes to succeed.

So stop reading now and go on and do it.

Take 10 minutes now to remember a time you succeeded and see it
vividly.

Then take a few minutes to see yourself succeeding at something
you've wanted to do for a long time.

Then see yourself visualizing at the same time tomorrow, then the
next day and then the next.

OK. Go do it now!