The Wealthy Mindset: Manifesting Prosperity Through Intentional Actions

Myron Golden, who is an author, speaker, and entrepreneur, distributes videos each week on YouTube to empower entrepreneurs to grow their businesses. This week, his video entitled The Origins of Wealth and Poverty especially stood out to me. Mr. Golden began the video by adding a different perspective to the phrase: “The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer”.  While growing up, I used to hear older people say this phrase as if it was law when they felt defeated by their financial situation. They believed that you had to be born into wealth or win the lottery. Mr. Golden said that the phrase implies that the rich are doing something to the poor to prevent them from becoming rich. However, he says that it is the poor person’s mindset that is primarily hindering financial prosperity. Mr. Golden acknowledges that there are some rich people who do things to prevent the poor from obtaining wealth, but implies that this should not prevent poor people from intentionally taking action to alleviate their financial hardships.

How to take intentional actions to obtain prosperity

To obtain prosperity, you must first develop a wealthy mindset. I have summarized the actions that Myron Golden described in the video.

1.       Change the voices that you listen to.

You may be bombarded by the voices of friends and/or family who are not on the path to obtain wealth. You must intentionally seek out voices of those who are focused on providing wealth building information.

2.       Don’t sugarcoat.

To sugarcoat means to hide the truth. If you know that you are not doing what you need to do to reach your goals, don’t say that you are “trying”.

3.       Change your focus.

The wealthy focus on abundance and not lack. You are what you think and you will act accordingly to what you believe about yourself.

4.       Make a decision on what to pay attention to and set your intention to produce a result.

The decision you make to do something to positively change your financial situation must be non-negotiable. If  your decision is negotiable, your decision has turned into a choice and you will likely keep making choices that will lead you into prosperity.

Near the end of the video, Mr. Golden says: “The rich get richer because of intention. They focus on intention and ignore distraction. The poor get poorer primarily because they focus on distraction and ignore intention.” This closing was a kick in the gut for me because I know that I can get distracted by social media when I don’t feel like focusing on a particular task. If I do this too often, it can lead to not accomplishing my goals and making excuses for myself.

Needless to say, I will watch this video multiple times to hold myself accountable to achieving prosperity.