You’re becoming someone beyond your wildest imaginations and expectations for yourself. There is no truer sense here of “who you want to be is who you are” than your example here right now. There is someone that you are desperately yearning to be and you are that person.
So what you need to do is release your resistance to being that person. Why couldn’t you be that person? There’s no reason that you would not be able to be that person. Because you want to be that person, you are that person. So you need to allow yourself to be that person. Now you may not be or become that person instantly, it could take some years of transformation to eventually be that person without thinking about it. Allow yourself to evolve, allow yourself to like the things that you like, allow yourself to dislike things that you dislike. Allow yourself to not have opinions on certain things at all, unless they have some relevance in your life.
It’s okay to not be concerned about everything so deeply. There’s a sense nowadays that you must have opinions on everything and to be neutral is not okay or to be neutral is to be leaning in a particular direction. It’s okay to not think about certain things. It’s okay to only concern yourself with things that actually have direct relevance in your life and things that you actually have direct control over because the rest of it ultimately doesn’t matter and who cares if other people care whether or not you have opinions about certain things. You’re not even participating in those discussions. You don’t need to have opinions about those things. You don’t need to think about them at all because ultimately, what influence are you exercising over them?
Only concern yourself with those things that concern you. If you do that, your life will turn out okay in the end. It may take some years, but it will turn out okay. Do not concern yourself with things that do not concern you. If it has nothing to do with you, then don’t bother with it. Keep your nose in your own business, mind your own business, and other people’s businesses will mind themselves.
This is a reminder to stay true to yourself also in terms of the things that you pay attention to. Don’t pay attention to certain world conflicts because people tell you that you have to. Don’t believe in certain political ideologies because people tell you that it’s the right thing to do. Think for yourself and focus for yourself, focus on what you’re doing that’s relevant to you and your actions and your behavior and what you actually exercise control over because those other things don’t ultimately matter in your life – until they do, in which case you’ll meet them there when they arrive.
There is an overwhelming concern about poverty in your energy field. It’s weighing you down a lot when it comes to attracting the money you desire. There’s a certain attractiveness of poverty that seems to be having you go around in circles. It’s leading to confusion and repeated patterns of stuckness as it pertains to money. You need to get out of this pattern. The way you get out of this pattern is to stop idolizing poverty. Stop making poverty some sort of wheelhouse for yourself. Stop idolizing other people who make it their wheelhouse.
Poverty is not an identity. It’s a thought form that is to be escaped, found relief from, resolved, found a solution to. Don’t keep it around like it’s a pet. You’re afraid that if you detach yourself from the identity of poverty that it’s going to mean you’ve become too big for your britches, you’re a bad person, you’ve ascended to a level of eliteness that you formerly hated, you’re going to become one of those people that you used to say “eat the rich” about.
The shame that you feel, the guiltiness, the lack of self-worth that you feel around how you’ve treated “rich people” in the past – facing that is worth it to get rid of this identification with poverty. Don’t stay stuck in the concept of treating wealth like sour grapes and treating poverty like a moral solution. Poverty is not a moral solution to wealth being some sort of evil, which it’s not. You have to sort out your mind as it pertains to wealth, otherwise, you’re not going to achieve it. And then you’re just wasting away in self-imposed limitation for no reason at all.
Poverty isn’t wealth, wealth isn’t wealth. Mental stability, community, family, a simple life, having the resources you need to take care of yourself and your family, your health – this is wealth. Nurturing intimate connections with others. This is wealth. It’s like both sides of the spectrum of poverty and wealth are both wrong. It’s those things that truly nourish us that are the most important.
Think back on your life. Are you happy with how it’s going? If not, that’s okay. Consider this the conclusion to your “humble beginnings” chapter. Now you’re turning the page into your “ascension to a better life” chapter.
In order to reach the heights of holistic wealth in your life, you cannot denigrate the heights of holistic wealth. You cannot speak ill about wealthy people, just based on their wealth alone, and then turn around and want to make money and make enough money to do really well for yourself. Poverty is not a virtue.
Take some time to reflect on how you may have automatically negatively treated or thought about people who have money, fame, social status, just because they have those things and not because of their actions or character, and forgive yourself for that.
Trust that you have the capability to discern whether someone is of good character or bad character based on their actions and not just on their means. If you don’t trust that that’s something you’re able to do right now, that’s a skill you can cultivate over time with practice.
If you’re someone who reads religious texts, work on engaging with more information sources outside of your regular religious texts on the topic of the cultivation of good character. Introduce new thoughts and ideas from a variety of sources into your life. Find boundary-breaking ways to expand your horizons.
That influx of new energies, new thoughts, new ideas, new frameworks, new perspectives – those will all help to really nurture the new person you’re becoming.