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RIGHT NOW, YOU HAVE THE WISDOM WITHIN YOU TO BE RICH
Often people assume that to achieve success and wealth, you need a high level of intelligence, but it's not true. There are many unemployed Ph.D.'s-and yet both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, who revolutionized the computer world and brought PCs into people's homes, had dropped out of college. Each of us has within us the wisdom to be rich. It is our inborn ability to use our accumulated knowledge and common sense to make sensible, good judgments that allow us to attract the abundance we deserve.
You may think that you don't have this wisdom, but you do. We all do. When we were young, we learned the basics of acquiring and maintaining wealth: Don't regularly have more flowing out than you have flowing in. Save for a rainy day. Invest wisely. Don't overspend. So why do people who may even be very smart and successful in other areas of their lives get into so much trouble with money, acquiring debt and spending so much that they create an imbalance in the flow of wealth in and out of their lives?
It's because they're blocked from their natural wisdom by feelings of fear, scarcity, jealousy, anger, unworthiness, and sadness. They don't have the power of love, joy, enthusiasm, or faith strongly influencing their spending, saving, or investing habits. If they did, they would be creative and discerning about where their money and resources flowed.
We manage the flow of abundance wisely when we're in a state of positivity, like a gardener who carefully positions the sprinkler or aims a garden hose in the direction of the flowers instead of toward the sidewalk. We find creative ways in