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exchanged for something else of value. If you recognize all the forms of wealth available to you, you can start trading them in for what you most value.
Right this moment, you may be extremely wealthy and not even realize it. Everyone has a great deal of value, or assets, that they can enjoy and increase. You probably don't have stacks of bills or gold bars lying around your home, but I'm certain that you have a personal hidden gold mine you can work with and turn into another form of wealth. Your gold is special because unlike the precious metal, it's magnetic. Once you recognize it, value it, feel gratitude for it, and experience the joy of possessing it, you'll find that your gold is vibrating and acting as a magnet, attracting even more wealth to you.
Do you doubt that you have a hidden gold mine? Most of us focus on what we lack and overlook our special gifts, qualities, and resources-whether it's our creativity, our abundant love, our willingness to work hard, our excellent communication skills, our boundless enthusiasm, or some other quality or skill that has great value. Instead, we start subscribing to negative thinking and telling ourselves that we can't have wealth, that it's foolish to hope for it. These kinds of thoughts and the oppressive feelings they create blind us to the riches we hold within us.
In the 1930s, a ten-foot-tall clay statue of the Buddha, which had been found in a deserted Buddhist monastery, was moved into a storage facility. Twenty years later, monks at a monastery in Bangkok, Thailand, expressed a desire to own the statue of the great Buddha, so arrangements were made to move it. But as it was being lifted, it slipped off the crane and fell. The giant Buddha cracked, and at first everyone felt terrible that this beautiful statue was ruined. But then the movers realized that peeking through the crack was a shimmer of gold. Upon investigation, they discovered that beneath the clay exterior was a solid-gold statue, which had been covered in mud centuries before in order to prevent robbers from recognizing its value and stealing it. After hundreds of years, none of the monks who knew the Buddha's secret remained. Those who had valued the statue for what it represented now discovered that it was a treasure in another sense: It was worth a fortune!