There is a lot of information on the Internet on how to succeed in your home business.  How-to’s on internet marketing, home office set up, paying your taxes and everything in between are pasted all over the web and here for the taking.  However, not many discuss one of the most important factors of making money, one’s own attitude towards abundance.

This thought first occurred to me while I combed the net for new home business and work at home opportunities and found scam after scam.  I also encountered companies and opportunists that were just plain not playing fair by stealing leads or misrepresenting their offers. 

If a person feels the need to steal from someone else, it implies that there is not enough of that resource to go around.  This faulty way of thinking may be completely unconscious yet it will still cause a blockage when it comes to acquiring wealth.  If you are stealing and thus feel there is just “not enough” it means you hold on to the belief that abundance does not exist for you.  You feel that money and resources are finite, that your needs may not be met, and so you must take from someone else.  Having this belief instilled inside of you will not allow money to flow freely to you. For, even if it did, you would not see it because you do not believe it.  (Some say, “You have to see to believe”.  I say, “You have to believe to see.”)

Even if our actions are honest and forthright, we can still have similar blockages.  Many of us work very hard to provide the best possible products or services to our customers.  We may also come from a hardworking stock of people and watched our parents work their fingers to the bone yet still struggle just to make ends meet.  Having seen that growing up, we may now have an ingrained belief within us that, “The nice guy finishes last” or that, “Only the people at the top make real money.”  Thus, we will continue to slave away and never see the rewards of our efforts because we just do not believe it is possible for us to really succeed.  We may even, deep within our unconscious, have some magical number we believe we will never get past.  Perhaps we think we’ll never make more than 50k or 100k per year.  If we do earn more than this amount, something mysterious happens to cause us to spend these extra earnings.  It is usually some sort of emergency like the unexpected need for a new vehicle or a major home repair.  Then we sigh and chalk it up to fate. We think to ourselves that we can never get ahead and every time we do something causes us to fall back again.  The real cause lies within us and our personal mindsets about prosperity.

Some of us may also hold onto a belief that we do not deserve money.  We may look onto others who have more than we do with envy.  We may think we are not “as good” and thus not as deserving as they are.  Worse yet, we may resent those who have more money than we do and adopt the thought pattern that people with money are somehow bad people.  Now we have set ourselves up so that if we do make money we will now be bad people as well.  Since we do not want that, we unconsciously prevent money from flowing freely to us.

I know many will regard this as metaphysical hodgepodge but I strongly urge you to explore your own inner feelings about wealth and abundance.  Think back to your childhood and what your impressions on money were at that time.  Were there many times when your parents told you, “We just cannot afford it?”  What were the sayings about money around your home?  Was it, “Easy come easy go?”  “The rich get richer while the poor get poorer?”  “It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven?” Even if we are unaware of it, things like this have a profound effect on us for the rest of our lives.  Of course many people have rebelled against this belief system and been very successful.  For others, success may have come very easily because they were raised with the belief that we live in an abundant Universe.  Their needs have always been met and so they have no reason to believe they will not continue to be. 

Explore these deep-seated feelings you have about money.  Become aware of them.  With this awareness a change can come.  There is a lot to be said for positive visualization.  Spending even five minutes per day before bed simply relaxing and meditating and then seeing abundance rain down on you can be very beneficial.  You can imagine dollar bills or gold coins falling from the sky and you absorbing them or simply imagine your higher power letting you know that all your needs will be met.  Let your higher power (whomever that may be) know that you will accept this gift of abundance.  Another way to have the rains of fortune pour down into your life is to simply share with others.  If you offer free products or services, lend a friend a dollar, or help someone in need it sends a signal to your subconscious that you have plenty.  In fact, there is so much you can give some away.  This action is more powerful than you think.  By giving we really do receive ten-fold.  Some people believe this is Karma coming back to us.  Others call it a coincidence.  Perhaps it is simply you changing your attitude and perception about life.  When our perceptions change our lives change.