After taken a lot of things into consideration, I decided to go on with the writing of this article irrespective of the fact that a lot of people who will be reading this article may not be among the target audience since most of us in this platform are already above the poverty line. The reason for writing this article on this platform is to help especially those who are still fighting it so hard with their finances to live above the poverty level.
Therefore if you have seen yourself and you believe that you have crossed the poverty level please feel free to help me propagate this message of hope especially to those who are not on this platform by sharing the link to this article to other platforms where you belong. Having said all these things, let me start by saying that poverty as we all know is not and was not the initial plan of God our creator. The problem we had was that the sin of disobedience came into play which deprived of natures gift of wealth but that does not mean that one cannot push open the doors of riches while living in poverty.
Please I will want to advise you to try as much as possible not to have a biased mindset while reading through this article either because of the things I will say or because you find it not helpful to you. The first question I will ask is this; who is a poor man? This question sometimes sounds derogatory or insulting for anyone to even consider an answer to the question but for the benefit of this article, I will gladly say that a poor man is any man who lives below 1 or 2 dollars daily. Don’t get me wrong if you are from the western world because a dollar may mean nothing or may not stand as a very good means of measurement to know who a poor man is or not but I want to use a dollar because if any man lives below a dollar, what that means is that such a man out rightly living in abject poverty.
Having given a little measure as to know who a poor man is, the next thing to do is to know what can lead a man into poverty. Like I said earlier, poverty was not the original plan of the maker of the world because if it were to be His initial plan we would not have gold, pearl and every other mineral resource that is seen today in the world. We would have had a world without any form of gemstone or all other natural resources which can be converted to enormous riches and wealth as we see today in our world. What does this mean? It means that if any man finds himself living in poverty, he should probably ask some pertinent question to himself which will help him to understand why and what he could do to get out of poverty.
As we all know that knowledge is power and key to open every door of opportunity, we must try to understand that knowledge and wisdom are not the same. For record purposes, knowledge is gotten from the academic world while wisdom is giving freely by nature to those who seek to find it. Now, I must let you know that poverty is completely a thing of the mind and once you allow it to take over your sense of reasoning and understand you will find it very difficult to live above it. The other day I talked about the difference between the Rich and the Wealthy and a lot of people dropped comments showing how they have learnt one thing or the other from the article (click here to read it). In other for me to do justice to this topic, I will like to rephrase the topic into “the difference between the rich and the poor”.
First, I will make it clear that in the cadre of life, poverty comes first followed by riches and then wealth and affluence which are almost the ultimate goal of every man and woman under the surface of the earth. A rich man is known by the way he thinks even though he is not far away from falling back to poverty. A rich man will try to see every opportunity as a beginning to successes but for a man whose mind has been eaten up by poverty, he will always see every opportunity (i.e. if he sees it at all) as his last and only opportunity and this will make him not to take his time and think towards the best way to approach such opportunity so that he doesn’t mess it up for himself.
Just take for instance when you go to a wedding feast, you will know a poverty minded person by the way he/she will be rushing and almost fighting for food. This is because poverty has made him see every opportunity as his last. Don’t get it twisted, this belief could have been healthy if he was to be a wealthy man but because he feels like if he does not get the food at that moment, he ends up not getting it again. This is simply because he has a very strong low mentality of himself, unlike the rich minded fellow. He will relax even at the sight of the best meal because he believes that even if he ends up not eating it, he can always spend his money to eat it anytime any day.
Permit me to say that the mind of a poor man plays a major role in either bringing him out of poverty or sinking him deeper into the abyss of poverty. This is the reason why we say that poverty is of the mind and once you have been able to conquer the mind, you will see yourself live above poverty. The worst enemy of man is his stomach. I know you might be wondering why I said that but let me throw more light on that statement. When a man allows his stomach to always dictate for him, he will not only end up not saving a dime, he will gradually fall into poverty. This is where modesty comes in life, just as I have stated in my article on modesty sometime ago.
Modesty is the bedrock of everything you do when it comes to becoming rich and making it in life. Once you overlook modesty especially if you are still living below poverty and yet you have not made a strong decision to cut your clothing according to your size, you will end up living in poverty even if you are giving a little capital to start up a business. Remember, your mindset must be right for you to be able to understand and see more opportunities in every opportunity that comes your way. Just as we can see in this platform, read.cash might be an opportunity for you to explore your written skills but you need to see beyond that if you intend to become rich from the tips you have gotten from the platform. See it not just as a means to explore your writing skills rather see it as a means of breaking free from poverty just by saving what you have earned so far in the platform.
Let your intentions not be only for the stomach rather let it be for a better tomorrow which will be your ticket out of poverty in the long run. Remember, we can only have one chance towards making it in life although a second chance may appear, don’t bank on that second chance therefore let your mind and thoughts be focused on making something out of nothing. No one is destined to be poor it is a thing of choice. See you at the top.
