“Moderate profits fill the purse” - Italian Proverb

I like using the analogy of a farmer because a farmer more often than not has to rely on the natural laws. They can’t make up their own rules. They have to depend on the laws of nature and align themselves with eternal natural processes.
A farmer has to have a seed to plant before he can even think of a harvest. He also has to plant in the right season at the right time and place. He needs to understand the conditions under which he functions. He needs to know, and not just guess what’s going on. He can’t just focus on the harvest. The planting is as important as the harvesting.
Where does he start? He starts with a seed. The seed starts at the end of one harvesting season. When the harvesting season is over, he does not just think it ‘s time to feast and eat the harvest. He intrinsically knows that he needs to preserve some of the harvest for next season’s seeds. There is an intricate link between the harvesting and the planting. There is no disconnection. One thing always leads to the other. The harvest leads to the planting and the planting leads to the harvesting and all the periods in between there are no such things as sitting around doing nothing.
Before we carry on with our analogy, let’s think about how many of us have our relationship with money constructed. We have a job that gives us a salary. When the salary comes, we spend all of it and we are literally “broke” till the next “harvest” time. We can’t wait for the harvest time because in between there is nothing to live on. As soon as we get our salaries, we consume them immediately and we have to wait again. This is what I call a dysfunctional relationship with money.
The solution would be to adopt the farmer’s attitude. What if your relationship with money improved to where you are able to automatically think of some of your money as seed to be planted for the future? What if you started storing some of it in barns for the future, even for leaner periods that may be ahead? Why do the poor remain poor? Is it really poverty of resources or poverty of the mind or the thought process that goes into our relationship with money? 
When we were wealthy in our minds, we knew all of this.
When we were wealthy, we knew not to consume the entire harvest. We knew not to consume the entire herd or flock. We understood seasons. We could read the times, the clouds, the winds, the droughts and the times of plenty. 
When we became poor of mind, we disconnected from our knowingness of wealth systems. We isolated money from wealth and we consumed the entire harvest at the end of each harvest season called “salary”. We made no provision for the future.
When we were wealthy we knew how to invest in our future. We protected our seeds by soiling them with ash to prevent us from consuming them. We preserved our meats by salting it and storing it for the future. When we are poor of mind, we consumed our harvest without any thought for tomorrow. 
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