Are You Broke or Poor?

Today, I read an article written by Bob Proctor in Success Magazine, entitled “It’s easy to earn money.” In this article, Bob invites us to look at earning money from a perspective different from what most of society believes. He says that earning money is easy once you understand that it depends more on your prosperity consciousness and less on knowing the techniques to make the money.
For many years I tried to make it big in the corporate world. By many standards, I did- even earning a Who’s Who in Business Leaders of America title. I thought that if I just took one more training program or purchased one more book, I would suddenly experience the financial success I wanted so badly, but I really was unfulfilled. Then one day, one of my mentors asked me if I was broke or if I was poor. He went on to say that if I was broke, that was easy to fix. But if I was poor, it would be much harder to change.
What’s the difference?
Broke is when you don’t have money. It’s a temporary situation. Poor is a mental state. Sure, being financial literate can help. Knowing how to make the money can help. But it won’t do you any good if you’re afraid and don’t believe it will happen. I really believed it would happen, but wasn’t really certain how- then last year I learned that the HOW is not up to me. I just needed to focus on the WHY, help others and serve a purpose much larger than me. Wow- it is amazing- As Bob Proctor says “money is just ink on paper” prosperity consciousness is a state of mind.
This message, I feel, comes at a good time because most everyone in the U.S. is talking about the economic crisis. Gas prices are at an all time high. Newsweek even reported that “almost 60% of Americans are cutting back their vacations because of high prices.”
If you allow yourself to get caught up in this drama, you will experience more drama. What you focus on is what you become conscious of. Therefore, the energy of lack, of not enough, or uncertainty… becomes a part of your consciousness. And this is what you create more of.
So be honest with yourself, are you broke or are you poor? And if you are poor, what are you going to do to change this?