Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

LIVE WITHIN YOUR INCOME
Your ability to save money and to discipline yourself to live within
your income is a key measure of your ability to succeed in life. If
you do not have the 
internal
self-control to refrain from spending
everything you earn, this suggests that you probably don’t have the
discipline necessary to succeed in other areas of your life. Although
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the Bible says that the love of money is the root of all evil, it is far
more likely that the 
lack
of money is the root of all evil.
Perhaps the greatest benefit of saving your money and building
up a cash reserve is that it enables you to take advantage of oppor-
tunities when they arise, as they always do. In the movie 
Field of
Dreams
, a profound idea was expressed:
“If you build it, they will
come.”
In the financial world, this means that if you accumulate
money through hard work and saving, you will attract into your life
opportunities to invest that money to earn even more.
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