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> Focus on building a life that operates from love and abundance rather than fear and lack.

No offense, but this kind of "positive thinking as financial advice" is extremely pathological. It not only fails to offer any concrete, actionable advice but implicitly blames the subject if they end up poor: "Ah he's poor, he must have been operating from fear, not love." It positions wealth as a signal of moral virtue, not just luck or even skill.

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IF you acquire happiness from buying stuff, your natural path is to poverty, right? This "positive thinking as financial advice" is the first and most important thing to have a healthy relationship with money. Learn that spending doesn't make one happy has the intended consequence of making building wealth way easier.

You may find it too abstract, but this mindset is exactly why I’ve been successful twice, now going on three times.

I’m also saying this specifically for the sake of the poster because it appears they are operating from a scarcity mindset, which will only hold them back.

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