Increasing Your Income - The Attitudes That Prevent You From Bringing In More Money

There are commonly held attitudes that interfere with the ability to increase your income. Sometimes, you're aware of having these attitudes and where they come from. Often though you have no awareness of them and that is when they are particularly deadly. Then, they are unseen obstacles. You don't even understand what the problem is. Let's look at a few of the most common attitudes that get in the way of clients when they want to increase their income. Do you have some of these attitudes?

1) I don't care about money.

If you have the belief that you don't care about money, you're either poor or lying to yourself. You may have the image that caring about making money also means that you are greedy, ruthless, or willing to do anything for money. These images cause you to limit your efforts to increase your income. Yes, these may sometimes seem to be truisms. However, believing a character limits you. Money gives you greater freedom and more latitude to contribute positively in the world. Keep your virtues intact and simply be a good businessperson when pursuing increased income.

2) I want to get rich overnight without any work.

This childlike fantasy can set you up for every "get rich quick" scheme in existence. You're better off to think of increasing your income as a long-term or medium-term project and to accept the fact that it takes a lot of hard work. What's so great about avoiding hard work anyway? You're working for yourself-to improve the financial conditions of your life. Isn't that enough motivation to get you working? You might want to change this attitude into being cautious about any claims that you can get rich overnight without any investment of hard work.

3) It's not "spiritual" or ethical to want to increase my income.

There's an attitude-which might come from religious indoctrination-that you would lose your soul if you seek to gain financially. What gets lost in this attitude is that these spiritual teachings also state that it is the pursuit of money that is the problem- meaning that pursuit above all else that is the problem. The loss of any spiritual foundation isn't necessarily implied by increasing your income. It's not mutually exclusive that pursuing increasing your income means you can't keep your spiritual and ethical foundation intact. In fact, having both is extremely powerful and can be a wonderful contributor to the world.

4) If I just do what I love, the money will come to me.

Yes, it is important that you focus on doing what you love and love what you are doing while working to increase your income. You must be realistic also though. This is a fine fantasy, but without the foundation of business, you could spend a lot of time, energy, and money pursuing a plan that has no potential for increasing your income. You need to ask yourself things like:

Is there a demand for what I want to do?

Do people willingly spend money on what I want to sell?

Do I have business skills?

Do I know how to turn this love into a money-making enterprise?

Am I willing to do what it takes to turn it into a money-making enterprise?

5) I don't have to take care of the money I get. Somehow that's a "dirty" activity.

Another attitude that can get in your way is the refusal to manage the money that you do have. If you don't manage your existing money, why do you think you'd be able to manage your increased income? Managing your money and accounting for it's income and outgo builds respect for the fruits of your labor. It is a self-respecting attitude. Cultivate careful money management and investment of your surplus and your chances of increasing your income radically improve.

These are just a few of the attitudes that are most prevalent and the biggest obstacles to increasing your income. Just because you have learned these attitudes and let them "run" you doesn't mean that you must continue that behavior. You can change your beliefs. You can take new attitudes. You can eliminate these self-imposed obstacles.