Wealth is a mindset. It is not about money or material things although it can manifest through having abundance of money and material things. You can have a lot of money and not be wealthy. Wealth flows from abundance, from giving. The most sustainable way to receive is by giving.
Achieving a wealth mindset involves primarily shifting from the paradigm of "What is in it for me?" to "What can I give?", from a lack mindset to an abundance mindset. With a lack mindset, the perception is that there is not enough to go round. If you get more, I end up with less. For me to get more, I need to get in before you do and grab as much as I can. With an abundance mindset, you see more than enough. There is enough to go round. There is no need to scheme, cheat or compete. If we cooperate, we create even more than our individual efforts would have yielded. Your getting more does not mean I will end up with less. I receive by giving. The more I give, the more I receive. If I can figure out a way of giving more and more, my receiving more and ultimately more than enough is guaranteed. Hence giving does not diminish me, rather it enlarges me.
Hence to develop a wealth mindset, you need to change your focus from what you can get to what you can give. What you believe is real ultimately becomes your reality. This means that after all said and done, we create our individual realities. Arguments arise when two people argue from different realities and perspectives. What is real to me may not make any sense to you. Your beliefs and reality however does not change principles that govern life. You cannot violate principles and get away with it indefinitely. Like gravity, everything that goes up must come down ultimately.
With a wealth mindset, you are always thinking about what you have to give to make the situation better. You think solutions, not who is to blame. Nobody ever got rich through playing the blame game. Goodwill is not earned by always taking but by giving. Businesses that give back to the community consistently perform better than those that don't. A generous giver does not lack friends or goodwill. Goodwill may not be quantifiable but can make the difference between success and failure.
What do you have to offer? How can you start giving and become very good at giving what you have to give? Everyone has something unique to offer. If you focus on giving, getting will take care of itself. When you focus on serving others, you perform at your best. When your focus is making money, your performance and quality of service drops as you give the barest minimum to get by. There is a world of difference in performance between an employee who is working for money and one who is working for love. When you have a sense of contribution, you are willing to go the extra mile irrespective of who is watching. If you are working for pay, you put in the barest minimum to avoid getting fired. The huge gap in performance has an equally huge impact in pay.
The biblical injunction of seek ye first the kingdom and all other things shall be added unto you holds true in attaining wealth and riches. When you focus on giving, you set yourself up for getting. If you focus on getting, you send out the wrong vibes and repel potential givers, so you end up getting less and less if at all. The way you feel when you perceive someone is out to only get from you is the same way others feel when you try the same stunt. Rather than loosening their purse strings, they tighten it further. That is the same way nature responds to getters. They create scarcity everywhere they go. They believe there is not enough to go round, so they grab and grab, ending up with less and less. Ultimately, their beliefs become a self fulfilling prophecy. Having a wealth mindset is a choice which involves a paradigm shift. If you have tried really hard to get and it does not seem to work, it jolly well might be time to try giving.
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