There\u2019s a plethora of books on the market today telling us how we can become millionaires We\u2019ve all seen the middle-aged suited men on the front covers with their confident smiles, and they all look trusting enough. So if the books are being bought, why aren\u2019t there more millionaires around today? Is the millionaire status in need of some positive PR maybe?<\/p>
Not only do I not know a millionaire (at least I\u2019m pretty sire I don\u2019t), I don\u2019t even know anyone who professes to want to be a millionaire. rd like to think that I\u2019m getting to see the whole picture where desiring material wealth is concerned and that my friends and family really don\u2019t want It, but maybe that\u2019s Just what I\u2019m seeing on the surface.<\/p>
We\u2019re told that coveting material wealth is wrong, that it\u2019s vulgar in some ways, and that\u2019s never been more prevalent in today\u2019s caring and sharing world. We\u2019ve never been more aware than we are today of the plight and suffering of those living in countries where life is so very different from what we know here In our comparatively privileged western world.<\/p>
So being rich is unfashionable, and its vulgar tag has probably never been as big and bright as it is today. But perhaps that vulgar tag is being used in a stereotypical way inferring that those who do have huge sums of money spend It all on vulgar Items such as planes and speed boats. There\u2019s also the notion that if someone is absurdly rich then someone somewhere has had to suffer in the process, that a person\u2019s acquisition of wealth has left a lot of people poor\u2014 a sort of \u201cseesaw\u201d in the playground of materialism. Again, it\u2019s perhaps a stereotypical view of wealth, or of those who attain wealth, but could it be one of the obstacles that stop us striving for the millionaire status?<\/p>
The closest most of us will ever get to becoming a millionaire is playing the lottery. But there\u2019s even a black cloud hanging over the prospect of millions falling Into our lap via this route. We read the horror stories of the happy couple who won a fortune on the lottery only to find a year later that they\u2019ve lost it all, as well as their friends and family, and even their love for one
another. Admittedly stories such as these sell newspapers, and no one wants to read about the guy who lives a peaceful and contended life In the Bahamas on his lottery win. The contented millionaire is perhaps just a little too much for rig to stomach!<\/p>
Although I don\u2019t know any millionaires, I did once know a man who was very rich (In fact, thinking about It he might have been a millionaire). But again, talking of stereotypes, he didn\u2019t own his own plane or speed boat. He did own his own very big house though. He was ostentatious In any way. He made his money in property, as a lot of people do nowadays I discovered, over the course of some months, that he regularly donated money to Amnesty International (quite substantial sums of money), which to me seems a very good use of it. However, being able to donate money to a worthy cause is perhaps not the motivation that is going to drive the majority of us to
become millionaires, unfortunately.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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