SOME NOTABLE QUALITIES OF THE RICH

Don't just be like the rich, be rich.

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As at the time of writing, there are 2,755 billionaires in the world worth about 13.1 trillion dollars.
These few people have a lot in common from a distant, although some of them acquired riches by inheritance, a few grew from grass to grace and are still growing.

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These numbers do not suddenly increase like that, rather, they keep getting richer, because of some characters inherent in them.
On the other hand, A lot of people really do not want to be rich, all they want is just to live the rich life and have things that rich people have and enjoy what they enjoy. They are blinded to to many other sides of being rich. These people who want to be like the rich often do take some giant steps at achieving their resolve but they somehow never complete all the stages of being rich. They mess it up because of that lack of genuineness, that desire yo be really rich.

Being rich comes with a lot of sacrifices, especially if you re walking your way up from the ground. It is really different from being famous, but this has be missed often, you can be rich and not famous, yes and you can be famous and not rich.

A proper definition of being rich for me includes having wealth and consistently making more. If not so, then the rich will be poor, inflation cost will set in and life will become miserable again. Its a moving train, to be in it you have to keep paying the cost. However, people don't want to do this, they just want to touch a button that changes their lives forever.
Sorry, if is this would be the case, you re gonna end up poor.

The cost of being rich can duly be followed through with these major points of mine. If they are not there, then you can not truly be rich, you just have money waiting for inflation and wroth.

A. The blessing

The blessings of the Lord makes one rich and add no sorrow.

Bible Prov 10:22

There would be no riches without the blessings, and that blessing is where we must begin from. As humans, I believe that God indeed blesses people with wisdom to make wealth, and to distribute it into the economy. And this people do not have to be from a particular religion, it is a general blessing, and every man can be used. Some people call it fate, or luck smiling on them. But truly rich people know that something bigger than they could control at a time stepped in to make a way where there could have been none. Thats because of the blessing. It is a covenant to keep substinence for a people and God never lacks a man to do that.

B. Acquired skills

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.

Bible Pro 22:29

Now this has been confused to be the blessing, no, skills and talents are not the blessing, these are a bit more specific, skill are learnt, you weren't born with them you had to acquire them and gain mastery. It doesnt have to be one single skill, it needs to be a set of skills, in fact all the skill you ll need to be rich are all the things you ll need to learn. Yeah, because you don't have enough to pay others at this point and it can definitely also be a source of income by itself as well as be added up to others.
Acquiring skill is not easy for these 'wanna bes' get a bit difficulty here, they can't build because it is not the life they thought, they thought "being rich doesn't have to be this hard, its just too hard". They ll be fine not seeing the future ahead or rather take another route, the short cut. But something happens to them when they see someone who made it big using the skill they once wanted to acquire, they close down all other route and return to learn, this time they ve lost time and most times acquiring the skill will be at a higher cost.

C. Investment

There is that scatters, and yet increase, and there is that withholds more than is meet, but it tends to poverty

Bible Prov 11:24

Rich people mostly became rich from investment.
Rich people are very knowledgeable about investment and would support this interest in any other person.

People who invest now will enjoy later and thats for sure. Knowing to invest is one thing, knowing when to is another. The wanna bes think they ll invest when they have enjoyed, they don't want to endure so what ever break of a chance they get they throw into a plate, and eat it all. While the rich build skill and what ever comes out they put it into a passive income investment while they keep building the skill. The rich has a plan to become rich one day but not today, the wanna be already thinks he is rich and wants to prove it so he begin to live beyond his means and burning expenditures on things that won't supply passive income or sponsor productivity.

D. Discipline

Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds

Bible Pro 27:23

No one can become truely rich without discipline. It brings a lot of potential problems out of the way and controls them instead. It will make them live within their standard of living and even create an opportunity for them to attempt new ventures. Discipline is like a application to multiplies productivity over time. It will show in how they always calculate, and take counts, they are good with numbers, not because they are mathematical gurus, but the know how to count and take account. They won't cheat you either, because they know it will definitely affect the blessing and make some other things hard. Cheating another man is hard for the rich, they want to proper and their prosperity lies in the hands of other people's prosperity. So no short cuts.
This discipline is pivotal and its lack leads to poverty. Excess sleep is one of the fruits of a lack of discipline, how many hours do you sleep in a day?
What are you sleeping for, rest, leisure, tiredness or just laziness?
The bible says it tends to poverty. And so will lack of discipline. The famous prodigal son in the parable of Jesus confessed that if he returns to his father as a servant, he ll have a better life, this was after he had squandered all he got.
If you asked me, he didnt plan to squander it all, he practically wanted to show his Father that he was a man and wanted to be one. But live turns out to test what man he is, and he lacked the discipline to hold.
Consider this, if his father gave half of all he owned at the time of parting. Do you think he was less rich when his son came back... Ofcourse not, he had multiple streams of income as a rich Father should. He had replenished what ever his foolish son had requested and had more awaiting.

E. Repeated Investment Cycle.

Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days

Bible Ecc 11:1

I never want to touch earning from my investment as long as I can live by on other means, the plan is to reinvest them and increase passive income until it becomes even more than earned income.
This is the honeycomb, the rich love to do this, at this point they have proven means of making wealth, with a time span and they can begin to plan more closely for the honey in the comb. The wanna bee never get to this point, no, this is not for them, they ve long stopped and now they live by getting helped, they spent the investments earnings and hope to keep it coming, but after the first withdrawal they realize just how slow the earnings are coming and they end up taking from the capital investment and practically close the investment. That's terrible.

F. Eat the honey

...And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.

Bible Ecc 3:13

This is the beautiful place, when there is surplus from passive income after cycles of investments. There will be honey on the table. The abundance will come and now they can eat it. Only the surplus though, they never touch the comb. This what keeps supplying. They also give out from this. The wannabes are now looking out for the next scheme to get involved with and often times they find similar wannabes are are still down the ladder to swindle, show them fake possibilities and lies and get them on a ponzi that promises paradise.

Well, I ve said a lot, in this short piece, I m glad my writing has gotten to you, would you rather be rich than wanna be like the rich?

I would be rich and I am already threading this part.