It is very imperative that humanity becomes more conscious of the inalienable significant of thought in shaping every individual’s destiny in life. As the sacred scripture says, “As a man thinks so he is”. This marxim speaks very eloquently on the fact that it is not how an individual is that determines how he thinks. On the contrary, it is how an individual thinks that determines how he is. In other words, how an individual thinks determines how he speaks and acts. By inference, how one speaks and thinks reveal how the person thinks.

Words are very powerful, so powerful that they create, or shape the future to a reasonable extent. As earlier remarked, thought determines human action. However, there are two categories of action – behaviour and habit. Behaviours are exhibited occasionally, but habits, according to Aristotle, are behaviours that become part of an individual. Actions could be consciously executed but habits are unconscious because they are part of the man.Behaviours are occasional but habits are regular. People are judged by their habits.

Behaviour is otherwise called, attitude. This is the primary factor that determines every individual’s destiny. If you want to predict the future of any person, all you should do is to examine the person’s attitudes. This is why it is commonly said that your attitude to life determines your altitude in life. The point being argued is that every individual’s thinking is very powerful in determining his future in every aspect of his life. Most unfortunately, many people are unable to achieve a happy and successful life, especially in their finances, because they lack success-friendly thoughts. They destroy their world from within with (themselves) their mind.

More money cause money problems is one of the most famous erroneous conceptions of money that have been sold to humanity over the years. It is a Poverty Myth. Poverty Myths are poverty-friendly ‘notions of’ and ‘assumptions about’ money. These assumptions have been popularised over the years to the extent that they are uncritically accepted as unquestionable truths by most people. These suppositions are poverty myths because they are inimical to financial success. There are more poor people than rich people in every society because these myths, which are poverty catalysts, are more common than wealth myths.

But is it really true that more money causes money problems? Can you purge yourself of the influence of conventional thinking before responding to this question? If it is true that more money causes more problems, the implication of this, unarguably, is that less money creates less problems? But can this be true? If it is believed that the acquisition of more money increases problems, does poverty reduce problems?

Is it not possible that the problems of some people can be reduced with the acquisition of more money? Is it also not possible that people's problems increase with the possession of less money? Since it is obvious that most people’s problem is money, and that their life will be better with more money, why can the maxims, “The less money you have, the more problems you have”, and “The more money you have, the less problems you have” not be popularised? These are uncommon expressions.

The expression, “More money causes more problems” is true, but not for everyone. It is true but only for people who have more money than they need - the rich. On the hand, it is untrue for people who have less money than they need - the poor. It is obvious that the problems of the poor reduces with more money because most of their problems are rooted in lack of money. Most unfortunately, a major irony in peoples’ financial attitudes is that the rich (who have more money than they need) believe that more money creates less problems, while the poor (who have less money than they need) believe that more money creates more problems.

This is one of the reasons the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. This poverty myth is an ark enemy of financial success. It is one of the factors that account for the ill financial destinies of the poor. It may not be irrational to remark that whoever believes that more money causes more problems will be at home with poverty since he believes that money worsens his condition of existence. One of the most significant lessons from this discourse is that financial success starts from the mind.

(More Money Causes More Problems is one of the fifteen (15) Poverty Myths. These myths, as discussed in the above essay, are poverty-friendly ‘notions of’ and ‘assumptions about’ money which have been popularized over the years to the extent that they are uncritically accepted as unquestionable truths about money by most people. Poverty Myths are inimical to financial success. These myths are the primary causes of poverty. For details of these myths, and for a very reliable guide on how to achieve financial security (i.e. lifetime financial freedom), see the book - Roadmap to Financial Security: How to Become Rich and Remain Rich. To get a copy, visit http://www.skyheightsuccess.com/howtogetthebooks.html)