I am sure that you have heard the old saying that tells us that being rich is actually just a state of mind, and while that seems very far from the truth to many of us, it is actually a very true statement. What one has to realize is that what is considered rich by my standards may feel very poor by your standard of wealth. So, taking this into account, what is the true definition of rich? According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, rich is defined as having abundant possessions and especially material wealth. That definition gives us a good start on what being rich actually means, but it doesn’t disprove that being rich is a state of mind, because what I think of as abundant possessions and material wealth may still be small in comparison to how you perceive abundance in possessions and wealth. Regardless of your definition, you have probably asked the question before: How do I get rich?

I believe that if you think about what we just discussed in the previous paragraph, you will agree that being rich truly is just a state of mind. Let’s take this one step further though and assume we are talking about rich as in “richest people on earth.” If you were born and raised here in the US, then you have a much higher likelihood of expecting much, much more when you describe someone as being rich versus the answer you might get in one of the South American Countries. If I asked you to name someone that is rich, you would likely pick someone famous for their wealth like Donald Trump, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, George Soros or one of the Walton’s from the Wal-Mart retail stores. Now those people are truly wealthy by anyone’s standards because most of them are listed in the top 10 for the wealthiest people in the world by Forbes magazine. No matter how you look at it, this list of names has abundant material possessions and wealth by anyone’s standard. Understand that most of this list didn’t get rich by working harder physically. They actually earned their fortunes by being smarter than the average person while also thinking outside the box on occasion.

Regardless of how you may describe wealth personally though, if you are like most average people, you would like to earn or make more money. One thing that I have learned in my later years is that “working harder” does not always translate into “making more money.” Working harder sometimes means that you will actually make less money. After all, who do you think works harder: The ironworker that raises steel framework for buildings and other structures, or the mathematician that teaches or solves problems in business, educational or industrial settings? According to CareerCast.com, the ironworker has one of the worst ranked of all jobs and that person makes about $29,000.00 per year. The Mathematician has one of the highest ranked jobs on the list and earns close to $100,000.00 per year on average. I can assure you, the ironworker has a much more physical and demanding job than the Mathematician, and this is typical across most jobs that use muscle versus jobs that use brain. The brainiest jobs almost always pay better than the brawniest jobs, so working smarter is by far the best way to get ahead!

If you would like to make more money, then the easiest way to make that happen is to begin working smarter and not just working harder as you have likely been told all of your life. There are very few free meals in this world, so working smarter does not mean that you don’t have to put in hard work either. Working smarter means you have to think more and spend more time educating yourself on easier and better ways to make money. As an Internet Marketer, I have spent a lot of years working to find the best ways to make money on-line. After a lot of hard work and effort in reading and studying on this subject, I have truly learned how to be rich, even it if is only “rich by my own standards!”

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