2. If you’re broke, that doesn’t mean you’re poor. You may be rich but you may be broke. You see, being broke is short-lived. Being poor is long term. You are broke only for a certain period of time, but being poor without doing anything to alleviate your condition in life makes it permanent.

3. Take failure as a chance to get smarter and stronger, by learning from it. Don’t let failure defeat you. Get inspired by it and eventually, you will turn up to be a winner.

4. Sometimes, we want others to change their attitudes but we have no control over them. It’s easier to change oneself, if we have self-control.

5. Be creative and open to new ideas. Sometimes, we are so used to doing what the majority are doing that we completely close our minds to new ideas. If you need to be different from the majority for the sake of financial success, so be it.

Rule #4: Tap Your Potentials

We all have tremendous potentials and talents like courage and brilliance. We must learn to tap into them, to put them to good use. Like it or not, we also have negative common traits. We all have some degree of self-doubt although at varying levels. Again, it all depends on us, which side of us we will allow to prevail.

In the world of money, being smart is not enough. You’ve got to be bold or daring. You have to actualize what is in your mind.

It is understandable that we feel apprehensive when it comes to change. Some are even afraid of change but we mustn’t be. We must consider change, even at bad times, as an opportunity to improve our lives. Turn to your creative mind so as not to be swayed by the tide of depression. To be financially secure, you need to be creative and to take calculated risks.

Great opportunities are visible to the mind, not to the eyes. Learn to recognize an opportunity. Once you do, within the right time and available finances, it can make you rich.

Always remember that your mind is the single most powerful tool or asset you possess to gain financial security. Just like our body that takes nutrients from food and water, our mind must be continually energized with creative ideas and financial thoughts to create wealth.

Most of us work for the purpose of making money. More than this, we must work to learn.

Rule #5: Control Your Fears

What is the first impression we have upon hearing the word “fear?” Most likely, we think of it as a word that describes a feeling we all do not like to experience. And rightly it is, for even the dictionary describes it mostly as a word filled with negative emotions. Different people have different kinds of fear. Fear of speaking in public, fear of heights, fear of enclosed places, fear of being alone, fear of dark places, fear of being in a doctor’s or dental office, fear of spiders and other insects - we can enumerate countless more.