Why People Stay Poor

• Environmental Factor

The social upbringing and environmental factor plays a major role in the ambitions and aspirations of the individual. This environment includes the parental upbringing- values of the parents, if the parents believe acquiring certificates and staying in job is the way to go, they pass on those values to the children. If parents keep on telling children life is hard and that life is a struggle it quenches all hopes. If a person grows in an environment that characterize average people it unconsciously has an effect on them, they grow up been average.

 Every individual is programmed by whatever happens around him from childhood that feeds into his subconscious mind and dictates to the person what the value of life is. If they grow up thinking life is hard and that life is a struggle that is what remains with them. Juxtaposing that with a person that grows in a rich home or within an environment of upper class bourgeoisie environment some inherent behaviors are unconsciously picked and can make children that grow up in these homes to be wealthy and successful, not because those wealth are inherited, but those unconscious behaviors have made them pick certain inherent values necessary to make them successful.

• Not positive about themselves

Positive thinking is powerful in making a person achieve great deal of success. It results in an effect known as Placebo effort, which is a state of mind that generates positive thinking. When this is lacking in a person the chance of embracing negative state of mind known as the Nocebo effect is high.

When the mind is in placebo effect it gives people a positive affirmation that one can be successful and achieve greatness, in this case the person sees possibilities instead of obstacles. This puts the person in the right frame of mind to achieving greatness. Sometimes this becomes possible when the individual grows around parents who are wealthy, they unconsciously pick up certain positive values as they grow up. So they grow up been wealthy with their own wealth not because they inherited the wealth but because of the values they grew up with.

Nocebo effect is the opposite of placebo effect. It is inherently dangerous and can be passed on unconsciously from parents to children and keeping people in the average life bracket.

The psychologist will tell us that 70% or more of our thoughts are negative and redundant. The power in positive thinking brings magical results. Positive thinking shapes our beliefs and gives an affirmative mentality positioning ourselves to tap into our innate possibilities.  A lot of people have the belief that life is hard and that only a particular class of people can make it in life in that case, Positive affirmation is replaced with negative affirmation resulting in lots of people giving up in life and been content with been average.

•  Impatient to grow a business

Most people are not ready to do what it takes to grow a business; they start a business and expect to be successful now or within a short time and once that is not happening they throw their hands in despair and give up. Starting and growing a successful business is entrepreneurship, and many successful entrepreneurs failed many times before getting grounded up in the business.

Anything good takes time to build and one cannot just start a business and expect to be successful overnight, unless of course it is not a genuine business.

A person in entrepreneurial business can be broke for years and it might seems there is no sight of hope, but they never give up, just as Winston Churchill put it ‘’success is not final failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts’’

• Ignorant about opportunities and not ready to learn

Most people are victims of poverty and average live because of their ignorance. Some people think working hard 24/7 with their skills and energy can solve their poverty situation-sad. Just as Byron Dorgan an American Politian puts it, ‘’working hard and working smart can be two different things’’ It is not all about how you work hard, but how you manage your time and work smart. The onset of the 21^st century has revolutionized how money is made by breaking barriers and opened doors to lots of opportunities for people to start business and become entrepreneurs no matter ones geographical location or nationality with low overhead and not necessarily with huge capital through the magic of the internet. In actual fact business has moved from been traditional to digital.

One’s ability to take advantage of the huge opportunity that came with this century by the power and revolution of the internet requires different mindset and the understanding of technological tools.

• So much dependence on qualifications and certificates for jobs

It is common to find people come out of school with highly qualified certificates searching for non-existing jobs, but the unfortunate thing is that nobody get wealthy with job that offers salary. Their mindset puts them in searching for and working in high paying jobs. But one cannot blame them because that was the systematic inherent programming they got. So they either struggle and get the job taking salary and live an average live or even never getting the jobs putting them into lifetime frustrations.

Conclusion

Living an average and poverty stricken lifestyle is a choice-by borrowing the Biblical inference- ”My people perish for lack of knowledge” the onus lies on the individual notwithstanding one’s background or orientation to reprogram one’s beliefs, become positive relearn and understand the current system that we live in now by taking advantage of the new liberal entrepreneurial world revolutionized by the digital age.