{"id":2419,"date":"2023-04-30T16:19:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T20:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/news\/do-you-aspire-to-be-poor-how-shifting-your-mindset-can-encourage-financial-empowerment\/"},"modified":"2023-04-30T16:19:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T20:19:08","slug":"do-you-aspire-to-be-poor-how-shifting-your-mindset-can-encourage-financial-empowerment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/?p=2419","title":{"rendered":"Do You Aspire To Be Poor? How Shifting Your Mindset Can Encourage Financial Empowerment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Of course, no one wakes up wanting to be poor.<\/p>\n

For those who have once experienced poverty, their entire identity might be wrapped up in placing as much distance between that experience and themselves as possible. Lost in that pursuit, however, they may exhibit behaviors or hold on to beliefs that they once had in that state of survival. I know because I was once that person.<\/p>\n

In a 2019 TEDx talk, I share that at various stages in my childhood, my career aspirations changed until I turned 15 when I decided I wanted to be poor. I go on to elaborate that it wasn\u2019t that I truly wanted to be poor, but that in recognizing that I had learned how to operate in survival mode I had created a plan for a financial future around surviving. I didn\u2019t stop to consider that things for me could be different, at least not in the immediate future.<\/p>\n

In theory, getting an education and earning a high income would solve this problem. But it\u2019s not until you address the beliefs you have around money and acknowledge how those beliefs may seep into other areas of your life that you\u2019ll begin to shift your mindset into feeling financially empowered. Using the three E\u2019s:<\/p>\n