Signs you are really rich though you may be broke

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Money. It's like the fuel that keeps the earth spinning. It is the actuator of fantasies, dreams and wishes. It's not that people really give a single damn about whatever object may be called money. It doesn't really matter whether it's gold, fiat, paper or cowries. The real deal is what they dream about doing once they land in the money. That's what's up. In fact, what makes money money has everything to do with what people think about it. I simply mean that money or measures of value will always change like from barter to cowries to fiat to coins to notes to crytocurrency and the chain keeps getting longer. But whatever the measure of value is or becomes, there will always be the rich and the poor, and they will keep being the same people all the time. You know why?

Wealth, financial success and affluence happen loooooong before you start getting the big bucks because wealth is a function of the mind and who you're at the core, while money is only one and the least important indicator of wealth.

Take a moment to swallow that.

Are you ready? 

Read on

Like I earlier said, the value of money is dependent on very unstable and varying factors. Now, if the only difference between you and a poor man is your money, what then happens if there's a new and maybe foreign government policy, or a national crisis such that value is extracted from your money which you've got truckloads of lying around your balcony and injected into nothing else but thin air? Will that make you equal to the poor man?
It shouldn't!

It's high time we understood that money alone won't make you rich if first of all you don't have a money conscious mind that will attract the money and serve as both a container and multiplier of money. With this mindset and skill set, you are already as good as rich even if you may be broke currently. That mindset is really what differentiates a rich person from a poor person. That's why if you give a poor person loads of money either by lottery, a huge salary etc, the world may call him rich, but I bet you, sooner than later he'd be back to being poor and densely in debt if the salary stops coming and/he squanders the lottery cash because the rich mindset is lacking.

Imagine there was an intense and brutal famine somewhere in an African desert where everyone seemed to be of equal means. The villagers all owned the same amount of property which was nothing but their little thatched huts and raggy loin coverings. They fed on wild fruits and ate raw meet. There was neither a leader nor were there followers. In fact, that community was an epitome of equality among citizens.

One of them might be your great great great granddaddy

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Bush African men

But famine was a recurring and unsolvable problem in the society. Whenever it came, it hit the people harder than the last time because though this people knew the exact moment in the year when the famine came, there was no way to get or store water anywhere. All the water containers they had were their palms with which they scooped and drank the limited water from the only oasis around before it ran stone dry whenever the famine came around.

But one day, a certain 18 year old boy in the village thought of having a container for water. It seemed quite dumb an idea because the water from the oasis was barely enough for immediate uses much less storing.

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Parched ground with little water

Nonetheless, he took the skin of a dead Kudu along with a long and flexible branch from a tree and some ropes and made a basin by running the branch through the corners of the camel skin into a circular rim, then tied the branch to the camel skin and finally, using three other strong branches he formed a tripod stand that held the basin from its rim to the floor.

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He had a decent 10 litre basin but it was as dry as the floor on which it stood. Therefore, it seemed like though the boy had put in great effort and skill into this invention, it hadn't and wouldn't take him anywhere beyond where he and everyone already was.

10 years passed and the basin was already long ruined by the heat without ever getting to contain a single drop of water. The boy bagged tons of progressively mean ridicule and insults all through the period from when he first made the basin to when it finally withered just a year later. But he kept replacing the basins and in 10 years he'd made and lost 4 basins, each one bigger and more durable than the last.

The first basin was weak and small and could bear the heat for no more than a year before melting to the base. The second was bigger and sturdier and lasted two years, the third even sturdier and bigger and lasted three years, the fourth and final one till now was the biggest and lived for four years.

But it seemed like the bigger and sturdier the basin, the more effort and time he wasted, the more frustrated he got and the more sneers and bickering he got from his neighbors.

Today, on the 10th year after the boy's first and least successful basin, he's now 28 and has so much added experience and skill at building basins but has zero experience in actually seeing his basin hold any water.

He gives up ever making a basin ever again and this year's the first year since the last ten years that he didn't have a basin and wasn't building one. That year, a western water corporation visited the village for the first time ever. The villagers had never seen people in clothes or shoes and with fair skin ever before.

The westerners asked the people for a basin where they could store the water they had in a very long hose connected to a water source thousands of kilometers away. But there was no such thing. At least not anymore.

Immediately, the boy fell flat on the steamy hot sand and wept profusely. The white men simply assumed he was weeping because they couldn't get the water they had all so prayed for. So the white men simply bathed everyone of the villagers with water from the pipe as they quenched their thirst. Then the white men promised to return with a tank for them whenever they returned and left.

There was a young lad among the white men who happened to be an adventure addict son of one of the white men who insisted he'd go with daddy to Africa. He had wept uncontrollably and wouldn't eat for three days after his daddy said he couldn't go to Africa too.

Finally though, his daddy agreed to take him, on condition that he would remain in the trunk of the truck the went in. He agreed and remained there.

Now, while the villagers were bathing and drinking, the boy who made basins hid leaning against the trunk of the truck and sobbed. He was startled by the voice of the lad also leaning against just the other side of the truck when he asked his name and why he was crying and wasn't bathing too. My name is Kimboki and that is my story the boy replied after telling the lad his story.

On the way back home though, the lad was having a hard time convincing his daddy and the other men that they had missed somebody and that he was sure that one of the villagers didn't bath or drink the water.

Now, they were already home for about 10 years and the lad had given up trying to convince his daddy that Kimboki was exempted because the more the days went by, the less important it became and less difference it made.

Back at the desert, nothing had changed. People were older though, but they hadn't move any further from where they've been over the years.

Only Kimboki had made any advancements other than age. He was now a 38 year old man who had built a basin with enough room to contain enough water for the entire village, for an entire decade and beyond. He built a huge thatch roof over his tank to keep the water from evaporating and yet there still wasn't any drop of water in it.

Finally, the young western lad who was now a well-to-do young man decided to revisit that dry African desert he had visited as a young lad.

His doubt, uncertainty and fear were crippling but his ever strong love for adventure spurred him on. So he began the journey back to the village and found everything as same as he could recall.

And sure, he didn't forget to come along with a water pipe too with the hope of at least bathing the villagers and giving them a drink since he couldn't carry a tank with the capacity to serve the entire village across the desert.

The villagers were happy to receive him and soon after his arrival, there was a bathing spree everywhere and people drank till they were full. But again Kimboki wasn't there. So the lad asked for him and he came. He led the lad to his impressive tank.

Quite awed, the lad finally filled the tank to the brim with water and the tank didn't budge. And so the lad left in good cheer.

The next day in the village, there was no single sign of water around. But Kimboki's tank of fresh water was intact. So the people all flocked to him and begged for some water and he gave them in exchange for the food they had toiled hard to harvest around or their services within his hut.

Kimboki never again had to work but he had everything he wanted. His water tank served the people throughout many years until the lad finally came back and this time, took Kimboki to his place because he saw great potential in him. The end.

In this story, Kimboki represents the rich and he started being rich the moment he first conceived the idea of making a change or difference. Not when he started getting paid for his water or when he was taken abroad. A new and unique idea and mindset is what makes you stand from the vast crowds of poor and mediocre people: a new or improved idea, a vision and dream that fills a deep and strong need. Then you must have the emotional stubbornness needed to actualize your dream by developing thick skin against criticism though you expect and value it.

Therefore, using Kimboki as reference, we will identify signs that you are rich, although you may be broke or just like everyone else.

1. You don't just believe what you are told

2. You are not content with being like everyone

3. You don't mind ridicule or insults. You even draw strength from them

4. You love questioning and changing the norm

5. You never give up

6. You are okay with being alone

7. You don't believe in luck

8. You think of the future more than anything and it doesn't scare you but spurs you.

9. You have clear and written goals both in the short and long term.

10. You have few friends

11. You don't feel depressed or disappointed for long.

12. You never blame anyone

13. You love making mistakes, encourage those who do and despise those who don't.

14. You can delay gratification

15. You don't care about looking or seeming rich, but being rich

16. Deep down, you don't like working and so look for legit ways to make money without working.

17. You think play is better than work, so you work now so you can play the rest of your life.

18. Money isn't that important to you. Your personal development and time are more important.

19. You love risks

20. You're a great communicator

21. You aren't scared of losing money so long as a valuable lesson was learnt

22. You don't procrastinate.

23. You can lead and persuade those superior to you.

24. You hate school

25. You hate debt and are never in it.