This is How the Wealthy View Money and You Can Too.

The average person has a very narrow view of money.  They generally view it as something to be spent.  It comes in (it is earned) and then it goes out (it is spent).  No further value is added to it and once it is gone it is gone and not thought about again.

The wealthy have a totally different view of money.  They view money as a tool to be invested for their needs.  They are very strategic about how they use money to achieve their goals and do not like to lose it.  They certainly do not view it as something that is to be used until it is gone.  This is why the wealthy generally do not invest in very risky things.  They want to see their money grow and so they put it to work investing in themselves getting educated, in businesses that have a high profit margin and in long term, high yield investments.

This is not to say that wealthy people do not buy things; they certainly do.  However, their spending is a much lower percentage of their income and net worth than the average person even if the amount is much higher.  They keep most of their money working for them and spend a small percentage of it.  Their income goes into investments, and then they tend to spend money that their investments have made, not their income.

The irony of these two different views of money is that the wealthy do not view it as scarce and do not try to force themselves to make more.  They follow the rules of investing and saving and their net worth increases.  Most people view money as a scarce commodity and try to force themselves to make more, which often means that they attach difficulty to the idea of making money making it harder for them to make it.

The best part of viewing money as a tool is that it is really quite easy to implement the strategies of the wealthy.  The first step is to invest in yourself.  This would be getting an education on how to make money, how to save it and how to grow it.  This is the most important step as it causes the mind shift from consumer to investor.

Once you adopt this mindset, you will view money as a tool and your Reticular Activating System will start noticing opportunities for you to make your money work harder for you.  Then your income and your net worth have a really strong tendency to increase.