When you hear the figure, "Seventy million dollars," what do you think?



When I was twelve years old, I had a paper route and made a whopping thirty dollars a month. Candy bars were a nickel. At that time, one hundred dollars seemed like a whole lot of money to me.

Later, at age seventeen, I worked part time at a grocery store for a dollar and sixty-five cents an hour. I now made around thirty dollars a week. At that time, one hundred dollars didn't seem as big as it did to me a few years back, but a thousand dollars sure did.

A couple of years later, I worked at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago loading airplanes and I made around one hundred dollars a week. At this point in my life, a thousand dollars didn't seem quite as big as it did just a couple of years before. Meanwhile, I heard that there were people who were actually making fifty thousand dollars a year. That was ten times what I was making.

The point that I am trying to make is that all of this is just numbers. Whether it is 30, or 100, or 50,000, they are all just numbers. I can remember when the richest people in the world were millionaires. That seemed like something so far and distant and only available for a small few.

In the summer of 2006 when Forbes did a piece on the richest people in America, they noted that there were plenty of billionaires. Plenty of billionaires. Meanwhile, the national debt at that time was in the trillions! What is a trillion dollars? How much is that?

We've all heard our parents or grandparents talk about the old days and how much a nickel would buy back then. Maybe when I mentioned my paper route, it brought back some of those memories. And of course, the price and value for things continues to go up year after year. But again, it's all just numbers.

My parents bought their house for fourteen thousand dollars. My first house cost one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Again, those are just numbers. However, it is how we perceive those numbers that will greatly affect what we will acquire and attain.

It is what we think when we hear certain numbers that is very important. People who think that to have a six figure income is just way out of reach will never have a six figure income because of the way that they perceive one hundred thousand dollars.

Well then, just how much money is out there? There is plenty. Have you heard how much professional athletes make every year? Does that bother you? It shouldn't. It should indicate to you very clearly that there is a lot of money out there.

In addition, have we uncovered all the treasures on this planet? Has every invention already been invented? Are there no new avenues to pursue?

When the Creator put this world together, He knew that there were going to be a lot of people living here! He planned very well for great growth and expansion. He planned it with a supply far beyond what any of us could imagine.

So, here's the bottom line. We live on a planet filled with an abundance of resources as well as many things not yet discovered. There is enough money floating around all over the world that some people can spend seventy million dollars on a house!

Maybe we need to check our brains to see if we think something is out of range for us. If we truly believe a six-figure income is not attainable, we will not attain it. But just remember that the supply is not lacking. And, God promised to supply all that we need.

So in pursuing your dreams and your goals, keep in mind that when it comes to amounts of money it's all just numbers. Don't let an extra zero shake you up. And don't forget that there is plenty to go around and plenty for all you need!