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Raising Prosperous Kids

Randy Gage explains how parents can recognize negative media messages about wealth and prosperity before having the conversation with their kids.

Prosperity expert Randy Gage rose from a jail cell as a teen to become a self-made multi-millionaire who has inspired millions of people around the world. He is the author of eight books on success including Prosperity Mind and Accept Your Abundance which have been translated into more than 25 languages and sold millions of copies worldwide. With a style described as "Deepak Chopra meets Dennis Miller," this personal prosperity provocateur prods people to ditch attitudes that are holding them back and grab opportunities previously hidden. Follow Randy on Twitter at www.twitter.com/Randy_Gage and learn more about him at www.randygage.com.

Transcript:

Are you sabotaging the success of your children by creating certain beliefs for them?

So, could you be sabotaging your success at forty or fifty years old from a belief you developed when you were five or six years old? Or, maybe the more important question, are you sabotaging the success of your children by creating certain beliefs for them?

Hey everybody, Randy Gage here, I’m at a resort, actually we’re just outside of Bangkok, Thailand, and welcome to another episode of Prosperity TV, and I want to deal with this issue of “are we doing stuff to sabotage the success of our children? “

And, of course, I’m the perfect guy to give you advice on how to raise healthy, happy, prosperous kids, cause I don’t have any kids! Right? Isn’t it always the guys, you know, people with no children that want to tell you how to raise your own kids? But I’m actually kind of serious about that, because I don’t have any children of my own, but what I have is the life experience of being one of those children who created beliefs at a young age, grew up, and then manifested my success (first, failure), because of beliefs I developed in childhood.

I believe your core foundational beliefs about pretty much everything in prosperity – relationships, marriage, health, happiness, money, they’re gonna be determined by the time you’re five, six, seven years old. So that’s kinda scary that, you know, our core beliefs will be set before we’re ten years old. But I think that’s true. If you saw your father cheat on your mother, as a young child, your core belief about marriage and relationships, probably set then. If they got divorced when you were at an early age, a core belief about relationships was set then. And of course, we’ve talked a lot about money, and mind viruses, and all the programming we get from organized religion, governments and the datasphere, think about how much exposure people are getting at those young, young ages. So, how can we make sure that our kids become successful? That we don’t create negative programming at an early age? A couple of tips come to mind.

One is, be cognizant of the programming they’re getting. When you go the movies with them, when you sit down and watch a TV show with them, ask yourself “were there wealthy people in this video? How were they portrayed?” And then have a discussion with your kids about that. Think of the Spiderman movie, when Peter Parker’s uncle says to him, “We may not be rich, but at least we’re honest.” What does that mean? How is that portrayed? Just think about any of the movies that your kids are exposed to, ask yourself, “How is money portrayed, how are wealthy people portrayed?” Cause you know we can go back to Gilligan’s Island, and the millionaire on that, Dallas, and Dynasty and shows in the eighties, and the shows in the nineties, and the movies, we’re gonna see those subliminal programming, so have those conversations with your kids.

Second, do some counter programming. When they get old enough, books like “As a Man Thinketh,” “The Magic of Thinking Big,” “Think and Grow Rich”. My Prosperity TV channel (www.youtube.com/RandyGage) - your kids get old enough, get them on that. Help them become critical thinkers. I love the Baby Einstein stuff for young kids and then there’s crossword puzzles, Sudoku, Rubik’s cube, anything like that to just get them to be critical thinkers, because critical thinkers are the ones who question things, and they don’t get programmed automatically.

And of course, teach your kids to dream big. I love the idea of kids having prosperity manifestation maps at a young age, at ten years old, it’s not too young for a kid to be building a first prosperity map.

So think of some things that you could do, some tips to help you kid get the right beliefs, so they take them out into the world, and they create the lifestyle they’re meant to live, that you’re meant to live, and I’m meant to live, so we can all live rich. Thanks, everybody.