It all starts from who you are!

Have you ever read the famous story Acres of Diamonds? Do you ever feel that it related to you?

A farmer hears tales of diamonds and begins dreaming of enormous riches. He sells his farm and hikes off over the horizon, never to be heard from again. People say those years later he died bankrupt, never having found the diamonds he spent his life in the hunt for. 

Meanwhile, the man who bought that farm found a large and "interesting looking" stone in a stream that ran through the property. He put the stone on his mantle where a visitor recognized the large stone as a rough diamond. 

It turned out to be the Hope Diamond, the biggest such stone ever found. That stream bed was littered with diamonds, and the new owner became amazingly affluent. No doubt he also lived happily ever after.

But doesn't something in that story set bizarrely with you? 

What about the guy with the burning aspiration and the grand vision? He ended up disillusioned and ruined, dying far from his family and friends. Not a happy ending. 

In the meantime, the guy who just wanted to do some farming got all the riches. Make no error, the new owner already had money, or he could not have bought the land. There's nothing in this story to make us think he was dreaming about riches, vast or otherwise. No burning aspiration. But he got the goodies.

Was this just another little hoax, courtesy of a naughty Universe? 

Or is it possible to get good things coming your way with only mild desire -- maybe even a calm indifference? 

Many motivating writers, including Napoleon Hill, have assured us that a blazing desire is one of the fundamentals of acquiring wealth. I've even said it myself, although I added the qualifier that the dominant desire is not so much for the Universe. It's for you, to help you conquer and battle past your own uncertainties and resistances. 

But haven't you seen people who seem to coast into good things, like the farmer who found the Hope Diamond? Achieving your dream doesn't appear to have a lot to do with flaming desire.

Instead, it seems to be more a matter of what they can allow themselves to have. Some people call this a sense of worthiness. It's essentially the same thing. Either way, it's governed by who you think you are and what state of affairs you accept as suitable for you. 

In other words, it all starts from who you are in your own mind.