Everyone has a mindset because everyone has a mind.
Our own way of thinking and believing and our attitudes and approaches to life.
You can find plenty of posts of this blog about it because our mentality literally defines and decides how we live and experience life.
This mindset can change. Over the years as we age we alter our view of the world and so we amend how we mentally process our existence. Our mindset when we are 10 years of age will be vastly different to when we are 35 with a family or 60 years old coming up to retirement.
Mindsets typically used to be age dependent and related. We tended to think like the generation we were. Youngsters wanted to fun and adventure. Mid age wanted security and steadiness. Older folks sought claim, quiet, and a slower pace.
But then the 21st Century dawned and with it the internet and that brought an internet mentality.
A new mindset began to develop across all age groups and sectors of society. One that has the power to ruin futures and spoil everyday living.
One that is turning people into non sensible headed humans.
The one that is a monster mindset.
The Want Mindset.
Before the internet was created we wanted only what we needed.
We may have wanted a good version of it or a better one than what we owned, but, generally we never went after things that didn’t match our real needs. Cars were usually used and kept for many years. Holidays were saved up for over a longer period to be able to go to Spain for a few weeks once a year. And clothes were the functional type; smart, practical, inexpensive to replace.
But the world wide web smashed all that.
At our finger tips in the click of a mouse we could access exotic trips, every model of hot car, and famous brands to wear. We got enticed and lured in by offers and we began to want what we saw. And buy!
But the wanting mentality went through the roof when 2 things came our way.
Social media and credit.
Now we could see other people travelling the world, driving expensive motors, and dressing like stars. We didn’t know that this wasn’t real then (do people even realise this now?). We naively believed they were just like us so we had to be like them too. We just couldn’t be left out, left behind, and seeing others doing better than us. Oh no, here comes FOMO!
How could we do this? Credit.
The early 21st Century opened up the floodgates to the masses. Now you could have now and pay later. Your were advanced money that didn’t feel like yours and you were free to spend.
And spend we did to keep up with everyone else’s images on Facebook.
Our ‘I want mind’ became a Will Have Mentality.
And the monster came to life!
See it, want it society.
Social media ruined our heads.
We have lost them. Now we can see people having, doing, or owning almost anything. Whether they actually do or not just isn’t computed in our minds. They have it, we want it. Or at least as close a copy as possible.
Every single day we can find someone living a life in some way that we wish we were. And being ancient tribal humans in our genes who don’t want to miss out, we are soon buying any little (or massive) thing to be like them.
If we feel they are cool or successful, now we are cool and successful.
With a constant daily supply of temptation there is a never ending sweet shop of posts and videos to spark our minds.
Minds have become hooked.
They see so much that they want that becomes infused into the emotional desire banks. We have to got to have shiny stuff now. No thinking if we can afford it (it’s a credit card have-now-pay-later world). Hardly any common sense (do I need a Versace bag at £1k when I work in a cafe?). No thinking whether we are out of control (only when it’s too late and we panic).
Here is the Will Have Mentality, the monster in our minds!
Very few people can resist not wanting or buying what everyone else seems to have. Have you seen the number of brand new expensive cars on the road in the last few years????? Or the amount of people on multiple tropical holidays now??
We have become will have warriors who have lost the mental fight.
What we will have.
The Will Have Mentality has been set to have whatever it yearns for.
Like a shopping list that goes on forever week after week after month after month after year. You can find almost anything you desire at the click of a few buttons now. The latest fad trend, the scent some celebrity endorses, the cult holiday island in the middle of nowhere, the must-have concert tickets.
This monster mindset just devours.
But let’s see what it really ends up devouring. What it really will have.
Will have massive financial debt.
Will have anxiety and mental health pressures trying to keep up or pay for it all.
Will have a lesser future because the problems today caused by it will meet you soon in the future.
Will have become an unbearably obsessed personality to be around.
Will lose good, solid friends who don’t want to play this game.
Will have regrets, shame, and guilt through the actions of today.
So, check out if you have a Will Have Mentality. The must have it, want it, need it, going to get it mind that doesn’t live in the real world but the fantasy one. One it believes will never end and like a waterfall of fun.
Until one day reality makes it all crash down around you.
Don’t let that be you. If it is, stop NOW! There are too many prices to pay.
Because in the end the only thing you will have is everything you DIDN’T want.
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