I recently purchased a phenomenal board game for my children, called Rich Dad Cashflow for Kids.

Created by Robert Kiyosaki of Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! fame, it teaches children how to see the world of money in a way that’s quite different to the view many of us were raised with.

It encourages children to see the world as investors, as people who respect money but don’t necessarily have to trade most of their time and energy in order to have more of it. The mindset it provides is one of looking out for opportunities to create income-producing assets, rather than always purchasing ‘doodads’ that do nothing to create future income. Robert has two other board games, for adults, but many adults would probably find this children’s version a great starting point for re-wiring their financial brain.

After I purchased the board game, I dug into my success library and pulled out those two classics of Robert’s from the late 1990s – Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! and Rich Dad’s CASHFLOW Quadrant: Rich Dad’s Guide to Financial Freedom. I’ve been re-reading their simple, classic, time-tested wisdom, and will be applying more of this wisdom in my own life from now on.

One particular quote stood out for me from Rich Dad’s CASHFLOW Quadrant: Rich Dad’s Guide to Financial Freedom – and I’d like to share it with you here, with the hope that it gets you thinking differently about money.

Of his ‘rich dad’, Robert says:

He called money a drug because he had observed people who were happy when they had money, and upset or moody when they did not. Just as heroine addicts get high when they inject the drug, they also get moody and violent when they don’t have it.

‘Be careful of money’s additive power,’ he often said. ‘Once you get used to receiving it, that addiction keeps you attached to the way you got it.’

Put another way, if you receive money as an employee, then you tend to get accustomed to that way of acquiring it. If you get used to generating money by being self-employed, it is often difficult to break the attachment to earning money in that way. And if you get used to government handouts, that, too, is a hard pattern to break….

‘…its more than breaking a habit; it’s breaking an addition.’

That is why he stressed to me to never work for money. He insisted we learn to create our own systems as a way of acquiring money.

Are you open to new ways of creating and receiving money? If you’re intrigued, I really do suggest reading Robert’s books, and trying out the board games. We’re looking forward to ‘graduating’ our girls into the CASHFLOW 101 game, which provides the next level of complexity with regards to financial literacy.

From my point of view, we can use the law of attraction to begin manifesting our desires – AND we can be open to taking the real-world action that’s going to bring those manifested opportunities into our world.

Have you ever read any of Robert’s books? If not, are you curious about his approach? (Perhaps you’ll treat yourself or your family to one of his books or board games?) Let me know!