Thursday, October 2, 2025
There is a certain amount of care when giving. You might not be helping if you pour handouts on the poor. If you give someone a lavish gift, like an opulent mansion or a Ferrari, likely you’re giving them a hardship of maintenance, insurance, upkeep, etc. You can’t kick someone upstairs, just by putting them in a big house or a fancy car. They can’t suddenly understand the principles of wealth. That’s because those hungry for handouts don’t understand the principle of earning their fill. What you earn, through your own doing, is fulfilling, rewarding, and amazing. Knowing you can!
The word earnest means ‘resulting from or showing sincere and intense conviction.’ Someone of lower means inheriting a mega-mansion isn’t ready. Poverty is a mindset that’s not cured by a bandaid. It’s a deeper inner conviction that one must earn his way out of. Success is earned. Wealth is earned. Handouts perpetuate dependency, not earnest means.
Earnest people have intense convictions. You are earnestly rich or earnestly poor, and this is not changed through outward adjustments. You believe you are poor, unhealthy, lazy, or rich. Many-a person with lots of money still feels earnestly poor, and they grab for more.
If you give something away, lavishly, you may not be doing anyone a favor. Your handout could end up being a hardship. But we constantly throw money at the poor and can’t seem to solve their problem. We’re addicted to fixing things “outwardly,” overlooking the deep, inward issue.
Someone earning millions, slowly and creatively, will appreciate it. Someone working out at the gym for 5 years will appreciate their sculpted, lean body. Go to your plastic surgeon, vacuum out the fat, and you’ll be back where you ended up in no time. A handout is a hardship. Nobody is seeking freedom through enlightenment and earnest discipline. Just handouts, more hardship, and no real progress.