The Psychology of Wealth: Understand Your Relationship with Money and Achieve Prosperity

CHAPTER 1How Do We Define Wealth?

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

—Harold Thurman Whitman

It was yet another beautiful day in the barrio of San Antonio, Texas, where Leticia San Miguel grew up. Her Mexican American family had lived here for 200 years, and her roots ran deep. The family had been on this land when it was part of Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the Southern Confederacy, and now the United States. The name of the area had changed, but the people had not. The culture was old and rich, if not wealthy. Leticia’s family and friends all lived within a few blocks of one another. Cousins were ...