Poor Me to Soul Rich: Upgrade Your Mindset to Maximize Your Health, Multiply Your Wealth & Magnify Your Relationships

By Anthony D Brice

Discover the Path to Emotional and Spiritual Wealth with "Poor Me to Soul Rich"

In a world obsessed with financial success, "Poor Me to Soul Rich" offers a refreshing journey towards discovering what it truly means to live a rich life. This transformative guide invites you to explore the depths of emotional wea

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Impower Group
• Release date: Mar 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9781733641951

Anthony D Brice

Anthony D Brice is the author of three previous books, including Poor Me to Soul Rich: Spiritual Currency for the Mind, Heart & Soul, I am Powerful, I am Amazing, I am a King, and Loving Alone Until We're Together: Discover the 4 Magnets for Maximum Attraction to Manifest True Love. With a lifelong passion for self-education and personal development, Anthony provides his readers and clients with the tools and strategies to change their lives, create financial freedom, and build a legacy.

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CONTENTS

Foreword

Introduction

CHAPTER I: CLAIMING YOUR POWER

Fields of Dreams

It’s yours

Don’t block your blessings

Grind to grow

Prioritize

I

Binge-worthy

Claim your power

Refuse

Thoughts and purpose

The few

Footprints

Make room

Island of excellence

True leadership

Tongue twisted

Bridges

The maker and the master

Your Inheritance

Manifesto

CHAPTER II: SEEKING HEALING

Broke but not broken

The darkest hour

Stormy weather

The struggle is real

Brokenness

Heart closed for repairs

If you let it

Dear soul

The wounds of yesterday

Moment of clarity

The pain

Baggage

Forgiveness for the spirit

Don’t damage your soul

Everything heals

The Darkest hour

Self-oppression

Sea Shore

Battle Scars

CHAPTER III: KNOWING YOUR WORTH

Respect

My worth

Mirror, mirror

Something special

Never compromise

Your biggest fan

Boundaries

No discounts

Greater

True light

It’s time for a promotion

The value of worth

A different kinda special

Complete

Be you

Beautiful

Your gift

Tears of Clown

Beautiful Struggle

CHAPTER IV: OVERCOMING FEAR

Fear to grow

Never too late

Ask yourself

Did you live today?

At this moment

This is the beginning

On demand

The Bold

Disappointment

Satisfied

Shadow of fear

Borrowed time

Application Accepted

Start something

A matter of choice

The destroyer of greatness

Defeating doubt

The Arms of Love

Drifting on a Memory

The Garden

CHAPTER V: KNOWING YOURSELF

Trapped

Quantified self

I Declare

Calmness

Fullness

Demons

Soul food

Sick and tired

Presence

Self-governed soul

Master of soul

I know

Collective consciousness

Seek first to understand

Never Change

At peace

Peace, be still

Layers

Wings

For Better or For Less

CHAPTER VI: PRACTICING SELF-CARE

Moment of silence

Driving on empty

Affirmation of power

Overflow

Goal miner

Today, I’m ready

Life unnoticed

Aliveness

Celebrate yourself

Patience is a virtue

Brother, it’s okay

The power of no

Self-compassion

Self-talk

Sacrifices

Lines in the Sand

CHAPTER VII: CULTIVATING SELF-LOVE

Choose you

Real recognize real

Made for love

Choose yourself

Selfless love

Masterpiece

Believe

Self-talk

My Worth

No Explanation Needed

The most beautiful thing in the world

In love

Empty cup

loved back to life

Self-love

Standards

Let love back in

Mind Your Heart

Heart to Heart

Give yourself

Don’t Wait for love

What you mean

Blind to the Fact

The Eyes of Love

If it isn’t love

CHAPTER VIII: LETTING GO

Elimination

Life is like a balloon

Ready or not

Too grown

Unlearning

Space

Hard Past

I am because I’ve been

Don’t look back

New beginnings

In now

Control

Firefly

Fairy Tale

Suitcase

Frozen

The Rarest Jewel

The Shining Gateway

Rain on me

At Last

CHAPTER IX: PRODUCING BREAKTHROUGHS

Your Season

Rise up

The cost of not following your heart

Heart to heart

Fertile soil

Go through it

Behind closed doors

Remind yourself

More power

Your truth

Get your mouth right

Change your focus

No Matter

Utopia

Garden of Peace

Matrix

CHAPTER X: FAITH & BELIEF

Planted in faith

Jump

Faith it til’ you make it

Only believe

Stop waiting

All prayed out

Seed of thought

Emotions

Don’t miss this moment

Don’t be discouraged

Delayed but not derailed

Leap

Chance or choice

Baby steps

Failure doesn’t mean failed

Enough

Oceans

The Source

Stand

The Arms of Grace

Heart’s Desire

Angel Feathers

In the Morning

CHAPTER XI: FINDING HAPPINESS

Happiness isn’t

Create your happiness

Fertile soil

Finding yourself

Meet life with power

Know GPS

The truth

Choose

Duality

Take off

No vacation needed

The softest place on earth

Home

CHAPTER XII: FINDING STRENGTH

Breathe to succeed

Tired enough

Out with the old

Wake-up call

Fight

Stepping-stones

See the whole

It’s okay

Tired

Stormy weather

The finish line

Be strong enough

Quit

Trust

Still

New Seeds

CHAPTER XIII: FOLLOWING YOUR DREAMS

Your dreams will be tested for authenticity

Emergency

The power of vision

The watcher

Recurring dreams

Never Enough

Children of greatness

Influencer

Just do your thing

110%

Desperate Measures

Greatness Belongs

Forward, Always Forward

Elevation Nation

Trouble, Trouble

Seeds of Reality

CHAPTER XIV: CHOOSING YOUR FRIENDS

Defend your light

Friends with benefits

Full Circle

Let em’ know

Circle of success

Not allowed

Poison

Acquaintances

Stranger danger

Sacred space

Introvert

Stragglers

Empty

Life Companions

Author’s final thoughts

FOREWORD

It was spring 2006. After finishing up my first year of medical school, I was in a very low place. The rigors of being a first-year medical student had taken their toll, and I had lost all motivation to continue with the mental, physical, and emotional abuse I was putting myself through. I was done keeping up the charade that I had what it took to become a doctor. I guess I had stopped believing in myself. The moment I was ready to throw in the towel, one of my schoolmates sent me a link to a documentary that had yet to be released. The title of the documentary was The Secret. I did not know it at the time, but that documentary would be the turning point for me in my medical career. It would also plant the seeds within Anthony for what would become the extraordinary piece of literature you are about to read.

For those who have not watched it, The Secret is based on the law of attraction, which claims that thoughts can change a person’s life directly. Our thoughts are the key to unlocking the richness that lies within each of us, but they can also keep us as a prisoner in our own lives. I didn’t only experience this myself. Being educated and clinically trained in Mind-Body medicine and having worked with thousands of clients and students over the past decade, I witnessed firsthand the profound influence and affect our thoughts can have over our life. Thoughts are one of the ingredients and emotions that make up our beliefs, and it is through our beliefs, we create the concept of ourselves and the world.

While going through my medical training that first year, I thought that medical school was supposed to be very hard, that only a small percentage ever makes it all the way through and that I wasn’t a part of that small percentage. After watching The Secret, I realized my self-sabotaging beliefs and debilitating thoughts had created my poor expectations and determined my negative experiences. I looked at the external world to validate and justify my thoughts and beliefs, and I found exactly what I was looking for.

As human beings, we are an integrated whole, inseparable from our internal (subjective) and external (objective) experiences. The S.H.E. (subjective human experience) of who we are in spirit, mind, and emotions makes up our Soul Essence that occupies our physical body. From our Soul Essence, we create our reality (relationships, contribution, and environment). We do this through our thoughts and our response to our environments, relationships, and the events that occur within our lives. Our Soul Essence (spirit, mind, and emotions) determines whether we live from a state of ‘Poor Me’ or ‘Soul Rich,’ as Anthony calls it in his book. An individual with a ‘Poor Me’ mindset is more prone to feelings of disempowerment and defeat, not realizing the power for healing and transformation is within. Someone with a ‘Soul Rich’ mindset will manifest health, wealth, love, and perfect self-expression with ease. We all have the power to switch from ‘Poor Me’ to ‘Soul Rich,’ from being the victim to being the victor if we choose to do so.

Once I truly understood and accepted this, I began consciously changing the perceptions and beliefs about myself and what I was capable of. The results were astonishing. I not only graduated from medical school, but I also became the student body president and won the Outstanding Leadership Award. The Outstanding Leadership Award is only given to one student for each graduating class based on his or her demonstration of leadership over the course of their four years in medical school. My experience laid the foundation for how I look at life. It shaped the way I work with the athletes, high-level entrepreneurs, performers, and business executives that seek me out for healing, growth, and success as a whole person in the Seven Domains of Life Mastery™ (spirit, mind, emotions, body, relationships, contribution, and environment).

I witnessed Anthony, my good friend of two-plus decades, making the same powerful shift from a ‘Poor Me’ to a ‘Soul Rich’ mindset. The level of growth and transformation he went through is extraordinary. You are about to gain access to his Soul Essence and the richness of his experience and wisdom: wisdom that was derived from his soul, not from theory, not from speculation, or from what someone else has told him. Through profound inner work, Anthony has come to understand that the quality of his life is determined by his S.H.E and not by external circumstances. He aligned his spirit, mind, and emotions with this truth and thus created a new reality for himself. You now have the opportunity to learn from him and do the same.

A book like Poor Me to Soul Rich is what the world needs right now. With the ravaging effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on our physical, mental, and emotional health, the economic hardships, and the social unrest many face, it is very easy to choose the ‘Poor Me’ mindset and feel justified to do so. If you did, hopefully, you will reconsider your choice while reading this book.

As you dive in Poor Me, Soul Rich, allow your beliefs and concepts about yourself and your world to be challenged. This is the only way to access your truth, apply it in your daily life, and gain even greater wisdom from it. This book is a warm invitation to take the inward journey that will support you to shift from a ‘Poor Me’ to a ‘Soul Rich’ expression of self with Anthony as your trusted guide.

Warm regards and blessings,

Dr. Mahdi Mah’el Mark Brown

INTRODUCTION

It was April 1, 2006, and I was headed to the first day of my new job in a new city. After long consideration, I gave up my old life in an attempt to start over and create something better. I was a young man, three years removed from college, engaged to be married, and life was catching up with me faster than I could have ever imagined. My fiancé was a month away from graduating from college, and we decided that this move marked a fresh start for us. Little did I know, within a month of my first day at the new job, the world that I knew would come crashing down. My fiancé and I broke up, and she was no longer moving to be with me after graduation. I was forced to move back home to the very streets I felt I worked so hard to escape.

I had a clear vision for what my life was supposed to look like and how it was supposed to go. I planned everything down to the letter. On that day, it felt as if those plans went up in flames, and all I was left with was the ashes of those faded memories. It’s one thing to know that these difficult experiences are a part of life, but it’s a totally different thing to be the person going through it.

Coming from where I’m from and seeing the things that I’ve seen, I used to feel like I started from the bottom, and at this time, I felt like life pushed me right back down to the bottom. The thing that gave me the most hope was that I came from a fearless, loving, and praying grandmother. She was an amazing woman who loved God, and she did everything in her power to make sure that I did, too.

Life ironically brought me back to the home where she helped raise me, where I established my foundation of Faith. I had built my life on that foundation, and that strengthened me to not only endure but to achieve. As difficult as things were, at no point did I not think that things would work out. I just didn’t know when or how.

The bedroom I was sleeping in was the same room that my mother, my little brother, and I used to share growing up in my grandmother’s house. Talk about a humbling experience, as if I needed one.

One day, I remember receiving a package addressed to me from an unknown source. I hadn’t ordered anything, and it didn’t say where it came from. At the time, very few people even knew I moved back. The package contained a DVD for a movie that I never heard of. With all the mystery surrounding this surprise package, it made me more intrigued to see what this movie was about. It was about so much more than I could have imagined…

The movie itself was simple in concept but profound in the message. The movie was created by a woman who, during the lowest point in her life, felt that she received a great revelation about how to transform your life and create the experiences of your dreams. It featured a number of different thought leaders and experts who talked about the hidden power that all humans possess to use our minds to create our own reality. The movie showed people who claimed