Have you heard this phrase? Do you believe it? Is money the root of all evil or is it your belief of money that is the root of your evil? Let me explain..
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I was walking with my mother today in downtown Pacific Grove, CA.
We were waiting for the animal rescue to open so that I could give up my beloved cats; but, that's another story.
While we were walking we were looking at the small shops on Lighthouse Avenue and one of them was a 'higher end' store and my mother commented as she passed, "too rich for my blood.
" To a "T" it was the exact phrase her father, bless him as he's passed away, used to say as he would walk past a store that had things he wanted but never allowed himself to afford because of his limiting beliefs and his pure disdain of rich people.
He would consistently make the comment about rich people are A** H**es and then would wander into McDonald's for a cup of coffee and a sit down chat with others who shared his beliefs.
Like minded individuals bringing into their lives others who shared their scarcity values.
My grandfather's beliefs were centered around a jealousy of an enviable position he wanted so to be in yet had no idea how to create it for himself.
Back to my mother and her comment...
Her words were so succinct, so in form, so much a part of his (her father's) background and thinking that I surely thought he had embodied her for that moment as she spoke those words.
It was kind of freaky to tell you the truth.
My mother is a fisherman, a canvas maker, a sail maker, a woodworker, and a very creative and ingenious woman when it comes to creating something out of nothing.
But, like her father, she has limiting beliefs about money.
Money has always been a big problem because there has never been enough and as is normal for the baby boomers, they don't spend what they don't have.
Growing up with parents raised in the Great Depression, theirs is a consistent reminder of what they don't have: Money.
Now that I have allowed myself to be reconditioned by the words of Jeffery Combs, Ferny Ceballos, Aaron "Parky" Parkinson, Jay Kubassek, Danielle Wilson, John Jackson, Brian Fanale, Norbert Orlecwicz and Jonathan Budd, to name a few, I listen to people with a clearer ear.
I hear the derision in their voice, the intonation as they say, "well, it's ok to want money, but you'll never be happy" as if to say that money will make you unhappy.
Because to them money makes them unhappy.
They never have enough, always want more and are consistently living in the poverty mindset that consumes 97+% of our population.
You don't hear any of the above-mentioned say they're unhappy...
you hear them say that they'll wake up sometimes not feeling like the million bucks they've made, but that doesn't mean they're unhappy.
It means they're HUMAN.
Money is not the evil; it's your belief in money that is your evil.
Honestly, your poverty mindset serves no one, not even yourself.
It is a mindset of victim and it's weak.
There's nothing wrong with wanting to be wealthy, there's nothing wrong with creating your own destiny.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with not wanting to wait for a bailout, for someone else (e.
g.
, the government) to pick up the slack in your life only to be disillusioned by what they told you would happen and what actually happened to your MONEY...
I am not afraid to put myself on a risky, slippery slope to create my destiny.
My goal is to make money and a lot of it.
My goal is also to help others make money, and a lot of it.
My goal is to have 240 people on my team by March 31st, 2011 creating $10k a month in residual income.
That's my goal.
There's nothing wrong with making money.
There's nothing wrong with wanting a better life than what you have right now.
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I was walking with my mother today in downtown Pacific Grove, CA.
We were waiting for the animal rescue to open so that I could give up my beloved cats; but, that's another story.
While we were walking we were looking at the small shops on Lighthouse Avenue and one of them was a 'higher end' store and my mother commented as she passed, "too rich for my blood.
" To a "T" it was the exact phrase her father, bless him as he's passed away, used to say as he would walk past a store that had things he wanted but never allowed himself to afford because of his limiting beliefs and his pure disdain of rich people.
He would consistently make the comment about rich people are A** H**es and then would wander into McDonald's for a cup of coffee and a sit down chat with others who shared his beliefs.
Like minded individuals bringing into their lives others who shared their scarcity values.
My grandfather's beliefs were centered around a jealousy of an enviable position he wanted so to be in yet had no idea how to create it for himself.
Back to my mother and her comment...
Her words were so succinct, so in form, so much a part of his (her father's) background and thinking that I surely thought he had embodied her for that moment as she spoke those words.
It was kind of freaky to tell you the truth.
My mother is a fisherman, a canvas maker, a sail maker, a woodworker, and a very creative and ingenious woman when it comes to creating something out of nothing.
But, like her father, she has limiting beliefs about money.
Money has always been a big problem because there has never been enough and as is normal for the baby boomers, they don't spend what they don't have.
Growing up with parents raised in the Great Depression, theirs is a consistent reminder of what they don't have: Money.
Now that I have allowed myself to be reconditioned by the words of Jeffery Combs, Ferny Ceballos, Aaron "Parky" Parkinson, Jay Kubassek, Danielle Wilson, John Jackson, Brian Fanale, Norbert Orlecwicz and Jonathan Budd, to name a few, I listen to people with a clearer ear.
I hear the derision in their voice, the intonation as they say, "well, it's ok to want money, but you'll never be happy" as if to say that money will make you unhappy.
Because to them money makes them unhappy.
They never have enough, always want more and are consistently living in the poverty mindset that consumes 97+% of our population.
You don't hear any of the above-mentioned say they're unhappy...
you hear them say that they'll wake up sometimes not feeling like the million bucks they've made, but that doesn't mean they're unhappy.
It means they're HUMAN.
Money is not the evil; it's your belief in money that is your evil.
Honestly, your poverty mindset serves no one, not even yourself.
It is a mindset of victim and it's weak.
There's nothing wrong with wanting to be wealthy, there's nothing wrong with creating your own destiny.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with not wanting to wait for a bailout, for someone else (e.
g.
, the government) to pick up the slack in your life only to be disillusioned by what they told you would happen and what actually happened to your MONEY...
I am not afraid to put myself on a risky, slippery slope to create my destiny.
My goal is to make money and a lot of it.
My goal is also to help others make money, and a lot of it.
My goal is to have 240 people on my team by March 31st, 2011 creating $10k a month in residual income.
That's my goal.
There's nothing wrong with making money.
There's nothing wrong with wanting a better life than what you have right now.
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