| Creating abundance is probably the hottest topic | | | | Our belief systems around money definitely |
| across the internet. Whether you're looking to | | | | matter. What we think about ourselves and |
| start a business from your home computer or | | | | money is more powerful than many people |
| trying to payoff your mortgage in time to retire | | | | realize. Most kids raised in wealthy families are not |
| with comfort, everyone seems interested in how | | | | only taught how to make money, but also there's |
| to get more money. There are personal growth | | | | an underlying belief that they'll naturally carry on |
| and spiritual growth lessons involved in creating | | | | the family tradition. Most kids raised in poverty |
| wealth that have been oversimplified. Most people | | | | are taught nothing whatsoever about how to |
| have issues around money that cause them to | | | | amass wealth and are conditioned to believe that |
| block themselves from actually creating a life of | | | | they'll never be rich anyway. Those are the |
| wealth and abundance. A major piece of changing | | | | extremes. Most of us are somewhere in the |
| one's self talk is in stating positive affirmations. | | | | middle and so is our perceived earning potential. |
| However, without hard work and a bit of old | | | | Take some time and seriously dig through your |
| fashioned elbow grease, affirmations are | | | | thoughts about money. What were you taught? |
| worthless. | | | | What was role modeled to you? Facing your |
| First off, let's look at why we even need | | | | self-limiting thoughts will help you to stop letting |
| affirmations. Many of us were taught that money | | | | them run your life. You will have to work |
| is the root of all evil. The real quote should read, | | | | overtime guarding your every thought as you |
| "The love of money is the root of all evil." Yes, | | | | proceed down the trail towards a life of |
| greed is the real topic, not the amount of money | | | | abundance. A big piece of that will involve stating |
| in one's bank account. For whatever reason the | | | | affirmations. It is a method of changing the |
| lesson about greed has been taught all wrong and | | | | computer program running in your brain. Let's say |
| people think that money in and of itself is evil. | | | | that your original software was designed to |
| Money is simply a means for barter, a trade | | | | believe that there isn't enough wealth to go |
| system. I'll trade you a chicken for a new dress. | | | | around and therefore it's going to be next to |
| We agree to swap paper money or coins that | | | | impossible for you to get your hands on any of it. |
| create the equivalent of the trade so as not to | | | | You want to upgrade to a newer program that |
| have to haul chickens and dresses around with us. | | | | helps you to manifest more money in your life. |
| Money is just a means of creating trades. It's also | | | | Unfortunately, the human brain doesn't allow a |
| a way to save up for later. I'll give you a chicken | | | | program to be erased once it's put in place. So, |
| today, but I want apples when you harvest them | | | | you're going to have to put an overriding program |
| from your trees this fall. Money can be | | | | overtop of the original flawed program. Every |
| accumulated towards a larger deal. I've worked all | | | | time the old program starts babbling about |
| year making shoes for the entire village so that | | | | scarcity and the lack of money to be found, you |
| they'll all come help me build my new house this | | | | have to immediately tell your brain to stop and |
| summer. Saying that money is the root of all evil | | | | play the new program that believes that there is |
| is like saying that trading goods and services is | | | | more than enough to go around. You do that by |
| evil. Trading is trading, it's cooperation in a numeric | | | | telling yourself positive affirmations. Force your |
| format. Nothing more nothing less. | | | | mind to really see tangible proof that there is |
| Another concept that many of us have to unlearn | | | | enough money in the world for you to live the life |
| is the idea that it's really difficult to earn a living or | | | | that you dream of. |
| it's really hard to amass any kind of wealth. | | | | Affirmations are amazing and powerful, but all by |
| Personally, I hear my father telling me throughout | | | | themselves, they aren't going to do you a bit of |
| my childhood that "Things are a lot harder when | | | | good. Very few self-made millionaires did it be |
| you get out into the real world." Truth be known, | | | | sitting in the lotus position stating to the cosmos |
| nothing in my life has been as difficult as my | | | | that their bank account was magically growing all |
| childhood was. For the first fifteen years after I | | | | by itself. You still have to get up and do |
| left my dad's home, I had to work really hard at | | | | something. Sell something. Give away a service. |
| making every penny because that's what I | | | | Teach something. Make people feel something. |
| thought was the grown up way of doing it. I have | | | | Build something. Yes, you ought to pick something |
| a friend who was raised on the exact opposite | | | | that you love doing because it'll be easier to |
| mindset. He was encouraged as a child that he | | | | become really good at it. Nobody wants to be an |
| was completely capable of making money with or | | | | expert in a topic that bores them to death. It's |
| without any fancy college degrees and such. The | | | | kind of like that story of the little engine trying to |
| result is that he's always had money and it flows | | | | drag itself up over the hill, "I think I can. I think I |
| in and out of his hands pretty freely. He even built | | | | can. I think I can." At the same time, he was |
| a business from the ground up on his first try | | | | working harder then he ever had in his entire life. |
| because it never dawned on him that he was | | | | Do that. |
| supposed to fail and struggle. | | | | |