You Are a Badass at Making Mone - Jen Sincero

Your external world is a mirror of your internal world.
If you can make yourself believe the thoughts that are screwing up your financial life, i.e., I can’t
make money because of X (I’m a single mom, I live in the middle of nowhere, I’m an idiot, etc.),
you can make yourself unbelieve them too. This is how powerful we are and how deceptively simple
changing our lives is—we can literally create the reality we desire by making ourselves think and
believe what we desire to think and believe. How awesome is that?!
Our beliefs, along with our thoughts and words, are at the root of everything we experience in life,
which is why consciously choosing what rolls around in your mind and falls out of your mouth is one
of the most important things you can do. This conscious choosing of your thoughts, beliefs, and words
is called mastering your mindset, and master it you must if you’d like to live large and in charge
instead of being bossed around by your circumstances.
Here’s the lowdown on how your mindset works.
BELIEFS
When it comes to money, most people feel like their beliefs are in pretty good shape: Hell yes, I will
gladly let you give me money all day long, thank you very much—here, I just so happen to have a
bag for you to put it in! But what they don’t realize is that this is their conscious mind talking, and
that deep down we all have our subconscious mind, which is the motherboard that controls all of our
results. And if mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy, so no matter how much you may think you’re all
about the money in your conscious mind, if your subconscious believes that you will get cut off from
all family gatherings if you get rich because as a kid that’s what you saw your jealous grandfather do
to your dad when he got rich, you ain’t gonna be rollin’ in it anytime soon. Here’s why:
THE LITTLE PRINCE
The subconscious mind is like a seven-year-old prince who suddenly becomes king when his father
dies: He’s running the kingdom of your adult life based on information that he gathered, and
processed, while doing somersaults and pulling down his pants in the front yard. Meaning, he didn’t
really process any of it at all.
When you’re born, you don’t have any attitudes and beliefs about money. You arrive blank, open,
game for anything. You base your “truth” about money on what you learn from the people around you
and the experiences you have. All this information flows into your subconscious mind before your
brain has matured and developed any sort of filter or analytical ability to be like, Hold on a minute,
just because Mom and Dad fight about money all the time doesn’t mean money is bad. It could
mean he’s jealous that she makes more than he does. Or that she wants him to pay more attention
to her so she picks fights with him.
When you’re a kid, all this information comes in through a much simpler, kid-sized perspective,
meaning you take what’s right in front of you at face value. So, with this example where you grew up
seeing your parents fight about money, you might believe money = fighting = scary = bad. Or: If I