You Are a Badass at Making Mone - Jen Sincero

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imitated me trying to choke down a worm. Which brings me to the point of this story: Our “realities” are make-believe—whatever we make ourselves believe, we experience. When it comes to forming, and transforming, our human experience, the power of the mind reigns supreme over any type of external “truths.” If you believe money is evil and/or difficult to make, your bank account will have tumbleweeds blowing through it. Strong religious beliefs inspire everything from wars to glorious houses of worship to cutthroat charity pie-baking contests. The belief that you are hot and sexy will have you getting hit on by strangers on the street. And if you believe you’re eating worms, you will gag. There’s a neuroscientist named Vilayanur Ramachandran who uses the power of belief to help amputees in excruciating pain find relief. Many people who’ve lost a limb experience what’s called phantom pain—very real pain sensations in a part of their body that no longer exists. Because the limb is no longer there, there’s no way for them to massage it or soak it or do anything to relieve the pain—hello how freaking torturous is that? Through the use of mirrors, Ramachandran reflects the image of a patient’s existing limb to where the missing limb used to be, so it appears that the missing limb is no longer missing. Then, if they’re missing an arm, for example, they move their existing arm, unclench their hand, relieve the tension however they can, and the mind is tricked into believing that this is happening to the missing arm and the pain disappears. By making the mind believe that the nonexistent exists, he is able to help his patients change their physical reality. 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 make money, I will be yelled at and unlovable. Or: Money scares the hell out
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wrote back immediately and told me
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job, and believe that since I got a
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some help. This is when I decided t
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whatever is most easily dealt with,
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CHAPTER 7 FAITH AND GRATITUDINAL GO
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If you’re feeling frustrated and
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CHAPTER 8 DECISIVE ACTION: THE CHOI
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ecomes, post investigation: The e-m
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of some of the best coaching I ever
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mindset. I am not recommending you
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CHAPTER 9 MOVIN’ ON UP When I was
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Grand Canyon, show up on the free d
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who lobs an unhelpful zinger in you
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anyone/anything). Whatever it is yo
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can take you all much further and w
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getting rich (fifteen or thirty min
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into because it wasn’t pretty and
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are fully up and running and profit
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people you’re scared to talk to),
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I was actually very successful as a
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CHAPTER 11 YOUR INNER WEALTH Way ba
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cheese started melting around here.
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I know that sounds like a no-braine
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totally kicking ass. Today, the Zom
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critical. So keep an eye out for th
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letting the trixters pass you by so
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awesomeness of moving forward and k
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CHAPTER 13 CHANGE LOVES COMPANY My
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book wouldn’
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