You Are a Badass at Making Mone - Jen Sincero

In the words of the late, great Ayn Rand: Money is only a tool. It will take
you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
There are lots of words in the English language whose meanings sort of
seep into each other. It’s easy to get confused about where one ends and the
other begins. For example: love/lust, being nice/lying, confident/drunk. When
it comes to the desire to make money, the most common term people confuse
it with is “greed,” especially when discussing the root of all evil and other
such unpleasantries. With all of these examples, taking a moment to discover
the truth can save a lot of disappointment and heartache. So let’s be clear:
Greed: An insatiable, excessive, selfish craving for more more more.
Another term that’s oft confused with money is “power mongering”: Wielding
influence in a tyrannical and supermean way. And let us not forget ye olde
“corrupt”: Morally bankrupt, focused on personal gain whilst giving nary a
crap how your actions affect others or what the law says.
Here are some other popular ways people use the term “money”
incorrectly:
Money ruins everything.
Money and friendship are like oil and water.
Money makes monsters out of otherwise good people.
Pretty harsh, right? It’s not like money broke into your house and punched
you in the face fer fek’s sake, it’s just trying to help you buy stuff. Here’s
something else that’s important to realize about money if you’re going to go
out and make a whole lot of it.
MONEY IS CURRENCY AND CURRENCY IS ENERGY
Money is a blank slate that gets its value from the energy and meaning we
give it. For example, the fifty bucks you make by raking leaves for the lady
across the street has a very different energy than the fifty bucks you steal out
of some guy’s pocket on the subway. The same ratty chair you’d buy in a
thrift store for five dollars might be worth five thousand dollars if David
Bowie had had it on his tour bus. Some artists charge two hundred dollars for
their paintings, other artists charge twenty thousand. When you get hired to
do something and realize halfway through that you way undercharged, your
payment, when it finally comes, feels like you’re being handed a soggy
napkin. Or if you way overcharged, it makes you cringe, feel lowdown and
dirty. And if you charge the perfect amount, you feel uplifted, like a supastah.
Giving and receiving money is an energetic exchange between people, and