You Are a Badass at Making Mone - Jen Sincero

and words in line with what you desire to create, and surrender the rest of the
details up to the Universe.
It’s all about the energy of exchange. I learned so much about this back in
the day when I’d give my pals the friend discount/freebie for my coaching
services. Devaluing my work gave them an easy excuse to devalue their
efforts: They had no incentive to rise to the occasion and really push
themselves because they literally weren’t invested. I ended up doing all of us
a disservice by lowering the frequency around the money instead of
demanding we all put on our big people pants and pony up. These “favors”
were a big fat waste of time for everyone involved and could have been
avoided if I hadn’t come from a place of feeling weird and shamey about
charging my friends.
Because money is currency and currency is energy, when you shrink down
and lower your prices to accommodate someone, you’re basically saying the
equivalent of “I don’t think you could grow and manifest the money you
desire to work with me. I don’t believe you’re that powerful. I also don’t think
I have the right to charge what I’m worth or to make the decisions around
here about what to charge.” Not discounting my rates doesn’t mean I don’t
donate my money and services, offer scholarships, put things on sale, etc., but
I only do it if the energy around it is clean, aka coming from a place of power
and possibility instead of insecurity, shame, can’t, lack, I’m a greedy, bad
friend, etc.
Money is a renewable resource. It comes and goes, it ebbs and flows, it’s
meant to move. When we’re cheap about spending it or weird about receiving
it, we block its natural course, we put ourselves in a place of lack instead of
abundance, our energy becomes richus interruptus. Even something as minor
as leaving a big tip for a waitress, or picking up, instead of passing by, a
quarter laying on the street, or letting your neighbor pay you for watching her
dog all day, which you totally would have done for free—that’s all coming
from an energy of abundance and a healthy, happy appreciation for money.
What you focus on you create more of, so if the plan is to get rich, you’re
gonna want to focus on abundance as much as possible. Give as much as you
can as often as you can, receive with gratitude and joy, think of money as
your pal, raise your frequency and get in the flow, yo.
SUCCESS STORY: IF HE CAN DO IT, SO CAN YOU.
How Joe, 40, attracted money to himself and went from making $40,000 a year to over
$100,000 a year:
When it came to increasing my income, I was my biggest block. I didn’t think I
deserved money and was overly critical of myself, which resulted in self-destruction.
I started reading and listening to lots and lots of self-help books. My morning
commute was an hour at the time and I would listen to at least two hours daily. My