GRASPING THE GOLDEN RING
TRUTHS & TAKE AWAYS
Economic recessions and depressions have always
produced enormous opportunities for people
willing to ignore the negativity.
People choose to live in financial chaos and they
have no idea that they can choose a different path.
Attracting money requires inspired action and
total focus. These can't be pushed aside or compromised.
A problem to one person may be a blessing to
another. It depends on your intention - which
directs your perspective.
When you face a challenge in your life, it's only
because you aren't accepting what you have and
are focused on what you want, with a feeling
of lack or even desperation.
The idea that money is in the mind highlights the
fact that what you feel, think and know about
money determines your ability to attract it.
Attracting money is not about getting lucky. It's
not about the perfect once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity. It's an understanding of how money
works and what attracts money to you versus
what repels it.
You will attract money in alignment with your
mindset.
ACTION STEPS
• Write down your beliefs about money.
• Ask yourself if those beliefs serve you or stop you in attracting
money.
• What are five positive reasons for you to want to attract more
money now?
• Write down a problem or current complaint you have.
• Write out a way to turn that problem or complaint into a product
or service.
{STEP 1}
ALTER HOW YOU THINK
Wealth is the product of a man's capacity to think.
— AYN RAND
LIMITING BELIEFS ARE LIKE thieves in the
night. And some of your beliefs are much more
costly than others. The direction of your thoughts
and the explanations you give yourself are
extremely important in determining if you will
attract or repel money. The first step to attracting
money is to understand and alter how you think.
In order to do this, you must address your under-
lying beliefs - and don't think for one second that
you can just skip over this step and go on to the
others. If you do, you absolutely will fail, so don't
be tempted to treat this lightly. This first step is
crucial to your success if you want to attract money.
People usually enter my Miracles Coaching
program when everything they have tried has fail-
ed or has only been marginally successful. They
say they have 'tried it all' - and they have, except
for the first step! You must align your mind with
where you want to go and who you want to be,
way before you become it. In similar fashion, you
must understand how money works and what it
really means to you, before you will overcome
anything. Otherwise you will end up sabotaging
yourself repeatedly.
Have you ever felt like you were just within reach
of something you wanted and then blew it at the
last second? This happens frequently in sports.
One team seems to have the victory in hand and
then makes blunder after blunder, until it ends up
losing.
Why does this happen?
Mindset.
If you don't have the mindset of a champion, you'll
never be one. People often think that they will
have a wealth mindset once they have made a lot
of money. The opposite is true. You must have a
wealth mindset before you achieve it, because if
you don't, you'll find yourself frequently getting
close, but never achieving your dream. Think
wealthy now and you will begin to attract money
now. Simple.
There are three core beliefs that have to be
released if you want to attract money into your
life. There's no way around them and no way to
avoid doing your due diligence. You must get
past them or they will always steal your potential.
Here they are:
I LOVE MYSELF
The most important core belief that must be
expelled from your mind is "I don't love myself."
This is the first thief. Now before you roll your
eyes and wonder what in the world this has to do
with making money, listen up. How you feel about
yourself determines how much money(or anything
else that is good) flows into your life.
Did you know that every single person who hasn't
attracted what they want, has this limiting belief?
They don't love themselves. Until they get rid of
that belief, they're not going to attract money,
they're not going to experience success and
they're not going to have any of the things they
want. They will wish or hope to attain their goals,
they'll attempt them, but they will level off and
be frustrated, wondering "Why is it going so well
for every-body else but not for me?"
When I say that you must love yourself, it means
that you must have a tremendous level of accept-
ance of all your good qualities and be working on
the qualities you want to improve. This is not an
idea where you ever achieve perfection. There
will always be more to accomplish and new issues
that must be dealt with. As you grow in know-
ledge and understanding, you will achieve your
potential. You will always be working on yourself.
That's how I, and everyone I socialize with,
approach it. I don't have all the answers, but I'm
actively looking for them. I'm also open to working
on anything within me that might keep me from
attracting what I want.
All of this is like peeling an onion. Every time you
work through one layer, another appears. In your
financial life, these layers and challenges have no-
thing to do with the external environment. It
doesn't matter if there's a recession or not, who
the President of the United States is, or how the
stock market is doing. It's completely and totally
internal - within you. This is one of the reasons
why limiting beliefs are hard to change. They
are invisible and incredibly destructive.
You probably know people who are doing very
well financially If not, I'm sure you've read about
some. They're likely doing really well, no matter
what's going on in the country. If you look at the
stories from the Great Depression or at other
challenging times, you'll find many people who
have prospered and thrived - many of whom are
still around.
People like Colonel Sanders who created his name
-sake chicken recipe during the Depression,opened
a restaurant, and now the company has locations
around the globe. Companies like John Deere,
which you might have expected to disappear
during the Great Depression, came out of it
stronger and is still going strong. These types of
companies are all around us and serve as
examples of what can be achieved. However, it
begs the question, why did these companies
survive when so many others didn't? It's because
their mindset made them immune to the economic
conditions. They believed they could weather the
storm and did. They found out that negative news
is like a disease and you can choose to allow
yourself to be infected or not.
YOU DESERVE TO SUCCEED
The second of the thieves is "I don't deserve it."
It's directly related to "I don't love myself." If you
have an important goal, and you think it's worthy
or valuable, such as, "I want a new job. I want a
raise. I want more sales" -and you're not achieving
it - you need to look deeper. The reason you
aren't progressing is likely because you believe
that you don't deserve it.
Now you may think this is irrational, but is it?
Have you ever had a nice suit that you only wore
on 'special' occasions? Or perhaps a special set of
dishes that you only use on holidays? The motiva-
tion behind these actions is that you feel these
objects are too 'good' for you to enjoy every day.
I once had a friend who owned a small ranch. One
fall he bought a brand new customized truck and
came by to show it to me. It was gorgeous. He was
beaming with pride and you could detect a
distinct difference in the way he walked - like he
was 10-feet tall. The next week I saw him driving
his old truck again and asked what happened. He
said, "Oh I just take the new truck out for special
occasions, it's way too nice to drive around the
ranch." What he was in effect saying, was the
thought of the new truck was above him. It
couldn't be part of his daily life because he only
felt he deserved to have it for special occasions.
You see and hear this thief rear its head every day
when people talk about how someone else is so
much better than they are and how they can't
possibly attract certain things because they are
just not 'for' them.
This is a clear indication of where their focus is -
which is not on achieving their dreams, but on
whythey can't or why someone else deserves it
more. It shows they don't value themselves or
their contribution to their own lives. If you don't
love yourself, you will never believe that you
deserve anything of value in your life. You will
walk around with the idea that good things only
come to others - but they are not meant for you.
Now you may even consciously force yourself to
say "I do love myself. Look at what a nice person
I am and look at all these nice things I'm doing."
But if you're not seeing positive results, they are
being blocked by a limiting belief deep within
you.Your results are simply a mirrored reflection
of what's inside you. The outer always reflects the
inner. When you experience lack of achievement
or when you get close to a goal only to choke at
the last minute, you are struggling with beliefs
that must be addressed.
I know literally thousands of people who use
positive affirmations every day as a tool to
change their beliefs. They can be very effective.
The idea is that the more often you say it, the
faster you will adopt it as a belief. Unfortunately
these affirmations are no match for a limiting
belief that may be lurking inside you. The
positive ideas you are trying to adopt bounce off
like a ping-pong ball hitting cement. The only
way to change the situation is to acknowledge
the underlying belief and deal with it first.
MONEY IS A TOOL FOR GOOD
There is one additional belief about money that
belongs with the other two thieves. This biggest,
baddest, boldest, most insidious belief about
money has been around for literally thousands of
years and is still here now - Money is the root of
all evil.
Yikes!
With this belief, how could you possibly think
you're going to attract money into your life, while
being a good, spiritual, holy person? You may
have some money temporarily. Just enough to
survive on. But deep down your subconscious mind
will repel money away from you, because you don't
want to be associated with evil. This includes
sabotaging your efforts at success.
This one belief has kept generations on the verge
of poverty since the beginning of time. What's
worse is that it is not even true. Money is not the
root of evil, especially all evil. Actually George
Bernard Shaw said it best when he said, "It's the
lack of money that is the root of all evil." There's
a great deal of truth in that.The lack of money
puts people in a desperate mindset, and that is the
true evil. When in this mindset, they will do things
they may have never contemplated otherwise and
often those things are very destructive - to
themselves and/or to others.
The belief that money is evil actually stems from
a Biblical reference stating that "the love of
money is the root of all kinds of evil."
(Timothy 6:10)
Love of money refers to someone who is chasing
the dollar at the expense of all else in their life.
This principle allows greed and selfishness to
manifest in their lives. Chasing money indicates a
competitive mindset that will do anything to have
more money. It does not say that money in and of
itself is evil, but that people who love money are
prone to this trait. The Dickens character,
Scrooge, is the perfect example of this mindset.
He loved his cash money and only wanted more
of it - to the exclusion of everything else in life.
Of course when you have a biblical reference
with that much power, it's easy to understand
how it can be distorted over time. As more and
more people believe that money is evil, it can be
hard to change the precept and realize the truth.
Remember in the last chapter when I said that
money doesn't have emotions and only makes you
more of what you are? Think about that. The
richest people in the world, millionaires and even
billionaires don't love money. NO. They don't.
They love the freedom that money provides.
Money is just a scorecard. Always remember that
you can't really achieve great monetary success
unless you follow your passion. The money is
secondary. Money flows to the wealthy because
they do not chase it just for the sake of having
more. They desire freedom. They don't desire
money. This is an important distinction!
When you understand that money is neutral and
simply an agreed-upon exchange of value, you will
attract money into your life right away. As long as
you think that money is bad, evil, corrupt, or that
evil people are rich and rich people are evil -
you're not going to allow monetary wealth to enter
your life. It will bounce off of you as if you're
made of rubber and you'll never even notice it,
except when you look in your checkbook. You
will know that you don't have any money and
wonder why.
ATTRACT MONEY NOW!
I went to Ohio to visit my family a while back and
I saw one of my brothers, the youngest in our
family He's got a nice family and a nice little piece
of property He's a mechanic, so he's making some
decent money. He's working hard and living what
most would consider a completely normal and
average life. But he looks at my life and marvels at
it. I know on some level he's really confused, since
he doesn't understand how all this money was
attracted by someone like me - a person he grew up
with and views as normal and average.
He asked me at one point, "How did you do it?"
To answer him, I basically laid out all the informa-
tion I'm giving you now. I told him how money
works, what holds us back, how I overcame my
beliefs and how I help others do the same thing.
He said "That's never going to work for me.
I could never do that."
I was stunned. I wondered, "How can he even
think that?" But in his mind, in his world, based
on his past experience, he has no idea how to
attract money into his life. He has convinced
himself that he is a mechanic -and only a
mechanic - and that's what he's going to be for the
rest of his life. That means he will always make so
much per hour, and that's good enough. When you
look at it from his perspective, you can understand
this limiting thought process. He's raising his
family and has people he loves and takes care of.
He's got his little piece of property and his vehicle.
He's doing fine. It's good enough for him. But he
doesn't see his own mental process, nor does he
recognize how his limiting beliefs are keeping
him from an even better life.
Then we started talking about my car collection -
which amazed him. My brother asked me, "How
come you don't have a Corvette?" I replied,"I don't
have one right now. It might be next on the list,
you know. They come in time." This is not a limit-
ing belief on my part, but my garage is only so big
(although I'm building a bigger one as I write this).
Still, there are only so many cars that will fit
inside at any given moment!
He said, "I could never have a Corvette."
Again, I'm stunned. I'm asking myself, what goes
on in his or anybody else's mind that sets such
limitations?
My brother's mindset is just like most others. He
works at a job for a certain amount of money.
That's what he knows and that's what he sees as
his future. He doesn't see the big picture or the
possibilities. Even with me standing right in front
of him as an example of what's possible, he still
doesn't see it.
Step 1: Alter How You Think
While he's talking, I'm thinking to myself, J could
name three ways you can get a Corvette. It really
struck me in that moment how very different our
thought processes are. My thought processes can
come up with all kinds of options, all kinds of
opportunities. I listen to most people, and in 20
minutes or so I'm thinking There's an idea they're
not even acting on. There's something they could
draw out and turn into a product. But they're not
doing it. In fact, they're not even seeing it.
It still takes me by surprise sometimes that my
own mindset has changed so much. Not that I'm
saying I am the awakened one. I'm still working on
myself all the time - every day - and I'm sharing
what's working for me with you. It's just proof to
me that if you do the work each day, you'll make
progress without even realizing it.
Just as I'm astonished at how far I've come, there
are also those times when it becomes obvious how
far I still have to go. Recently, I had dinner with
Kevin Trudeau, author of the "Natural Cures"
book series. I was telling him how I have
published over 30 books, several of which have
become bestsellers. I felt really good telling him.
Then he told me how he sold 30 million copies of
one of his books. Suddenly I thought, "I haven't
accomplished anything!" But my point is that he's
thinking differently. He's thinking bigger than I
have up to this point and that means I still have a
ways to go. There will always be more to reach for
and more to achieve. The process of changing your
thoughts to accept each new level of achievement
into your life is the real challenge.
THE GIFT OF RELEASE
The first question anyone asks when I talk about
the three thieves is, "How can I change my beliefs
and thoughts about money?"
The first step is to evaluate what you believe and
why. Awareness is a must, as you must identify
what's holding you back in order to deal with it.
Once you've identified the ideas you want to
change, then you must get clear of them and
release their power over you. I've written many
books and offered numerous techniques for clear-
ing old beliefs and I'm always open to new or
different techniques.
The basic premise of any clearing technique is that
you first connect with that belief and become
aware of the emotion you have attached to it. If
you feel you aren't deserving, then the first thing
to do is connect with that feeling. Do you feel sad,
mad, or worthless? Now realize that this is just a
perception on your part. You choose to feel the
way you do and you can choose to release it. I
often encounter this belief with people who've
been treated badly or abused. They feel undeserv-
ing because they were told that as a child. But is
it true? NO.
Getting past your old beliefs means exposing them
to the light of day and examining what they are
and if they're valid. Usually 99.9% of the time
they aren't. We carry around a whole slew of
beliefs from childhood. If you were made fun of in
second grade because you were afraid to speak in
front of the class, it may have created a long
lasting fear of public speaking. But where does
that fear stem from? If you miss a word, is the
audience going to jump on stage and devour you?
NO. Your logical adult brain can figure this out,
but you also have to release the emotional
connection. This is the real challenge.
Think back to a specific incident and recall those
emotions. Does your chest feel tight? Do you hold
your breath or cringe with fear? These reactions
are not in response to a real danger - they are the
mind reliving an old incident that no longer can
even affect you unless you hang on to that old
emotion - that blocks your progress. A lot of
people think that positive affirmations will
overcome limiting beliefs, but I disagree. If you
don't directly address the issue and just use
positive affirmations, you don't release the
negative emotions that are blocking your progress.
This is why if you just use affirmations, without
dealing with the underlying issues, you will have
limited success, because the limiting belief is still
there.
There are many different variations of clearing
techniques. Brad Yates and I have a whole audio
program called "Money Beyond Belief." (Click)
It's available at www.moneybeyondbelief.com .
This series focuses entirely on eliminating money
beliefs that are holding you back. You can do this
on your own, for limiting beliefs such as, "I don't
love myself." "I don't deserve money" and "Money
is evil." None of these beliefs are true, so let
them go.
I want you to be aware that all of the things
preventing you from attracting money can be
released right now. Your life can change in a
nanosecond. I remember when I first started doing
seminars, people would ask, "Can I really learn
this in a weekend? Can I really change my life in
a weekend?"
All I can tell them is my own experience. I've had
moments in my life where I changed because of a
story somebody told me over dinner. I've had
moments in my life where I changed because of
something I saw in a movie. I've had moments in
my life where I've been in a seminar and somebody
said one thing - just a phrase or explanation of
( Step 1: Alter How You Think )
a concept, and it might not have even come from
the seminar leader - and something shifted in me
and I awakened.
You can have an awakening at any point at any
time, including right now as you're reading these
words. I know many people whose lives have been
changed by reading a book. For whatever reason,
whether it was a new idea they'd never seen or an
old idea they were finally ready to hear. The
words awakened them and changed their life.
I wrote this book with the intent of helping you
break through your financial barriers. Most people
will change other aspects of their lives - but
money is the hardest area for them to grasp. You
shouldn't feel trapped into sitting on the sidelines
while others attract the money that you could be
sharing. And you don't have to.
But you must decide. Are you ready to look into
those dark, long- held beliefs and banish them
forever? Are you willing to do whatever is neces-
sary rather than what's easy? Are you ready to say,
"Hey money!! Here I am! I'm ready to receive!"?
If you are, then you're ready to learn the rest of
the steps that will get you there, but you must
commit to doing them all. Each one in full. Then
and only then will you open the floodgates to
your new abundant future. Remember, the first
step is to alter how you think about money. When
you realize that it is a neutral force for good, and
you deserve it, then you can begin the process to
attract money now.
But understanding and altering how you think is
only step one.
Let's move on to step two.
ATTRACT MONEY NOW
STEP 1: ALTER HOW YOU THINK .
TRUTHS & TAKE AWAYS
• Limiting beliefs are like thieves in the nights.The
first step to attracting money is to change your
thoughts and address these underlying limiting
beliefs.
• You must have a mindset of wealth before you
will ever achieve it because if you don't, you'll
find yourself frequently getting close, but never
quite achieving your dream.
• All of this is like peeling an onion. Every time
you work through one layer, another appears.
• If you don't love yourself, you won't believe that
you deserve value in your life.
• Getting past your old beliefs means exposing
them to the light of day and examining if and
why they're valid - 99.9% of the time they aren't.
• All of the things preventing you from attracting
money can be released right now.
Step 1: Alter How You Think
ACTION STEPS
• Reflect on the three key limiting beliefs and
write down which ones might be true for you
at the moment.
• Write down the opposite of the limiting beliefs
and reflect on what it feels like to deserve and
enjoy money
• Consider other beliefs that may be limiting you
from attracting money and reflect on the
opposite of those beliefs, so you know you
deserve money now.
TRUTHS & TAKE AWAYS
Economic recessions and depressions have always
produced enormous opportunities for people
willing to ignore the negativity.
People choose to live in financial chaos and they
have no idea that they can choose a different path.
Attracting money requires inspired action and
total focus. These can't be pushed aside or compromised.
A problem to one person may be a blessing to
another. It depends on your intention - which
directs your perspective.
When you face a challenge in your life, it's only
because you aren't accepting what you have and
are focused on what you want, with a feeling
of lack or even desperation.
The idea that money is in the mind highlights the
fact that what you feel, think and know about
money determines your ability to attract it.
Attracting money is not about getting lucky. It's
not about the perfect once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity. It's an understanding of how money
works and what attracts money to you versus
what repels it.
You will attract money in alignment with your
mindset.
ACTION STEPS
• Write down your beliefs about money.
• Ask yourself if those beliefs serve you or stop you in attracting
money.
• What are five positive reasons for you to want to attract more
money now?
• Write down a problem or current complaint you have.
• Write out a way to turn that problem or complaint into a product
or service.
{STEP 1}
ALTER HOW YOU THINK
Wealth is the product of a man's capacity to think.
— AYN RAND
LIMITING BELIEFS ARE LIKE thieves in the
night. And some of your beliefs are much more
costly than others. The direction of your thoughts
and the explanations you give yourself are
extremely important in determining if you will
attract or repel money. The first step to attracting
money is to understand and alter how you think.
In order to do this, you must address your under-
lying beliefs - and don't think for one second that
you can just skip over this step and go on to the
others. If you do, you absolutely will fail, so don't
be tempted to treat this lightly. This first step is
crucial to your success if you want to attract money.
People usually enter my Miracles Coaching
program when everything they have tried has fail-
ed or has only been marginally successful. They
say they have 'tried it all' - and they have, except
for the first step! You must align your mind with
where you want to go and who you want to be,
way before you become it. In similar fashion, you
must understand how money works and what it
really means to you, before you will overcome
anything. Otherwise you will end up sabotaging
yourself repeatedly.
Have you ever felt like you were just within reach
of something you wanted and then blew it at the
last second? This happens frequently in sports.
One team seems to have the victory in hand and
then makes blunder after blunder, until it ends up
losing.
Why does this happen?
Mindset.
If you don't have the mindset of a champion, you'll
never be one. People often think that they will
have a wealth mindset once they have made a lot
of money. The opposite is true. You must have a
wealth mindset before you achieve it, because if
you don't, you'll find yourself frequently getting
close, but never achieving your dream. Think
wealthy now and you will begin to attract money
now. Simple.
There are three core beliefs that have to be
released if you want to attract money into your
life. There's no way around them and no way to
avoid doing your due diligence. You must get
past them or they will always steal your potential.
Here they are:
I LOVE MYSELF
The most important core belief that must be
expelled from your mind is "I don't love myself."
This is the first thief. Now before you roll your
eyes and wonder what in the world this has to do
with making money, listen up. How you feel about
yourself determines how much money(or anything
else that is good) flows into your life.
Did you know that every single person who hasn't
attracted what they want, has this limiting belief?
They don't love themselves. Until they get rid of
that belief, they're not going to attract money,
they're not going to experience success and
they're not going to have any of the things they
want. They will wish or hope to attain their goals,
they'll attempt them, but they will level off and
be frustrated, wondering "Why is it going so well
for every-body else but not for me?"
When I say that you must love yourself, it means
that you must have a tremendous level of accept-
ance of all your good qualities and be working on
the qualities you want to improve. This is not an
idea where you ever achieve perfection. There
will always be more to accomplish and new issues
that must be dealt with. As you grow in know-
ledge and understanding, you will achieve your
potential. You will always be working on yourself.
That's how I, and everyone I socialize with,
approach it. I don't have all the answers, but I'm
actively looking for them. I'm also open to working
on anything within me that might keep me from
attracting what I want.
All of this is like peeling an onion. Every time you
work through one layer, another appears. In your
financial life, these layers and challenges have no-
thing to do with the external environment. It
doesn't matter if there's a recession or not, who
the President of the United States is, or how the
stock market is doing. It's completely and totally
internal - within you. This is one of the reasons
why limiting beliefs are hard to change. They
are invisible and incredibly destructive.
You probably know people who are doing very
well financially If not, I'm sure you've read about
some. They're likely doing really well, no matter
what's going on in the country. If you look at the
stories from the Great Depression or at other
challenging times, you'll find many people who
have prospered and thrived - many of whom are
still around.
People like Colonel Sanders who created his name
-sake chicken recipe during the Depression,opened
a restaurant, and now the company has locations
around the globe. Companies like John Deere,
which you might have expected to disappear
during the Great Depression, came out of it
stronger and is still going strong. These types of
companies are all around us and serve as
examples of what can be achieved. However, it
begs the question, why did these companies
survive when so many others didn't? It's because
their mindset made them immune to the economic
conditions. They believed they could weather the
storm and did. They found out that negative news
is like a disease and you can choose to allow
yourself to be infected or not.
YOU DESERVE TO SUCCEED
The second of the thieves is "I don't deserve it."
It's directly related to "I don't love myself." If you
have an important goal, and you think it's worthy
or valuable, such as, "I want a new job. I want a
raise. I want more sales" -and you're not achieving
it - you need to look deeper. The reason you
aren't progressing is likely because you believe
that you don't deserve it.
Now you may think this is irrational, but is it?
Have you ever had a nice suit that you only wore
on 'special' occasions? Or perhaps a special set of
dishes that you only use on holidays? The motiva-
tion behind these actions is that you feel these
objects are too 'good' for you to enjoy every day.
I once had a friend who owned a small ranch. One
fall he bought a brand new customized truck and
came by to show it to me. It was gorgeous. He was
beaming with pride and you could detect a
distinct difference in the way he walked - like he
was 10-feet tall. The next week I saw him driving
his old truck again and asked what happened. He
said, "Oh I just take the new truck out for special
occasions, it's way too nice to drive around the
ranch." What he was in effect saying, was the
thought of the new truck was above him. It
couldn't be part of his daily life because he only
felt he deserved to have it for special occasions.
You see and hear this thief rear its head every day
when people talk about how someone else is so
much better than they are and how they can't
possibly attract certain things because they are
just not 'for' them.
This is a clear indication of where their focus is -
which is not on achieving their dreams, but on
whythey can't or why someone else deserves it
more. It shows they don't value themselves or
their contribution to their own lives. If you don't
love yourself, you will never believe that you
deserve anything of value in your life. You will
walk around with the idea that good things only
come to others - but they are not meant for you.
Now you may even consciously force yourself to
say "I do love myself. Look at what a nice person
I am and look at all these nice things I'm doing."
But if you're not seeing positive results, they are
being blocked by a limiting belief deep within
you.Your results are simply a mirrored reflection
of what's inside you. The outer always reflects the
inner. When you experience lack of achievement
or when you get close to a goal only to choke at
the last minute, you are struggling with beliefs
that must be addressed.
I know literally thousands of people who use
positive affirmations every day as a tool to
change their beliefs. They can be very effective.
The idea is that the more often you say it, the
faster you will adopt it as a belief. Unfortunately
these affirmations are no match for a limiting
belief that may be lurking inside you. The
positive ideas you are trying to adopt bounce off
like a ping-pong ball hitting cement. The only
way to change the situation is to acknowledge
the underlying belief and deal with it first.
MONEY IS A TOOL FOR GOOD
There is one additional belief about money that
belongs with the other two thieves. This biggest,
baddest, boldest, most insidious belief about
money has been around for literally thousands of
years and is still here now - Money is the root of
all evil.
Yikes!
With this belief, how could you possibly think
you're going to attract money into your life, while
being a good, spiritual, holy person? You may
have some money temporarily. Just enough to
survive on. But deep down your subconscious mind
will repel money away from you, because you don't
want to be associated with evil. This includes
sabotaging your efforts at success.
This one belief has kept generations on the verge
of poverty since the beginning of time. What's
worse is that it is not even true. Money is not the
root of evil, especially all evil. Actually George
Bernard Shaw said it best when he said, "It's the
lack of money that is the root of all evil." There's
a great deal of truth in that.The lack of money
puts people in a desperate mindset, and that is the
true evil. When in this mindset, they will do things
they may have never contemplated otherwise and
often those things are very destructive - to
themselves and/or to others.
The belief that money is evil actually stems from
a Biblical reference stating that "the love of
money is the root of all kinds of evil."
(Timothy 6:10)
Love of money refers to someone who is chasing
the dollar at the expense of all else in their life.
This principle allows greed and selfishness to
manifest in their lives. Chasing money indicates a
competitive mindset that will do anything to have
more money. It does not say that money in and of
itself is evil, but that people who love money are
prone to this trait. The Dickens character,
Scrooge, is the perfect example of this mindset.
He loved his cash money and only wanted more
of it - to the exclusion of everything else in life.
Of course when you have a biblical reference
with that much power, it's easy to understand
how it can be distorted over time. As more and
more people believe that money is evil, it can be
hard to change the precept and realize the truth.
Remember in the last chapter when I said that
money doesn't have emotions and only makes you
more of what you are? Think about that. The
richest people in the world, millionaires and even
billionaires don't love money. NO. They don't.
They love the freedom that money provides.
Money is just a scorecard. Always remember that
you can't really achieve great monetary success
unless you follow your passion. The money is
secondary. Money flows to the wealthy because
they do not chase it just for the sake of having
more. They desire freedom. They don't desire
money. This is an important distinction!
When you understand that money is neutral and
simply an agreed-upon exchange of value, you will
attract money into your life right away. As long as
you think that money is bad, evil, corrupt, or that
evil people are rich and rich people are evil -
you're not going to allow monetary wealth to enter
your life. It will bounce off of you as if you're
made of rubber and you'll never even notice it,
except when you look in your checkbook. You
will know that you don't have any money and
wonder why.
ATTRACT MONEY NOW!
I went to Ohio to visit my family a while back and
I saw one of my brothers, the youngest in our
family He's got a nice family and a nice little piece
of property He's a mechanic, so he's making some
decent money. He's working hard and living what
most would consider a completely normal and
average life. But he looks at my life and marvels at
it. I know on some level he's really confused, since
he doesn't understand how all this money was
attracted by someone like me - a person he grew up
with and views as normal and average.
He asked me at one point, "How did you do it?"
To answer him, I basically laid out all the informa-
tion I'm giving you now. I told him how money
works, what holds us back, how I overcame my
beliefs and how I help others do the same thing.
He said "That's never going to work for me.
I could never do that."
I was stunned. I wondered, "How can he even
think that?" But in his mind, in his world, based
on his past experience, he has no idea how to
attract money into his life. He has convinced
himself that he is a mechanic -and only a
mechanic - and that's what he's going to be for the
rest of his life. That means he will always make so
much per hour, and that's good enough. When you
look at it from his perspective, you can understand
this limiting thought process. He's raising his
family and has people he loves and takes care of.
He's got his little piece of property and his vehicle.
He's doing fine. It's good enough for him. But he
doesn't see his own mental process, nor does he
recognize how his limiting beliefs are keeping
him from an even better life.
Then we started talking about my car collection -
which amazed him. My brother asked me, "How
come you don't have a Corvette?" I replied,"I don't
have one right now. It might be next on the list,
you know. They come in time." This is not a limit-
ing belief on my part, but my garage is only so big
(although I'm building a bigger one as I write this).
Still, there are only so many cars that will fit
inside at any given moment!
He said, "I could never have a Corvette."
Again, I'm stunned. I'm asking myself, what goes
on in his or anybody else's mind that sets such
limitations?
My brother's mindset is just like most others. He
works at a job for a certain amount of money.
That's what he knows and that's what he sees as
his future. He doesn't see the big picture or the
possibilities. Even with me standing right in front
of him as an example of what's possible, he still
doesn't see it.
Step 1: Alter How You Think
While he's talking, I'm thinking to myself, J could
name three ways you can get a Corvette. It really
struck me in that moment how very different our
thought processes are. My thought processes can
come up with all kinds of options, all kinds of
opportunities. I listen to most people, and in 20
minutes or so I'm thinking There's an idea they're
not even acting on. There's something they could
draw out and turn into a product. But they're not
doing it. In fact, they're not even seeing it.
It still takes me by surprise sometimes that my
own mindset has changed so much. Not that I'm
saying I am the awakened one. I'm still working on
myself all the time - every day - and I'm sharing
what's working for me with you. It's just proof to
me that if you do the work each day, you'll make
progress without even realizing it.
Just as I'm astonished at how far I've come, there
are also those times when it becomes obvious how
far I still have to go. Recently, I had dinner with
Kevin Trudeau, author of the "Natural Cures"
book series. I was telling him how I have
published over 30 books, several of which have
become bestsellers. I felt really good telling him.
Then he told me how he sold 30 million copies of
one of his books. Suddenly I thought, "I haven't
accomplished anything!" But my point is that he's
thinking differently. He's thinking bigger than I
have up to this point and that means I still have a
ways to go. There will always be more to reach for
and more to achieve. The process of changing your
thoughts to accept each new level of achievement
into your life is the real challenge.
THE GIFT OF RELEASE
The first question anyone asks when I talk about
the three thieves is, "How can I change my beliefs
and thoughts about money?"
The first step is to evaluate what you believe and
why. Awareness is a must, as you must identify
what's holding you back in order to deal with it.
Once you've identified the ideas you want to
change, then you must get clear of them and
release their power over you. I've written many
books and offered numerous techniques for clear-
ing old beliefs and I'm always open to new or
different techniques.
The basic premise of any clearing technique is that
you first connect with that belief and become
aware of the emotion you have attached to it. If
you feel you aren't deserving, then the first thing
to do is connect with that feeling. Do you feel sad,
mad, or worthless? Now realize that this is just a
perception on your part. You choose to feel the
way you do and you can choose to release it. I
often encounter this belief with people who've
been treated badly or abused. They feel undeserv-
ing because they were told that as a child. But is
it true? NO.
Getting past your old beliefs means exposing them
to the light of day and examining what they are
and if they're valid. Usually 99.9% of the time
they aren't. We carry around a whole slew of
beliefs from childhood. If you were made fun of in
second grade because you were afraid to speak in
front of the class, it may have created a long
lasting fear of public speaking. But where does
that fear stem from? If you miss a word, is the
audience going to jump on stage and devour you?
NO. Your logical adult brain can figure this out,
but you also have to release the emotional
connection. This is the real challenge.
Think back to a specific incident and recall those
emotions. Does your chest feel tight? Do you hold
your breath or cringe with fear? These reactions
are not in response to a real danger - they are the
mind reliving an old incident that no longer can
even affect you unless you hang on to that old
emotion - that blocks your progress. A lot of
people think that positive affirmations will
overcome limiting beliefs, but I disagree. If you
don't directly address the issue and just use
positive affirmations, you don't release the
negative emotions that are blocking your progress.
This is why if you just use affirmations, without
dealing with the underlying issues, you will have
limited success, because the limiting belief is still
there.
There are many different variations of clearing
techniques. Brad Yates and I have a whole audio
program called "Money Beyond Belief." (Click)
It's available at www.moneybeyondbelief.com .
This series focuses entirely on eliminating money
beliefs that are holding you back. You can do this
on your own, for limiting beliefs such as, "I don't
love myself." "I don't deserve money" and "Money
is evil." None of these beliefs are true, so let
them go.
I want you to be aware that all of the things
preventing you from attracting money can be
released right now. Your life can change in a
nanosecond. I remember when I first started doing
seminars, people would ask, "Can I really learn
this in a weekend? Can I really change my life in
a weekend?"
All I can tell them is my own experience. I've had
moments in my life where I changed because of a
story somebody told me over dinner. I've had
moments in my life where I changed because of
something I saw in a movie. I've had moments in
my life where I've been in a seminar and somebody
said one thing - just a phrase or explanation of
( Step 1: Alter How You Think )
a concept, and it might not have even come from
the seminar leader - and something shifted in me
and I awakened.
You can have an awakening at any point at any
time, including right now as you're reading these
words. I know many people whose lives have been
changed by reading a book. For whatever reason,
whether it was a new idea they'd never seen or an
old idea they were finally ready to hear. The
words awakened them and changed their life.
I wrote this book with the intent of helping you
break through your financial barriers. Most people
will change other aspects of their lives - but
money is the hardest area for them to grasp. You
shouldn't feel trapped into sitting on the sidelines
while others attract the money that you could be
sharing. And you don't have to.
But you must decide. Are you ready to look into
those dark, long- held beliefs and banish them
forever? Are you willing to do whatever is neces-
sary rather than what's easy? Are you ready to say,
"Hey money!! Here I am! I'm ready to receive!"?
If you are, then you're ready to learn the rest of
the steps that will get you there, but you must
commit to doing them all. Each one in full. Then
and only then will you open the floodgates to
your new abundant future. Remember, the first
step is to alter how you think about money. When
you realize that it is a neutral force for good, and
you deserve it, then you can begin the process to
attract money now.
But understanding and altering how you think is
only step one.
Let's move on to step two.
ATTRACT MONEY NOW
STEP 1: ALTER HOW YOU THINK .
TRUTHS & TAKE AWAYS
• Limiting beliefs are like thieves in the nights.The
first step to attracting money is to change your
thoughts and address these underlying limiting
beliefs.
• You must have a mindset of wealth before you
will ever achieve it because if you don't, you'll
find yourself frequently getting close, but never
quite achieving your dream.
• All of this is like peeling an onion. Every time
you work through one layer, another appears.
• If you don't love yourself, you won't believe that
you deserve value in your life.
• Getting past your old beliefs means exposing
them to the light of day and examining if and
why they're valid - 99.9% of the time they aren't.
• All of the things preventing you from attracting
money can be released right now.
Step 1: Alter How You Think
ACTION STEPS
• Reflect on the three key limiting beliefs and
write down which ones might be true for you
at the moment.
• Write down the opposite of the limiting beliefs
and reflect on what it feels like to deserve and
enjoy money
• Consider other beliefs that may be limiting you
from attracting money and reflect on the
opposite of those beliefs, so you know you
deserve money now.
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