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Date finished- April 17, 2021
The Book in 3 Sentences
Our beliefs and perceptions about money dictate how much money we make.
Money gives us options and freedom.
You have to get out of your comfort zone in order to get rich
How the Book Changed Me
I now see money as a tool and I am the driver. I have a burning desire to make money online. I like money and I appreciate the options and freedom it comes with. I will gear towards developing that wealth mindset.
Summary + High Yield Notes
Refusing to give ourselves permission to get rich is one of the biggest obstacles to making lots of money.
RICH: Able to afford all the things and experiences required to fully experience your most authentic life.
A healthy desire for wealth is not greed, itâs a desire for life.
"Iâve been broke and sad, rich and sad, broke and happy, rich and happy, and Iâll take the rich version over the broke version all day long. Because money gives you freedom and options and I really love freedom and options. Who doesnât?"
If you believe money is evil and/or difficult to make, you will remain poor.
"When you (consciously or unconsciously) resent money or cling to your limiting beliefs about money or refuse to participate in making money, it does not serve you, it does not make you more noble, it does not help you or anyone else. What it does is put you on a hunger strike by cutting you off from that which you need not only to survive, but to thrive. By embracing money and getting into the flow, you open yourself up to the abundance that is trying to reach you this very moment."
If you have a desire to make a certain amount of money, that money, and the way for you to make it, already exists.
Ayn Rand: Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
Giving and receiving money is an energetic exchange between people, and your job is to consciously get your frequency in alignment with the money you desire to manifest and open yourself up to receiving it.
To make money, do the energetic work, get your thoughts, actions, and words in line with what you
desire to create, and surrender the rest of the details up to the Universe.
"Money is a renewable resource. It comes and goes, it ebbs and flows, itâs meant to move. When weâre 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."
Think of money as your friend.
Don't hesitate. Hurl straight into the fire. Listen to your intuition, trust Universal Intelligence over your fears, have faith that what you desire already exists, and leap like the mighty badass that you are.
Doubts, fears, and other peopleâs rules are no match for a heart on a mission.
You need to have a big, burning blaze of desire roaring away beneath your fanny if youâre going to take the risks, make the mental shifts, and stay the course until you reach your new, sparkly financial reality.
"You want to feel so turned on by the thought of this money that youâre leaping out of bed in the morning to the sound of trumpets, rather than slowly putting on your socks thinking, yeah, that would be cool."
Don't listen to what everyone else thinks you should be doing.
When you listen to your heart and connect with who youâre meant to become, you have energy because youâre in a state of flow, things happen more easily, opportunities land in your lap, youâre turned on, inspired, engulfed in a sea of brilliant ideas.
"Pay attention to the things youâre drawn to, the things youâre good at, the things you lose yourself in, the things that make you stand up and say, âMy foot! I canât feel my foot!â because youâve been sitting in the same position for hours, totally engrossed." "So often we discredit the things that come naturally because weâve bought into the idea that success needs to be difficult, or that if something comes easily to us, it must come easily to everyone, and therefore isnât worth pursuing in any serious sort of way."
If itâs on your mind it will soon be in your lap.
How to master the mindset of wealth
Get clear on what you desire, get specificâWhat is your purpose? How much money do you desire to make by expressing this purpose? By when will you make this money? Why do you desire it, what is it for?
Hold the vision of this reality in your mind with a no-nonsense resolve and a relentless sense of purpose to make it real.
Fall in love with your vision
Have faith
Take action
Your job is to get your energy aligned, be dead serious about bringing this money in, and take all the action you know how to take. Universal Intelligenceâs job is to move what you desire toward you in whatever way it sees fit.
Get clear and become extremely attached to your Why. Envision yourself in the life you desire to live, feel the feelings that having this money and this life call forth. Conjure up the emotions associated with your purpose for making money and cling to them.
James Allen: Thought allied fearlessly with purpose becomes creative force.
What you can and canât afford is all in your mind.
You canât experience new lands from the confines of your comfort zone.
Have faith- "When you trust that your riches are on the way, instead of biting your nails over the what-ifs and how the hells, you shift your emotional state from doubt and fear to excited expectation. This shift raises your frequency, opens you up, and makes you aware of people and opportunities you werenât seeing before."
Taking a leap of faith is a win-win- "When you go big and take the scary leaps you need to take to change your financial sitch youâre up there on stage with no idea whatâs on the other side of those blinding lights, free-falling through space. But hereâs the great news: If you nail it, party time! If you bomb, you now know what didnât work, so when you go out there and give it another shot, you get to do so with more info. Taking a leap of faith is a win/win. Treading water in your comfort zone for the rest of your life is a snore/yawn."
Badassery comes to those who take risks.
Don't fragment your time and focus- "If youâre all over the place, youâre half-assing a bunch of different things instead of kicking ass at one thing. Figure out how youâre going to get rich, make the no-nonsense decision to keep going until you reach your goal, and, as part of your reward, youâll get to do all the other things you couldnât do while you were busy sticking by your decision to get rich."
Your desires are brought to you via thought, and you receive them by deciding to take action.
Chunk down your time and focus on one thing and one thing only. This creates urgency, maximizes your productivity, and frees up more time for you to do other things.
Time comes to those who make it, not those who try to find it
A breakdown of the action steps to become rich;
Get clear on the amount of money youâre going to make, the specifics of what the moneyâs for, and how freaking awesome it feels to make it.
Decide, with unshakable commitment, that you are making this money.
Get a plan together to make the money you desire to make.
Hold an image in your mind of the life youâre creating and all the money thatâs flowing toward you with eager excitement, hardcore faith, and deep gratitude
Do your best wherever youâre at.
When the Universe presents a How that leads in the direction of your goal to make more money, instead of talking yourself out of it, leap into its lovinâ arms immediately.
When you decide to get rich, the options are out there, and while they might take awhile for you to wake up to, when you do, it will all come down to how badly you want change.
If youâre not where you want to be financially, think about where youâre holding back. We pretend weâve done everything we can and we work harder and harder doing the same things weâve always done, hoping for different results. Meanwhile, there is almost always a solution right in front of our faces that weâre ignoring because weâve decided itâs out of the question.
The who and the what you surround yourself with
When it comes to money, who and what you surround yourself with has a huge effect on how you perceive it and feel about it. Your environment helps define what you consider to be expensive or cheap, a wise or stupid purchase, and how much youâll allow yourself to make.
Take the average income of the five people you hang around with most, and youâll most likely find yours.
Being around confident, wealth-positive people whom you respect gives you permission to believe there is abundance available to you too. No matter how impossible a situation may seem, a super confident person who believes in something without a doubt is a force of nature that can inspire you to reach great heights.
Surround yourself with people who are bringing their A game- Healthy competition is a wonderful thing. Surround yourself with people who are bringing their A game and you will want to bring your A game too. Surround yourself with generous, creative, big thinkers and youâll maximize your opportunities to get rich.
Starting your own business
Notice what excites you, what comes naturally to you, what youâre excited to share with the world, whose product or service turns you on and inspires you to do or make something similar. Get as many specifics in place as you can and see if you can make a business out of it.
Notice a complaint you often hear yourself or other people talking about: There are no cute and functional bags to carry my laptop around in. How come there are no healthy fast-food options? Iâd love to go on a road trip and not eat like crap. When is someone going to write a self-help book that uses jokes and curse words? Make a list of all the things you can think of that are missingâ
both products and services. Once youâve written them all down, see if thereâs one that excites you that you could turn into a business filling a need that you know is there.
Make sure your idea has profit and growth potential.
If you want a business that makes money, be clear on how much you desire to make and how youâre going to make it. Do what you love and the money will follow works well on a throw pillow, but doesnât do much for the bank account.
Focus on one thing. Do not try to start two projects at once or fragment your focus or
time in any way. You need all your energy and focus to get the sucker off the ground.
Once your new business is up and running, itâs still work, of course, but youâve gained some momentum and can then look to your other ideas. However, until you are fully up and running and profitable, you are unauthorized to start any other businesses or take on any other huge projects.
Get good at sales
Your inner wealth
You are a valuable and irreplaceable asset to the Universe. You are mighty beyond comprehension. You are a badass.
Meditate.
Meditation allows you to emotionally connect to the truth that you are an infinitely powerful spirit energy, your reality goes far beyond what your five senses tell you, and you are a badass. You can literally feel it. And the more you feel this, the more powerful, happy, and rich you will let yourself be.
Be patient
Being patient instead of high strung and freaked out makes you feel a whole lot better because it creates space for you to enjoy life in a way that rushing around blocks out. Patience allows you to notice the feel of the air on your skin, to experience the realization that you have so many people who love you, to be aware that this very moment in time is a miracle that will never, ever happen again.
The more you push yourself to do the things youâre scared to do, the stronger your confidence muscle will become.
Poverty and staying broke are diseases that we cause with our mindsets, which is why when we make the conscious choice to focus on whatâs true for us and what feels good, instead of why we canât and mustnât get rich, we can cure ourselves.
Tenacity
Nobody achieves great success without walking through the fire. And the difference between those who succeed and those who fail is a no-nonsense commitment to staying the course no matter how hot the fire gets.
We all have habitual places where we stopâa certain threshold where something gets too intimate or too expensive or too close to success for our comfort. Crossing this threshold is exactly what we need to do to exit our comfort zones and transform our lives, which is why itâs so terrifying to us and why our subconscious minds gather all the kingâs horses and all the kingâs men to make sure we run away, run away!
If you plan on going from poor to rich, you too must stick to your guns at the risk of being unpopular. You cannot make this big change in your life and expect nothing around you to change, especially your relationships with other people. When you change who youâre being, you will upset people, you will lose friends, and maybe even cause rifts with family members, so your desire to grow into who youâre meant to be must be firmly placed in the very front of your mind at all timesâas must the specifics of the life youâre creating for yourself and the feelings associated with it, so you have the courage to stay the course.
You can get rich too. You are mighty and magnificent beyond measure, grasshopper. You are meant to follow your desires. You are meant to blossom into the fullest expression of your unique and fantabulous badassery. You are meant to be rich.
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