Is Your “Money Magnet” Set to “On” ?

I’m going to deviate from the course a little bit here today.

Now I’m the most level-headed guy you’ll probably meet in a long time. I don’t mince words and would never give you anything hocus pocus or something that wasn’t proven to work.

Afterall, I spent nearly a decade of my life waffling in the “magical thinking” airy fairy school of WISHING my goals into existence. That’s a story for another time, but the basic story is I thought I could get rich using only the power of my mind and nothing else (like taking action).

Foolish I know.

With that being said, here is the “magical” question:

Is your “money magnet” on?

What do I mean by a money magnet?

I mean that “invisible” force which helps to attract money to you.

You may be rolling you eyes at “invisible force”. I would to, but hear me out – this is very applicable not only to money but any area of your life over which you seek mastery.

The invisible force that controls attraction of money (or anything else) to you is your baseline conviction of what you think you deserve or what you think you can have.

In other words, your certainty creates magnetism.

Stop and think about this for a second before proceeding.

How much money you attract into your life has to do with your baseline convictions and your feeling of entitlement to it.

Now by entitlement I don’t mean getting something for nothing or being a lazy brat - as if the world should serve you on it’s hands and knees. It doesn’t and it won’t.

I’m talking about a sense of proprietary self-esteem, a self-view that has you feeling like you deserve to have money.

So… do you feel you DESERVE to have money? Be honest with yourself. Ask yourself the following questions:

1) Do I feel like I do enough to deserve the money I’d like to have?
2) What have I been taught about money by my parents, society, teachers, religion?
3) Do I ever feel guilty about spending or earning money?
4) Does money make me uncomfortable?
5) Would I rather not think about money? Is it a nuisance?

These questions can get you clear on how you feel about your deservedness.

Now, you may have seen this coming, but how deserving you feel about receiving money determines to a large degree how much (or how frequently) you receive it. What you focus on and how you feel about it (and then what you DO about it) determines EVERYTHING you do. Thanks to Tony Robbins for that distinction.

If you are constantly thinking to yourself “I shouldn’t earn that much” or “I haven’t done enough work to earn that amount” or even “My friends will leave me if I earn too much money” – you are literally REPELLING money away from you.

Do not underestimate your mind. I made this mistake for years, thinking that “things just happen” out there and that I affect little to nothing. It isn’t true. Your conditioned behavior affects what you see and what you don’t, which DIRECTLY affects what actions you take (or not) which directly affects what results you get. Get this one point alone and you will be far ahead in the game of life.

Your sense of achievement also determines how much and how frequently you create money. Do you have the conviction that you can earn all the money you could want? Or is self-doubt your constant companion?

Conviction is everything! It all starts there and will open or close doorways to you. I always used to think this was just a cliche, a platitude for the “magical thinking” crowd (of which I was ironically a part of for the better part of 10 years!).

But there is a very practical reason behind why it starts with conviction. It’s reduced down to seeing the process that happens inside all of us constantly. I’m willing to bet you’ve never heard it put this way before, or if you have, you’ve never let it sink in.

There is a four step psychological process we all execute constantly every day when we want to get something done. Here it is:

1) Measuring our belief about it (conviction or certainty)
2) Doing the activity based on that belief
3) Getting results from our activities
4) Having our beliefs reinforced by those results

In other words, you start with a belief which leads you to action. Once you get results from your action, it affects your belief about what you can and cannot achieve.

So imagine we have a conviction rating scale, where 1 is apathy and 10 is absolute certainty, a sublime conviction. Joe Schmoe has a rating of 2. He’s lazy, procrastinates, doesn’t seem to care much about getting things done, but he does have a small desire to achieve and on some level thinks he can.

However, his anemic sense of certainty and conviction will lead him to equally paltry results. Why? Look at the cycle above again in lieu of Joe’s current certainty rating:

1) He believes he can’t really achieve, or doesn’t think achievement is worth it.
2) His actions will reflect his beliefs. He will probably take little to no action, procrastinate, or it will be a half-hearted attempt at best.
3) He’ll get equally mediocre (if any) results.
4) He’ll see the results he gets and say “See? I TOLD you it wasn’t worth it to do this!” or “This took so much work to do (it didn’t really) and it didn’t get the results!

And his belief plunges in a downward spiral, a self-fulfilling prophecy smacking him straight in the face.

Now compare this to Jane Success who has the absolute conviction that she can succeed in her endeavors. Her massive belief pans out as follows:

1) She has the absolute conviction she can succeed, the possibilities are limitless for her.
2) She takes this huge energy with her and applies it to her activities with gusto.
3) She sees her successful attitude yielding the results she’s been wanting.
4) This reinforces her inner conviction that she can get things done if she just applies herself.

It works both ways, but it all starts with a sense of CERTAINTY.

Certainty is your money magnet!

If you are uncertain to begin with, no worries. I will show you a method to create certainty about your goals so you feel empowered to go for them without apology or fear.

But that will have to wait until the next post.

See you then…

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