You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth

by Jen Sincero

Here are some phrases to watch for with others and yourself: I want (= I lack) I wish (but I’m not in control = disempowering) I need (cuz I ain’t got = lack) I can’t (obv) I’m trying (but I’m not committed) I hope (might happen/might not = lacks faith) I should (but maybe I won’t and maybe I don’t wanna) I don’t know (spoken as truth, slams door shut on finding out)

some excellent replacements: I have I create I’m grateful for I enjoy I can I choose I love

two words we need to be particularly stealth about sniffing out are the words “I know.”* Nothing slams the door on further investigation and radical action faster than Yeah, I...

no matter how much we “know,” there are always more sides to the story, giant leaps of faith, and an infinite number of questions that could massively expand our awareness.

One of my favorite sayings is: “A wise man once said nothing.”

One of the best ways to find out how you truly feel about money is to write a letter to it as if it were a person.

I had such a push/pull relationship with money, as do most people, it’s a wonder I was able to bring in any at all. My energy was all about blocking it while trying to welcome it in at the same time.

We choose to stay in our stories because we get what I call false benefits from them—we get to keep our identities as a broke person, we get to blame our brokeness on things outside ourselves

we don’t have to push ourselves outside our comfort zones and risk failing, looking like an idiot, losing money, changing and becoming different from our family and friends—the list goes on and on and it all comes down to this: You have to want your dreams more than you want your drama.

I want to caution you against getting so wrapped up in processing your blocks that you don’t take the action necessary to change your life.

taking huge scary leaps into the unknown is the best way to scare your BS to the surface anyway. It’s like a two-for-one deal—you make progress and you unearth your shit.

Suggested Money Mantra (say it, write it, feel it, own it): I love money because money is always here for me.

the key to doing this is by getting clear on the specifics around your Why: Why do you desire this money? What will you spend it on? How will it feel to make it, spend it, and bask in the manifestation of your ever so important Why?

How is more money going to add value to your life? How will getting rich change who you’re being in the world? Which of your gifts are you the most excited to share in exchange for money? Where do you feel you bring the most value to your fellow earthlings? How does it feel to share your biggest, badassiest self with others?

Vague aspirations lead to vague results; specific aspirations lead to kicking ass.

Specifics allow the Universe to fulfill your order.

The Universe needs details too. It will respond, it always responds, but if you just focus on how awesome it would be to make more money, you may receive ten bucks instead of the tens of thousands that would make a significant change in your life.

Specifics create emotions, and emotions give us the no-nonsense determination to do whatever it takes to reach our goals.

love is your greatest weapon against your limiting subconscious beliefs. Love is all consuming, it muscles its way in front of all other thoughts and emotions, including all the fear, doubt, and worry buried in your subconscious mind.

When we push against who we naturally are, we feel stress, things don’t progress easily, we beat ourselves up for getting crappy results, everything is an effort.

we’ve bought into this idea that it’s better to limit ourselves than to stretch, and we’ve developed this fun-free either/or take on what’s available to us:

Get clear on what you desire, get specific—What 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

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 so madly in love with your vision that it’s no match for any limiting subconscious beliefs that pitch a fit and try to stop you.

You can have your excuses or you can have success. You can’t have both. Whichever outcome you train your mind on dictates the reality you see before you.

What you focus on you create more of.

how often we miss out on the golden financial opportunities, life-changing connections, and heart-opening experiences that we crave because we’re stuck in old ways of thinking, believing, and hence, focusing.

When you focus on your past, you are blind to your present.

Just thinking something doesn’t mean you believe it—it’s only when gargantuan positive emotions are involved that thoughts are able to access their superhero powers to create new expansive beliefs, fearless actions, and as a result, exciting new realities in our bank accounts and other areas of our lives.

The thoughts, beliefs, and emotions we don’t consciously reject, we unconsciously accept.

Awareness is the key to freedom.

James Allen says in As a Man Thinketh: Thought allied fearlessly with purpose becomes creative force.

Emotions don’t like to share their space. If you’re sick of feeling scared or sad or frustrated, focus all your energy on building up the opposite emotion.

We are feeling creatures, we are meant to experience, not deny, our emotions.

Expecting yourself to feel only positive emotions is not only impossible, but will most likely make you feel like a failure instead of like a normal human.

It’s when we wallow in our negative emotions that we let them hold us back.

When something seems so big, so magnificent, so out of reach, it requires you to believe it’s possible before you’ve got any proof that you could ever pull it off. In fact, it usually requires you to ignore a lifetime of proof that you probably can’t pull it off. It’s much easier, and more “realistic,” to pare down the dream, shoot for what’s reasonable, ask for less.

Your role is to keep your mindset strong, open, and ready to receive.

Are you going to stick with low-frequency thoughts like: I’m broke, it says it right there in my bank account. The end. OR will you stretch, raise your frequency, and find your way to My financial situation is temporary, it’s not who I am, it’s where I am, money is all around me, I’ma find me some and make this happen.

“Do you want to be broke and cool or rich and cheesy?”

You can’t experience new lands from the confines of your comfort zone.

is never a lack of great excuses or reasons to shift your focus and slow your roll. Stay determined, stay focused.

Get practiced at taking the next step that feels right. There is no greater teacher than experience—you will get all the answers you need as much by falling on your face as you will by knocking it out of the park.

We tend to want to involve our old pals and people we feel comfortable with when we’re pushing ourselves into a new financial zone, but if you really want to grow, you need to hang with people you can learn from, who know what they’re doing, not just with people you feel comfortable with.

Faith allows you to release the need to know How it’s going to happen, to trust that the way will be shown, and to take action before having all the answers laid out before you.

Resentment attracts more resentment; denial keeps you stuck in the same place. But gratitude gets you out of the loop of lowness, opens you to new possibilities, and sets you free.

You can choose to be a victim to your circumstances or take responsibility for how you choose to perceive them.

A firm decision sets everything in motion—your mindset and your actions—and also alerts Universal Intelligence that this is how it’s going to be, and it starts moving everything you need in your direction.

Overwhelm, just like calm, is a state of mind, and all you have to do is choose which party you’re going to attend.

Overwhelm: When you make the unhelpful decision to stop breathing, lose perspective, and forget you’re in control of your