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

by Jen Sincero

Time wasted rationalizing the mediocre could be time spent creating the magnificent.

There was no thunderclap “aha” moment; I didn’t narrowly escape dying in a grease fire or get dumped by the love of my life for being such a loser or have some big “snap out of it!” epiphany. I just suddenly couldn’t take listening to myself complain anymore. I just finally woke up. Which is how the desire to make massive change kicks in for most people.

All of Mother Nature’s creatures are designed to fully flourish before they drop dead.

Greed comes from the same lack mindset as poverty.

You cannot give what you do not have, so if you want to help others you have to take care of yourself first.

Our world, now more than ever, needs as many compassionate, creative, bighearted, conscious people to be as rich as possible so we can turn this mother around.

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)

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

Nothing slams the door on further investigation and radical action faster than Yeah, I know it’s important to be aware of my thoughts. No need to explain—next topic!

The other thing “I know” does is shut us off from receiving information from Universal Intelligence.

“A wise man once said nothing.” I love this quote on so many levels because it reminds us that when we get silent, step out of the way, and listen to the big smarty-pants known as our intuition and the Universe, true wisdom can reach us.

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.

Write down the five most common limiting words or phrases you and the people you hang out with most use to talk about money.

Shut up, slow down, stop using them.

Meditate for at least five minutes every day. Before sitting down, ask the question, “What belief is blocking me from making money?”

Come up with one superexciting reason that you want to make money and spend five to ten minutes visualizing all the details of it. Notice if any limiting beliefs come up and, if so, follow the drill in number

Write a letter to money. Notice the key, most emotional limiting beliefs that come up for you and do the rewrite drill for them

Listen to your intuition during meditation, visualization, or just running around being you, and the moment you get a brilliant idea that would move you in the direction of your financial dreams, jump on it.

and was rarely, if ever, more than twenty feet away from his

with my hands over my mouth, uttering “Oh my God” over and

that I was pretty damn impressed. They really did a great, thorough job. We could all learn a thing or two from their tireless commitment to detail and the pride they so clearly took in their work. Here are some secrets to success that the goats modeled beautifully: Chewing, kicking, stampeding through any obstacles in their paths.

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.

Love is like a drug that alters your ability to participate in logical thinking,

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.

Yes, there will be challenges and things will blow up in your face, but learning experiences are different from wasting your life pushing a boulder up a hill.

So often we discredit the things that come naturally because we’ve 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 isn’t worth pursuing in any serious sort of way.

By having the audacity to follow his heart instead of his fears, he was able to quit his hateful job

Instead of looking to where you can cut back, save, and play it safe, look to how you can expand, grow, and start acting like a badass who’s in control of your own life:

Act as if you live in an abundant Universe (which you do) and have the ability to create whatever financial reality you desire (which you can),

Then you hand the rest over to the Universe. Otherwise known as surrendering, this is a key factor in consciously managing your energy to create an awesome reality for yourself.

Once you start taking action you’ll be able to discover more things you like, more things you don’t like, and a clearer picture of what you desire to do will begin to form.

We have, after all, figured out space travel and how to make jam out of a cactus; you can figure out how to flourish doing what you love. Don’t waste your precious gifts, and life, drowning in doubt.

We all have the choice to think what we want to think, and to take responsibility for the fact that our thoughts create our financial realities.

Part of working with Universal Intelligence is doing everything you know how to do but staying open to ideas and opportunities that “come out of nowhere.”

you can control your thoughts and actions, and that is what you need to focus on to shift your financial reality.

Instead of upgrading their mindsets and demanding of themselves, and the Universe, that things start to change around here, they insist that everything is out of their control.

They hand all their power over to their circumstances instead of taking responsibility and changing their lives themselves.

What you focus on you create more of.

people who are particularly skilled at worrying, this means your focus muscle is in great shape, and all you have to do is choose to focus in a different direction.

Anchor in the belief that you have things to be grateful for. Trigger thoughts about how blessed you are. Activate emotions of joy and hope and excitement. Inspire you to get out there and make more awesome stuff happen.

It’s impossible to focus on one thing and see another.

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.

the emotions of despair and hopelessness keep you in a state of constantly re-creating your ho-hum “reality”—you can’t see past your present situation, you’ve blocked your ability to imagine, you’ve chosen victimhood.

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.

Riches come to those who believe anything is possible even when all signs point to No Way in Hell.

If you want to change your life, you must be more available for the ridiculous than your reality.

When it comes to changing your life, if you’re not scared, you’re doing something wrong.