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

by Jen Sincero

All you need to do is wake up to what’s holding you back, make new, powerful choices about what you focus on, ensmarten yourself about money, and go for it like you ain’t never gone for it before.

If I’d put the same amount of time and focus that I put into freaking out about not having money, cutting back my expenses, finding the deals, haggling, researching, returning, refunding, redeeming, rerouting, rebating, into actually making money, I would have been driving a car with working windshield wipers years before I actually did.

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

We’ve been raised to believe that you have to work hard to make money, and certainly there are times when this is true, but the real secret is you have to take huge, uncomfy risks. You have to do stuff you’ve never done before, to make yourself visible, to acknowledge your own awesomeness, to risk looking stupid.

People love to tell you what you should and shouldn’t want, regardless of how you feel about it. Even worse, we’re so malleable, if we listen to them long enough we’ll tell ourselves what we should and shouldn’t want, regardless of how we feel deep down.

RICH: Able to afford all the things and experiences required to fully experience your most authentic life.

All that matters is what’s true for you, which is why getting really good at listening to your intuition and your heart, and following your happiness, is critical. And which is why I want to drive home the following point: If you allow yourself to make all the money you need to flourish and live out your desires, it does not mean you are, or will become, a greedy, selfish, Earth-ruining bastard.

A healthy desire for wealth is not greed, it’s a desire for life.

Humans are curious by nature, our desire to keep evolving physically, mentally, and spiritually is part of who we are, which is why settling, staying stuck in a rut, treading the lukewarm water of mediocrity (or worse) is so excruciating.

You, just like all living things, are meant to take up space on this planet. Shrinking back and denying yourself the things that bring you great joy, living under a cloud of guilt, refusing to make an impact ain’t why you’re here. The Earth is not here for us to pillage, but it is here for us to enjoy, care for, and appreciate. You living your fullest life and making all the money required to do so doesn’t take anything away from anyone else any more than you refusing a ham sandwich because someone, somewhere, is starving, helps them.

Yes, you can donate your time, organize, protest, lobby, alert the masses, post incensed rants on Facebook, but you will be much more effective if you have the energy, options, and freedom that come with not being in financial struggle, not to mention the resources to spend however you see fit.

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 mean, imagine if you and all the people you love and respect had assloads of money?

Let’s take back the word “money” and decriminalize it, because until you do, you aren’t going to be terribly motivated to let yourself make much.

Snobbery works in both directions—if you’re rich, thinking you’re better than those who aren’t is as equally lame as being broke and thinking you’re better than those who are rich.

Take a deep breath, trust your desires, and embrace the fact that your quest for riches is a quest to become more of who you truly are.

Think about it: Just standing next to someone who’s being totally who they are, who is lit up by life, who goes for it fully, who believes anything is possible, who is excited to be in on the adventure of spinning around on this planet, who allows themselves to look stupid, to fail, to succeed, to be rich, to be generous, to basically be, do, and have all the things and experiences that make them the most themselves—it makes you feel like you could go out and flip over a car, right? So why not be that for someone else by being the most you that you can be too?

You have to want your dreams more than you want your drama.

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.

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

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

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

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.

You can’t do anything if you try to do everything.

One of the biggest banana peels on the road to success is fragmenting your time and focus.

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 you’re being, you will upset people, you will lose friends, and maybe even cause rifts with family members, so your desire to grow into who you’re meant to be must be firmly placed in the very front of your mind at all times—as must the specifics of the life you’re creating for yourself and the feelings associated with it, so you have the courage to stay the course.