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“I
Can’t afford It.” How many times do we repeat this in a day? It
has been astutely stated, “possession is nine-tenths of the law.”
It is also the basic tenant of advertising that if by repeating
something over and over again, it becomes truth.
You are ultimately the boss of the thoughts activated by your sub-
conscious. If you think and then say, “I can’t afford it,” your subcon-
scious will get the message, and will scan for and focus on circum-
Money
stances, situations, and events to prove and solidify that myth as real-
ity. Our subconscious always seeks to find congruency with our con-
sciousness—the real boss.
Myths
acceptance of wealth, which is our true original condition. If you
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Copyright © 2010 by Deborah S. Nelson and Dana Susan Beasley
big money
“I
Can’t afford It.” How many times do we repeat this in a day? It
has been astutely stated, “possession is nine-tenths of the law.”
It is also the basic tenant of advertising that by repeating some-
thing over and over again, it becomes truth.
Let’s face it: 50 years ago, no one needed deodorant. Mankind sur-
vived for thousands and thousands of years without it. Suddenly in
the past 50 years, deodorant is an absolute necessity in polite culture.
“I
Must Have a Job.” This is one incredible money-myth whopper.
How long has the job been in existence? A hundred years, per-
haps? The job creates a false sense of security, but also that of
indentured servitude. For a job, we trade our biggest chunk of time
each day for a “pot of porridge, credit card debt, and a home the bank
owns.” We have traded our talents, youth, even our soul, for the prom-
ise of a steady paycheck. Yet, God, the creator, the source of life, has
kept people alive for thousands of years without jobs. If you don’t be-
lieve in God, you can see that people have been kept alive by using re-
sources provided by “the creation,” the “Mother Earth.” And “the job
market” has not made anyone wealthy except for the people who in-
vented it, perpetuate it, and wield the educational system to train peo-
ple to work in it!
If you really ponder it, (but who has time to ponder, right?) those
very peanuts are again extracted from us as credit card interest, mort-
gage interest, expensively financed soon-to-be-obsolete automobiles,
and the lifestyle (deodorant and such things…) required to “qualify”
for this regular stipend, actually a pittance in the terms of what is
available in the real world of abundance.
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his is probably the number one money myth that drives us away
from living our dreams, passions, and true talent and conse-
quently realizing abundant wealth from those gifts and inspiration.
And it is not only a major money myth, but it is a big fat convenient
excuse keeping you from investing in yourself.
I know that many of you are going to be totally offended at this one.
But if you really want to live your purpose, your gift, your talent—
nothing, and I mean nothing, should stop you or distract you. The
biggest myth that Power Brokers Perched atop the Mountain of Money
(most all of it paid to them by us); is that you must have funding to
accomplish your dreams. There is only room for one real dream and
that’s theirs. Now, if you play along, you can participate in “the Pre-
defined American Dream,” which is the so-called freedom of a job, a
home (owned by the bank) and social-security retirement, with
Medicare health insurance (mostly consisting of prescription drug ad-
diction in old age). At the risk of sounding angry, let me clarify that I
am not. We are responsible for our participation, and I am simply
speaking truth.
The reality here is you spend 75–90% of your time jumping through
the red-tape hoops, paying interest, or not even being able to qualify
for these—because the goal is to keep you (and everyone) in the work
force. If somehow you manage to break away and get the funding,
however, you are still going to pay “them” interest for the loan, or
jump through red-tape hoops for the grant, and therefore will be inef-
fective in your real purpose. You are still working for them, and their
dreams—not yours.
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“I Need Money
to Survive”
“I
need MoneY to survIve.” Wrong. This is a survival mentality and a
self-fulfilling prophecy. To the extent you believe this, you there-
fore become more and more desperate for money. You lose all
sense of morality, character, and purpose because survival trumps all
these things.
You have invested all of your life in someone else’s dreams. You
have been trained from Kindergarten all the way through college to be
in the workforce for someone else’s dreams. Therefore expect to in-
vest a few years in your own life purpose and dreams before you
begin to see a payoff!
“I
t takes MoneY to Make MoneY!” Again, with this statement we
believe that we are dependent on those who are sitting on Mt
Money. It takes an investment to make money, or to create
wealth. An investment can be time, resources (the use of a PC), home-
office space, automobile, learning, training, energy, love, planning,
practicing—all these can be money-free investments.
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uY now, PaY Later.” This is a huge money myth that seems true,
because it is so big and pervasive. The real truth about this belief
system is that it is designed to create perpetual consumers! The
truth is really pay now and pay later. First you pay by subtly extend-
ing your indentured servanthood another three years, five years, or in
the case of a mortgage, 30 years. The same competitive system that
is most likely your employer is part of the same competitive system
that loans you the money to buy the house. The banking system loans
you the money as long as you stay on the job (you have to show them
your W-2, right), and “the job” keeps you in the workforce, and by
keeping you in the workforce the banking industry gets to make the
interest. You actually end up paying now, and paying later.
Do you ever own the home? Maybe, but then there are property
taxes to pay that are ever increasing, and they are never paid off. So
now you are working for the bank, the labor market, and the govern-
ment. You are paying, paying, paying, and you are investing in some-
one else’s bottom line. With buy-now,-pay-later credit cards the
interest rate is often more than the original purchase. With a car pur-
chase, you pay hundreds of dollars a month for years in interest and
additional car insurance. Once the car gets paid off in say, five years,
the car wears out and you have to buy a new one. So you never own it,
you are paying now and paying later. The truth it is quite rare that
anyone ever gets around to really buying and truly owning!
“W
eaLtHY PeoPLe are soMeHow bad.” Those disappointed in not
reaching their full wealth potential spread this myth; and they
blame the wealthy for their lack of success. Money-rich Power
Brokers pleased with the prospect of less competition for “their wad”
also perpetuate it. The assumption that people with money have come
by it in a cheating, greedy, immoral, or unethical way may be true in
some cases, but not true in others.
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Here Is a LIMIted suPPLY of MoneY.” Perhaps this is one of the
biggest lies of all. By defining wealth in terms of dollars, it
would appear that business and government entities control
and limit the amount of wealth and its flow. This is true if you are op-
erating on the competitive realm, but not true if you operating in the
creative realm. In the creative realm, there is limitless wealth and
abundance, and once you let go of the idea that there is limitation you
can begin to attract and live in abundance. Think of wealth in terms of
wealth-producing assets and abundance, instead of dollar bills, the
value and supply of which is controlled by others, and not you or me,
or us.
“I
don’t Have anY MoneY.” How often do we say this? This is a
statement people make when their money expectations do not
live up to their reality. This is just almost never true. When you
make statements like that your subconscious will scan and stage
events and circumstances that prove these statements and beliefs to
be true. Once you make those statements you find that next month or
next year you have even less than when you last said, “I don’t have
any money!” But you still have some money, or the ability to get some
money, within a very short amount of time, if you use the creative
mindset.
The University
of Self Employment SolutIon: Practice thankful-
ness for the money that you do have.
Before you get out of bed every day,
name at least seven things, events,
persons, or situations for which you
are thankful! This is practicing a prin-
Express cipal of abundance and trumps the
Your competitive marketplace idea that
T hankfulness you don’t have enough. Read and
with
study the book entitled the Practice
Gift Baskets!
of Gratitude by Wess Hooper. If you
are a proponent of this myth get this book and read it.
“C
HeaP Is Good!” Just because something has a lesser number
doesn't mean that it costs less or is the best value. Often, the
cheapest ends up being the most expensive. When evaluating
how to make a good buy, price is only one consideration to get the
best value for your money. Consider quality, service, shipping, and
delivery time. Often investing a little more will buy you a whole lot
more. Thinking cheap can cause you to be robbed (staying in a cheap
hotel); expose you to fraud in business; or make you jump through
time-consuming hoops in order to return faulty merchandise.
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