Think about this for a moment… how much money is a lot of money to you? Not as far as how much you hope to earn, but how much you would spend?
When I was thinking earlier about my situation, I was thinking in figures.
“Okay,” I thought. “I’ll need to generate $1800 for the treatment and my stay. Then I need to put together around $3000 for the time I’ll be away. That’s about 5 grand, give or take”
I was relieved. That wouldn’t be too hard if I wasn’t forced to work in a reduced capacity temporarily. And, suddenly, it struck me how daunting a figure that was to me, only a couple of years ago.
I’m single, under 35 and I have only one dependent. When I worked a regular job full time, I hadn’t made less than $39,000 a year since 1996. And yet, before 2003, $5000 was a lot of money to me.
Back then, I would have opted for surgery because I found a way that my insurance will partically cover it.
Now, I’m willing to pay for it out of pocket, and I’m certain I’ll quickly be able to raise the money to do it. Why? How do you get from here to there? And why would you want to do this?
Deeply rooted in the power you have to generate more income are three things:
1- Your belief that you can
2- Whether your believe is rooted in a concept of scarcity or abundance, and
3- What limitations you put on what you’re willing to do in order to turn the flow of monetary currency to you.
I know, I know, I’m getting a little “new age” on you.
Or am I?
I work with two types of clients. In the first group, there are people who will spend $500 for useful information, or pay $2000 to get someone else to do the work they need for them. In the second group are people who are nervous about paying $47 for an ebook.
Not all the people in the second group have problems affording the ebook, and not all the people in the first group make more than an average income.
The people in that first group have a different mindset. They don’t think so much about the round figure as they do getting value for what they spend. The second group think that holding tightly to a dollar is the only way to make it last longer.
Here is the part that is important to you:
You’ll never feel comfortable asking people to spend that amount of money with you until you join those of us who are in the first group.
I’m not saying you should go buy everything in sight, and that this will make you into a wealthier person. I’m saying that if you feel like it’s a big deal to exchange $100 for information that could make you $1000, you’re going to have just as hard a time asking other people to do the same thing.
The ideas we have about money work in both directions. Therefore, the key to making more money is in first teaching yourself to overcome the hang-ups you have about the sorted topic of coin.
I’m not by any means perfect myself. I would say that I’m only halfway through my own journey. I plan on reaching millionaire status in the next few years. I wrote myself a map and now I’m executing the steps. For me to get there, I’m eventually going to have to mentally break through each mental obstacle I have. So I can’t teach you to be a millionaire, because I’m not one.
But I can teach you how to get from where I was to where I am now.
Before we get to the next installment, think about this. Who are the wealthiest people in America? What do they have in common?
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