Money Myth 4, 5 & 6
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“Money is something I don’t have”
If this is your identity, if it is how you view yourself, it’s tough to go against- it feels a lot like proving yourself wrong, which can be a bit painful. Your subconscious doesn’t like that kind of pain, and will push you relentlessly in order to validate it. From your subconscious’s view, if this myth is part of your reality, it is necessary to be rid of your money in order to demonstrate self-love.
In truth, however, you are not your money and your money cannot define you.
“I can’t afford it”
If you believe that you can’t afford it, it will become true because you’ll never try to get it. It’s really that simple, and this myth puts you on the back foot. Rather than trying to see how you can become the person who can create or have this thing or this success, it reinforces your self-identification as a static, unchanging being in a world where the only constant is change.
“Money isn’t important”
If you choose to neglect your ‘unimportant’ money, you’ll certainly be free of it.
There’s a significant difference between focusing on money and neglecting the rest of your life and the things you value. Unfortunately, this myth seems to equate focusing on money with neglecting other valuable things, when this is never true.
If your interpretation of this myth leads you to neglect your financial health, sooner or later your poor financial health will become a problem. Money is like a friend- if you don’t treat it right, it’ll go away.
This is a question of balance- certainly, there are other things that are important, but your financial health is important too! Getting rid of your money won’t help you value your friends more, it will just leave you without money and that can put other strains on your relationships.
If you focus *only* on money, you won’t do well- your friends will rightly think you’re out of whack. If you ignore your money, you won’t do well either- you’ll have none. Somewhere in the middle is a balanced, functional place.
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Yes, I agree, a healthy respect for money is a must.
As long as people see it as tool they’ll be alright. If you have a lot of tools you can fix a lot of things!
My spidee sense says this blog post is quite the uncomfortable TRUTH for most.
It needs to be told no doubt.
krakin that shell is HELL in most blak folk. I repeat…krakin that shell is HELL in most black folk. Dey rather “pray on it”
The Krakin has to be done like chinese water torture. If you keep identifying with Sucker traits one has to come to the realization they are a Sucker. So my job is to present the food for though so a Sucker can fix himself. The right mentality leads to the right amount of money.
Some folks get on their moral high horse when I talk about bread. They hit me with the “money is the root of all evil so I dont focus on it” rundown. They act like gettin automatically means you’re sellin your soul, your greedy,your evil all by default. I’m out here trying to provide for myself & others, theirs things i’m not going to do to get bread cuz of my morals. Like you said its all about balance when it comes to this chip game
Isn’t it funny that the majority of people think a lot of money will tempt them to be evil! What kind of person thinks deep down inside they are evil in the first place? This is one of those propaganda campaigns like Original Sin to make you feel like you are bad from the day you are born. Balance is the key to everything and since you run the empire that produces business getting balance is up to you.
I see it this way… I’d rather be a billionaire and find out if I’m bad than sit here poor saying I’m not.
Finally!
We’ve been out here looking for a blogger community that realizes so much about us changing our condition is about our money mentality and action taking {Listening to your MLK Unfulfilled Dreams post right now – good stuff}.
A few of us are pooling our efforts getting our new blogger sea legs. If you check it out, I think you’ll see we’re reaching for that same “money mentality change” effort as well.
I’m sure we will cite some of your content going forward. Keep up the good work {Black Man Hug}.
Tpackage14
Welcome T – Glad you found us and introduced yourself and what you’re about. It’s great to find others who see another way to attain our goals individually and as a race.
Money is a TOOL.
It needs to be used correctly and under the right situations to be of maximum value.
Most people see it as the prize instead of the tool. That’s why they don’t know how to build anything with it.