A few months ago I asked people on our mailing list which beliefs they thought were keeping them from becoming wealthy. The top five were:
If you have any doubt about the impact of beliefs on your ability to earn and retain money, ask yourself this question: Imagine someone having these five beliefs. Then ask yourself: Do you think such a person is likely to be wealthy? ... Do you think Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, or any other really wealthy person has these beliefs?
Here's another way to demonstrate the power of beliefs to interfere with your ability to make money and accumulate wealth. Think back to the last book you read or the last workshop you took that told you exactly what you needed to do to make huge sums of money. You learned what actions you needed to take, didn't you? Now answer this question: Did you do what you learned to do... on a consistent basis? For most people the answer is "no."
Why People Don't Use the Expensive Courses They Buy
In fact, as amazing as it might seem, people who sell courses that promise to help you make money report that many of the thousand dollar-and-up courses that are purchased at workshops are never even opened when the buyers get them home. Moreover, the free e-mail support that accompanies many of these courses is rarely used.
The only way to make sense of these astonishing facts is to remember that knowing what to do is useless if you have beliefs in the way of acting on that knowledge.
Anne Lieberman, ranked among the country's top 100 financial advisors just a few years ago, recently pointed out: "Many people do not have a workable relationship with money. When they don't, it shows up in one or more of three realms: earning, spending and saving/investing."
Wealth Can Elude You For Many Reasons
In other words, wealth can elude you because you don't ask for the money you deserve or do what you know you should do to earn it, because you spend money you don't have and get into debt unnecessarily, and/or because you don't save or invest wisely. Limiting beliefs can cause all three of these inappropriate behaviors.
Eliminating the relevant beliefs definitely will change your behavior and feelings. But having wealth involves much more than beliefs, although getting rid of crippling money beliefs is certainly a precondition.
In order to insure financial success, it would be useful to have, in additional to the absence of limiting money beliefs, a positive attitude about earning and having money, an effective strategy for getting it, and then the commitment to fully implement your strategy.
Morty Lefkoe is the creator of The Lefkoe Method, a system for permanently eliminating limiting beliefs. For more information go to http://recreateyourlife.com/free
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Personally, I had been more positive, until drawn into this negativity since W was in office, and it continued until I recently read a couple of books by Steve Siebold. (How Rich People Think, and 177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class) These books helped me pull myself out of the morass of negativity, and help to understand the differences in thinking between middle class thinking, rich thinking, and world class thinking.
“Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.”
Albert Einstein
"The problem of winning the rat race is that you still have to race with rats."
Woody Allen
What if your beliefs argue against it being 'normal' or even 'acceptable' to have to make money to exist? What if I don't WANT to be supported by society in any way but I can find my own shelter, food and care for myself? What if I only think land cannot be titled anymore than the air or the water running in a stream?
What if I believe we must dismantle the current system and return to the stone ages to save the planet from being poisoned and raped?
Money is the root of all evil. I can't imagine why I'd want to run this rat race to be financially successful. I submit it is this line of thinking that has us in the pickle we're in and has placed 80% of the worlds population at the mercy of the wealthy who clearly have no morals.
2) Ask yourself what comes naturally to you that others seem to have to work at.
3) Find out what jobs use the traits and talents identified in 1) and 2)
4) Identify which of those jobs interest you most
5) Ask three people who are happy and successful in those jobs what steps you should take to get into that kind of work.
6) Take the first steps toward your new job goal within 48 hours of talking to those people.
7) Ignore your well-meaning family and friends who think you have gone crazy.
7) Take the first steps toward
I knew buying it would be a good move, dollarwise but I just couldn't make myself do it.
My mom used a financial adviser and still lost ALL her money.
My sister has MANY emotional issues and suffers from low esteem yet she managed to work herself up to a high level management postion and retire with LOTS of money.
How do you explain these then?
I can say from personal experience that it is very hard to overcome fears that get wired in early childhood, but it can be done.