Money SymbolsNot too long ago, I wrote a blog post titled How Do You Really Feel About Money. The reason I wrote it was because at the time I was reading The Science of Getting Rich and from it I had gained a whole new perspective on money and wealth creation in general, and I just felt I had to share it.

What made me write this second post was that the original post got such a large number of visitors from Twitter and I felt a bit more clarification was in order.

I guess its no shock that most people are trying to get more money into their lives. Money is one of those things that most people have very intense feelings about. They can love it with a passion or hate it so intensely that they don’t want anything to do with it.

I am not sure why we have set ourselves up to have a particular belief about money but my feeling is that it all relates to how we were brought up. Now I am not here to blame our parents for anything ….they had their beliefs based on how they were brought up and so did their parents…so no one is to blame here….and in fact, if you are going to start blaming your parents then you probably need to make sure you aren’t doing the same thing with your own children.

Have you ever gone shopping with the kids and listened to how you actually communicate your feelings about money to them? The conversation usually goes something like this..”Mom, mom I want that new Lego toy.”…”No, you can’t have that, it’s too expensive, we can’t afford it.”…or you might say “Well you will have to work hard to save up for it and then you might be able to buy it” or “That’s way too expensive for us” or “Money doesn’t grow on trees”. What happens is that you set your kids up to believe that money is in limited supply and that they have to work hard to get it.

Of course you don’t want to just buy everything in the store just because your kids ask for it, but just be aware how you respond and see whether you are actually setting them up with negative beliefs about money….a simple “No, not today” is a good response to these sorts of demands.

I have studied this topic quite a bit because as I said in my previous post, we were stuck in a situation where the amount of income we were generating from our websites just wasn’t increasing. This was despite the fact that we were working harder and longer hours to do just that.

Now I had read in numerous self improvement type books that you don’t really need to work hard to make money…but since I was brought up to think that working hard makes you money that was a belief I held and it was difficult to get rid of.

At that time I also read Steve Pavlina’s post titled The Power of Now which talks about a very similar situation he was going through. He didn’t speak so much about making money but more about creating a shift in thinking that changed his life.

So even though I didn’t quite believe it at first, I could see that it was starting to ring true for me that I didn’t really need to work as hard as I was to make a successful living online. So what I did was start to take more time to enjoy myself rather than sitting in front of a computer all day.

Bear in mind, however, that I love sitting in front of a computer so this is not necessarily all work to me. In the morning the first thing I do after having a shower is turn on the computer, the first thing I do when I come home is turn on the computer and the last thing I do at night is turn off the computer. The computer is on all day in my house because I love it. Even so, I realized that just about my entire time was devoted to working online and I needed to relax with other things.

This was also an issue with Wanda (my best friend and business partner) who felt guilty anytime we did something other than work on our online business. She is an absolute dynamo when working on our business and can get through a ton of work in a day. For her, taking time out was a difficult concept but slowly she also started to relax a little more and work less on the business.

So did this make a difference to our income?…you bet it did…at this point in time, we are working much less on our internet business than we used to and spending more time relaxing and having fun and yet the money is increasing.

I really feel that the combination of releasing that blockage I had about having to work to make money, not working as hard and reading and applying the concepts in The Science of Getting Rich made a big difference in the amount of income we are now receiving.

So what’s blocking you from making more money?

Just knowing how you feel about money can release the blockage. So sit for a minute and really think about your beliefs about money. When you talk about money what sorts of words come out of your mouth? Here’s some that I can think of:

  • You need to work hard to make money
  • I never have enough money
  • I only ever have enough to pay the bills
  • I’m living from pay check to pay check
  • Money doesn’t grow on trees
  • My parents always argued about money
  • When we argue it is always about money
  • Money is only for the rich
  • Rich people are evil
  • The rich are hoarding all the money so there’s not enough for the rest of us
  • I worry that I won’t have enough so I save and don’t spend anything
  • There’s never enough money to go around
  • Money is the root of all evil
  • And one that I really love is “Money doesn’t make you happy” – maybe not, but would you rather be unhappy with a lot of money or unhappy with no money?

If you are trying to make money online some of the words coming out of your mouth might be:

  • They got in early which is why they are making all the money
  • It’s too late for me to make any money online – all of the good ideas have been taken
  • It’s takes a lot of hard work to make money online
  • It takes years to make a good living online
  • The only ones that are making money are the ones that tell others how to make money
  • Making money online is all a scam

Remember that your sub-conscious is an amazing thing and will give you exactly what you ask for. So when all you think about is that you never have enough money then that’s what you will get.

To have an abundance of money requires a change in thinking. To some extent you have to learn to love money. This doesn’t mean that you have to roll around in wads of cash and admire it lovingly all day. It just means appreciating it for what it can give you. It has the ability to give you an amazing feeling of freedom…wouldn’t you love to be able to buy whatever you like whenever you like, to look after your family and friends in times of need, to give money to charity without being stingy, to travel the world at a moments notice without having to save for it first or worrying about whether you can get some time of work?

The paradox is that many people say they hate money but they are constantly moaning about how they never have enough and that they need more. Money will not come to you if you hate it. Money will not come to you if you consistently talk about the lack of it and it will not come to you if you have negative beliefs about it.

You need to change your thinking in order for money to come to you in abundance.

Resources you might like…and all free!

I really recommend reading the Science of Getting Rich – this is a definite must for anyone who wants to change their thinking about money. The Science of Getting Rich is a powerful book written in 1910 so can be a little wordy at times but the concepts are still as current as they were a hundred years ago. Apparently The Secret was based on this little book.

It’s also freely available so you can download it from a variety of sites on the net. Just type into Google “science of getting rich download’ to find it.

You can also sign up for the free Bob Proctor 7 Day Course on The Science of Getting Rich which I thought was very good. He also has a paid version but I haven’t signed up for it so can’t say whether that is worth the money or not. If it is as good as his 7 day course then I would have to say that it is.

There are also free audio versions of the book which you can download here:

  • Spooky Action – This site has the recordings by chapter which I like as you can just download the chapters you really want to listen to again and again.
  • Internet Archive – You can download the full version in one file from this site or alternatively you can stream it.

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