You Are a Badass at Making Money

being loved and loving others, laughing my ass off, giving great gifts,
traveling, hiking, playing with my dog, taking road trips, listening to music,
drinking beer, having my own business, leaving huge tips, freedom, getting
massages.
Question: Does having money help me achieve any of these happy
things?
Answer: Yes.
Rewritten thought: Money supports my happiness.
Unhelpful thought: I’d rather focus on having fun than making money.
Question: Is it fun when you make money?
Answer: Yes, when I make it it’s fun, but what I have to do to make it isn’t
fun.
Question: Would it be worth your time, during your one and only life, to
find or create an occupation that is fun?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Do you understand that anything you set your mind to is
possible, even having a job that is lucrative and fun?
Answer: Yes.
Rewritten thought: I make making money fun.
Even if you’re not 100 percent on board with believing these new stories
yet, do you feel how much more emotionally uplifting they are than their
original sad sack versions? Do you understand how shifting the narrative
with the same diligence a mechanic might replace a busted carburetor isn’t
a bunch of pain-in-the-ass busywork, but something that can help you make
real transformation in your life?
Here are some other commonly held beliefs that are real winners, and
that may sound familiar to you. Pick whichever ones sound like something
you’d think or say and reframe them:
You can’t be rich and spiritual.
Money isn’t important, people are.
Never go into debt.
Save your money for a rainy day.

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Rich people are lucky, gross, selfish, entitled, snobby, shallow, egomaniacs, holier
than thou.
You have to work hard to make money.
You can’t make money doing X (whatever you love to do).
I’m too irresponsible, lazy, clueless to make money.
It’s not polite to talk about money.
It’s important to have a good, secure job.
If you get excited by making money it means you’re shallow.
Money doesn’t grow on trees.
You must go to a good college to make money.
Money causes stress.
There’s never enough money.
Money is trouble.
I don’t want to be a sellout.
You have to sacrifice having a good/fun life to make money.
Money is out of my reach.
You have champagne tastes on a beer pocketbook.
Always have a backup plan.
It’s lonely at the top.
Who has that kind of money?
He/she is only about the money.
Imagine walking around experiencing similarly icky thoughts and
feelings for something just as omnipresent as money. For example, what if
you thought these things about the sky? The sky is the root of all evil, it’s
not polite to talk about the sky, loving the sky makes me a bad person, the
sky turns otherwise decent people into pigs. You’d barely be able to leave
your house, let alone relish the joys of life.
When you (consciously or unconsciously) resent money or cling to your
limiting beliefs about money or refuse to participate in making money, it
does not serve you, it does not make you more noble, it does not help you
or anyone else. What it does is put you on a hunger strike by cutting you off

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from that which you need not only to survive, but to thrive. By embracing
money and getting into the flow, you open yourself up to the abundance that
is trying to reach you this very moment.