You Are a Badass at Making Money

at the mercy of money.
What will I use the money for? To pay off my ten thousand dollars’ worth of credit
card debt. I hate being in credit card debt, credit card debt is a giant sucking
thing.
What will I do to make the money? Sell three private book proposal–coaching
packages and one spot in my group coaching program. As well as stay open to
any suggestions the Almighty Universe tosses my way.
When will I make it by? This question was a doozy because I knew, in order to pull
this off, I had to go at it like it was a life-or-death situation. I knew I’d have to be
so unflinchingly focused on making this ten thousand dollars that you could pelt
me with rocks, cut off my electricity, and let a gorilla loose in my living room
and I’d still stay the course until I was victorious. I didn’t know how long I could
sustain that kind of no-nonsensery, so even though my coach said I had a
whole week to make the money, I decided I would make it in two days.
So I’m on the phone with my coach and we’re figuring all this out and
I’m all psyched up and freaked out and ready to make money my bitch and
suddenly this idea pops into my head out of nowhere. There was a man who
I’d worked with a year ago, he was actually my very first private life-
coaching client. I hadn’t heard anything from him in at least a year, but
maybe I could reach out to him to see if he wanted to work together again.
He wasn’t a writer, but maybe he wanted to do some general life-coaching
stuff? Almost as soon as the idea popped into my head, an e-mail popped
into my in-box. From him. I had heard nary a peep from him in over one
year and the moment I thought of him, he appeared in my in-box. My hair is
still standing up over this one. In his e-mail he said he wanted to start
working together again, what kind of life-coaching packages did I have and
how much did they cost?
To make a long story maybe actually come to a freaking end around
here, I sold him a six-month private life-coaching package for twelve
thousand dollars and ended up selling one of my three-thousand-dollar
coaching packages to a writer the next day, which meant I made fifteen
grand in forty-eight hours. Which for me at the time might as well have
been a million dollars in eight minutes.
There are a couple of things I want to point out about this story. One is
that the money came to me through a different person in a different way
than I thought it was going to. Part of working with Universal Intelligence
is doing everything you know how to do but staying open to ideas and

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opportunities that “come out of nowhere.” Your job is to get your energy
aligned, be dead serious about bringing this money in, and take all the
action you know how to take. Universal Intelligence’s job is to move what
you desire toward you in whatever way it sees fit.
The other thing to point out is the mindset shift I had to make in order to
charge my client twelve freaking thousand dollars. I adored this man, I’d
had such an excellent experience working with him before, and I really
wanted to help him. The last time I worked with him I was charging
something like twenty-five bucks an hour for my coaching services. My
twelve-thousand-dollar coaching package put me at three hundred dollars
an hour. At least. Sending him back an e-mail with that price tag on it was
one of the scariest things I’ve ever done, because part of me, the part I was
in the process of shedding, felt like a bad person, like who the hell did I
think I was to charge that amount? This part of me felt like if he wrote me
back and told me to go to hell, I would respect that. But the part of me that
was ready to play big, that had the audacity to think I could make ten
thousand dollars in forty-eight hours as well as do anything else I set my
mind to, that understood the different energy behind charging three hundred
dollars an hour versus twenty-five dollars an hour—this part of me felt my
price was right on. I’d been coaching and studying coaching for years at
this point, I knew I was good at it, and charging that amount of money, as
terrifying as it was, was also totally exciting, empowering, and felt,
energetically, where I was meant to be. I knew I would show up as the best
damn coach I could possibly be, and when he wrote back immediately and
told me to sign him up, I realized he was ready to stretch himself and play
at that high a level too.
By being clear about where I was at, and aligning with money at that
high a frequency, I offered him a chance to participate at the level I was at
too. And I will tell you, it was so much money for both of us that we both
kicked so much ass I’m still feeling it. I became Super Coach and he went
out and manifested a multimillion-dollar business deal within the next few
months.
While it’s true you can’t control other people (except through physical
force and manipulation if you’re lame that way, of course), you can control
your thoughts and actions, and that is what you need to focus on to shift
your financial reality. The people who complain and blame—blameplain?—
stay stuck: “The economy is swirling down the toilet bowl right now—of

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course my new electrical business is tanking! How the hell are my thoughts
supposed to control that?” Instead of upgrading their mindsets and
demanding of themselves, and the Universe, that things start to change
around here, they insist that everything is out of their control. They hand all
their power over to their circumstances instead of taking responsibility and
changing their lives themselves. Then there are people like Jim Carrey,
parked on Mulholland Drive, overlooking the City of Angels, with nary a
prospect in sight, all giddy with belief and gratitude that he is rich and
famous as he sits there, eating beans out of a can with a plastic spoon in his
crappy car.
You can have your excuses or you can have success. You can’t have
both. Whichever outcome you train your mind on dictates the reality you
see before you. Some people have much bigger struggles and obstacles to
overcome than others, but we’re all given the same choice as to how we
perceive our reality. There are people raised in extreme poverty, with little
to no education or prospects or support, who believe they can create riches
anyway. They focus their attention and actions on getting wealthy, instead
of on the negative aspects of their circumstances, and go on to make
millions, even billions. There are also people who are born rich, who get
educated at the best schools, who have fancy connections, vocabularies, and
monogrammed pillowcases, and who wind up living on the streets. Success
is not about your circumstances, it’s about who you’re being. People have
gotten rich doing and selling everything and people have also gone broke
doing and selling the same things the exact same ways.