You Are a Badass at Making Money

am a badass at making money, if buried beneath the heavy sigh of as if, are
a big fat waste of everyone’s time. Just thinking something doesn’t mean
you believe it—it’s only when gargantuan positive emotions are involved
that thoughts are able to access their superhero powers to create new
expansive beliefs, fearless actions, and as a result, exciting new realities in
our bank accounts and other areas of our lives.
Because we are both spiritual and physical beings, we’ve got a whole
slew of things going on in the realm of the unseen—thoughts, beliefs,
intuition, imagination, emotions, etc., all of which affect our physical
realities here on Earth. When you’re in emotional pain, for example, you
cry, your face gets all tight and weird looking, maybe you sometimes even
puke you’re so upset. When you’re excited, your heart speeds up, your body
tingles, and you run into traffic, drag a stranger out of their car, and kiss
them all over their head. Our emotions are the motivating kicks in the rear
that alert our bodies that it’s time to take action and make a thought a
physical reality. Just like the table lamp takes electricity and transforms it
into light, our bodies take thoughts and turn them into results. In order for
this to happen, in both cases, a switch needs to be flicked. Emotions are the
switch.

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If you find yourself swirling in a whirlpool of suckery it’s because of this
chain reaction: You think something that triggers an emotion that then
causes you to act in a way that keeps you caught in a loop of frustrating
results. Let’s say, for example, that your complaint of choice is “I’m broke.”
It’s your go-to whenever faced with the possibility of fun or growth: Want
to go to the movies? I can’t, I’m broke. Want to go out for dinner with
exciting, successful people who will inspire the crap out of you and very
possibly change your life? I can’t, I’m broke. Want to buy a magic pill that
will make you rich, young, and hilariously funny? I can’t, I’m broke.
Instead of rallying and accessing your imagination, your will, your I’ma
figure it out because this is important to me, oh yes I am! muscle, the
emotions of despair and hopelessness keep you in a state of constantly re-
creating your ho-hum “reality”—you can’t see past your present situation,
you’ve blocked your ability to imagine, you’ve chosen victimhood. I mean,
with that sad-sack thought of I’m broke looping through your head, you
barely have the energy to bend down and pick a nickel up off the sidewalk
let alone leap bravely into the unknown. To break free from your rut, you
must make the choice to think something else and slather it with emotion.
The thoughts, beliefs, and emotions we don’t consciously reject, we
unconsciously accept.
Awareness is the key to freedom. When you pay attention to how you’re
thinking and feeling—Hmm, when I say I’m broke it makes me feel like
crap—you empower yourself to make a better choice, to instead think
thoughts that light you up like a yard in Queens at Christmastime.
The best way to be as mighty as you can be is by getting crystal clear
about, and extremely attached to, your Why. Employ the muscle of
imagination, envision yourself in the life you desire to live, feel the feelings
that having this money and this life call forth. Conjure up the emotions
associated with your purpose for making money and cling to them like a
baby monkey.
As James Allen says in As a Man Thinketh: Thought allied fearlessly
with purpose becomes creative force.

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Here’s some other helpful things to know about emotions:
Emotions don’t like to share their space. If you’re sick of feeling scared or sad or
frustrated, focus all your energy on building up the opposite emotion.
Compassion drowns out hate and vice versa, excitement drowns out fear and
vice versa, belief drowns out skepticism and vice versa. I was at a funeral for a
friend from college, sitting in a row with all my old pals, and a very old lady sat
down in front of us, wheeling an oxygen tank behind her. One of my friends
looked down at the row of us and mouthed “nitrous” and we all fell apart
laughing, our sadness suddenly, and temporarily, nowhere to be found.
IMPORTANT EMOTIONS NOTE: We are feeling creatures, we are meant to
experience, not deny, our emotions. Ergo, it’s not about being all yippy skippy
every moment of every day and never ever feeling sad or angry or freaked out.
Expecting yourself to feel only positive emotions is not only impossible, but will
most likely make you feel like a failure instead of like a normal human. Feel what
you feel, have a temper tantrum, shake your fist in the air and curse thy enemy’s
name, lie facedown in your driveway and weep, let your emotions live large and
then . . . make the decision to move on. It’s when we wallow in our negative
emotions that we let them hold us back. Experiencing them, however, is healthy
and critical to releasing them.
Love is the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. Love beats the crap
out of fear, hate, jealousy, worry, insecurity, irritation, grouchiness—it’s stronger
than all of ’em. If we all just spent our days focusing on strengthening our love
muscles, lawd the changes we’d see. But for you, dear soon-to-be-rich person,
practice viewing everything in your world, and I mean everything, even your
backed-up septic tank, with love and appreciation and behold where it gets you.
Fall madly in love with your purpose for making money and you will be
unstoppable.