You Are a Badass at Making Money

SUCCESS STORY: IF SHE CAN DO IT, SO CAN YOU.
Katherine, 52, shows what having unshakable belief in yourself, and your pal money,
can do:
I’ve always been able to make good money. I’ve always believed I was good at
making money and that has been a self-fulfilling prophecy. I can make money even
when I’m not trying to. I started off as the lowest clerk in a financial services company,
making about $15,000 a year, which was enough because I didn’t spend a lot, but I
worked hard and quickly moved up. I ended up as a vice president, making over
$500,000 a year. As I started making more money, I took each raise that came and
put half of it into savings, which was matched by the company, and retired very
comfortably at age 40. Even after I retired, I started a gardening hobby, which soon
became an income-producing business for me. I had no intention of doing that, my
gardening business just seemed to evolve on its own. Making money is natural and

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easy for me; I see opportunities everywhere and am not afraid to jump in and see
what happens.
I think believing that you can make money, that you are worthy of it, is most
important. It’s one area I’ve always believed in and not struggled with.
I always applied for jobs I wasn’t sure I was capable of doing and then worked
hard to figure out how to do them. Fake it until you make it. Act as if you know what
you’re doing and work your ass off until you do.
If you believe you are capable of making money, you will, even when you don’t try.
Believe that you are worthy of financial freedom. Do something you love and then
all you ever have to do is be yourself to succeed. If you sell something you love, then
you just sell love, not a specific product or service, and that will show.
TO GET RICH
Suggested Money Mantra (say it, write it, feel it, own it):
I love money because it comes when I call.
1. Write down what your Whys are for getting rich and give three reasons that each one
is stronger than your fear.
2. Come up with three ways that you can fall more deeply in love with your Whys and do
them every day. (Example: If your Why is To take care of my family, you could look at
a picture of them every day, repeat the affirmation My family is happy, healthy, and
living abundantly because I’m a badass at making money, cut out pictures of the
specific things you’ll buy to take care of them with, and look at them every day. Stuff
like that.)
3. Notice three things about your financial life that you’re focusing on in a negative light
and make the conscious choice to shift your focus. (Example: My bank account is a
cavernous pit of emptiness and sorrow becomes My bank account is wide open and
ready to receive.)
Please fill in the blank:
I’m grateful to money because ____________________.

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