You Are a Badass at Making Money

THEY BOOST YOUR ENERGY
Think about how you feel after you hear a particularly inspiring speaker
give a talk, or hang out with a friend who’s on fire with his business and
who bats brilliant ideas back and forth with you over beers on his deck or
when you’re just generally having a blast doing what you love with
awesome people—it’s like you could bench-press a Buick you’re so
pumped up. And think about how you feel when you’re around people who
complain about what a dick their boss is or how impossible it is to find a
good babysitter or how screwed we all are because Social Security will be
gone by the time we need it. It’s like they just emptied a hamper full of wet
socks onto your lap. We are energetic creatures, and when you’ve made the
commitment to change your life and to get rich, one of the most important
things you can do is be militant about the types of energy you subject
yourself to. Surround yourself with people whose energy lights you up and
it will empower you to get rich.
THEY STRENGTHEN YOUR FAITH
Being around confident, wealth-positive people whom you respect gives
you permission to believe there is abundance available to you too. No
matter how impossible a situation may seem, a superconfident person who
believes in something without a doubt is a force of nature that can inspire
you to reach great heights.
I used to go backpacking with these friends of mine who would take me
out into the middle of nowhere in the wilderness areas of southeast Utah on
a regular basis. How they knew where the hell they were going and how to
get us back was an utter mystery to me. We’d set off through a canyon,
walk out onto a huge expanse of sand, climb over endless boulders, hike up
a river, pick our way through a wash, and then five days later, boink, we’d
pop out right where the car was parked.
On one of these trips we hired a lady who ran a jeep operation to drop us
off at the mouth of some canyon. When we met her at her garage she told us
there was a big hatching of rattlesnakes in the very canyon we were going
into, and that the place was crawling with them. My friends are listening to
her, completely unfazed, as they load their things into the jeep. I’m

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squirming as if I’m watching a horror movie and the soon-to-be victim
doesn’t realize that the call is coming from inside the house. She said
rattlesnakes! Hatched! Lots of them! In our canyon! This woman knew
some shit, she was as craggy and leathery as the canyon walls themselves,
but my friends just let her finish her little snake story, as if having to endure
her describe the cute thing her dog did that morning, before asking her if
there was any water to be had down there or would we have to carry our
own in?
I totally trusted my friends and had complete faith in them, so if they
weren’t scared of spending their last moments on Earth with rattlesnake
venom pulsing through their veins, I wasn’t scared. And off my faith and I
leapt into the canyon behind them, emerging six days later with nary a bite
nor a rattlesnake sighting.
Faith is contagious.
Surround yourself with people who have unwavering faith in
themselves, in you, and in our abundant Universe and it will help you take
the giant leaps you need to take to get yerself rich.