You Are a Badass at Making Money

GET REAL SPECIFIC
The average person is barely motivated enough to scrape together what they
need to make a living with the occasional splurge on impractical, yet
supercute, shoes thrown in here and there, let alone saddle up to bring in the
kind of money that can change their entire perspective of the world they
live in (i.e., from a frustrating place of limitations to an oyster of
awesomeness). Don’t get me wrong, every single person has the ability, but
you need to have a big, burning blaze of desire roaring away beneath your
fanny if you’re going to take the risks, make the mental shifts, and stay the
course until you reach your new, sparkly financial reality.
In order to inspire ourselves to make money, the exciting kind that we’ve
never made before, we need to be . . . excited about it. And because money
on its own is a meaningless pile of paper and coins, you’re gonna want to
get crystal clear about what the money is for, what it means to you, and how
it makes you feel. This will be that fire for you. Vague aspirations lead to
vague results; specific aspirations lead to kicking ass. There are a couple
reasons for this:
1. Specifics allow the Universe to fulfill your order.
You wouldn’t go to a deli and order a sandwich by saying, “Hi, yes, I’d like a
sandwich, please.” You’d order the specific kind you want: “Roast beef, mayo no
mustard, pickles, lettuce, tomato, on a roll, please—actually not that roll, can I have

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that bigger roll over there?” And you would, hence, receive the specific sandwich you
ordered. And it would make you happy. The Universe needs details too. It will
respond, it always responds, but if you just focus on how awesome it would be to
make more money, you may receive ten bucks instead of the tens of thousands that
would make a significant change in your life.
2. Specifics create emotions, and emotions give us the no-nonsense determination to do
whatever it takes to reach our goals.
For example, feel into the different levels of emotional drive in the following
scenarios:
You’re ready to get rich and you decide to make an extra fifty thousand dollars. You
think about how exciting this will feel, imagine your bank account with all the new
zeros in it, feel the power of being able to manifest that kind of cash and picture
yourself doing victory laps around your house. While all of this is great, it doesn’t have
the same emotional charge as something more specific, like: deciding to make fifty
extra thousand this year, forty of which you’ll use to make the renovations on your
kitchen that you’ve been talking about for years. You’ve cut out pictures of awesome
kitchens from various home design magazines and put them on a vision board that
you look at every day, you’ve priced the entire project out down to the cost of the
cabinet knobs, you imagine yourself joyfully cooking your ass off while surrounded by
dear friends and family. You feel the space, smell the food, see yourself feeding the
people you love, and you experience the satisfaction of knowing you created it
because you can create anything. The other ten thousand dollars you’ve decided you
will give to your sister to help her launch her new dog grooming business. You love
your sister, and seeing her overcome by joy that she can live her dream, and that you
have helped her, makes you want to do cartwheels. Knowing you are the kind of
person who has the means to help others gives deep meaning to your life.
You want to feel so turned on by the thought of this money that you’re
leaping out of bed in the morning to the sound of trumpets, rather than
slowly putting on your socks thinking, yeah, that would be cool. Here are
some examples gathered from my readers that will hopefully help you get
clear on your Why. I love being rich because:
It makes me feel confident and powerful knowing I did what it took to stop being
broke and get rich.
The more money you have, the more freedom you have with your time. I want to
be able to let my nanny go, and hang out with my kids more.
I can contribute thousands of dollars a year to charities that help save animals.
I can spend my money on going to the movies, buying clothes I love, going out
for dinner (which I love to do more than anything), instead of having to use it just
for bills, necessities, etc.
I can buy great gifts for people and finally take my family to Portugal.
I can see myself in the best possible light, I’m being the best version of myself,
I’ve let myself be all I want to be.

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I’ll be an inspiration to other women like my daughters and women in struggle,
specifically those who feel trapped in abusive relationships with men.
I’ll sleep peacefully at night knowing I’m in the black. Right now I’m not sleeping
so well due to stress.
Early retirement—woot!
The other reason to fall in love with your desires for riches is because
love is your greatest weapon against your limiting subconscious beliefs.
Love is all consuming, it muscles its way in front of all other thoughts and
emotions, including all the fear, doubt, and worry buried in your
subconscious mind. Think about it—when you fall in love with a person,
thoughts of them overpower everything else. Love is like a drug that alters
your ability to participate in logical thinking, to focus on anything other
than the object of your desire, or to have interesting conversations. “I know,
there are a lot of flies in this restaurant. Bob, the guy I’m in love with, had a
fly in his house once.”
Same thing goes for when you fall in love with the specific reasons you
want to get rich. Any coping mechanisms, compliments of your limiting
subconscious beliefs, that might try to keep you right where you are will be
no match for your burning desire for greatness. Any fears and beliefs that
you’ll become a sellout or a greedy fathead like your awful Aunt Sally will
be drowned out by the harps and chirping of bluebirds taking up space in
your head and your heart. We fall in love with very specific things and
people, so getting mighty clear on the details of your impending richness is
critical.