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CHAPTER 6
YOUR MENTAL MONEYMAKER
here’s a great story that the actor Jim Carrey told on the Oprah
Winfrey Show about how he used his mental mightiness to manifest
$10 million and a successful acting career. He always knew he
wanted to entertain people, discovered he had a face made out of Silly Putty
at an early age, and got his first gig at a comedy club at fifteen. After a
series of ups and downs that included dropping out of high school to help
support his family by working in a factory during the day, and then getting
laughs—and getting boos—in comedy clubs at night, Carrey wound up
broke and living in a van with his aforementioned family. He eventually
moved to Los Angeles to pursue his dream of becoming a famous actor for
reals. He said that even though he was broke and jobless, he’d imagine
having directors interested in him, visualize people he respected coming up
to tell him they liked his work, he’d focus on thinking things like, I am an
awesome actor, powerful people in the industry are out there waiting for
me, and it made him feel better even though he wasn’t exactly getting
mobbed by fans at the hardware store or anything.
He also wrote a check out to himself for $10 million, dated it three years
in the future, and put in the memo that it was for acting services rendered.
He carried this ratty thing around with him in his wallet for years as he got
more comedy gigs, TV gigs, and movie gigs, none of which made his
career, or his finances, take off the way he was hoping they would. But he
kept believing anyway, kept visualizing himself using his riches to care for
his family and fueling his feeling of success, kept working his ass off and,
to make a very long story short, just before the date he’d written on the
check in his wallet, he landed his role in the movie Dumb and Dumber and
got paid $10 million for acting services rendered.
We all have the choice to think what we want to think, and to take
responsibility for the fact that our thoughts create our financial realities.
Universal Intelligence is like a giant ear with a glass pressed up against
your mind, listening to your thoughts—otherwise known as its working
orders—so it can get down to business and help you create whatever you set
your mind to.
If it’s on your mind it will soon be in your lap.
I love this story about Jim Carrey because it illustrates what it takes to
master the mindset of wealth:
Get clear on what you desire, get specific—What is your purpose? How much
money do you desire to make by expressing this purpose? By when will you
make this money? Why do you desire it, what is it for?
Hold the vision of this reality in your mind with a no-nonsense resolve and a
relentless sense of purpose to make it real.
Fall so madly in love with your vision that it’s no match for any limiting
subconscious beliefs that pitch a fit and try to stop you.
Have faith as firm as a firefighter’s fanny and wide-eyed gratitude that it’s
already yours, even if it feels like it’s taking for freaking ever. Never lose faith.
Ever.
Take action with hell-bent-for-glory purpose and faith.
Carrey’s story also speaks to one of the most common objections I hear
when discussing your mindset’s role in making money, which is: What if
your financial reality depends on the actions of other people? How can
your thoughts control what other people do? I hear this a lot from those
who rely on other people to hire them, like actors, corporate types,
plumbers, caterers, babysitters, leaf blowers, etc., as well as people in
multilevel marketing businesses who rely on the people in their down line
to bring in the money they then get a percentage of. If you think about it, all
people rely on other people to buy their products and services, to strengthen
their investments, to pay the cover at their gigs, or to spare them a dime for
a cup of coffee. Money comes to us from Universal Intelligence through
other people, so no one gets to use the ole I can’t control other people as an
excuse for staying broke.
My first experience with the power of mastering your mindset was just
as beyondo, and, dare I say, magical as Jim Carrey’s $10-million check
situation. It happened when I was working with my very first private coach,
the one who helped me start my online business helping writers complete
their book proposals, called writeyourdamnbook.com, and who was also
helping me hone my chops as a life coach. At the time, I’d worked with a
couple of private coaching clients of my own here and there, and had
basically tripled my annual income with writeyourdamnbook.com. Tripling
my income was hugely exciting, but wasn’t gonna have me flying first class
anytime soon, considering people working the drive-through at the Friendly
Fajita made more than I used to make. I wanted to bring in the kind of
money that would make me feel like a different person. I wanted to feel
large and in charge, like I could make whatever I decided to make, like I
was free, flying, fucking around no more.
My coach asked me to come up with an amount that, if I totally hustled
and busted my ass, I could make in a week with writeyourdamnbook.com.
She said not to think about it, not to do the math, not to figure in what other
people were charging, but to just let the amount come in intuitively. The
number that popped into my head was five thousand dollars in one week.
Until then, the most I’d made in a week was probably one or two grand. It
was terrifying, but I was excited and dare I say a little bit cocky about my
ability to make it happen.
“Great,” she said. “Now double it.”
Once I came to, we put together a plan of action. I would work privately
with three people and help them write their entire book proposals for three
thousand dollars each. I was also going to sell one of my already existing
thousand-dollar group coaching programs, which would bring my total for
the week to ten grand. I had no idea how I was going to talk three people
into spending that kind of money for the pleasure of working with me. All I
knew was that I was going to make that ten thousand dollars because I was
officially unavailable for any other outcome.
Then we did the energy work, and I got clear on things like:
Why do I want the money? To feel in charge of my life and to feel free, like I’m not
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