W7 1 The Illusion of Money

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The Illusion of Money Jeremy:

Are you ready to just finally break through this illusion of money that is so ingrained in the culture of understanding around building wealth and becoming rich? Let's break through this together once and for all. I actually did a TED Talk talking about this illusion of reality that we all have. Bottom line is reality is not the illusion. Your perception of reality is the grand illusion, but there's the thing. You're the magician being it all. I want to really explore how to really transition and transform the way that you are approaching building wealth because it's critical to your ability to actually do it. Let's go ahead and just play along with this. Let's fil in the blank. I want you to immediately, the first thing that comes to your mind, I want you to just shout it out or write it down, but I really want you to grasp the importance of this exercise right here. I'm going to go ahead and present something. I want you to fill in the blank immediately with the first word that you think of. Money doesn't grow on what? Rich people are, fill in the blank. Immediately the first thing that you think of. This is such an important exercise. Go ahead and make sure that you play full out with this. Money is the root of all what? Money can't buy you ... A penny saved is a ... You can only get rich by what? These are so important because they are so ingrained in the way that we think, the way that we operate, and more importantly and more dramatically and tragically if you will, they are so critically instilled in our money paradigm and wealth paradigm. They are the things that inevitably hold us back from truly inviting the level of wealth in our life that is possible. If you haven't already figured it out, you probably answered these extraordinarily quickly, and they are so innate within the way that we talk about money, and it's time to cash your reality check. It is time ... It is reality check time, because it is normal to be broke, drowning in liability debt and consumer debt, ignorant about money and finances and building wealth and completely broke and scared. Most people live the opposite of what they proclaim. Most people are going to sit there and talk to you about how money is not important to them, and they can be happy without money and they don't need money in their life, and yet, here's the thing. They're willing on a daily basis to exchange their life, their time, and their most valuable resources on this planet for pennies on the dollar to exchange that for a check, a paycheck every two weeks. Just to be able to bring money into their life, they're willing to exchange their time for it. If that is not the clear definition of money being the most important thing for you, and yet you're sitting there talking about money is not at all ... money doesn't mean anything to you. It is by definition of your action and the way that you live, the complete opposite of what you proclaim. In fact, proclaiming that actually leads to the exact opposite happening for you, and so this is so important to realize. This is the reality check of what is happening for most people. Again, that means that for most people, that means it's created a cultural and innate understanding and paradigm around creating wealth and being rich, and it has

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seeped into your core of what's possible. We've got to break through this. We've got to transform the illusion around money. Our system is not designed to educate you on creating massive wealth and becoming rich. I want to really get clear on the two unhealthy relationships that the majority of people have with money and maybe you are really struggling with this right now. Maybe there is a little bit of friction with your thought around money. Maybe even when you hear that word, money or rich, something comes up for you. Something still is innately resistant for you when you even hear those words. It's like gross for you. Well, here's the thing. Most people have these two unhealthy relationships with money. I want you to explore these with your self a little bit. Be very honest with yourself. Have a little bit of honest introspection here. Are you maybe struggling and suffering from these two unhealthy relationships with money? One aspect or one side of this is that money ... People are so money obsessed that you lose touch of the real big picture of the fulfillment and meaning behind what you're building creating money in the first place. This is very simply laid out. Success. People who have a lot of money, but they're completely broken as a person. How many times have you seen this? How many times have you seen either the celebrity or the individual who has everything it seems like in terms of financial and material goods, but they're completely broken inside, zero fulfillment, and completely alone when it comes to their relationships. This is success without fulfillment. This leads to an unhealthy relationship with money if money is the one outcome and that's the thing that you're solely focused on, and that the means to an end, and so that is the one side. The other side, the complete opposite side is that money is that money isn't important at all. Just absolutely isn't important, and money just ... They want to play the holier than thou card and to divert their attention away from their ignorance about money, they project that money is just not important. They're not even going to worry about it because it's not important. They don't need money to be happy. Well, this allows money to actually control your life, because again, if you are in a position where you must exchange your life for pennies on the dollar just to bring in money so that you can pay bills, but then proclaim that money is not more meaningful than anything else to you, then again money is just controlling your life. Money is controlling your freedom, it's controlling your choices, it's controlling your ability to actually thrive. It's the ignorance around creating wealth and money and financial freedom in your life that is is going to lead you to proclaiming this. Again, these are both ends of the spectrum, but they're equally as unhealthy to creating genuine wealth in your life. There's two common fears around money. It's the fear of failure and the fear and the fear of success. The fear of failure is, oh my gosh, what happens if I lose everything? Right? What happens if I got try it, and I figure all this stuff out, and in the end I'm worse off than I was completely just being ignorant to the entire process and the entire system, and putting all my attention into this other direction and running away from money and wealth. That's the fear of failure. The fear of success is that fear of responsibility that once you actually become wealthy, oh my gosh, what do I do? Is money going to make me a different person? Will I have go give up something in order to become healthy or become wealthy and become rich. Will

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I lose relationships that I care so much about right now? Will people treat me the same way, or will they treat me differently because now I have money? There's all thee different fears when it comes to the responsibility and the bullseye on your back now because oh my gosh, you have success, you have money. There's all these different fears, these two very specific fears around failure and success with money. Inevitably to break through this it's a realization of the value of money is merely reflective of the value we declare it to have. Money has no intrinsic value at all. It's a piece of paper. Unfortunately, that piece of paper is running most people's lives. It's controlling their decisions, their choices, their freedom. Money is simply an energy exchange of appreciation in direct proportion to the agreed value extended by another human being. That's it. It's a tool. It's nothing more, nothing less. Mastering money and wealth creation is inevitably an inner economy breakthrough, and so let's be very clear. Money is important. Let's just be very clear about this. Money is important. It's a variable in the overall equation to creating freedom, financial abundance, fulfillment, meaning and inevitably more choices in your life. To do what is meaningful for you, to actually create contribution in a very tangible and impactful way. You need money to be able to pay for you kid's education, to be able to give back and serve and become active in philanthropy, and be able to create an overall quality of life where you actually have the ability to choose. Let's just be very honest, responsible and mature here, and allow ourselves to invite the responsibility of seeing money for what it is. It is a tool, nothing more, nothing less. We as individual human beings provide the value and truly create the value of what money represents. We can either go one way or the other. Let's start creating a meaning relationship with wealth and mastering this science of wealth creation and stay to true to what really brings joy and fulfillment. Here's the thing. You can do both. You can do both. It's not one or the other. It's not money is the most important thing in your life and it controls you. Or, it's also not, money means nothing to you and therefore it controls you even more. Now you are completely slaved by the system as an employee or being ... or having to work 12 to 15 hours a day, two or three jobs, just trying to figure it out and completely being ignorant of financial abundance and freedom, and being able to create wealth in your life. You can have both. You can create the joy and fulfillment that comes with actually the science of wealth creation and responsibly understanding where money lies in that equation, and how money truly is a tool for you creating what you want. I want to ask you some very important questions. Do you believe money is abundant? Do you believe money is abundant? Do you believe is it truly, truly available, completely and entirely in an abundant way? Meaning, it is so abundantly available that it is literally as simple as breathing, your ability to bring it into your life. It's as simple as breathing. Do you believe money is abundant? Do you believe wealthy people are good people? Do you believe you can simply create wealth? Can simply invite wealth into your life? Do you believe that? Do you have people in your life who actually speak positively about money? How often growing up did we have people in our lives that would speak so negatively about money? Again, it went back to the things talked about at the beginning and filling in the

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blanks there. Where do you think those came from? You weren't born with those ideas, those negative beliefs about money. Those were ingrained and instilled and conditioned within us to believe that money is scarce, and it's this zero sum game where if you have money, then you must be taking it from somebody else. Just think of the movies we saw growing up where the rich people were always the villains. Right? Whether it was the Disney movies that we saw growing up. It was always the rich person that was evil, and you had the underprivileged broke person who came up from the bottom and took over everything and spread out all the wealth to everybody or whatever. Whether it's Robin Hood or any of these other stories. Are there incredibly important moral values that you can learn from those stories? Yes, but inevitably if you look at the relationship that is drawn between money and meaning, they create this separate economy as if they are two different things on one end of the spectrum. Where you either have a lot of money and no meaning in your life and you are completely just a sleazy, greedy rich person, or you don't have any money in your life but you have so much meaning. You have so much more moral standing. You have so much more compassion, and they completely separate the two. They instill this paradigm that they are completely and mutually exclusive. We get to start completely breaking through that illusion. We get to completely start breaking through that consistent and inevitably harmful conditioning that sends us in the direction of not building wealth in our lives. Here's some positive beliefs about money you can start instilling for yourself. Money is a tool that I use to create value, assets, and wealth. How about this one? Wealthy people are good, generous people. How about I bless wealth and the people that have it? How about looking at individuals that actually have genuinely taken the energy, effort, and time to master this true essence of building wealth and meaning in their life? How about looking at them and instead of the resistance or the jealousy or any other feelings around that person having wealth in their life, how about looking at them and blessing their wealth? Blessing the fact that they did what was necessary to serve, to give, to add value to the marketplace. How about seeing this in a whole new way? It goes back Einstein's most important question that he talked about. Do you believe that you live in a universe that is volatile or that is against you, or do you live in a friendly universe? The answer to that question where it's related to your health, wealth, relationships, your character, your future, your ability to create an abundant sense of rich and wealthy habits, whatever it is, it is going to inevitably affect the path that you take. If you believe that everything is against you and that wealth is scarce and that money is the root of all evil and that rich people are greedy and selfish; if that is the believe you are bringing into the equation of trying to build wealth in your life, then it's never going to happen. If you believe rich people are evil and that they are greedy, why the hell would you ever want to be rich? Why would you ever want to be a rich person? Why would you ever want to be this greedy, selfish, completely just ... person that you don't ever want to see yourself as? Why would you ever want to strive to be that? Again, if you are striving to become rich and you have that underlying conditioned belief, then there's going to be inevitably a resistance that does not all your to achieve it because internally you're saying, "Absolutely not. I do not want to be rich. I don't want

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to be that person." Unless we break through that once and for all and completely shift the way you see wealth creation and being rich, it's never going to be path that you desire and pursue internally. Again, you might be externally proclaiming that you want to be rich, but are you living from a place that will allow you to achieve it? How about I control the process of creating wealth in my life? The more value I add, the more wealth I attract, and I fully control the process of creating wealth around me. How about taking ownership over that? The transformational role money plays in your life. How about seeing it as the thing that opens opportunities for you? The thing that truly leads to the inevitable freedom and life of choices and an invitation to see the abundance around you, and actually live in appreciation and the growth. How about the ability to finally step into a genuine sense of contribution and having the resources to be able to give unconditionally? Being able to write that check to that cause that you've always cared about, but you've never been able to actually take a stand for because you've been too worried about paying bills. How about truly being able to invite a transformational role of money into your life? Here's the thing. Money is a magnifier and a multiplier. It is going to inevitably just simply magnify who you currently are. If you are selfish and you are greedy and you are just a bad person, then money is only going to magnify that inner character. That inner economy is only going to be magnified if you're handed money. If you are a broken person, more money in your pocket is only going to magnify that. Which means more money in the hands of a broken person is not going to be meaningful. It's only going to magnify that individual character, and it's only going to multiply their ability to be selfish, their ability to just wreak havoc on the lives of others. Money is a magnifier and a multiplier. It is not a discriminatory thing. Money is not going to discriminate against your age, your race, your background, your religion, your beliefs or anything like that. It is simply going to magnify and multiply your current inner economy. It significantly multiplies the opportunities you have to express it. Your character, integrity, and mindset will be magnified the more money you have. We've got to build the breakthrough of inner economy now so that your personal grounding and foundation is solid, so that when you build this wealth in your life, when you invite money into your life, you have the character that it magnifies this integrity, this passion, this purpose, this genuine sense of meaning and that's what's multiplied. The only way to really be able to really grow this is very simple. Three steps. We've got to accept where things are right now. We've got to accept that maybe you are living under an unhealthy relationship with money right now. Maybe there's a little bit of past conditioning that's still there. Hey, that's okay. That's what we're here to break through. Let's do this together, and just accept where you are, so that you can number two, acknowledge that you have the power to change it. You have the power to to break through this once and for all. You have the power to create a new reality about what money represents for you. Then, act. Number three, take action, immediate action on changing it once and for all. Let's do this together. Let's redefine rich once and for all. Let's really start taking the steps to creating a relentless purpose to building wealth in our lives and upholding the integrity of our word, of who we are, of our character, and having the actual courage to

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genuinely honor our commitments, our mission, our values, who we are as a person, and actually being able to invite rich, abundant wealth into our life so that we can give, serve and contribute in a meaningful way, and to always be in service and search to add more meaningful value to other people. Inevitably that's what's going to build more and more wealth. I want you to just say out loud right now and write it down for yourself and your notes, I am committed to being rich so that I can enrich the lives of others. I'm going to say that again because it's so important, and want you to say it out loud with me and write it down immediately exactly the way that it's said. I am committed to being rich so that I can enrich the lives of others. That's transforming this illusion of money and wealth that we finally get to start breaking through.

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