Mountains of Arizona
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3:56 p.m.
Often times, when I’m speaking with someone on the phone, I’ll ask them to describe their picture of success.
I’ll also ask them to give me a ball park figure about the level of money and resources they’d like flowing through their world.
The most common responses I’ll get to the “what is your picture of success in terms of money” question involve incremental improvements over their current situation. Just a few steps beyond the current reality.
So if I’m speaking with someone who is currently enjoying $100K coming into their world every year, they might say that $150,000 or $200K might be success.
Why is this the most common response?
Why isn’t $2 million or $20 million more common? Is that unreasonable or crazy?
It’s not because we’re all the same that the answers are often so similar, it’s because we’ve all been trained the same. Our perceptions have been carefully crafted by design.
The important thing to remember is that this is simply a learned behavior. And if you learned it, then you’ve shown you have the capacity to learn something else.
So why not do that?
Despite what “they” say, money doesn’t make the world go round. But certainly energy DOES do that. And when you stop telling yourself stories about how one version of energy is better than another, how you’re OK with having one form but not another, then you can lose your emotional attachment to this thing people call money.
Once that happens, possibilities open up.
One of those possibilities is seeing beyond the limits you’ve placed on how valuable you can become to the world.
If you’d like to improve the flow of resources into your reality, you focus on multiplying the value your service provides to the world. You don’t focus on “how to get money.”
There is no limit to the amount of value you can provide to the world. But there IS a limit, it seems, most of us have accepted about what is “appropriate” for us to receive in exchange for providing our value.
Perhaps it’s time to realize that limit was placed there, on purpose, by folks who are directly threatened by your innate ability to thrive.