Shift Your Mindset to Wealth & Abundance | Jen Sincero EP 498

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:12What happens if we don't speak about money in a healthy way? We perpetuate it as being the big boogeyman. So it's like this weird, mysterious, dirty thing. It really is. I mean, it's dirty. Money is dirty. You know, I don't want your dirty money. Like, you know what I mean? It's dirty until you don't make it dirty, right? Exactly. Until you change it. Exactly. So just by like airing it out and talking about it and being joyful about it and talking about what you do with it joyfully and sharing it and making it and being happy that you made it. We all need it. You know, it's so funny. I always think like, you know, if I told the average person, like, I'm going to give you 10 ,000 bucks, they'd be like, sweet.

0:52And then, you know, but talking about like, how do you feel about rich people? How do you feel about people who make tons and tons of money? and the difference between that, like you want it, but there's still dirtiness around it, which is why I put in two of my books to write that letter to money because it's a really interesting exercise. You wrote like a love letter to money. Yeah, you just write a letter to money as if it's a person almost. So it's like, I love you. I wish I had more of you, but I don't trust you and all the things. And then you can see what you got going on. This is a topic that I've been fascinated about for decades because I didn't have money at one point.

1:26Also, I was living on my sister's couch for a year and a half. I couldn't pay for the rent. I didn't buy food. I was just like living off of her for a year and a half when I was recovering from a surgery. And I was afraid of it. My father also got into a pretty bad car accident a year prior to me getting injured where he was kind of that lifeline for me where he'd give me$100 when I needed it and paid for things and just said, hey, you know, go live your dreams and when you're done, we'll figure out what you're going to do with the job. He got in a car accident. He had extreme head trauma, was in a coma for three months.

1:58My God. Ended up surviving, but wasn't able to work anymore. So he was physically alive, emotionally and mentally kind of not here. 17 years of him struggling, right, to try to recover. So I had this father backup to support me, and he was no longer able to do that. So I remember being fascinated by this conversation 20 years ago because I was like, I don't understand it. I don't know how to make it. I don't know why anyone would give me money. You know, where does my value come from? Like, how am I going to ask someone for money when I don't even know what skills or values I have? Right, right, right.

2:33And early on, I started to learn from these, you know, mentors and coaches teaching me about money. And one of them was around the way we speak about money. Because if we are essentially saying this is bad and evil or I'm not good enough for this, then why would that thing come to us if we think it's bad and evil? We're going to be rejecting it. or if we don't think we're deserving of it, why would we receive it? Yeah. Why would we bring it into us? Right. And so I had to really shift this conversation, you know, 20 years ago around money and do what you talk about, which is just having more open conversations, not talking about it like it's this hush hush thing, but just being more open and conversational and not being so emotionally like heightened.

3:16Yeah. When you talk about it and learn from a peaceful place of talking about it. So I love that you have this write a letter to money. I tell people like if you want your money to appreciate you must appreciate exactly yeah treat it like you're the greatest lover of your life right yes treat like if you want your partner to be investing in you and to be giving you words of affirmation and physical touch and like gifts if you want all these love languages then you've got to pour into and appreciate the partner you're Absolutely. Tell them how grateful you are every day. Tell them what you love about them, what you see in them.

3:54And when you appreciate a person like you said, or if you appreciate money, it can appreciate in value and come to you in return. Absolutely. It's energy. Money is currency and currency is energy. I had to hear it like 6 ,000 times before I really got that money is energy. It's a frequency. So when you raise your frequency and get into alignment with it, and that whole alignment thing is all about none of the limiting beliefs, just being in surrender and in alignment and having it flow in. You asked me what my words were. So at first it was, I can't afford it. And then I eventually went to money flows to me easily and freely.

4:33Even though I did not believe it at first, it wasn't about believing it. It was about the feeling because we are emotional creatures. You know, that emotion, the frequency of emotions was, you know, the flowing, the easily and Free Leaf Lonely was really, really powerful.

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