4 Money Mindset Secrets to ATTRACTING Wealth & Abundance

0:00If you are looking to understand the mindsets that will help you create wealth and abundance in your life, then this is for you. So buckle up right now. I have interviewed hundreds of the world's top money experts and the wealthiest people who have not only created massive abundance in their lives, but also cultivated powerful inner peace. And today we're diving into four of the most powerful money mindset takeaways from some incredible guests we've had on the School of Greatness. Now these insights will completely shift how you think about wealth, about abundance and financial success. And if you're looking to create financial freedom and live a richer life, then make sure to dive in deeper into my new book, Make Money Easy, which will give you the tools to unlocking abundance in your life.

0:51Let's jump into this first moment with Dan Martell. And when we had Dan on, it took over. This episode really blew up for so many people. And in this clip, he's going to be talking about, are your beliefs keeping you broke? And again, our beliefs influence our behaviors in life. And if your results around your money are not where you want them to be right now, we need to start with our beliefs. So let's dive in. What are the belief systems that keep people bankrupt or broke? I always look at two things. Whatever the, let's say the goal is becoming rich. There's two parts of this. There's the negative, there's this limiting beliefs you have about yourself about being rich.

1:34and then there's the negative beliefs you have about the achievement so both of those are in the mind so think about like limiting beliefs is like well i can't do this i've never done this before and i know the person has this belief if i hear the language and you and you know i'm talking about this language like could should it be nice all right one two yeah yeah that language has the expectation of failure built into it so so that's the the the limitation beliefs and then on the other side of the coin of the outcome is the negative belief so what's negative beliefs that keeps people broke the rich people are evil there's no chance you're going to wake up to try to be rich if you believe rich people are evil or rich people don't pay taxes or rich people took advantage of somebody or rich people are unhappy because if you believe rich people are evil you don't want to become that belief of evil if i held a knife to your throat and said step forward you'll be like well i don't want to step forward because i'll hurt myself it's like yeah so you'll never push for the goal if you think the outcome is negative so until we work through those beliefs i've seen that's what i call self-sabotage the biggest work i do with entrepreneurs is understanding what are the unconscious beliefs they have that are literally self-sabotaging their progress to winning what are the beliefs that most people have around money that are holding them back then is it that money's bad or people with money are takers or what is it Yeah, I think it's anything negative.

2:56So, I mean, I know I had money beliefs around. I used to, I had this crazy belief that everybody had to go bankrupt. That everyone had to? If you want to be successful. Really? It was this weird belief. I read Donald Trump's book and I read a bunch of other people's books. And when you look at the history, they all talk about like, you know, if you're really trying, you're taking risks and at some point you'll probably go bankrupt. So get used to it. So like, well, if I have that belief, how hard am I going to push to try to be successful if i've got a young family and i'm trying not to create pain in their life yes so that one kept me playing small for a long time wow yeah the other belief is you know what will other people in my family say if i have money oh my gosh do you ever feel guilty about the money you have i i felt so guilty louis you've known me for a long time i didn't tell anybody i had money i was quiet about it i didn't allow myself to buy anything nice until i was 30 i made my first million at 27 multi-millionaire at 28 and it wasn't until I was 36 that I allowed myself to buy a McLaren.

3:57Dude, it's so funny. Isn't that crazy? What's so funny to say this because I still don't really buy myself anything. I mean, I bought a nice home. Yeah, you bought a beautiful home. I'm buying like, you know, I'm not buying things to like show off that I have money though. Like I don't showcase my home. I'm not like taking photos of it and posting it online and like, look at me. uh my friend got me a Rolex for my 40th birthday last year I think I've worn it like seven times because part of me is still kind of like should I be wearing this talk to me about that you know it's well part of it is not my style yeah you know I don't like that's fair you know part of it's like I just wear the same black thing just like you're wearing a black t-shirt yeah exactly so that's part of it the other part of this is you know I don't want to reject money coming my away by by not wearing it but it's also like how are people going to are they going to judge me are they going to want more from me are they going to be thinking i should be doing more it's just like do you also do i want to attract some type of judgment that is unnecessary i don't know it's it's kind of a lot of that well and that is it so you said a few things that i just want to kind of pull up to the surface is one of them is i'm worried if they expect me to do more a lot of people don't want to call their shot or live a bigger life because then that becomes the new floor they got to live into so that's a fascinating one it's like well i don't want to create wealth because then i have to maintain that and if i lose then people will visually publicly see me rise and fall yeah that holds a lot of people back i'm not afraid of the rise and fall because i'm in the bottom but it's the yeah but that's around yes 100 and and um like for me it was what what would my family say like oh you're too cool for us now why did you get that kind of car I remember dude I got the car especially Canadian oh yeah it was the only McLaren in the province I lived in and they used to have to go to Montreal to get serviced wow and I remember the first time I had it for almost two weeks I didn't want anybody to know it was in the garage I was I was I wasn't even sure how it was gonna like like be with it that was really weird and I remember the first time I wanted to go to the gym and drive it with my wife we went worked out every day you know renee and she wouldn't come with me she took her car why she didn't want to have to deal with what people were going to say interesting so it's fascinating that like when people just kind of try on these these ideas like what would it mean to say even a lot of my clients i say can you say i am ultra rich they can't say it nope why not i mean they everybody's got a personal story but what does that mean why does saying the word ultra rich scare you frustrate you like you're the judgment what is it what is what does it mean to you it's just words what do most ultra which rich people say around why they can't own that they're uber wealthy by speaking about it i think there's a part of it that is if i acknowledge it then i'm different than other people and they don't want anybody to think that they think they're better really yeah I mean, I'm that way, man.

6:56I don't want anybody to think that because I drive a certain car or fly around in my jet that I think I'm better than you. And you're the same way. We don't. The reason I don't wear watches is because I don't like it to get in the way. I appreciate beautiful things in design. Yes. But yeah, definitely when I first got the McLaren, I was worried that people would treat me different. And guess what? They did. They do. They look at you differently. Dude, I remember the first. It was awesome. I mean, I showed up. I went and did a talk at a rehab center. I'll tell you why. so i pull up to go i do a lot of work with troubled youth and every kid immediately the the like they want to know what i have to say whereas before i'd show up in whatever car and then they'd be like who is this guy isn't that fascinating so you know perception is reality but yeah people do treat you different and sometimes if you are comfortable with it you can use that to fast track conversations and if you're not okay with it then it can be a source of a lot of pain and i think that's that's the mindset who are the wealthiest people that you know that you respect based on how they live their life and what are the things that they do that you respect the most about them yeah i'm gonna say gary v for sure i just interviewed him yesterday yeah yeah i mean gary what are the characteristics about the wealthy like gary that you respect that he uses his money to create and to help other people and i and i would and i would aspire to always be that and that's what it is.

8:22And I think that if you truly, it's like when people say, well, I don't need to be rich and I'm like, cool, why don't you become rich? And then if you want to do good with it, then you can. Like, why wouldn't you accumulate the resources? If you think somebody else, the government, this other entrepreneur, this CEO, isn't going to do right by having that money, go get it. And once you got it, decide what you want to do with it. Right. That's the way I think about it. So when I watch Gary, you know, create his empire and then reinvest it into content and helping other people and running these big events and building companies inspire entrepreneurship and help and really like help other people around them become wealthy i mean we've seen gary over the years make concessions for his career for other people yeah i mean dude even the fact that he helped build his dad's wine shop like no like most people don't know this he built it to 60 million he owned none of it yeah and was paying himself maybe 100k a year dude i don't pay my ceos 100k a year if they're generating 60 million a year right right dude that's not how the math works sure so um he inspires me just the way he shows up i think uh you know alex and layla her mosey friends of ours like they they do the same thing they're they're very much like how do i use this to create more how do i buy back my time like because i really think it's about an experience and a leverage thing like wealth should be an opportunity to live a full a more fully developed life right like i think the word empire subtitle my book i believe an empire is a life of unlimited creation you never have to retire from and i think everybody should want to aspire to do that interesting just be a creator that's why i talk a lot about artists and creators in the book this the book's really meant for people that are starting off because i don't want them to get the wrong head space for what it means to be successful and i try to teach them how to value their time, the math behind it, the value of it, the worthiness, and then allow yourself to, if you have a desire to drive a supercar, don't tame it.

10:22If you have a desire to own a jet, don't tame it. There's nothing wrong with that. Live in a beautiful home. I think the number one thing you could ever do for somebody else is inspire them to live a bigger life. And you don't inspire people by playing small. Again, such a powerful moment with Dan Martell and our beliefs shape our reality. Again, you hear Joe Dispenza say our personality is our personal reality. And again, our beliefs shape our behaviors, which create our environment and our reality. And so many of us have negative money beliefs without even realizing it because we haven't really been aware of it and reflected on these beliefs in the past.

11:04For example, if you think rich people are evil, you're already setting yourself up to reject wealth subconsciously. Feeling guilty about money or success in your life, that guilt holds you back from achieving more and also feeling good about what you've created, what you've worked so hard for. So that's something you need to be mindful of and reflecting on. Are your beliefs blocking you from your abundance? In this next moment, we have the inspiring Jasprit Singh, who is a wealth teacher and educator who's going to be sharing about the number one shift you can make to build wealth. So let's dive in.

11:42How does someone who has been conditioned for decades around certain money beliefs all of a sudden educate themselves, get the tools, get the information and say, no, everything I've been taught for the last 20, 30 years of my life is a lie around money. Yeah. And therefore, you know, have I been living a lie myself? Am I a fraud? Are these people that have been telling me this, can I trust them? My parents, like your whole world blows up essentially. It does. It blows up. And so how does someone navigate the emotions of, oh, all these things my parents who I love, who are well-intended, have taught me around money have kind of been holding me back.

12:24And I understand they try to protect me, but it's really limited me. How do we deal with that? And then start edging or kidding ourselves to break free of money limits, of money scarcity, of money insecurity, so that we can have more financial peace and emotional peace around money. I think you got to start with this understanding. If somebody doesn't have what it is that you want, you probably shouldn't listen to them on how to get where you want to go. and your parents might have the best intentions your family might have the best intentions but they might not know how to get to where you want to go right the common saying is don't listen to a fat person on how to lose weight take that for whatever it's worth or broke person on how to make money yeah yeah you know my parents and a lot of traditional indian immigrants you come to a new country like america with very little you work very hard now you want your kids to have a better life.

13:24And if you don't have financial education, you're going to say that the best way to do that is go and become a doctor. That's why you see so many Indian people become doctors. It's because your parents beat it into you since the day you're won. I'm speaking from 100 % experience here because since I was young, my parents said that I need to go and become a doctor because if you become a doctor, you're going to number one, have that doctor title. so you're going to have the status. Someone's going to want to marry you and you're going to be able to make a lot of money and be rich. But what I learned was there's a disconnect between being a doctor and being financially wealthy.

14:03Those are two different things because we assume that if you go to school, get good grades, you make more money and you become more wealthy. But there's also a difference between making more money and building wealth. What's the difference between making money and building wealth? Well, some people who have made millions and millions of dollars died with nothing in their name. Died being broke and lived broke. Building wealth is really a matter of time and freedom. And what I mean by that is I can make a million dollars a year and be broke, which a lot of people actually are. We're out here not far from Beverly Hills.

14:39And a lot of people are making a lot of money but are broke. And I see this all the time because I work in this financial education space where I have met countless doctors, because I talk about this a lot, people who are making$300 ,000,$400 ,000, $600 ,000 a year that have no savings, no investments, and no idea where to start. Because when you start to make more money, you first think, if I had an additional$100 ,000 a year, oh my God, I could do so many things. Because we think in terms of spending. If I had $10 ,000 a month, what would I do? Well, I would first go to Cancun. I'd buy myself a nicer car.

15:15I'd go on a nicer, you know, whatever. And that's how we consume. That's how we think. We're conditioned to think that way, that America is a consumer nation. We are the largest consumers of things in the world. I like to say that Americans make a dollar to spend$2. Traditional Indian mindset people make a dollar to spend 20 cents because they're conditioned to save. not saying either one of these is right. They're both wrong. But when most people are conditioned to consume and spend, you make more and you spend more. And you might think, well, how can you spend a million dollars a year? It's very easy.

15:50It is very easy to spend a million dollars a year. You start buying some nice homes, you start going on some expensive vacations, you start buying some expensive clothes, and there goes your million dollars a year. Gone. And that's what happens to a lot of people. So when we talk about the difference between building wealth and making a lot of money, you got to take the money that you earn and not spend it. And you got to put this to work. And so let me break this down this way. Becoming wealthy comes down to five steps. And I've talked about it in many different forms, but I'm going to break down into the simplest root thing you have to understand.

16:25Number one is you got to earn money. And if people say, how do I earn money? It doesn't matter. It could be a side hustle. It could be a business. It could be a job. You could have some money coming in. Once you make some money, number two is you don't Don't spend all of your money. And that means when you make$1 ,000, you don't spend all$1 ,000. How much do you spend? Let's not worry about the nitty gritty yet. Just don't spend all of your money. Well, most people make$1 ,000 and they spend$1 ,500. They use a credit card to spend more than what they have because they think, well, I'll be able to pay this off next month because I have another$1 ,000 coming in.

16:53Exactly. And then they get into more and more debt because they're over-consuming. You'll never build wealth. You'll never get rich. You'll never have any freedom. And so you can't spend all of your money, which is why number three is you take the money, you don't spend and you go out and you buy an investment. We'll call it the middleman. And you'll see why I call it the middleman. Is you want to take this money you don't spend and you want to essentially throw it into this thing on the side that will hopefully make you some more money in the long term. Then number four, when your investment makes money, take the money that your investments make and dump it back into your investments.

17:30And then number five is where to make more money. And the reason why you're working to make more money is so you can have more investments. Now, let me explain why this is so difficult because it makes sense in theory, right? You're never going to become wealthy if every time you make a dollar, you give it to somebody else. If you want to become wealthy, you have to keep more money for yourself. The way that our economic system works is the more money you spend, the richer somebody else gets. It's hated or loved, but that's the reality. When you go to Chipotle and you buy that extra guac, Chipotle is making more money.

18:03When you go to Amazon and you spend more money, Amazon's making money. Now, this can make some people extremely wealthy, but it also keeps the majority of people broke financially. And so this is where if you want to make yourself rich, you got to stop making everybody else rich. Right now, you got to first make yourself rich. And that means stop giving other people your money. And there are so many extremes to how you can do this, right? I mean, you could go to that one extreme where I am not going to spend anything. I'm going to live in a shoebox and I'm going to eat nothing but rice and beans and I'm going to stack all my money.

18:38Fine. Other people will find a more balanced approach and you got to find what's right for you. Yeah, yeah. I'll spend a certain amount on the things I like, but I'm not going to overspend. Or I like it where you just say, I'm going to reinvest a certain amount of my money every single month of the money that's coming in, whether it's a paycheck or your business. I'm going to take that money. this much is going every month into my investments whatever that might be and then if i want to spend the rest on a vacation or you know extra guacamole or whatever it is cool enjoy your life as well right you don't have to live the most frugal life as well you don't have to be so extreme but i think first take your money to invest yeah then spend on some activities and events and go to concerts cool i get it and you got to find your balance for me i was on an extreme when i first learned about this, I went extreme because I first, when I was making money first, I was running an event planning company.

19:32I didn't know anything about money. I took my money and I bought nice watches and I dumped it back into my car. I mean, that's what I thought was normal. But as you start to learn, you realize, or if you start to become more financially educated, you realize that that doesn't do anything for your wealth, right? There's no wealth built into tricking out your car. There's no wealth built into just spending money on nice things. It looks nice. And it's nice if you want to have it, it's fine, but that's not going to make you wealthy. And you got to decide what's more important to you. So then I completely tipped the scale and I started not spending any money.

20:05So I'd have more money to invest. For me, it started off in real estate. And now it's this slow process. The reason why it's so difficult is because if you make$10 ,000, it's a lot of money to put aside, right? I work to make 10 grand. But you can't show off a$10 ,000 stock market portfolio the way you can a$10 ,000 watch or a$10 ,000 vacation. Because I can take those things and I can put it on my Instagram. I can put it on my Facebook. I can put it on TikTok. And I can show these things off. And they get a lot of likes and they get a lot of oohs and ahs. But my stock market portfolio just sits there.

20:41Slowly, it'll start to generate a little bit of income. And I think understanding you're going to make a lot of money in your lifetime. I don't care how much money you're making. If you make 50 grand a year, in the next 10 years, you're going to make half a million dollars. In the next two decades, you're going to make a million dollars, assuming you never get another raise, which means you're going to make millions of dollars over the course of your career, and most people will have nothing to show for it. And when I say most people, I don't say this generally. I mean, statistically, most people will have nothing to show for it, which means now, as you go through life earning this money, what are you doing it for?

21:18Are you doing it to look rich or are you doing it to actually build wealth? And you got to decide that for you, right? I can't come here and tell you, oh, it's important for you to build wealth. And then you listen to me, you got to decide that for yourself because you want to take better care of yourself, your wife, your husband, and your kids and your parents. And you want to have a better future than today. I'm a big fan of Jasprit. He has incredible content. And every time we have him on, it just takes off and people love it. And I want to remind you, you don't have to figure everything out on your own.

21:48The key is really finding mentors who have models that are successful that you can mimic. People who have already walked the path that you want to take. Don't try to do it all on your own. Reach out to some people who are even just a little bit farther than you, who can support you. Surround yourself with people who are where you want to be financially. Their mindset will influence you. And again, that's one of the reasons why we have so many powerful financial leaders and experts on this show is to give you and provide you free resources and content to help you, even if you don't have access to those individuals in your own city or in your own community.

22:28So feel free to come back and check out more of our content with these wealth experts at any time. And every month, ask yourself, how am I using money to invest in my future? Am I wasting money in my life or am I using it to learn new skills, to overcome challenges, to improve something in my life? Ask yourself this and make sure you're surrounding yourself with the right money mentors. And speaking of many mentors, this next guest, Ken Honda, is a money mentor for me. And he's sharing how to align with abundance and let go of scarcity thinking. because so many of us have been in stages of life or seasons of life where we felt scarce.

23:11And that feeling, that energy of scarcity does not attract or create abundance. So let's hear from one of my money mentors, Ken Honda, right now. Once again, you know, we experience our life according to our beliefs. And some people have better luck than others. And some people work so hard, but they're getting minimum wages. So you have to find your place, your seat, your reserved seat is what I call. A lot of people try to sit on other people's seat, which is wrong because your seat is reserved somewhere else. And if you don't sit on other people's seat, what happens is that you get so depressed.

23:58And then you feel so meaningless, you know, so on all that. because you cannot really feel life. But once you sit on your seat, you are so deeply connected with your life purpose, then your magnetism gets turned on. So how does someone know where their seat is and know how to sit in it and be happy with their seat? Yeah, so the only thing is ask your heart. What your heart tells you. If you're excited about it, you're going closer. It's like hot or cold, right? So if you feel more excited about doing this, this is it. This is it. This is it. So you have to have your heart guide you where you're supposed to be.

24:50So always listen to your heart. And then if your heart gets excited about a certain thing, you're just getting closer to your seat. Do you have a meditation or affirmation process for someone on how they can trust their heart, listen to their heart deeper to know they're on the right path? Right. Do you have something that you use yourself or that other people can use? Yeah. So I always try to have a few minutes. Say you're waiting for a car, Uber, or just waiting for something. I find a few moments And then just try to find my center You know And then And I just go deeper And figure out Where I want to go And just listen to my heart What does my heart say?

25:42Am I excited about this? Why not? Am I trying to get money? So I'm not excited But I have to do this To bring money On the Food on the table So I always check What my heart tells me You're always listening to it. What happens when your heart is not excited? Like you have, let's say you have a project you're working on. I'm assuming all of your books you're excited about, but maybe there's an event you're supposed to go to or I don't know, something that you said yes to. And you realize your heart is not excited about this. What do you do then? Do you do it, but then you don't repeat it the next time?

26:21Or what do you, how do you navigate that? So I want to be a nice person. So once I said yes, I'll do it. But I try to be very careful with what I say when I say yes. So I have a great team. So they'll just check. They'll check. Because I want to be nice to everybody. So I'm likely to say yes too many times. So my secretary and my team says, Ken, are you sure about this? Yeah, Probably not. So can you come up with something? Well, I'm glad you're here. You didn't reschedule this interview. Yeah. But in general, I'm trying to listen to my heart. That's good. And that let me hear. I think a lot of people don't understand the power of a daily affirmation or a daily check-in with yourself, just like you talked about for two minutes.

27:11For someone that doesn't believe in affirmations, what would you say to them? So even if you don't believe it, you must be saying something to yourself. This is a terrible day. It's so hot. I don't like this. So subconsciously, you're saying something about your life or about yourself, about your friends or about your clients. Oh, I hate working with this person. You know, something like that. So I think it's an affirmation by itself. So just to write down what are the things that you say to yourself. subconsciously, you can probably figure out. Right. And is that a happy thought? And then, unfortunately, a lot of the things that we talk to ourselves are negative.

27:58Yes. Yeah. So do you want to feed negative thoughts like this? Or do you want to pour more positive thoughts? You have a choice. But unless you write them down, you never know it. And then you may find that the reason why you get depressed, because you keep telling me about life. No wonder I feel depressed. So if all the things you talked about you are positive and loving, it's what you get. Yeah, exactly. And can you tell me how we can think about money as energy? In the book also, I saw you writing about how money is energy. And sometimes people try to make it and hold on to it. They want to hold on to it.

28:48They want to stack it in their bank as high as they can go. And they don't want to spend it. Sometimes that happens. What happens when we hoard money, when we keep it and we don't let it come and go as energy? What happens? So I have seen so many interesting things. Like if you hoard your money, a few things happen. You get sick and then you have to pay for the medical bills. Really? Yeah. Or like your kids do something bad and then you have to pay for the damage. So money needs outlet. So it's so interesting how money flows. And if you don't let out your money energy's outlet, it's going to get bad.

29:34It's like a pond. If there's no flow, the water gets bad. It's like, think about your health. If you eat, eat, eat, and don't go to the bathroom, you're sick. That's going to happen. So to stay healthy, you have to eat right, you have to release right. So for hoarding money, I want to ask them, you're eating so much, but what if you refuse? I'm not going to go to the bathroom for the rest of my life. Oh, my gosh. You'd be sick. You'd explode. And you cannot eat well. So you have to let your money flow. And then the next flow comes in. So here comes money EQ, the trust part. Trust is the hardest part of money EQ.

30:22You have to have the trust that once you let go of money, it comes back. So you don't have the trust. That's why you start worrying. That's why you have doubts about yourself. So instead of attaching to your money, you can say, thank you for staying with me. Just go bless the world and come back with your friends as soon as possible. Thank you for being here. Go bless the world. Come back as quick as possible with more friends. Right. So it's kind of fun, right? Sure. So it's a metaphor. four. So in your mind, letting go, if you let go fast, it's going to come back fast. So I'm trying to let go of money.

31:04Really? Yes. So, you know, how should people be thinking about this? So they have enough safety and security. They have enough in the bank for if something goes bad in the economy, they've saved enough. But also they're not just overspending as well. Some people who have the personality where they just spend, spend, spend, then they go into debt. Right. So how do we balance money so that we have enough for, you know, the future? Yeah. And we're not in debt. So that's what I'm so fascinated with a couple counseling and sometimes family counseling. You know, we're trying to have balance. That's what's so beautiful about humankind.

31:46You know, somehow the spender gets married with moneymaker. Right. Right. Someone's making all the money and someone loves to spend it all. Right. So they come in and this person is spending so much money. No, no, you're making too much money. You know, so you have no time for me. That's why I'm trying to get the stress out by spending money. So you have to have the balance. That's where Zen comes in. If you're spending too much, you have to start saving. If you're saving too much, you have to start spending. So the prescription I give to each client is different. For some people, the savers, I said, withdraw$1 ,000 and spend it for nothing in 24 hours.

32:31They probably freak out like, ah. No, they are okay to the withdrawing part. And so the next few days, a week later, they came back and said, can I withdraw$1 ,000? I didn't spend it. But I spent like$20. Oh, man. Because they cannot waste their money. It's against their constitution. I know people like that. So what should people be spending their money on? Right. So they don't feel like I'm just blowing money and wasting it. I know. So like a moneymaker, moneymakers, they think, is this a good investment? Yes, yes. So don't think about it because just enjoy the money flow. You can give it to people.