Your Money Thermostat
To paraphrase T. Harv Eker, “Give
me 5 minutes with a person and I can tell you their financial
future”. Why does he say this? Because everyone has an
economic blueprint that is hard-wired into their DNA. As crazy as
this sounds, it is true. We all have built in “human thermostats”
that regulate everything we do, from our income levels to our relationships and more.
We are comfortable with a certain amount of money. Get too much and we manage to make it disappear like magic. How many lottery winners have you heard of who go through their winnings in a short time only to end up where they were in the first place? It won't happen to you of course, not to me either (I like to think).
Get too far behind in your income and you will find a way to bring yourself back up to your comfort zone.
But human nature is what it is. Watch a golf tournament where some unknown is suddenly leading the pack on day one. He will be interviewed on TV, and will say he doesn't know what happened to him and he hopes his luck keeps up. The next day comes and what happens? He drops way behind the rest of the field as his built-in thermostat corrects for his “good luck”. He is now where he is comfortable, back in the pack, out of the money.
Being in our comfort zone doesn't mean we like where we are. Consciously, most of time, we are quite unhappy about it and want to move out of it. But on a deep subconscious level, we are where we have been negatively conditioned to believe we are supposed to be. Money doesn't grow on trees, if you have money there will be less for everyone else, God loves the poor. These statements are just a small example of how we have programmed our subconscious, our cells and our DNA to control our financial future.
You've got to go deep into your subconscious to undo the negative beliefs that limit your life in so many ways. Positive thinking alone just doesn't do it!
Tony Brunelle
Check out the Breaking Barriers Workshop coming on May 4th 2008. The focus
will be on your financial thermostat.
Go to http://www.breakingbarriersworkshop.com
Hi Tony,
Nicely written and a good topic. As I mentioned to you before, my problem with money is I have a hard time spending money on me... no problem spending it on other people... comes from my childhood, starting at the age of 5 when I saved all my dimes, quarters (especially those from the tooth fairy) and birthday money to buy my mom articles that we needed since there was no-one else around to buy her presents. To this day, mom remembers all the useful gifts I gave to her, many of which I have forgotten. Funny thing is that my first conscious effort to spend money on me is when I decided to continue to come and see you after you cured my migraine headache six years ago... a wellness session with you is like a one-hour body massage, very therapeutic and relaxing... something which I offer to myself.
I'm looking forward to the May 4, 2008 Breaking Barriers workshop and discovering more about my relationship with money.
Francoise
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Hi Tony,
Nicely written and a good topic. As I mentioned to you before, my problem with money is I have a hard time spending money on me... no problem spending it on other people... comes from my childhood, starting at the age of 5 when I saved all my dimes, quarters (especially those from the tooth fairy) and birthday money to buy my mom articles that we needed since there was no-one else around to buy her presents. To this day, mom remembers all the useful gifts I gave to her, many of which I have forgotten. Funny thing is that my first conscious effort to spend money on me was when I decided to continue to come and see you after you cured my migraine headache six years ago... a wellness session with you is like a one-hour body massage, very therapeutic and relaxing... something which I offer to myself. Does anyone else out there have a hard time spending money on themselves and would be willing to share their story?
I'm looking forward to the May 4, 2008 Breaking Barriers workshop and discovering more about my relationship with money.
Françoise
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