Crush Your Limits: Break Free From Limitations and Achieve Your True Potential (Success Principles Book 2) by Thibaut Meurisse

Author:Thibaut Meurisse [Meurisse, Thibaut]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-23T04:00:00+00:00

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Assumptions about money

Money is an important topic, and it is essential we spend some time uncovering your assumptions about it. In this section, I’ll share with you disempowering assumptions commonly held and help you adopt more empowering ones that will allow you to think of money in a whole different way.

Negative assumption #34—Money is not important

A common assumption is that money is not important. Now, if you hold such an assumption, what are your chances of generating enough money to live in abundance? I would say zero or close to it.

Every time you hear someone saying that money is not important, you can be pretty sure they are broke or at least far from being what you would call wealthy.

Here’s the truth people don’t want to admit: money is important. Otherwise, why would most people trade forty-odd years of their lives to work at a job they hate? Isn’t it so that they can pay their rent, put food on the table and send their kids to college? Now, if you had enough money to never have to work again, would you still be working at your current job? If not, I’m afraid money is important to you.

It is likely you also spend a lot of time thinking (or worrying) about money, as many people do. If so, saying money is not important is clearly BS. That’s like being angry at someone and pretending everything is okay. You may try to convince yourself you don’t care but, if in the back of your mind you can’t stop thinking about someone or something, you probably do care.

Another way to assess whether money is important to you is by asking yourself, “Would I change my life drastically as a result of having more money in my bank account?” If so, whether you admit it or not, money is important to you.

To design a future where you go to work because you want to, not because you have to, it is critical you reassess your relationship with money. No, money is not everything. There are many things more valuable, such as time, friendship, love or health. However, accepting money is important is by no means dismissing the value of all these other things. As we discussed previously, it doesn’t have to be either one or the other. You can have both. The truth is money can be a powerful enabler and, when used properly, it can do wonderful things.

There is one main reason I believe money is important: money buys time. And time, because of its scarcity, is more valuable than money. This is where most people get it wrong. They treat money as if it were scarce, and they waste their time as though time were abundant. Some surveys show that American adults watch TV five hour per day. If we extrapolate these results, it means people spend on average sixteen years of their lives watching TV. While I do enjoy watching TV from time to time, I’m not willing to waste a quarter of my life sitting on a couch mindlessly watching TV shows.

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