You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth

When it comes to having sex and making money, you’re supposed to know what you’re doing and be all great at it, but nobody teaches you anything about it, and you’re never supposed to talk about it because it’s inappropriate,

Your Little Prince is desperately trying to keep you in a safe, known space, otherwise known as your comfort zone,

He’s running the kingdom of your adult life based on information that he gathered, and processed, while doing somersaults and pulling down his pants in the front yard. Meaning, he didn’t really process any of it at all.

When you change who you’re being, you’re basically killing off your old identity, which completely freaks your subconscious self out.

you are not meant to just survive, to stay stagnant, to settle; you are meant to keep growing and thrive.

I’d spent an entire lifetime self-righteously insisting that being rich was overrated and gross, and I wasn’t going to back down easily no matter how broke I had to stay in order to prove my point.

This! This could be me! And instead of using that excitement to propel myself into action, I immediately started talking myself out of going for it.

When you’re a kid, all this information comes in through a much simpler, kid-sized perspective, meaning you take what’s right in front of you at face value. So, with this example where you grew up seeing your parents fight about money, you might believe money = fighting = scary = bad.

the real secret is you have to take huge, uncomfy risks. You have to do stuff you’ve never done before, to make yourself visible, to acknowledge your own awesomeness, to risk looking stupid.