3 Things You Can’t Afford To Believe About Money
The Amplified Impact Podcast
March 21st, 2023
Let’s talk about beliefs. I believe there are two types of beliefs.
You have your limiting beliefs… the ones holding you back, telling yourself that you can’t do something. For me, I’ve always told myself that I’m not a people person. We tell ourselves these things, and unfortunately we make it our reality.
Now, the other type of belief is an empowering belief. Quite the opposite of a limiting belief. These move us forward towards our greatness. So your beliefs either hold you back or push you forward.
Now let’s talk money.
I see a lot of common limiting beliefs that people have when it comes to money, or them making money. Here are the top 3 biggest lies you are telling yourself when it comes to money.
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3 Things You Can’t Afford To Believe About Money
[00:00:00] Anthony: What’s up everybody? Welcome back to the podcast. Today I wanna talk about beliefs. I believe that there are only two types of beliefs. You have, your limiting beliefs, the things that are holding you back in life, the things that you tell yourself for why you can’t do this, or why you’re not that type of person.
One big limiting belief I’ve had in my life was I’m not a people person, right? These are the things that we tell ourselves and we allow to become a reality, the alternative to a limiting. . It’s an empowering belief. It’s a belief that moves us forward towards our greatness, that fills us with potential for what could be.
And tho that’s it. Those are the only two options. There is no third, there is just, it’s holding you back. It’s limiting you, or it’s growing and pushing you forward. Now the interesting thing is that any belief held strongly enough will be made. . Okay, let me repeat that. Any belief held [00:01:00] strongly enough will be made true.
So you need to be really, really careful about what you choose to believe because it will become your reality. The reason for that is your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your actions. Your actions lead to your results, and that’s, that’s your life. So if you believe something is true, if you believe.
You can do a thing or achieve a thing, or if you believe that you cannot do that thing, then that is going to become your reality. You hear this all the time. You have to believe to achieve, right? Or whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. And these are trite phrases, but they’re true.
And so we need to be really careful that we’re always choosing the empowering belief even, even if external reality tells us that empowering belief is not factually. . Okay. It is better . It is better to believe a belief that is not necessarily consistent with reality as long as it is moving you in the [00:02:00] direction of your greatness and your truth.
And this starts to borderline a little bit on delusion. So you have to be really careful cause it is a, it is a fine line between confidence and delusion. , but the only way to achieve greatness is to have the belief that it’s possible in the first place. And a lot of times, depending on maybe where you are in life, you know, maybe you’re 23 years old, you’re dead broke, you have no skills, you don’t have any network or anything like that.
So the belief that someday you will be a millionaire, you might look at it from an external reality perspective and say, well, there’s really no data to support this, this, this. Sup. and you could buy into that and you’d be right. Or you could buy into the alternative and say, you know what? Because of these things or despite these things, I’m going to still overcome and I’m gonna become this, this, this thing that I, I want to become.
Now when it comes to money, I believe I, I, I see three belief. Limiting people the [00:03:00] most. And so I wanna break those down here because, uh, there’s things that even I have to struggle with on a consistent basis because the human operating system defaults to the negative. It just does. That’s like, it’s better to be a pessimistic, uh, pessimist and on the Savannah than it is to be an optimist, right?
Because you hear something rustling in the weeds. If you assume it’s a tiger and you just start running, well, you. . If you were optimistic and you were like, oh, it’s probably not a tiger. Most of the time you’re probably right, but one of the times you’re wrong. You’re dead. Right? , that operating system served us really well in the Savannah, where it was literally life and death situations.
Nowadays, there’s very few things that are really posing existential crisis to you. Like there’s very few things that are actually gonna kill you and jump out of the weeds. So it’s better to be an optimist in modern world because the upside is pretty much infinite, whereas the, the downside is, is fairly capped in a lot of [00:04:00] cases.
So you’re, you’re your biological hard. to biologically, hardwired to to think negatively and pessimistically. And yet in the modern game of money in life, you’re, you’re better off thinking optimistically. So we’re, we’re battling our biology a little bit, which is why these beliefs can be really hard to like hold true consistently.
But I wanna break ’em down. These are three money beliefs I see holding people back the most. The first one is that the, that money is the root of all evil and. This one is an interesting one. People will tell themselves this as an excuse to not pursue making money, cuz they, there’s only two games. You’re really playing here.
You have the status game and you have the wealth game. The wealth game is infinite. Everybody can get wealthy. There’s money to go around for everybody. And we, we witness this by the fact that, you know, the, the average human on the planet right now has a higher quality of life than King Louis the 14th did just 200, 300 years.[00:05:00]
to think about that, like the overall wealth of the world has increased substantially in that time. The access to sanitation, to, to medication, to technology, incredibly, like it’s not even close, right? . So the people who say things like money is the root of all evil. They’ve given up on the hope of making money there.
There may be they’ve adopted this mindset and said, I’m gonna play a different game. They’re gonna play the status game, which is I’m righteous and not playing the wealth game because pursuing money is a bad thing when in reality, capitalism I believe has done more good for the world than any other economic system by.
And so if you wanna make a positive impact on the world, I believe the best way to do this is to do it from your overflowing cup. And the, the mistake I see people making is their cup is not full, their cup is half empty, [00:06:00] and they’re pouring more and more and out of it into other people’s cup. And as a result, there’s just the same amount of liquid just being dispersed again across wider and wider, uh, population of people, and it’s becoming diluted.
And eventually your cup is gonna be empty and all your fluid is gonna be in everybody else’s cup. And it’s not gonna do, do very much good because as it gets further and further diluted, it doesn’t become meaningful and helpful anymore. So the way to make a positive impact in the world then is to focus on filling your cup and from that overflowing cup, which is now an infinite bounty, to then fill the cups of others.
So I do not believe money is the root of all evil. I believe what you do with. Can be evil, but money in itself is not evil and pursuing it I do not believe is evil either. Again, depending on your intent, and intent is everything in life, obviously. That’s really what purpose and meaning, like you can find purpose and meaning in all sorts of things.
Just depends on your intent behind it. The second [00:07:00] belief that I see holding people back, and we kind of already touched on this, is that money is scarce and there’s only so much of it to go. and this belief says that money is a finite game, which means if I make money, it’s coming at your expense and if you make money, it’s coming at my expense.
And this is a very limited, short-sighted way of looking at this, cuz as we already said, like the average quality of life for a human on the planet is so much higher than it was just 200 years ago. And to think what’s the world gonna look like in 200 years from now, it’s going to just, it’s gonna continue to.
And so money is not a zero sum game. It’s infinite by making wealth, wealth begets wealth. And so, and the reason, and the reason for this is because, you know, technology and improvements and innovations, initially they start out as being very expensive. And, you know, these innovations, they, they can’t be mass produced yet, but eventually we get better at making them and the [00:08:00] downstream effect.
We commoditize more and more these things that were once luxuries. So think about like your cell phone, the cell phone that you and I both have access to right now is the same phone Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have, they don’t have better phones than us do that. No, they have the same exact phone. Now, you rewind a couple of years ago and like maybe, maybe only a couple of people on the planet had access to these, these great technologies, but as we’ve improved our ability at making these things, The, the wealth that is afforded by these has trickled down and become ubiquitous.
So I do not believe that money is scarce. I believe it is unlimited. I believe it is abundant and that everybody can have as much as they want if they can just figure out how to bring the world enough value. If you figure that out, then the world is literally your oyster. The third limiting belief that I.
uh, really holding people back is [00:09:00] that making money is hard. And this is, I, this one I struggled with all throughout my twenties because I equated making money with, exchanging my time and doing labor and putting in the effort. And that was how I thought you made money. I, that’s how I thought you played the money game.
And it, it is hard when you’re doing that, when you’re trading eight hours, 10 hours a day. Of labor. That’s hard. That’s a bad, hard way to make money. But making money isn’t hard. If you have the right strategy, the right systems, and the right skills, when you have those three things, the strategy, systems and skills, making money is actually incredibly easy.
and so if that’s a belief that you have, that making money is hard because you’re still living that life where you’re trading your time for money. Don’t start by saying, what can I do to make more money? Ask yourself, what do I need to do to acquire the strategy systems and skills that will make making money [00:10:00] easy.
if you start from that position, well, that’s a relatively simple problem to solve, which we have a ton of content on on this podcast over on the YouTube channel, which you can go check out just Google at Anthony Vino, or you can go to the website, uh, anthony vino.com/blog. We got tons of resources outlining the strategy systems and skills that have served me personally very, very well on my wealth building journey.
So those are three limiting beliefs. If you find yourself struggling with any of these, I, I encourage you. To flip the paradigm to adopt the empowering belief that making money is not the root of all evil. It’s the root of all good. That making money is scarce or that money is scarce. No money is abundance and it’s infinite, and we can all have as much as we want.
And that money and making it doesn’t have to be hard. It can be easy, it can be simple if we have the right strategy, systems and skills in place. So I hope this brought you some value. I’m looking forward to seeing you back here. , but until then, my [00:11:00] friend stay hyper-focused.
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