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Do you have a wealthy mindset? Well if you are unsure how to answer that question you could start by checking your bank account. It’s like losing weight – How do you know that you are getting closer to that goal that you have set for yourself? You check the scale – The scale is a reflection and feedback of the amount of work you are putting in and the results of your diet and exercise, so it stands to reason if you want to measure if your abundance mindset has changed you look at the places where the wealth or abundance will show up. Now most will say that you can be wealthy in love or in family and friends, but how do you really measure that since most people seem to have an abundance of most of these things already?…When one thinks about something like love, air, hugs, family they think never ended, always be around – no matter what…Now when one thinks of money, food, things of that nature it switches to the fact that these things run out – there may not be anymore tomorrow.

I’ve never heard someone say Oh I’m going to go to bed wonder if I’ll have enough air to breathe tomorrow or enough love for my family?…But I have heard wonder if I’ll have enough money tomorrow, wonder if I’ll have enough food tomorrow…so I’m going to spend the next 21 days and 22 exercises focusing on a wealthier mindset.

We’ve heard that the rich and the poor don’t think differently; they think opposite, and while some people may not want to be rich – at least not in my view of the word rich – everyone wants to be a little more comfortable than they are at this moment. Unless you are Bill Gates of course and if you are reading this and you are Bill Gates, I want to encourage you to leave me a 1 billion dollar donation so I can make it to the Forbes 400 list. Okay now that I said that…back to the subject. Rich Dad, Poor Dad was one of the first I believe to introduce the concept of poor people and rich people thinking opposites, where one dad was looking for sales on old cars, one was looking for sales on stocks or apartment buildings.

What separates the rich from the poor?

While our first answer is money because we blame money for a lot of things – it’s the reason we have to work so hard, it’s the reason we are so stressed out, blah blah blah – the truth is the difference between rich and poor are the thoughts, affirmations and actions. What determines when two people start out at the same spot or station in life and they both end up two different places – one ends up working till death and another independently wealthy? It’s not luck – it is thoughts, affirmations and actions, and that’s what this 21 days are about: thoughts, affirmations and actions. So let’s start – I have conflicting thoughts on where to start so I’m going for a simple one first:

Exercise One:  Your actions are your affirmations

When most people think about affirmations they think say it to yourself 50 million times a day and write it down 500. Well either my attention span is way too short to do that or I’m just plain lazy…and while most people start out with the best intentions, how long can you truly write the same words 500 times a day before your hands screams stop!? Well your brain rejects the statements long before that anyway because in your brain it’s simply not true, and if you are a pretty honest person like most of us are, then how do you expect your brain to accept these lies?…’I'm wealthy’ and your brain goes ‘yeah really why do we have -21 bucks in the bank? Please…’ So I took a step back and realized something really important that people do without much thought – your actions! Your actions are your affirmations.

Most people run on autopilot going through their day, going to work, taking care of their kids, and fail to realize that every single action you do is sending a mesage to your brain and to the Universe – telling it something about the things you believe in…Lets take a simple example – this is something Shauna and I did when we first met – we took something small and to most really meaningless – BUYING GAS. Well what the hell does buying gas have to do with being wealthy? Well it’s all connected isn’t it? So we would go to the gas station to buy gas and we were both so similar – we’d look at the gas prices and go ouch, really high and so we’d put only a little bit of gas in our tanks – maybe $10.00, maybe $15 and granted we live in two diffrent countries and still our actions were like mirrors. We thought about it…why did we only put $15 bucks worth of gas?…well because if we spent that much on gas we may not have enough money to buy something else…what was the something else? We had no clue, but whatever that something else was…we were affirming THERE ISN’T ENOUGH, THERE ISN’T ENOUGH MONEY.  There isn’t enough money to buy gas and buy whatever else we wanted and so we’d buy a little bit and then we’d be back at the gas station in 2 days, thinking the same thing – there isn’t enough money to buy gas and still have money for other things – and when we looked through the rest of our lives we were affirming it everywhere – there isn’t enough money to do this, there isn’t enough money to do that – so our first exercise was to fill our tanks of gas everytime we went to the gas station – and man that was hard…

We spent so long thinking if I buy this there won’t be enough that we couldn’t do it the first couple of times, but what started happening as soon as we started to fill the tanks? We realized geez there is enough money to fill the tank and still have money, there is enough money! Soon we moved to the next step – PREMIUM GAS. You can imagine the fight our brains gave us as we battled with the affirmations ‘I don’t have enough money to buy premium gas’…

So now we wake up and we only buy premium gas and fill up our tanks and people think well you are crazy – but see we do have more than enough to buy that and everything else we want but we had to get there…

So exercise one today is to look at your life. What are the money thoughts you are affirming on a daily basis? Do you go to the grocery store and think I don’t have enough to buy the things I want…I don’t have enough money to do this or that…’? And pick one area – really small area in your life – to change your affirmations, not with your words but with your actions. Then leave a comment so we can know what you thought of day 1′s exercise.

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