You Are a Badass at Making Money
A few weeks ago we had the second meeting of, what I'm calling, The Soul Blazers Book Club. Like the first there was morning coffee, catching up, more catching up, and then we got down to the business of talking about our book, You Are a Badass at Making Money!
I was not optimistic going into this read. But buying the book at 30% off was a good start, right? 😉 Ever since the original, You Are a Badass, came out a few years ago it just immediately turned me off. It made me feel very, "I don't need you to yell at me! This intensity is too much for me! Who are you to tell me how to feel?!" and who needs that in their life? Some of those feelings still linger today, but I put that aside and was hoping to find something truly worthwhile within the pages of this neon green cover.
And I did! But more about that later. Here are the points that really jumped out at me...
Chapter 1: Allowance
-RICH: Able to afford all the things and experiences required to fully experience your most authentic life.
- Helloooo Core Desired Feelings!
-There will never be a lack of conflicting opinions and information when it comes to any decision you make in life, and this is especially true when it comes to something as controversial as money.
-If you allow yourself to make all the money you need to flourish and live out your desires, it does not mean you are, or will become, a greedy selfish, Earth-ruining bastard.
-Let's take back the word "money" and decriminalize it, because until you do, you aren't going to be terribly motivated to let yourself make much.
Chapter 2: Why You Ain't Rollin' In The Cheddah. Yet.
-Act as if you've got a long, happy life on Earth ahead of you. But do not shrink back from something you desire because it's too risky.
-It all starts with your thoughts; they are the catalyst that brings on the shift that changes what you believe and how you act.
-Phrases I need to re-frame:
- Never go into debt
- You have to work hard to make money.
- It's important to have a good, secure job.
- You have champagne tastes on a beer pocketbook
-When you (consciously or unconsciously) resent money or cling to your limiting beliefs about money or refuse to participate in making money, it does not serve you, it does not make you more noble, it does not help you or anyone else. What it does is put you on a hunger strike by cutting you off from that which you need not only to survive, but to thrive. By embracing money and getting into the flow, you open yourself up to the abundance that is trying to reach you this very moment.
-Success is not an end of the road game, it's a never-ending road game.
Chapter 2A: A Tiny But Mighty Chapter About Universal Intelligence
-Most People define their reality from the confines of what their five senses tell them, but there is so much more going on, like, say, an infinite, eternal Universe worth of stuff.
-Between our five physical senses and the "truth blueprint" created by our belief system, our perception of reality is, shall we say, a tad limited.
-Universal Intelligence and your thoughts are basically the same force.
-Your thoughts dictate the truth.
-Your thoughts alert Universal Intelligence to start arranging the energy in such a way as to make your desires manifest in physical form.
-Mastering the mindset of wealth is choosing to think about money, and your reality in relation to money, in a way that will make you rich, not keep you poor.
-Accept that you don't have to know how to do what you don't know how to do yet, and that the Universe will lead the way.
Chapter 3: Show Me the Money
-When you don't investigate what's going on with your words, thoughts, and beliefs, you risk stumbling through life on autopilot.
-Money is a blank slate that gets its value from the energy and meaning we give it.
-Giving and receiving money is an energetic exchange between people, and your job is to consciously get your frequency in alignment with the money you desire to manifest and open yourself up to receiving it.
-Money always comes to you through other people, but it comes from Universal Intelligence, as do all things. Which is why focusing on the frequency of your thoughts, not the people you hope to make money from, is the key to getting rich.
-Your focus needs to be on your desire for this money and what it's for, your excitement to share something of value with someone in order to obtain the money, your clarity on how joyful it will make that person, your gratitude that this money is coming to you, oh hell yes it is, and your belief that the Universe has got your back.
-You do the energetic work, get your thoughts actions, and words in line with what you desire to create, and surrender the rest of the details up to the Universe.
-Because money is currency and currency is energy, when you shrink down and lower your prices to accommodate someone, you're basically saying the equivalent of "I don't think you could grow and manifest the money you desire to work with me. I don't believe you're that powerful. I also don't think I have the right to charge what I'm worth or to make the decisions around here about what to charge." Not discounting my rates doesn't mean I don't donate my money and services, offer scholarships, put things on sale, etc., but I only do it if the energy around it is clean, aka coming from a place of power and possibility instead of insecurity, shame, can't lack, I'm a greedy, bad friend, etc.
-Money is a renewable resource... When we're cheap about sending it or weird about receiving it, we block its natural course, we put ourselves in a place of lack instead of abundance, our energy becomes riches interruptus.
-Give as much as you can as often as you can, receive with gratitude and joy, think of money as your pal, raise your frequency and get in the flow, yo.
Chapter 4: Best Practices For Busting Yourself
-The point I'm trying to make is that we make up these total BS stories and all we have to do is let go of them if we want to change our lives and be free, so what better story to relate it to than one that also might be total BS?
-You have to want your dreams more than you want your drama.
-When you get a handle on what's holding you back and realize what you need to do to move forward, act immediately.
Chapter 5: The Hollering of Your Heart
-If you're going to make more money, you need to get in touch with the emotions surrounding your incentive for making it.
-I love being rich because: I can spend my money on going to the movies, buying clothes I love, going out for dinner (which I love to do more than anything), instead of having to use it just for bills, necessities, etc.
-When we push against who we naturally are, we feel stress, things don't progress easily, we beat ourselves up for getting crappy results, everything is an effort.
-Meanwhile, when you listen to your heart and connect with who you're meant to become, you have energy because you're in a state of flow, things happen more easily, opportunities land in your lap, you're turned on, inspired, engulfed in a sea of brilliant ideas.
-Learning experiences are different from wasting your life pushing a boulder up a hill.
-By having the audacity to follow his heart instead of his fears, he was able to quit his hateful job and now spends his valuable time on Earth getting paid to be the life of the party.
-Taking action leads to answers, mulling ideas around in your head forever leads to indecision and grouchiness.
-Decide you're unavailable to live your one and only life treating your dreams like they're not as important as your fears.
Chapter 6: Your Mental Moneymaker
-You are the master of your reality and your perception is manning the control knobs.
-If you sell something you love, then you just sell love, not a specific product or service, and that will show.
-I mean COME ON.
Chapter 7: Fauth and Gratitudinal Gold
-If you're serious about creating a new reality, you must do different things and think different thoughts.
-Faith raises your frequency... You shift your emotional state from doubt and fear to excited expectation.
-Faith strengthens your abundance mindset.
-Gratitude allows you to raise the energy you meet each situation with.
-You can choose to be a victim to your circumstances or take responsibility for how you choose to perceive them.
-You can't see the silver lining through victim goggles.
-Right?!
-Desperation repels, gratitude attracts.
Chapter 8: Decisive Action: The Choice of Champions
-We pretend we've done everything we can and we work harder and harder doing the same things we've always done, hoping for different results. Meanwhile, there is almost always a solution right in front of our faces that we're ignoring because we've decided it's out of the question.
Chapter 9: Movin' On Up
-Here's what you can do when your peeps are negative, fearful, and don't support your ass kickery:
-Do not share your dreams with them of the work you're doing on yourself if they've proven to you that they're not going to support you and/or will fling their doubt and worry in your face. What's the point? You still get to love them and be with them, you just don't involve them in that part of your life.
-Underlined. Highlighted. Surrounded by stars!
-Start a self-help book group
-uhhhh, DONE. ;)
-When you succumb to fear, you are under the illusion that you can predict the future.
-Being around confident, wealth-positive people whom you respect gives you permission to believe there is abundance available to you too.
-Surround yourself with people who are bringing their A game and you will want to bring your A game too.
-Surround yourself with people who have your back and celebrate your successes no matter what.
-Practice twenty seconds of insane bravery and amazing things will happen.
-Money doesn't make you happy, money gives you options.
Chapter 10: And Now, A Word From My Accountant...
-We don't want to make money a central focus of our lives because we feel other things are so much more important, so we remain broke and out of touch with our finances and, as a result, we are constantly worrying/thinking about money, almost more than anything else.
-When we focus on the money instead of working ourselves to death, and get mighty clear about how much we desire to make and what we can do differently in order to make it happen, we open the door to new freedoms.
-You need to play to win instead of play not to lose.
-Treat money the way you'd like to be treated
-IMPORTANT URGENCY NOTE: Urgency is the opposite of hurrying. Hurrying comes from lack and a sense of panic that there isn't enough to go around.
-Hurrying lowers your frequency. Urgency meanwhile raises you up, gives you energy, focus, and drive.
Chapter 11: Your Inner Wealth
-If you wanna get rich, understand that just by being you, you have already struck gold.
-Forgiveness is about you deserving peace, not necessarily about others deserving your forgiveness.
Chapter 12: Tenacity
-Trust that you're meant to realize your desires, and know that while you'll still love the people you lose along the way, you will attract new people who are at the same frequency you are.
-Connect your new habit to another new habit or behavior...if you're trying to create a new habit, connecting it to an existing habit or behavior can really help.
-I now obnoxiously recommend this to everyone I see.
-Or maybe you start associating your morning cup of coffee with sitting down to read whatever motivational book you're reading.
-For me it's lunch and Soul Blazers Book Club
-Surrender is such a vital part of being tenacious - tenacity is not about pushing so hard you push away the very thing you're trying to achieve, it's about determined action paired with availability for the new, previously untaken paths that lead you where you desire to go.
-Never give up, course correct when necessary, and have faith that if you have the desire, the Universe has your back.
Chapter 13: Change Loves Company
-And here's the awesome bonus prize with this mastering your mindset thing, as if getting rich isn't awesome enough: Once you start shifting your mindset and getting into the flow with money, your energy will shift and many other parts of your life will start shifting too.
-When you transform your financial reality it's not just about gleefully watching the numbers grow in your bank account, it's about who you had to become to make the growth happen.
Can you tell I was attracted to all things green while I was reading this book?! 😂
The thing I liked most about this book was that it approached finances the way I approach every other aspect of my personal development practice. That is to say, decide how you want to feel towards money, and then allow yourself to be taken there. With a banker as a father, I have lived most of my life with very black and white ideas of money and how one should approach their finances, so this approach was MINDBLOWING to me. As soon as I had that ah-ha moment money was all I could think about. And for once, it was a good thing! Through working on these practices I've taken a new approach to my business, creativity, relationships, you name it.
Of course, I brought some oils on this journey with me! Mainly Abundance, Gratitude, and Oola Finance. I used them during yoga, on my diffuser jewelry, and I'd apply them on my lunch hour while I was reading. Remember that idea of connecting a new habit to an old one? Here it was, manifesting it's self in my life and I didn't even realize it.
Our group discussion focused, more than anything, on abundance. On ditching the lack mentality, upping your frequency, and standing in your own light. One of the big pitfalls we've all found when we step out of abundance is the danger of scarcity turning into overwhelm, which in turn leads to total loss of balance. NO! I am determined, more than ever, to project my worth and command the respect that comes with that. I will not lower my frequency to enable the low frequency of others. Instead, I'll stand strong and help them rise to my level. Who's with me? - xo Sydney
I was not optimistic going into this read. But buying the book at 30% off was a good start, right? 😉 Ever since the original, You Are a Badass, came out a few years ago it just immediately turned me off. It made me feel very, "I don't need you to yell at me! This intensity is too much for me! Who are you to tell me how to feel?!" and who needs that in their life? Some of those feelings still linger today, but I put that aside and was hoping to find something truly worthwhile within the pages of this neon green cover.
And I did! But more about that later. Here are the points that really jumped out at me...
Chapter 1: Allowance
-RICH: Able to afford all the things and experiences required to fully experience your most authentic life.
- Helloooo Core Desired Feelings!
-There will never be a lack of conflicting opinions and information when it comes to any decision you make in life, and this is especially true when it comes to something as controversial as money.
-If you allow yourself to make all the money you need to flourish and live out your desires, it does not mean you are, or will become, a greedy selfish, Earth-ruining bastard.
-Let's take back the word "money" and decriminalize it, because until you do, you aren't going to be terribly motivated to let yourself make much.
Chapter 2: Why You Ain't Rollin' In The Cheddah. Yet.
-Act as if you've got a long, happy life on Earth ahead of you. But do not shrink back from something you desire because it's too risky.
-It all starts with your thoughts; they are the catalyst that brings on the shift that changes what you believe and how you act.
-Phrases I need to re-frame:
- Never go into debt
- You have to work hard to make money.
- It's important to have a good, secure job.
- You have champagne tastes on a beer pocketbook
-When you (consciously or unconsciously) resent money or cling to your limiting beliefs about money or refuse to participate in making money, it does not serve you, it does not make you more noble, it does not help you or anyone else. What it does is put you on a hunger strike by cutting you off from that which you need not only to survive, but to thrive. By embracing money and getting into the flow, you open yourself up to the abundance that is trying to reach you this very moment.
-Success is not an end of the road game, it's a never-ending road game.
Chapter 2A: A Tiny But Mighty Chapter About Universal Intelligence
-Most People define their reality from the confines of what their five senses tell them, but there is so much more going on, like, say, an infinite, eternal Universe worth of stuff.
-Between our five physical senses and the "truth blueprint" created by our belief system, our perception of reality is, shall we say, a tad limited.
-Universal Intelligence and your thoughts are basically the same force.
-Your thoughts dictate the truth.
-Your thoughts alert Universal Intelligence to start arranging the energy in such a way as to make your desires manifest in physical form.
-Mastering the mindset of wealth is choosing to think about money, and your reality in relation to money, in a way that will make you rich, not keep you poor.
-Accept that you don't have to know how to do what you don't know how to do yet, and that the Universe will lead the way.
Chapter 3: Show Me the Money
-When you don't investigate what's going on with your words, thoughts, and beliefs, you risk stumbling through life on autopilot.
-Money is a blank slate that gets its value from the energy and meaning we give it.
-Giving and receiving money is an energetic exchange between people, and your job is to consciously get your frequency in alignment with the money you desire to manifest and open yourself up to receiving it.
-Money always comes to you through other people, but it comes from Universal Intelligence, as do all things. Which is why focusing on the frequency of your thoughts, not the people you hope to make money from, is the key to getting rich.
-Your focus needs to be on your desire for this money and what it's for, your excitement to share something of value with someone in order to obtain the money, your clarity on how joyful it will make that person, your gratitude that this money is coming to you, oh hell yes it is, and your belief that the Universe has got your back.
-You do the energetic work, get your thoughts actions, and words in line with what you desire to create, and surrender the rest of the details up to the Universe.
-Because money is currency and currency is energy, when you shrink down and lower your prices to accommodate someone, you're basically saying the equivalent of "I don't think you could grow and manifest the money you desire to work with me. I don't believe you're that powerful. I also don't think I have the right to charge what I'm worth or to make the decisions around here about what to charge." Not discounting my rates doesn't mean I don't donate my money and services, offer scholarships, put things on sale, etc., but I only do it if the energy around it is clean, aka coming from a place of power and possibility instead of insecurity, shame, can't lack, I'm a greedy, bad friend, etc.
-Money is a renewable resource... When we're cheap about sending it or weird about receiving it, we block its natural course, we put ourselves in a place of lack instead of abundance, our energy becomes riches interruptus.
-Give as much as you can as often as you can, receive with gratitude and joy, think of money as your pal, raise your frequency and get in the flow, yo.
Chapter 4: Best Practices For Busting Yourself
-The point I'm trying to make is that we make up these total BS stories and all we have to do is let go of them if we want to change our lives and be free, so what better story to relate it to than one that also might be total BS?
-You have to want your dreams more than you want your drama.
-When you get a handle on what's holding you back and realize what you need to do to move forward, act immediately.
Chapter 5: The Hollering of Your Heart
-If you're going to make more money, you need to get in touch with the emotions surrounding your incentive for making it.
-I love being rich because: I can spend my money on going to the movies, buying clothes I love, going out for dinner (which I love to do more than anything), instead of having to use it just for bills, necessities, etc.
-When we push against who we naturally are, we feel stress, things don't progress easily, we beat ourselves up for getting crappy results, everything is an effort.
-Meanwhile, when you listen to your heart and connect with who you're meant to become, you have energy because you're in a state of flow, things happen more easily, opportunities land in your lap, you're turned on, inspired, engulfed in a sea of brilliant ideas.
-Learning experiences are different from wasting your life pushing a boulder up a hill.
-By having the audacity to follow his heart instead of his fears, he was able to quit his hateful job and now spends his valuable time on Earth getting paid to be the life of the party.
-Taking action leads to answers, mulling ideas around in your head forever leads to indecision and grouchiness.
-Decide you're unavailable to live your one and only life treating your dreams like they're not as important as your fears.
Chapter 6: Your Mental Moneymaker
-You are the master of your reality and your perception is manning the control knobs.
-If you sell something you love, then you just sell love, not a specific product or service, and that will show.
-I mean COME ON.
Chapter 7: Fauth and Gratitudinal Gold
-If you're serious about creating a new reality, you must do different things and think different thoughts.
-Faith raises your frequency... You shift your emotional state from doubt and fear to excited expectation.
-Faith strengthens your abundance mindset.
-Gratitude allows you to raise the energy you meet each situation with.
-You can choose to be a victim to your circumstances or take responsibility for how you choose to perceive them.
-You can't see the silver lining through victim goggles.
-Right?!
-Desperation repels, gratitude attracts.
Chapter 8: Decisive Action: The Choice of Champions
-We pretend we've done everything we can and we work harder and harder doing the same things we've always done, hoping for different results. Meanwhile, there is almost always a solution right in front of our faces that we're ignoring because we've decided it's out of the question.
Chapter 9: Movin' On Up
-Here's what you can do when your peeps are negative, fearful, and don't support your ass kickery:
-Do not share your dreams with them of the work you're doing on yourself if they've proven to you that they're not going to support you and/or will fling their doubt and worry in your face. What's the point? You still get to love them and be with them, you just don't involve them in that part of your life.
-Underlined. Highlighted. Surrounded by stars!
-Start a self-help book group
-uhhhh, DONE. ;)
-When you succumb to fear, you are under the illusion that you can predict the future.
-Being around confident, wealth-positive people whom you respect gives you permission to believe there is abundance available to you too.
-Surround yourself with people who are bringing their A game and you will want to bring your A game too.
-Surround yourself with people who have your back and celebrate your successes no matter what.
-Practice twenty seconds of insane bravery and amazing things will happen.
-Money doesn't make you happy, money gives you options.
Chapter 10: And Now, A Word From My Accountant...
-We don't want to make money a central focus of our lives because we feel other things are so much more important, so we remain broke and out of touch with our finances and, as a result, we are constantly worrying/thinking about money, almost more than anything else.
-When we focus on the money instead of working ourselves to death, and get mighty clear about how much we desire to make and what we can do differently in order to make it happen, we open the door to new freedoms.
-You need to play to win instead of play not to lose.
-Treat money the way you'd like to be treated
-IMPORTANT URGENCY NOTE: Urgency is the opposite of hurrying. Hurrying comes from lack and a sense of panic that there isn't enough to go around.
-Hurrying lowers your frequency. Urgency meanwhile raises you up, gives you energy, focus, and drive.
Chapter 11: Your Inner Wealth
-If you wanna get rich, understand that just by being you, you have already struck gold.
-Forgiveness is about you deserving peace, not necessarily about others deserving your forgiveness.
Chapter 12: Tenacity
-Trust that you're meant to realize your desires, and know that while you'll still love the people you lose along the way, you will attract new people who are at the same frequency you are.
-Connect your new habit to another new habit or behavior...if you're trying to create a new habit, connecting it to an existing habit or behavior can really help.
-I now obnoxiously recommend this to everyone I see.
-Or maybe you start associating your morning cup of coffee with sitting down to read whatever motivational book you're reading.
-For me it's lunch and Soul Blazers Book Club
-Surrender is such a vital part of being tenacious - tenacity is not about pushing so hard you push away the very thing you're trying to achieve, it's about determined action paired with availability for the new, previously untaken paths that lead you where you desire to go.
-Never give up, course correct when necessary, and have faith that if you have the desire, the Universe has your back.
Chapter 13: Change Loves Company
-And here's the awesome bonus prize with this mastering your mindset thing, as if getting rich isn't awesome enough: Once you start shifting your mindset and getting into the flow with money, your energy will shift and many other parts of your life will start shifting too.
-When you transform your financial reality it's not just about gleefully watching the numbers grow in your bank account, it's about who you had to become to make the growth happen.
Can you tell I was attracted to all things green while I was reading this book?! 😂
The thing I liked most about this book was that it approached finances the way I approach every other aspect of my personal development practice. That is to say, decide how you want to feel towards money, and then allow yourself to be taken there. With a banker as a father, I have lived most of my life with very black and white ideas of money and how one should approach their finances, so this approach was MINDBLOWING to me. As soon as I had that ah-ha moment money was all I could think about. And for once, it was a good thing! Through working on these practices I've taken a new approach to my business, creativity, relationships, you name it.
Of course, I brought some oils on this journey with me! Mainly Abundance, Gratitude, and Oola Finance. I used them during yoga, on my diffuser jewelry, and I'd apply them on my lunch hour while I was reading. Remember that idea of connecting a new habit to an old one? Here it was, manifesting it's self in my life and I didn't even realize it.
Our group discussion focused, more than anything, on abundance. On ditching the lack mentality, upping your frequency, and standing in your own light. One of the big pitfalls we've all found when we step out of abundance is the danger of scarcity turning into overwhelm, which in turn leads to total loss of balance. NO! I am determined, more than ever, to project my worth and command the respect that comes with that. I will not lower my frequency to enable the low frequency of others. Instead, I'll stand strong and help them rise to my level. Who's with me? - xo Sydney
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