Do you thwart your financial success because of your own mental and emotional short-circuits? Do you harbor beliefs and attitudes that undermine your best efforts to be prosperous and successful?
This may be true if you, make excessive preparations and then never start, screw up for no apparent reason, or quit when we are on the verge of success.
This is like standing on a garden hose, opening the faucet, and wondering “Where’s the water?”
Here are a few examples of these short-circuits.
Suppose you think success and money change people into snobs, obnoxious hucksters, or materialistic money-grubbers. Suppose you think success and money cause people to abandon core beliefs and values, ruin lives, and foster greed,
Suppose you think success and money make others like or dislike the affluent only because of their money.
You get the picture. Sounds inharmonious, doesn’t it?
These beliefs and attitudes will cause success to slip through your fingers. And they do damage so subtlety!
For example, no one says, “I’m going to screw up this week because I’m afraid I’ll turn into a snob” or “I think I will sabotage myself today because I want to keep my core beliefs and values intact.”
Rather, they procrastinate, forget appointments, or misplace paperwork. They keep their “nose to the grindstone” while others stand on tip toe and seize new opportunities.
They start late and quit early. They prepare endlessly and never start. They fail to prepare and look foolish.
Of course, they don’t do these on purpose. At least, they don’t do them consciously.
This is why course after course about overcoming procrastination, organizing one’s time, selling more effectively, or even visualizing success may not result in success and more money. Until it’s OK to succeed, one doesn’t succeed.
Feel comfortable about success and you neutralize short-circuits and dissipate limiting behaviors.
When I recognize these attitudes in someone, I’ve discovered that it’s a safe bet that they unconsciously short-circuit their own success. If you see a part of yourself in the preceding, here’s how to deal with these short-circuits.
Challenge your beliefs and attitudes about success. Find exceptions to the beliefs and attitudes you may have unwittingly considered absolute. Almost certainly, they are valid only sometimes and only in some cases.
For example, if you think success changes people into snobs, read about Warren Buffet or Sam Walton. You are unlikely to find two greater examples of success and unpretentiousness.
If you feel that success compromises one’s core values and beliefs, read about S. Truett Cathy, the founder of Chick-fil-A. Chick-fil-A is very successful fast-food chain of over 1,200 locations despite being closed on Sundays in keeping with Cathy’s religious convictions.
If the idea of ruined lives and greed concerns you, read about philanthropists from the Rockefellers to Bill and Melinda Gates.
However, if you are concerned about people liking you or disliking you because of your money, try making some and take your chances! You’ll adjust. And you will sort true friends from mere acquaintances in a hurry.
Challenge your beliefs and attitudes and neutralize your short-circuits. See success and money through new eyes.
Your world will be a more prosperous and success-friendly place.
Tony Papajohn coaches excellence and specializes in money. If you are a real estate investor, financial trader, entrepreneur, or want money to treat you like its new best friend, check out Tony’s free e-courses at http://www.WelcomeMoreMoney.com .
