With all my HEART, You're broke not because of what happened to you. It's because of you. I know poverty and wealth first hand on a very personal level. Poverty is uncomfortable, degrading, and it's entirely reversible no matter how bad the circumstances.
I figured out how to go from being broke and poverty stricken from a few years ago to some awesome wealth and liberation from "Hard times" in a jerk face economy. It wasn't my Team Beachbody opportunity. My Team Beachbody opportunity was only the vehicle.
The true engine behind change, as well as every other person who changed their life, is in the mind. It doesn't start with the economy. It doesn't start with what happens to you or what's going on around you. It starts in your mind. If change doesn't begin in your mind FIRST then it's not going to occur in your life, period.
Two things happened that changed everything and I've found this to be true for EVERY rags to riches success story. These two things are entirely duplicable by ANYONE especially YOU. 1.) I changed my belief in my self and my personal philosophies that drive my daily rituals for some new daily rituals that were more supportive of my dreams than my old daily rituals were. 2.) I changed how I respond to what happens to me. You shape your life by responding to the good and the bad things that happen to you whether you believe it or not.
If you're broke and poverty stricken I'm telling you this with all my heart to give you hope that drives you to new actions because hope alone is not a strategy or a solution to anything. I'm absolutely certain you can come out of hard ship and THRIVE with a simple change in your belief system.
The popular and truly poisonous belief for most people is they believe the reason they are broke is because of the economy and fallen on hard times. If this is your belief I empathize with your hard ships but it is not the economy. If you're over 18 there is nothing legislating a poverty or a wealth stricken life for you. It's your belief, your personal philosophy, your daily rituals, and how you respond to what happens to you. It's not the fact you might be a single mom getting help from the government because you can't make ends meet and a job that pays you less than the bare minimum to just get by. It's your belief system, your personal philosophies that drive your daily action and how you respond to what happens to you.
This truly offends some people. Welcome to your permanent house guest; poverty. Don't be offended. Feel EMPOWERED. That's what this is about. It's not to offend or make you feel scorn. If it makes you angry that's not all together a bad thing. Many times we don't change something until we are angry enough first so if anger leads to change leads to a better life for you then get angry.
Complacency is another popular poison in our culture. Get mad and don't take it anymore! You are a POWERFUL human being capable of shaping your life any which way you want if only you wouldn't be so damn complacent. This isn't some arbitrary positive affirmation I'm feeding you. I'm saying it because I know with absolute certainty that it's true! It's been validated time and time again by every person working in the same economy as you and I who went from rags to riches often times coming out of devastation greater than yours or mine. It's the same economy. The only difference is YOU.
The economy, politics, being a single parent, on disability, abusive child hood, fallen on hard times etc.... People who mean well fill our heads with this kind of poison as justification to not be doing well. "Oh johnny it's ok you're on hard times right now because of the economy." Or, "Suzie your a single mom on disability there is nothing you could have done to avoid being broke and on assistance". Friends who say these things mean well and I truly do empathize...but... That's how a friend who means well helps a friend to stay broke year after year. It's poisonous. It's pure head trash. Cut it out your friends don't need your help to stay dirt poor head trash is everywhere stop contributing to the epidemic. Try rebelling against that garbage with a greater will to succeed and see what happens. There is nothing less empowering than to tell a person, no matter how bad it is, that they are broke because of environmental variables they have no control over.
And here is why...
All of us NEED difficulties and opportunities, good times and hard times, a bad economy a good economy and so on to give us a wide scope of good and bad things to respond to. We NEED things to happen to us the good and the bad. Most of what happens to us we have no control over. But we control our response to what happens to us 100% of the time. If you're reading this and your broke then BURN this into your mind as deep as you can it's how I got out of poverty it's the same opportunity for you to get out of poverty to... You NEED to change how you respond to what happens to you. You NEED to ESPECIALLY change your response to the bad in your life. Bad and Good events are ALL opportunities to shape your life any which way you'd like. Without the Good and the Bad that happens to you there is no opportunity to change anything that you need to change.
Begin to see difficulties and bad events in your life for what they are. They are all opportunities for you to respond. It's your consistent response to what happens to you that shapes your life. It's your consistent response to what happens to you that keeps you broke OR brings you into wealth OR takes you from wealth to poverty. Are you beginning to see how powerful you can be just by changing how you respond to what happens to you? God I hope so.
You might have it really tough right now. But I promise you there is always going to be someone who had it tougher than you who changed how they respond to what happens to them and came out of it in a big way in the SAME economy that you're in. Whats the only difference if the economy is the same for both the broke person who stays broke and the broke person who discovers personal wealth? It's YOU. Would you rather believe you can totally change everything by changing your mind first or would you rather hear a well intended friend tell you that there is nothing you can do because the economy is bad right now? And if you're the well intended friend trying to help a friend which message would you rather have? The one of empowerment or the one of hopelessness?
Compassion.
The emotion often lost in cyber translation. When I say things like, "its not the economy it's you" it's coming from my heart because I believe it with absolute certainty. It's all 100% compassion and understanding. If you could hear my voice you'd know it.
You see I was there I know it very well. When you come out of poverty and into wealth it's going to be because you changed your daily rituals and how you respond to what happens to you. You changed your mind first and then your life followed! Once you have the validation from the results in your life to prove it works then you're going to be driven by that big heart of yours to pay it forward any which way you can. It's exciting for me to be able to look a broke person over the age of 18 right in the cranium and say to them, "You messed up... But what you don't know yet is you are POWERFUL you can change all of it by changing how you respond to what happens to you and putting some more supportive daily rituals in motion in your life! Others in the same economy you're working in discovered personal wealth. They are no better than you. You can do this."
Heart.
It takes no guts and no heart whatsoever to tell a friend they are broke and in hard times because of the economy and some other things that happened to them that they have no control over. It takes guts, compassion, and a BIG heart to tell a friend, "I feel you... but you're exactly where you're at in your life because of the decisions you've made. Whats exciting about that is if it makes you uncomfortable you have enormous power to change all that."
I want you to know that you're in the same economy, the same political landscape, the same planet, and bound by the same natural laws of the earth as every other person who discovered their own personal wealth, health, liberation, and happiness. The only difference is YOU. If you're uncomfortable where your life is then change your mind first and your life will follow. EVERY time.
Here is your challenge to help you live a healthier, happier, more full filling life. Start the challenge IMMEDIATELY because procrastination is the cornerstone of all poverty and action is the way to living better.
1. Swap out some daily rituals not supportive of living better with some that are more supportive of living better. 2. Change how you respond to what happens to you. 3. If you're telling friends they are where they are at in their lives because of what's happened to them stop doing that and instead let them know they can change everything by changing their daily rituals and how they respond to what happens to them. The latter is empowering for change. The other is poisonous and incapable of empowering anyone for change unless they rebel against you.
I'd love to hear about your success. Write / call me share with me what you've changed and how it's affected your life. Truly I LOVE success stories and I'd love to hear yours. Get started on that right away!
- Tom
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