[RT Wolf]

4-Hour Workweek? The E-Myth is also supposed to have some information on limiting beliefs related to money?

Why do you disagree?

I always thought that a book that just contains lists of common/possible limiting beliefs would be fantastic.

I'm trying to deal with my limiting beliefs around money, too. I'm having trouble figuring out why I would want a surplus. Having more than I need, although need is so uselessly defined. I don't need new clothes, I could just go to a used clothing store. Our basic NEEDs are very few. UNless I start to think of higher-level needs like Abraham Maslow suggests. Yes, that feels right.

The other thing is that my conscience won't allow me to provide service to people other than trying to feed the hungry or so forth. That's entirely admirable, of course, but I feel that I should always be working to improve the lives of those that are simply hungry than deal with higher-level needs like improving productivity or happiness in people's lives. It simply seems nobler.

I've been trying to figure out how we deal with abundance. We have an abundance of air and water, for example, and time to an extent.

Maybe I do feel that money is osmething that needs to be exchanged (even though air isn't) and that creating value that can be exchanged for money is hard.

I like to ask, why don't I have this goal already? And that can raise some interesting beliefs which may be limiting or not. For example, Why don't I already make 1000 dollars a month passively:

- I don't have any good ideas for niche products that would do that
- I haven't taken any action to this goal
- It's hard to do that
- 1000 dollars sounds great, but beyond that I really wouldn't know what to do with the money. Honestly, I could improve my liestyle but I feel I'd probably end up giving that money away or it would just sit around. I don't think I can really spend that much money like that.
- Ok, say I do maek that much money, what if my sources dry up while I'm off enjoying life or whatever. The way around this is to remember that I can just take up a joba nd that over time I'd build more passive streams.
- What if I run out of customers?
- What if my product isn't good enoug?
- If I was making money easily, people would ask me for it and I'd feel compelled to give it to them cause its easier for me to make it than for others.

I think it'd be easier if I personally knew some people who did this sorta thing. Why the hell do we have such a complicated relationship with money? I don't feel bad if I have more air or whatever. Is money really so weird that it needs twenty thousand conditions?

I guess that's the nature of abundance,t hat you don't worry about not having enough, but you knw its there if/when you wnat mre of it. If I want to take a longer shower, for example, I just take it.

Sorry about the rambling nature oft he post and possible thread hijacking, but if anyone's got insight on this I'd love to hear it.