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Originally Posted by moonrambler  What I've denounced since I was in high school is people who make money doing work that they don't like, and so they spend 40 hours or more a week doing something that they don't like, all because they want money. Which is fine on a temporary basis, but there are multitudes of people doing this their entire lives!
I guess it became my mantra that I would rather be poor than do something I don't like doing, and from there somehow it became a mantra that going after money is inherently inauthentic, so anything I like doing would necessarily involve being broke.
Everything got all distorted along the way.
I think this is basically what I saw a lot of after college. I saw people who had great fun in their younger days, having to slog off to work 40 hours a week now, and that is not at all what they would prefer to be doing. I kept wondering what is so great about the way we have things set up, that people get to have happiness and fun up until they are about 21 and then after that, it's drudgery.
They are inauthentic. They do this job they don't like 40 hours a week and then they get all dressed up and go out for dinner at a great restaurant.
Then I suppose there is this: If I start making a big pile of money at my business, which I really enjoy, what about all the people having to do work they don't like? How am I supposed to feel about that?
These attitudes are a huge problem for me when it comes to making a significant income breakthrough. |
wow those are some heavy beliefs to work through. I would only throw out this - there are people who enjoy their work. There are people who are happy working. There are people who are both wealthy & authentic. There are people who would continue doing their work/career even if they won multi-millions in the lotto tomorrow.
changing our self taught beliefs is a huge undertaking and requires both becoming aware of them and then dispelling them. Basically they are just thoughts that you've told yourself so often they've become your truth.
Sometimes we must think new thoughts and tell ourselves new truths.