Money Killed My Parrot

Money is evil
Money is a curse
Money splits friends
Money killed my parrot??!!!

I hope you are wondering how on earth it is possible for money to kill my parrot. If you can’t come up with a feasible scenario you would be right. Without a human being’s clumsy interjection, money cannot kill my parrot because it is an inanimate object. This was in fact a big fat lie! And the moral of my flimsy story is that people shouldn’t make up mean stories about money because they themselves wouldn’t like it if it were done to them!

Your Relationship With Money

In this post I want to you to look at your relationship with money to assess whether it could be holding you back from attracting enough to have it stuffed into drawers and hanging out of biscuit tins in your house. Enough to have it found breezily lining the floor of your apartment(s), not to mentioned parked in loads of accounts earning enough interest for you to live on.

I have touched on this in other posts. I mentioned the old conviction that ‘money is evil,’ as some would have you believe. The actual saying is ‘money is the route of all evil’. Which still isn’t even true. But whatever IS the route, it is MAN who commits ALL crime and to blame money is just making excuses for the lack of it and passing responsibility for our own very human failures.

I use ‘Million Dollar Mind’ and million dollar references a lot. Coachie was named as ‘The Million Dollar Coach’ in the press and with good reason, (press). I like it also because it has unattainable connotations. It represents a particular kind of success, and is a big, round bellied figure. Because of sayings like ‘I feel like a million dollars’ it is also seen as an aspirational, positive reference. What’s not to love?!

The Mindset

I would like anybody interested in earning a lot of money to not feel intimidated by this figure and see it as a realistic…beginning! Whatever you decide is a realistic goal for you will become your reality. A realistic goal for a lot of people is to get home with a takeaway most nights and sit in front of the TV – and by jove – that is exactly what happens most nights!

The way I wax lyrically about money and millions is the same way I wax lyrically about anything of interest. Money is not the source of my life, my well being, my happiness, my fun or my goals. It has always been a rather nice consequence of what I choose to do with my life and the more the merrier. I wouldn’t limit it’s presence any more than I would limit the amount of smiles I receive daily to a set figure. That would seem so random and absurd and yet I hear people state how much would be just enough for them all the time. But why the limit? If they were offered more would they then burn it?

They don’t do that with say hair cuts, friends, pens, TV watching i.e, ‘In my life I only need watch 55,000 hours of TV and I’ll be happy’…so why pick on money?

Why the awkward relationship with money?

It is because some people have learnt to be uncomfortable with money or around it. They have learnt to distrust it, misunderstand it, misuse it, avoid it and attribute the wrong level of importance to it and yet not enough importance to understand enough financial jargon to protect it. It is a historical trick played on the psyche of the less wealthy by those who have absolutely no problem acquiring lots of it, particularly sourcing it from those who don’t have much of it in the first place! This game is financially damaging, deceptive, often corrupt and meant to obscure the real truth about wealth. It is kept in place to keep ‘ordinary’ folks handing over their hard earned cash to the super wealthy, via interest, charges, ignorance, tax and paying out to mimic the pretense of wealth with excess, money wasting materialism. All the while blaming the wrong things or people for their lack of abundance. Money is not at fault. People are.

I have watched financial buck passers literally back away from people who are obviously wealthy when I have taken them to showbizzy events. They creep away quietly to a corner, preferring to have lengthy conversations with the waiters. This is where they are most comfortable. Is this you? Are you uncomfortable around financial success? Are you comfortable even just watching it or do you find yourself hurling insults at ‘successful’ people on TV from the comfort of your over-used sofa or from behind the anonymity of a computer on a regular basis?

The non lazy buck passers are also the type of people who toil hard and give excellent service in their line of work but disrespect their own talent or skill by way undercharging. I have been in the process of negotiating on the telephone for a client, having pitched my figures at five times the amount they had originally suggested, only to have them red faced and mortified, waving and hissing loudly in the background, ‘NOOOOOOOO!’ They were hugely embarrassed to ask for such an amount.

Needless to say with Coachie at the helm the customer always said yes and would always send a never-received-before thank you card upon completion of the job – both for the delivered job and the service. On the other hand, this type of client would normally undercharge and yet their customers would still always find reasons and excuses not to pay them, upon completion of work. Coachie‘s pricing was never questioned because I did not ask apologetically if it would be okay to charge that particular amount and would they be able to afford it – (as one client often did!) It was delivered as a clear statement of what the job was truly worth, not a query.

Sainsburys or Walmart never ask their customers if they can afford their charges and neither do their customers attempt to pay less than the official prices, or refuse to pay once at the checkout, yet they are worth billions. Why is it that people who really NEED the money feel so insecure about asking for what their efforts are worth? 

When you get a 9-5 job, a stranger values you by what they pay you by the hour and somehow, (unsurprisingly), it is never quite enough is it? Doesn’t it seem that with transport, tax, food, clothing, snacks, after work hook-ups and other miscellaneous items you often end up paying out say £57 a day to earn £54? Very few people taste the freedom of never HAVING to work again, or having more than enough. The ones that do are people who do not give money undue respect. Money should haul rocks for you. You shouldn’t be hauling rocks for money. In other words money should be YOUR b*tch! The goal is to make it work for you. Not the other way around.

My job is to show you how.

Money knows it’s place in my life and I have no fear earning and receiving as much of it that is available for me. I have had very little of it and tons of it and neither state changed my character or made me profoundly happier or sadder. It simply buys things. Products, time, respect, relaxation and economic peace of mind. That’s it! Used badly it can also buy a whole lotta trouble too! Either way it is not a dirty word, evil, a device that makes good people evil or greedy, (they already are!), a curse or something that is not spoken about in polite company. It is merely a means to an end, a device, a tool…I say BRING IT ON!

Whatever it’s size it is always welcome in my house. I will handle it. And I speak about millions (and billions!) whilst being one of the least materialistic people I know! (Readers of my other sites know this already). Whilst I don’t respect money, I respect what it can do and indeed has done for me and others.

I would like you also to have a good great relationship with money. One not based on fear, unintelligent nonsense, old fashioned beliefs, old wives tales, ignorance, feelings of unworthiness and lack of understanding of the basics of money, the monetary system and how it works and how to make it work for YOU.
We will do this together. You will love it! Always set meaningful goals but don’t set pointless, unquestioned limitations that are sculpted in stone, life is hard enough don’t you think?

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