The psychology of money...
 

Many people think they want money, but psychologically, deep down, they hate it...

This is the deeper issue that's holding them back!

There could be many reasons. For some, it relates to popular sayings such as "Money is the root of all evil"...

Nobody wants to be "evil," right?

Then there are those who take the opposite approach. If you have money, it must mean you've been blessed by a Higher Power...

To me, this is just going to the opposite extreme.

I know poor people, I know rich people. There are good and bad people in each category.

Pablo Escobar, the Cocaine king, was a very rich man. Kim Jong-Un, the dictator of North Korea, is also very rich. Both were/are also very evil.

Money in itself is not inherently evil. The actual original saying is "The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil" (1 Timothy 6:10).

As I understand it, you have to keep money in perspective. Don't let money rule over you, to the exclusion of other priorities like family and your health!

On the other hand, you need money to survive, and to support your loved ones. Surely having money to support yourself and your loved ones can't be a bad thing?!

This is a very deep issue... And it is not always an easy issue to deal with!

I'm speaking from experience... If you talked to me as a young man (in my 20s), I would say I had thought processes similar to the ones I'm talking about above... It's taken me a long time to get from there to here.

What you want is a balanced approach. Money is a tool... And just like any other tool, it can be used for good or evil...!

It is not "good" or "evil" in itself...

I just thought I'd throw the issue out there...!

Best wishes,

Dien

Re: The psychology of money...BUT, what is MONEY?
 

Good issue to toss around.

The SQ1 have been posted 16 years, I've had 5 students in that time. I don't teach them to the public, but, they are there for anyone to use or to ignore.

But it may be one of the best guides out there on MONEY. I feel it is hard to have a discussion without first, having definitions.

I'll use the ones from the SQ1, but anyone can add or present their own versions or define money differently, OK?

From S
Q1 Lesson 2 and 2B:

Money is
a medium of exchange
and
a measure of value. These, for me, cover it, but again, feel free to add yours too.

What most smart kids weren't taught in school was the practical math of money. While college bound students learned Geo, Trig, Alg...

I was in the "dummies" class where we learned how to balance a checkbook, read the financials, understand ledgers and bookkeeping. In fact, MY advanced math was "Practical Bookkeeping"...of course I was a lousy student, but I did "get" most of the lessons.

So, while many were learning that x+Y= ????????????

I knew that red was bad.
Black was good.

When it came to money.

Also, what most don't learn is:

MONEY IS A MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE. But, for the majority, they think or falsely believe it is the ONLY one to concern yourself with.

Exchanging value. It is the key. Glenn Osborn has this great thread here on BARTER, with dozens of examples of trading tits for tats.

If you have a larger concept, then it makes seeing ALTERNATIVES to money when you want to EXCHANGE VALUE.

The SQ1 shows how to get money or other things. I haven't had the need to add to it in 20 years. If you see something I've missed, let me know.

http://www.sowpub.com/gordon/financialpicto.gif

See? If we look at exchanges of values, then the love of money, or psychology of bad/good doesn't really come into play.

The biblical references and other religious ideas, usually play money against God, or mammon vs spirit...
Or they embrace the idea it was all made for our pleasure and gain is good.

Looking at money from a different view, as an EXCHANGE...

Then you can see how to get what you want. The WHY you want it, is the psychology part that is different in all of us.

But say a lump of gold is just a rock. That is what it is. The value of that rock is man created, the original "shiny object" of lust.

Nomads were classified as the RICH, by the number of cattle or livestock they had.

Land keepers (ownership is a made up word, and is only determined by one's ability to defend his claim of ownership) built things, and the bigger and badder they were, with what was inside was a general value of any given society. Rich in castles, poor in huts, much like today.

Getting money, isn't that difficult, CHOOSING and deciding what you are willing to GIVE for it, is the real challenge.

GordonJ

Quick Primer...How to Make Money FAST.
 

I've found some good ideas in several Facebook groups I belong too.

Last week, I pointed out a post by Marlon Sanders, which I'll refer to here again...along with a bit of gold from Colin Theriot's Cult of Copy.

At CoC, a Tony Robbins discussion broke out.

I found this little thing buried there.

Posted by Jeff Elliott; "...
cash in on a society of confused people with a different jumble of mumble."

This is a pithy little formula for making fast money. Guru Gary Halbert once said the only advantage he wanted was to build his hamburger stand in the middle of a starving crowd.

Fair enough and good advice, except when you build it and find out the starving crowd is vegan...OOPS.

And with IM, there is a lot of the latter type of starving markets. Read Steve MacLellan's post
http://www.sowpub.com/forum/showthread.php?p=36927

it aids in understanding why so many burger joints get built in vegan communities, metaphorically speaking.

We could look to Trump's success with his new MUMBLE JUMBLE (MJ), and the confused society he is appealing too.

But there are many other examples, and we tend to call them Niches.

Starving Markets.
Clearly defined Avatars of Behavior (which makes Steve's post so important)

Target Messages which stimulate, agitate, offer solutions or resolutions of the starving crowd, the INDIVIDUAL within the crowd....

All old school and tested and proven.

Now, as relevant to this discussion:
There is no greater number of a CONFUSED society than those who don't have enough money and WANT it. Multi-Billion dollar market which fuels the world economies.

So, YOUR application of the formula would look something like this:
Example Tony Robbins, a multi-millionaire who has been cashing in on society of confusion for a couple of decades now.

Downsize TR, with a different BRAND of his "MJ"...

with some Neo Linguist Propoganda Techiques, or NLPT...
First few burgers to serve up:

How to get laid tonight with NLPT, the shortcut to pick up women.

NLPT and The SECRET, how use NLPT to accelerate the principles of manifestation.

Long ago, some Akronite Clown (Gary Shawkey) had people doing firewalks and was an early pretender to the whole IM crowd, and many of today's Gurus got their start with Shawkey.

Just in the NLP world traced back to two guys, there are dozens of modified downlines each given a twist, and all finding the right confusion to market too.

So, if you want to make money quickly, you must find the confusion you want to market too. My advice, look at the 5k to 25k guys getting rich from the confused with disposable income...

rather than millions of confused in or near poverty.

Choose your confusion wisely...then

cash in on a society of confused people with a different jumble of mumble.

GordonJ

PS. As for the Marlon Sanders piece of this puzzle...SURROGATE BOSSES (SB).

Knowing there is confusion. Correctly identifying it and knowing THEIR JOBS TO BE DONE, to get them out of confusion and into...

positive paths, which you have arranged, and you become the SB...

As Tony Robbins has been for years now, and has a whole shift of "employees" paying him, in great sums of money...is one of the quickest, easiest ways to start making money quickly and keeping it coming in for decades.