Your Mind Is Programmed To Stay Poor (Here’s How To Rewrite It)
Lewis Howes explains how childhood money beliefs create invisible earning limits and offers five practical exercises to break through them.
The gist
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Identify your unconscious earnings ceiling, the highest amount held in your bank for 30 days, then research what comparable roles pay elsewhere.
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Raise your rate on one service by 20% this week and sit in silence after stating the number to break the old belief.
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Howes says to give money a job before it arrives by automating a set percentage, even 1%, to a cause or goal today.
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Apply a 72-hour rule before significant purchases and calculate the second price tag, what that money becomes in 20 years at roughly 7% returns.
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