Module 5 – The Circumstances & The Immutables

Module 5
The Circumstances & The Immutables

TIME

One of the most valuable assets you have is time. It’s the one thing you literally can’t get more of. People like to label time as “work time” or “free time” but the truth is that there is no such thing as “work time” or “free time”, there is just TIME.

Time is a mental construct. It’s a way we manage our mind around each day.

Put “time” in the C line of your Model see how your thoughts about time create your results with time.

As an example, look at the difference between the two Models below:

C: Time
T: I don’t have enough
F: Stress
A: Procrastinate, buffer
R: Not enough time

C: Time
T: I have plenty
F: Abundant
A: Plan, use, create
R: Plenty of time

The circumstance (time) doesn’t change, but the way you think about it will change your experience of it.

Most of us don’t live our days deliberately. We live unconsciously and let the day slip away without using anything to manage our time.

I encourage you to write down how you spent your last 24 hours. Having an awareness of how you have been spending your time will give you an indication of how you think about time.

Only actions create results. Actions take time. Actions create time. Your actions are what determines your time. This ultimately means your thoughts determine your time. The more deliberate your thoughts are about time, the better you’ll be at creating results with your time.

ASK YOURSELF:
? What do you believe your time is for?
? Do you believe you have enough time? Why or why not?
? What takes up your time and why?
? Why do you spend your time the way you do?
? What do you want to use your life for?
? What don’t you want to waste time on anymore?

MONEY

Money. I love it. I love talking about it, I love creating it, I love spending it, I love giving it, and I love having it. My thoughts about money has created my relationship with money and my results with money. Money and I are good friends!

Money itself is a circumstances. Like time, money is a constant for us all. And like time, how we think about money – what we believe about money – will determine our experience of money (feelings or quality) and our results with money (quantity).

What do you believe about money?

Think about your answer.

 Money is abundant.
 Money is easy.
 Money is fun.
 I love money.

Or does your answer sound more like this?

 Money is hard.
 You have to work hard for money.
 Only greedy people have money.
 Money isn’t important.

The way you think about money is what will determine how much you have.

I encourage you to have more and create more for the following reasons:
 Money solves almost all problems.
 Money can buy you time, and there is nothing more valuable than time.
 Money can buy you freedom.
 Money can speed things up.
 Money can buy you learning opportunities.
 Money makes life easier.

Many people think money is the root of all evil, but that’s not entirely accurate. If you’re an evil person, you’ll do evil things with your money. If you’re an amazing, wonderful, helpful, awesome person, you’re going to do amazing, awesome, wonderful things with your money.

The more money we have, the more fun we can have, and the more we can help people. Aspiring to have more money asks us to be more of who we genuinely are. You may think the opposite of that is true, that the pursuit of money makes us greedy. It forces us to treat other people terribly, and we shouldn’t ever try to achieve wealth, or we’ll hurt someone on our way there. These beliefs are quite pervasive, and people cling to their thoughts about money.

However, we can all agree that money solves a lot of problems. Poor people need money, and you have to build wealth to have money in order to give money.

The repetitive and programmed thoughts that don’t serve us do need to be managed. Think of them as the thoughts stuffed away at the back of the closet. They seem harmless because you don’t really know what’s in there; you aren’t really paying attention. But these thoughts are continuously creating unwanted emotion in the background. We need to pull these thoughts into our consciousness and make deliberate decisions about them to drive the actions and results we have to have with money.

HALF EMPTY VS. HALF FULL VS. ALL FULL

Let’s take a look at a few Model’s of Alignment. You saw a comparison of Models for Time, let’s take a look at some Money Model’s.

Start with a little bit of awareness by thinking about how much money you have right now. Why do you have that amount?

Now think about that in terms of your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions. What are your feelings about how you’ve acquired your money? What’s your opinion about your money right now? Are your current thoughts likely to create more money?

Put your thought about money in the Model of Alignment. Put “money” on the C line, and notice what result your current thought about money is getting you.

You might have some of these thoughts about money:
 I don’t have enough time to make money.
 Money is hard.
 Money is scarce.
 I’m never going to have enough money.
 I don’t have the right education.
 I hate my job.
 I don’t know how to create value.
 I don’t know how to make money.
 I’m in so much debt, I’ll never get out.

What are your current thoughts about money? Write them down. Pay attention. Do you notice yourself resisting the realization you chose to create the amount you currently have? Do you tell yourself the story that it wasn’t a choice, that you’re doing the best you can or something else? Explain that to yourself.

What are your thoughts about making more money?

Do you ever say:
 Oh, that’s not right. I shouldn’t want more. I should be satisfied.
 I shouldn’t be chasing money.
 I don’t have enough time.

Are these the thoughts you want to be having on purpose? What do you want your thoughts to be? You don’t have to tell anyone.

If you want to change the way you feel about money, you can do it purposefully, but make sure you like your reasoning. If you’re afraid of what other people will think about you, that’s worth questioning. Most of us want to keep quiet about the amount of money we make because we’re afraid other people will think we’re greedy or that we’re rich and they’ll hate us. Take a close look at that.

Many of us believe the same thing about money, that we can have too much of it. Thoughts about money really matter, and you most likely need to change your thoughts to be the opposite of what you’re currently thinking. This may be difficult because we’re so used to letting our default thoughts run our brains. It’s easy to earn money, it solves many problems, and we don’t have to work harder to create more. There’s plenty of money for everyone. Action, not luck, creates money. We are limited only by our minds. I’ll prove it to you.

I want to introduce you to a concept called half empty/half full/all full. I am sure you’ve heard of ‘the glass if half full or half empty’. If you haven’t heard of this before, it’s basically an analogy for how people view the world – through scarcity (the glass is half empty) or abundance (the glass is half full). In the Matrix, however, the glass is neither half full nor half empty. It’s all full. It may be half full of water, however, it’s completely full of energy – of light, energy, or ‘molecular stuff’, however you want to describe it.

This is true for any circumstance you choose to do a Model of Alignment on; a glass on a table with water in it, time, or money.

MONEY MODEL: HALF EMPTY
C: Money
T: I don’t have enough money
F: Stress
A: Buffer, procrastinate, ruminate, inaction (no contribution of value)
R: No return of value (insufficient income)

MONEY MODEL: HALF FULL
C: Money
T: I have enough money, I don’t need more
F: Content
A: Maintain status quo (stay comfortable), live day to day in routine, little to no change in behavior
R: Nominal return of value (no growth, financial maintenance)

MONEY MODEL: ALL FULL
C: Money
T: Money is everywhere and there is no limit to what I can earn
F: Abundant
A: Create, plan, contribute, show up with courage, innovate & broker value
R: Optimize return of value (unlimited income)

It’s so important to see how the THOUGHTS (T-line) creates the RESULTS (R-line). These are theoretical Models that I have used and shared with students who have used them to grow their financial freedom through cognitive mastery, emotional ownership, and massive action.

TIME AS DISTANCE

I want you to think of time is terms of distance. It won’t be difficult, time is kind of a form of distance and they are related. After all, we can’t move without the passing of time (we understand time through movement) and we measure time based on the movement of the planetary bodies (a day is a rotation of the Earth and a year is the revolving of the Earth around the Sun).

Imagine time is a function of distance.

The starting point is birth – or we can even say it’s where you are right now. Technically, you have been on your journey your entire life. For the sake of the analogy, let’s say it’s right here, right now. That’s the starting point.

The destination is death – or it could be your goal. If your goal is to create a business or a pile of money or an amazing relationship, that can be your destination too.

Now, when we think about our life as a whole (birth to death) or the time it takes to accomplish a goal from the start of a thought, we often have the belief that everything SHOULD work perfectly. We believe the drive from our location to the destination is going to be without traffic, wrong turns, stop lights, or any other form of obstacles or mishaps. And when our GPS takes us on a wrong turn (or we make a wrong turn ourselves) or when we get stuck behind slower traffic or stopped at a light, we think something has gone wrong – we get frustrated and upset. We start doubting ourselves and whether we should be going to this destination at all. Maybe we even turn back and quit on the destination altogether!

Of course, when we decide to actually get our car and drive to the grocery store, we expect a few red lights and maybe even some traffic. We might take a wrong turn if we aren’t paying attention but we don’t turn back and quit, we don’t decide we just won’t ever to go the grocery store. Even when it’s the first time going to a new destination, like a golf course we’ve never been to and we have the GPS to guide us – if we take a wrong turn, we just get back on course and keep going. We know we will get there eventually, even if it’s later than we expected.

The problem is, when we think of time and our goals, we have this idea in our mind that is must all be perfect or it won’t work out. If it doesn’t unfold in that perfectionist way, we don’t believe we are ever capable of getting there. It”s like we just decide that party, or golf course, or grocery store was never meant to be, we don’t deserve to get there, and we turn around and go home (back to the old life).

Another problem is we don’t pay attention to the process of getting to the destination – we don’t pay attention to the drive. When we take ‘wrong turns’ towards our goal, we learn new things about our terrain (capabilities). When we get stuck in traffic or at stop lights, we get to observe what’s going on in that moment and be grateful for how far we’ve come. Instead of using obstacles as a reason to turn back and quit on our goal, we use them as a way to reflect on where we are and how much we’ve leaned (and continue to learn).

1. We never move from where we are to where we want to be in a straight line at a constant speed. Expect there to be alternate routes and varied speeds.

2. The goal is not the destination – the goal is the drive. It’s the time spent and the things learned that make the destination worth it.

I want to offer to you that you begin to think of time as a function of distance. Keep your eyes on the road and check the rear view once in awhile (instead of constantly looking at your past as way to predict your future). Know where you’re going while being mindful of your driving (stay in the moment). When things don’t go as planned, remember that nothing has gone wrong here – it’s all a part of your journey to your destination.

MONEY AS VALUE

When I ask people how they earn their money, most of the time the answer is either time or effort. It’s either, “I work by the hour (or salary) and exchange my time for money”, or, “The more effort I put into my job, the more money I earn.”

Now, if you believe that money comes from time and effort, you’re going to be sitting there with your hand out, wanting to get paid. You’ll want to get paid the most you can for the least amount of time and effort, and that will backfire.

People who over-deliver always get it back ten times over, not only in their self esteem and in their self confidence, but in their willingness to receive. When you’ve given such quality to the world, you’re open to receiving all the gifts, all the abundance the world has. When you’re constantly living from a place of scarcity, wanting to make sure you get paid for every single thing you do, you stop creating value. You’re just doing your time and getting your paycheck, and you’re never going to blow your own mind in terms of money—ever.

Money is actually very easy when you clean up your beliefs about it. When you allow yourself to imagine breaking out of the time and effort money prison, you’ll open yourself up to so much more possibility.

Here’s the deal. Most of us think we get paid for our time, which has a limit, and there’s a maximum amount we can make based on our education. What is the number you have in your mind? $75k? $100k? Most people think that’s the maximum they can make in a year, and they hope to find someone who will pay them that much. If you have beliefs like these, you’ll get stuck in a rut.

The truth is there’s not a limited amount of money you can make. You can create your own wealth by creating your own value and offering it to the world. That doesn’t mean you have to come up with the next iPhone, and that doesn’t mean you need a talk show, and it doesn’t mean that you have to be the best investor in the world. All it means is that you’re going to be the best version of yourself you can possibly be and give as much service to the world as you can possibly give for the sake of how amazing you’ll feel. You not only have to create the value; you also have to then be open to receiving.

Earning isn’t just about creating value—it’s about being open to receiving money without thinking that it’s a bad thing; without thinking that you’re taking from somebody else. It’s about knowing that you’re building more and more abundance in your own life to be able to give more and more, to be an example of what’s possible when you serve the world.

Providing service is just being the best version of yourself. It doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re helping the homeless or those in desperate need. Look at the iPhone. We weren’t in desperate need of the iPhone, but now we are if we don’t have one. If our battery is dead, we’re thinking, “Oh, my God. How did I ever live without an iPhone?”

You have to trust your own guidance to take you to the place where you need to be. You have to stop buffering and start to clean up your mind and not respond to negative emotion to be able to access what you have that’s of value. Every single one of us has the ability to create money. Now, remember The Model of Alignment. How do we create money? Those of you who know The Law of Attraction will think that your mind creates money, but don’t forget the rest of The Universal Truth. Your mind does create money because it creates your feelings, and then your feelings drive your actions.

Your actions create your money.

We think of money as being available or unavailable. We don’t believe we can just create it. We notice what’s there or isn’t there, and then we complain or enjoy it. Why is this? Why don’t we talk in the language of creating money? We use words like “earn,” “borrow,” “find,” and “make”. “Make” is a seemingly good word to use, but the way we define it when it comes to money is usually associated with earning. Most of us associate earning money with time and effort. How do those words feel when we use them in a sentence or a thought? How those words feel will determine what we do, and what we do will determine how much money we have.

I want to offer that you consider money to be a reflection of value. You spend money when you want to add value to your life and when you add value to the world money flows to you with easy and abundance.

THE IMMUTABLES
VALUE & WORTH

Let’s talk about things that are unchangeable. Let’s talk about things that are complete.

I want to introduce you to the word immutable. It means unchanging over time or unable to be changed. The immutability of who you are includes your 100% worthiness and maximized value. You can’t be any more worthy or any more valuable. And there is nothing you can do to decrease your value or worthiness. These attributes of your humanness are IMMUTABLE – they are unchangeable, no matter what.

Your worthiness is for you – it’s compete, irrevocable, and indomitable. Sometimes humans act rudely, inappropriately, and violently. These are things we do at the effect of our thinking. This is not who we are. We are always humans who are 100% worthy, and there’s nothing you could ever do to change that!

Your worthiness is already at capacity and nothing you have done or will do makes you more or less worthy as a human. Yell at your kids – yup, still worthy. Cheat on your wife – 100% still worthy. Lose all your money and become homeless – still worthy!

Being better looking, having more money, being smarter, more giving, kinder, and more generous – none of these things can increase your worthiness. Changing what you do will never make you more good enough that you already are. Any thought you have contrary to that is a LIE.

Your value as a human is identical to your worthiness as a human. You’re valuable because you’re here – because you exist.

Your value is for you too – and this is what you can share with others! Each of us has something special for the world. Our value for the world is what we bring when we show up, every day, as the best version of ourselves. You don’t have to discover the cure for cancer, invent renewable energy, or end global hunger. All you have to do is live an authentic, genuine life. Stop avoiding negative emotions and start deciding what you want to create for yourself and your fellow humans.

Let me be clear – your worthiness is for you and irrevocable. Your value is for you and it’s what you contribute to the world when you embrace the fullness of who you are. When you do this, money flows to you. Money is the exchange of value. Your value is limitless – so is the amount of money you can create. The only limits you put on your ability to create money are the limits you put on the amount of value you contribute to the world.

Your internal value is limitless, complete, and indomitable. This is your passion – it is what’s within you, now and always. Your external value is what you create and contribute to the world. This is your PURPOSE. It is a function of your passion, already within you, 100% up to you, and completely limitless. No one has to approve of your chosen purpose expect for YOU. It’s all coming from within you.

Let’s get to work!