A brief transcript of T. Harv Eker coaching participants to change limiting beliefs about money and success. He outlines two initial steps — awareness (recognize the belief) and understanding (identify its origin) — and challenges the equation of money with moral value by showing that goodness or badness is independent of wealth.
First step to all change.
Awareness. Thank you. So you have to recognize what's going on. And you already have that. Devin, you said internal conflicts. Want to be rich and believing that money is evil. That's awareness. That you have a belief that money is evil. Wanting to be successful, believing that will result in losing the people around me. That's awareness. Good, you've already got that. Great. So first thing is identify what is the issue here? Number two. Understanding. Write it down. Understanding. Where did that way of thinking money is evil, you're going to lose everyone around you, blah, blah, blah. Where did that come from? Who did you learn that from?
Name it?
Was it mom? Was it dad? Was it Uncle Fred? Was it the pastor or the priest or the rabbi or the bishop or clergy in your synagogue or in your chapel or in your church?
Was it them who said it? Right? Who told you that?
Who ingrained it somehow? Who made you feel like that?
Right?
Rich is not good. Rich is not bad.
Rich is whatever you say it is. Rich people are not good. Rich people are not bad. Rich people are whatever you say they are. What are you going to be if you became rich? Would you be a bad person? Right? I'm asking you if you wouldn't be.
A bad person and rich is good.
If you would be an asshole. Rich is bad, right? Okay. So it's all about you. What? Reality is personal.
Is it true that some rich people are bad? Yes or no?
Is it true some rich people are quote unquote bad?
Yeah, sure. Some rich people are bad.
Is it true some middle class people.
Are quote unquote what we're going to call bad? Some middle class people are bad? Yeah, yeah, sure.
But it says yeah. Is it true some poor people are quote unquote bad? Yeah, yeah. Everybody says yeah. Then what the hell does this have to do with money? It has nothing to do with money.
Some rich people are bad.
Some middle class people are bad. Some poor people are bad. They're bad, okay? It's nothing to do with money. It has to do with you.
