Mr. Money and Morpheus explain why knowing financial strategies doesn't change your life: your limiting beliefs clog the pipeline between thinking and doing. You have to retrain your brain and actually take action outside your comfort zone.
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Welcome to the money tree. No, the money doesn't grow on trees. You have to earn it. I am your host, Mr. Money. Okay, let's get started.
Who was that contestant number?
Wrong number.
Perfect. Good work everyone.
So what did you do today to make more money?
I'm working on it. Would you give me a break already?
Dave, you're actually going to have to do something different to make more money. Rather than just taking these courses and reading all of these books.
Money isn't everything it can't buy. Are you happiness?
No. But it could get us a nicer house, a nicer car, more quality time with your family and kids. And a vacation once in a while. Forget about us. How about us helping others? I mean, when was the last time we actually had an extra dime or time to help someone else? I mean, it would be great for us to help others too. You know what it ultimately does, Dave? It can buy us some freedom. I work 60 hours a week. It's time for you to start doing something different. Hoping or wishing for success isn't doing it. All of this self help stuff is not going to help if you don't do something. All it's done is keep us stuck in the same lifestyle without any style. We just have enough, barely enough to get by. You know what, Dave? I'm ready for more. I don't want to just get by. When are you going to stop standing on the edge of your potential and start doing something to break free and get out of your comfort zone once and for all?
I am doing something.
No, you're not. You just think you are. You're confusing activity with productivity. They're two different things.
Fight, flee or freeze. Shutting down.
This is going nowhere. Just like our lives. Dreaming is not enough. Action is everything. I'm sick and tired of this. I'm going to do something about it.
Like what?
I'll show you.
Welcome, Dave. As you no doubt have guessed, I am Morpheus.
Morpheus? Who the hell is Morpheus?
I imagine you're feeling a bit like Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole.
Is this a nightmare?
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know, you can't explain. But you feel it. You've felt it your entire life. That there's something wrong with the life you're living. Like it isn't yours. There should be so much more. It is this feeling that has brought you here. Do you know what I am talking about?
The computer. It said the cortex has me. What is the cortex?
Unfortunately, no one can be told what the cortex is. You have to see it for yourself. There is the doing center and the thinking center. Let's take a closer look in your Thinking center.
Self help books. Hey. How to make More money. This is good stuff. Look at this. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.
It's all good stuff, Dave. But you need to take the next step. You need to do something powerful to change. Let's take a look at your doings. And.
Isn't something gonna happen?
You tell me.
This is your show, Mobius.
Morpheus.
Morpheus. Get on with it.
You can think of your thinking center as your inbox. Your inbox is quite full. You have no lack of thoughts or ideas.
I'm pretty darn smart.
That's clearly not the problem. Here's your problem your do box research. How to make more money. Buy more cheese and crackers.
You don't know what you're missing, Dave.
Sooner or later you're going to realize, just as I did, that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. Between theory and praxis.
Praxis?
Practice as distinguished from theory. I'm trying to free your mind, Dave. But I can only show you the door. You're the one who has to walk through it.
What should I do?
Somehow, at some point, the pipeline between your thinking and doing centers got clogged.
Are you saying, like there's something physically off in my brain? I mean, what can I do about that? Because I feel normal? To me.
You are in bondage. Enslaved by your own mind in a prison of your own limiting thoughts, beliefs and fears made while you were growing up. Your cortex shapes your world. The world you see when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. When you go to work, when you pay your taxes.
I am not in a prison.
Really? Do you have everything you want? The money you need, the lifestyle you and your family deserve?
No. But you know, I.
That's it. That's it right there. The limiting thought. The program. The cortex has you. You have to retrain your brain. You must change the program.
How? Nicodemus.
Morpheus.
Morpheus.
You have a choice to make. Stay on your current path will change your mind. Retrain your brain. Follow your wife's guidance. She is on to doing something different. Look at what she is doing. Sa.
