Lewis Howes carried $2,000 in cash to confront his hidden fears about money. The exercise surfaced three core beliefs holding him back: that money attracts theft, creates relationship problems, and feels fundamentally out of reach. His coach used the discomfort to show him his scarcity mindset needed to shift.
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He said you need to be making 100 grand a year or I'm going to fire you. You're not going to succeed because you think 100 grand is so far out of your reach we've got to shift that. So one thing he got me to do is I had to carry $2,000 in my pocket at all times to believe that two grand is just pocket money. Carrying this two grand, all my emotions came up. And then he translated that to these are your core beliefs around money that have to change. I said what if someone steals it? So he said to me, you have a belief that if you had money it would cause physical danger to you. I said what if a girl sees it and then has all these expectations because of money? Right? So then he's like you feel that money would get in the way of having an authentic relationship. It's so important to actually physically confront these things like carrying money for me did it.