Your Mindset will either be your catalyst or your coffin…

5 Nov 2022 · 1 min

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A short motivational monologue (YouTube) by Steve D Valentine advising listeners to reframe limiting financial language. Through an anecdote about a friend who told their child "we can't afford it," the speaker recommends replacing that phrase with "it's not in the budget yet" and making a plan—shifting mindset from permanent scarcity to actionable budgeting.

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This one sentence will keep you broke. So years ago, I had a friend that used to drive me crazy. They would tell their daughter constantly, we can't afford it. We can't afford it. So what that mentally does to a child, to your spouse, is it actually puts a mentality in that they're broke because you can never afford anything. Rather than you change and you place that sentence with it's not in the budget this month, let's make a plan if that's something we want to buy and talk about it. So stop telling yourself you can't afford it. It's not that you can't afford it. It's not in the budget yet. But it's still something that you can do. But change your mentality with that one sentence placement, it's not in the budget. Rather than I can't afford it.