Accepting The Source Of Your Income

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Starting from a young age, we are taught that we need to work hard, get a job and earn our money. This mentality is great to motivate youth to get off the couch and develop a little bit of ambition. The downside of teaching everyone that they need to work hard to earn their income is that it develops a scarcity mentality. It also causes us to think that the only way for us to create income in our lives is to work harder or to generate it by adding a second or third job into our already busy lives. This type of “work is the only way to get money” thinking can also lead people away from their true purpose in life, their true passions

One clear example of this type of narrow mindedness came about in my own life. I was always taught that in order to be successful I needed a lot of money, and therefore that meant that I needed to get a very high paying job and work grueling hours. And I did. I got several high paying jobs and worked upwards of 60 hours per week, despite still being enrolled in school in a co-op program. It was all great for awhile because I believed that I had reached my “success goal” and that I was finally successful because my income was coming from a high paying job. But then things started to unravel, as they are so likely to do in such situations. My health got worse and I started to loose my hair, my acne flared up and I was always tired. My relationships suffered immensely because I had to move away from my boyfriend, my friends and family. Continue reading »