Are You Subconciously Sabotaging Yourself And Your Business?
Money, Your Subconscious, and Sustainable Business Success
“Make the money, don’t let the money make you.
Change the Game, don’t let the game change you.”
If you have the idea that wealthy people involved in 'Big Business' are mostly arrogant, greedy, or otherwise dishonest, lacking in integrity, and have used underhanded tactics to get where they are, you certainly don't want to be one of them - do you?
Are you planning on growing your business or making yours the best in the field? And if so, let me ask you:
How do you define 'Big Business' or 'wealthy'? What do the terms mean - to you? What companies does it include? Who does it include? Why? And when and where, with what information did you come to your conclusions about 'big business' and wealthy people?
If you have a negative reaction to 'Big Business', or the people who got wealthy growing them, you may have already subconsciously undermined your own future business success and financial well-being.
How? By holding conflicting, even competing ideas about money, wealth, or growing your business. With undiscovered strong feelings, you may have already placed your own business and your finances at a disadvantage.
Do not get me wrong. There are those who walk(ed) - or cross(ed) the line. But there are many who have sacrificed much, with a sense of responsibility towards those who work for them and those they serve. So I am not suggesting you do what you think the wealthy and Big Business owners do to get 'big' and 'rich' - if you think what they do is nefarious.
Most 'Big Business' owners start out small, just like you. They started out very small and struggled to stay afloat along the way. They made mistakes, bad decisions, or did stupid things and, occasionally when they 'made it' they flaunted what they had or have. But they each had a goal, a dream, clear ideas about where they were headed, and the value of money when they made it.
Pick out some wealthy people or big businesses: Oprah, Soros, Gates, Koch, Carrie Underwood, Lebron James, Mark Wahlberg, Felix Hernandez, Apple, Amazon, FaceBook, Garmin, IKEA, Walmart, KFC, Wendy's. Do you avoid them, cheer them on, or give them a pass? Why? Based on what?
How do you know what you know? Are you sure about your facts? Or is your opinion a bias just based on yet another social meme, or information repeated from one source to another? Where do you go for your information? How far do you look?
If you are a small or medium-sized business, would you avoid growing your business? What will you pay your employees? How will you treat them on a daily basis? How will you train your supervisors? What kind of benefit plan will you give them? How much will you pay yourself? And what kind of gap will there be between what your and your employees’ take-home pay?
The point: check your assumptions and own your values. Do you know what your values are? Have you checked across a spectrum of information to discern assumptions from facts?
I now want you to think about what you believe, and how you came to believe it.
