Who Set Your Money Thermostat?

You've felt it... 

The best month of your life, quickly followed by the strangest dry spell.  A locked-down deal that suddenly died for no apparent reason. A big step forward followed by two steps backward. You called it bad luck. It wasn't. 

It was your self-regulating prosperity thermostat: doing exactly what you programmed it to do.

Last post, I told you your self-identity is the real ceiling that’s holding you back from your true potential.  That column set off more DMs, emails, and comments than anything I've written in a long time.  All circling around the same question: 

Okay, Randy…I believe you.  Now how do I actually change the fucking setting!?

Glad you asked... 

First, read your current setting.

You already know your number. You just don't want to look at it.

Your bank balance isn't a mystery. It's a thermostat reading. So is the size of the deals you chase, the fees you're afraid to charge, the rooms you talk yourself out of walking into. Your outer world is nothing but a printout of the setting on the inside. Stop cursing the printout and go find the dial.

Now find out who set it. (Because it wasn't you.)

If you’re like most people, here's the part that'll piss you off: you never chose your setting. It was installed. Somewhere between the crib and about age eight — before you could think critically — the people around you loaded the software.  

Here are the Top 5 most downloaded programs in the People of Earth App Store: 

• Money is the Root of All Evil

• Poor People are Noble

• To Have a Successful Career, You Must Be a Terrible Parent

• Growing a Successful Business Requires Exploiting Others

• Eat Shit Now Because Your Real Reward Comes in the Afterlife 

I always call these limiting beliefs, but technically, they aren’t beliefs. They're mind viruses. (What I define as Inherited Memeplex Encoding, or IME.) And your IME has been running your health, happiness, and finances like malware ever since.  It forms your operating system that has been quietly, automatically running below the surface.  That operating system is what caused you to set your number. (And also, the ceiling you’ve created for your relationships, happiness, and health.)  

And every time you reach one of those ceilings, the thermostat triggers to lower the temperature. Which means you subconsciously and unknowingly self-sabotage your progress.  All while you blame it on where you were born, your lack of education, your ex, the president, the economy, or Mercury being in retrograde.   

You're living inside another person's rigged settings and calling it your personality. If you need help with this, get my latest book, Wealth Without Apology.) Next, you need to:

Catch the sabotage in the act.

Next time you have a breakthrough…a windfall, a big win, a level up…watch what you do. You'll get the itch to spend it, stall it, give it away, or blow up the very thing that's finally working. That's not bad luck and it's not weakness. That's the thermostat kicking on the AC to cool you back down to sixty-eight.

Awareness is the whole game. Mind viruses only work in the dark. The moment you can name it — ah, there's my old setting trying to drag me home — you break the spell. You can't reprogram what you refuse to see.  Which leads us to:

Reprogram the inputs.

Your subconscious doesn't run on willpower. It runs on repetition and environment. So start mindfully thinking about what you think about.  Take charge of the programming you’re receiving.  Because you're being programmed every waking hour whether you picked the programming or not. So start picking...

Are the people you spend the most time with the ones who call you to your highest self, or the ones who pull you down?  What are you reading, watching, listening to: prosperity, or fear porn? What's the recording on replay in your skull all day long? Guard the doors of your mind like they're the doors to your health, happiness, and net worth. Because they are.

Close your “worthiness wound.”  

Every technique on earth is useless if, underneath it all, you don't believe you deserve to be wealthy.  

Money flows to the level you believe you're worth — not the level you say you want. It's why lottery winners go broke and why people who build a fortune and lose it build it right back. The number always returns to the setting. You need to stop seeking validation from others to feel worthy. 

Raise your sense of worthiness and your ceiling rises automatically. Stay secretly convinced you're not enough, and you'll keep manufacturing evidence to prove it, just to stay comfortable in your own smallness.

Prosperity isn't something you chase. It's something you allow. And you will only ever allow what you believe you're worth.

Then act like the setting already moved.

Beliefs don't change because you lit a candle, sat cross-legged on a cushion, and affirmed them. They change when you behave your way into them.

Charge the fee that scares you. Walk into the room you've been ducking. Make the offer, write the check, take up the space the higher version of you would take without flinching. 

Every time you act above your old setting and survive, you hand your subconscious fresh evidence. Evidence for who you're becoming instead of who you were programmed to be. Do it enough and the thermostat gets reset to a new, higher normal. Not because you forced it, but because you finally gave it a reason to.

The setting was never permanent.

It only felt permanent because no one ever told you you're allowed to reach up and move the dial. Now, I just did. 

Peace,

- RG

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