Millionaire Habit 9: Respect & Love Money

The fi nal and one of the most important wealth habits is to respect and love money. I don’t mean loving money to the extent that you are a slave to it, but loving money for the good it can do for you and the people around you. Most people I share this with often respond by saying, ‘Well, of course I love money! Of course I respect money.’ Who doesn’t? If I didn’t love money for what it can do, I wouldn’t be reading this book. Well there are many people who consciously desire to be rich and know that money is important. However, at a deeper level they may not realize that their subconscious mind either holds many limiting beliefs about money or associate lots of negative feelings towards money. These negative associations cause them to repel money and prevent them from becoming rich without even realizing it. I remember a time when I gave a seminar to a group of teenagers nd I was teaching them about the power of spotting opportunities nd taking action on them. I took out a $10 bill and said that I was elling it for $2. I waved the bill in my hand for a good 10 minutes sking if there were any takers, but none came up. Eventually, one boy hesitantly came up and took the money. ‘Buying this $10 note for $2 represents a great profi t opportunity, so why didn’t any of you come up?’ I asked. The answers I got were: ‘I didn’t want people to think I was money-faced’, ‘I did not want to cheat you of your money’, ‘I thought it must be a trick’. In other words, what prevented them from taking action on any opportunity were the limiting beliefs and associations they had formed about money. The scary thing is that the same thing happens in life! Why is it that some people see and act on money making opportunities everyday while others just don’t see them? Again, it is because of the beliefs that have been formed in their subconscious mind.