Re-Set Your Financial Blueprint

One of the things the self-help gurus touch upon but don’t really get into the nitty-gritty of is that we all have a financial blueprint, and can discover it easily.  Whatever income you have currently, whatever the state of your relationships, and the state of your investing business is, that is the blueprint that you have in place. You have a built-in expectation for your income, and your life, and you do not vary from that.
Another term for this would be your “financial thermostat.”  If yours is set at $75,000 per year, you will find it hard to ever move much beyond that over an extended period of time.
People like Donald Trump’s are set much higher. He expects to make millions, and would be unhappy if he only made what most people would consider to be a fortune in income for a given year.
Your brain is going to fight like heck to make sure that you earn what your blueprint dictates that you should earn, even if your conscious mind is weakly mumbling that you want to earn more. No matter what you try, or how hard you ‘will’ yourself to succeed, the financial blueprint controls, and you can’t do anything until that has been changed.
Your blueprint resides in the same neural-pathways that control other automatic functions in your body – how often your heart beats per minute, the impulse to breathe, the maintenance of a steady body temperature.
When you have that bad feeling in the pit of your stomach because you are failing to take an action to further your investing business, and even where you know that doing so would improve your business, that is proof of your thermostat kicking in. Where you find that great deal, and you suddenly find tons of things that are “wrong” with it; that is your thermostat kicking in to keep you from making too much money.
You can rationalize, find a justification for failing to advance your conscious goals – you’re busy, tired, tomorrow you’ll do it, whatever. The truth is that you will do this until you are too old to take action anymore, and all because of your wiring. Your blueprint MUST be changed if you are to take action. All the self-help Laws it the world won’t help if you don’t change your wiring.
When your non-conscious mind is working against the success that you want so desperately, you have no chance to succeed.  You can swear up and down that THIS will be the year you will succeed, but you’ll break that solemn vow to yourself in a split second once your non-conscious mind steps in. You must condition your brain to support you, or it will always work against your desires and sabotage you.  You must run your brain like a pro if you want professional level results from your life.
That overused, and many times misunderstood, term ‘self-help’ is an incredible idea. But at the same time, all the self-help out there won’t do you any good if you don’t learn, truly understand, and make the needed changes in the proper way, to reset your financial blueprint.

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Why People Do What They Do

For many years, one thing that has perplexed me and many of the people I know is why people do what they do. Why is it that some people grow up with a silver spoon in their mouths – with what seems to be a perfect life – end up doing bad things either to themselves or to others? Or why is it that people who grow up with nothing but hurt, neglect, and suffering end up running an orphanage, help build houses or deliver food and clothing for those ‘less fortunate’? What makes a person do what they do? Can self-help strategies help us to discover the answers?
Why is it that some human beings can be so generous and others be so mean; what is it that makes us say we want to do one thing and then live our life in a totally different way? What creates those internal conflicts and, even more importantly, how can we resolve them?
I mean, why would a person, a guy like Wesley Audrey, do the things he does? This African-American man is in the subway of New York with his 4-year old and 6-year old son and daughter when all of a sudden, beside him, he sees a young, white college student who starts to go into seizures and worse, falls on the subway track, smacking his head and bleeding profusely. As this is occurring, just like in a movie, the subway train is coming full speed. Instinctively, and without thought to his own well-being, Wesley pushes his kids away and dives on top of this man to try to save his life. The train literally comes right over the top of the two of them, missing Wesley’s body and head by one inch. Think about that – one inch! What would make a man instantly be willing to sacrifice his life for a stranger?
And yet, contrast that with someone who takes pleasure in other people’s pain, somebody who lives for torturing someone else – physically, mentally or emotionally – and feels a sense of joy or significance from that. Both types of these kinds of people live in this world, don’t they? Is it our background? Is it our environment that shapes that? Well, if that were true, then you have to answer this question: how is it that someone who has been given everything – unbelievable support and love from their family, tremendous education, economic opportunity – how is it that people like that very often spend the rest of their life going in and out of rehab? Then you have people that have been given nothing; their dignity has been taken from them, they’ve been punished in ways that were abusive, inhuman – mentally, emotionally, physically, you name it! Very often those people find a hunger inside, a drive to learn, to grow, to give. They often become the people that inspire most in the world. We know the stories of the Oprahs of the world. She certainly wasn’t given things.
You see, the illusion that our society tries to teach us is that we are our biography; that biography is our destiny, that the past equals the future. But in any level of personal honesty, we know this isn’t true. Although today, that is the model that drives the most people.
“Why am I the way I am? Just look at my past!” and they blame something in the environment. But what that does is put us in a circular fashion of constantly finding something to blame and ultimately, at some level, we blame ourselves and then nothing changes. They look at self-help methods, hoping they will help. I’m here to say that the path to creating lasting change is a very different path than blame. It’s not finding the excuses, it’s finding the decisions that you can change your life. It’s being willing to identify the patterns that have stopped you.
Check back with us when we will dive into to the human psyche; into understanding why people do what they do.

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