From the Archive: Your Money Blueprint: Why You Keep Earning and Losing the Same Amount | T. Harv Eker

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Presenting The Archive, classic episodes that remain timeless. The raw, unfiltered conversations from the early days in which people shared their failures and showed us exactly how they rebuilt everything from the ground up.

**James Altucher** (1:39)
I am so happy to have T. Harv Eker on the podcast today. Harv, how are you doing?

**T. Harv Eker** (1:45)
Amazing, thank you.

**James Altucher** (1:46)
Harv, I haven't been to one of your seminars, but I've read and re-read The Secrets of the Millionaire Mind a gazillion times, so thank you for that book. It's a great book, and I've learned a lot from it. I think it's really helped me personally. So I just wanted to start off by thanking you for that.

**T. Harv Eker** (2:03)
Well, it was interesting because we run seminars, and we teach seminars all over the world.
One of our niches is that we teach seminars using accelerated training technologies, which really gets the teachings and learnings at a much deeper level. We actually do reconditioning for people, reprogramming the dendrites of their minds so that they actually take some new actions and make some new decisions. I never thought that any book could do that, but I was wrong because people have to get more credit than I used to because they actually read something and a lot of people take action and they actually become wealthy and it's like, well, I go, what seminar did you take? They go, I didn't. I read the book. I went, oh my God, that's amazing. So, I give credit to people. It's incredible.

**James Altucher** (2:44)
What affected me was this idea that you could have these pre-programmed beliefs about wealth from maybe traumatic things that happened with either your parents or childhood. And my listeners know this. I kept selling businesses, making millions of dollars and then losing it all. And when I thought about it, I realized the exact same pattern happened to my father. And I was sort of connecting the dots while reading your book. Like I had to kind of change that pattern and choose to change that pattern. And the book helped with that.

**T. Harv Eker** (3:19)
Yeah, I think one of the most important things that all of your listeners need to realize is that, you know, we have something called a money blueprint. And that means that, you know, we really, you know, when we take a look at our results in our life, where do they come from?
They come from our actions, right? And then those actions, where do they come from? They come from our feelings and our thoughts before that. So the big question that nobody seems to want to ask is, okay, if your thoughts lead to your actions, your actions lead to your results, where do those thoughts come from? Why do you think the thoughts you think? And somebody else thinks completely different thoughts. The answer is, you were taught, you were programmed, you were conditioned to think the thoughts you think based on what you learned in the past. And unfortunately, for most people, a lot of what they learned in the past came from people who either didn't have a lot of money or they had money, but they had bad habits and a lot of negative emotion and fear and struggle around it. And so their ways of thinking and being automatically passed down to us and became our natural ways of thinking and being. And we don't even recognize that we have a program running us. So we make our decisions based on these beliefs that may not be true.