The 5 Wealth Secrets No One Ever Taught You | Lewis Howes

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Terms and conditions apply. Need to hire? This is a job for indeed sponsored jobs. What if everything you were taught about building wealth was designed to keep you broke? The people who often talk about money around you have never actually built wealth themselves. Think about it. Your parents taught you what they knew. Society taught you to get a job, save a little when you can, retire someday if you're lucky. But nobody taught you the rules, the gap between where most people are and where they wanna be. It's not about how to work hard. It's not about getting lucky or winning the lottery or having someone just give you a bunch of money. It's about the right information and making sure you apply it on a consistent basis. Today, I'm gonna give you the five wealth secrets that aren't ever talked about. Most people don't talk about this all in one place. And by the end of this episode, you will be further ahead than 99% of those around you. My name is Lewis Howes. My mission is to help you improve the quality of your life. And I believe that this is going to be one of those moments where you reflect, you come back to, and you say, this was the moment where I got the right information, I took the actions, and things started to snowball in the right direction. At least that's my intention for you today. Again, these five keys are here for you, and I want you to take action on them. So get ready and let's dive in. Because secret number one is that your relationship with money is actually the real problem. Now, before we talk about strategies and tactics, we need to talk about something that most people never address. Every time I talk about this, people are like, huh, I never thought of it that way. Why do smart, hardworking people still struggle with money?
I'm sure you're smart. I'm sure you work hard. I'm sure you know a lot of people in your life who are hardworking, smart people, educated, but for some reason, struggle with money. There's an entire book that I wrote that's all about how to reinterpret your relationship with money, your beliefs around money. It's called Make Money Easy.
And this book helps you identify your relationship and your mindset with money. Now, think about it. What is your belief? What is your relationship tied to money? Do you have a physical reaction or a chemical reaction when you receive money? Do you get really excited? Do you get nervous when you spend money and you see your bank account and going down, down, down? Do you get anxious? Do you get scared? Do you believe it's hard to make money? Do you feel like you understand money? Do you feel like you're good at making money? Like, think about all these different things, your beliefs around money. For me, I grew up where there was a lot of stress tied around money. My parents worked extremely hard. I was the youngest of four kids. We always had the second-hand toys. We can never get new clothes. It was always the hand-me-downs, thrift store clothes, things like that. I remember I got picked on because I never had the cool stuff. I didn't have a Nintendo. All these things that all my classmates had, I didn't have. There was a time when I, back in the 80s and 90s, when I was growing up, when people were playing rollerblade hockey in parking lots in the neighborhood. I was the only kid in rollerblade hockey where I was wearing sneakers. Everyone else had rollerblades or roller skates, but we couldn't afford them. This was a period of time where my dad was working really hard, my mom was working as well. They were both trying to do their best to take care of us, but they had a lot of stress in their relationship, and a lot of it was tied to money, money, stress. That played into scarcity, insecurity, worry, fear, and this belief that the relationship is not well because it's tied to money not being well. That was just how I learned things. It was just how I experienced the world. And I was always a little bit behind everyone else in my peers and in my school and in my town. And therefore, I felt like I'm not good at money. It was a belief system that I picked up through years of conditioning. And you might have a similar one, a different one. You might have a healthy relationship with money. You might have an unhealthy relationship with money. But most financial books skip over this part. But your outer results with money are always a reflection of your inner beliefs about money. Again, this is the exact reason why I wrote this book, Make Money Easy, because it's all about how to create financial freedom and live a richer life by having a healthier, healed, and aligned relationship around money beliefs and a money mindset with yourself. And if you grew up hearing that money doesn't grow on trees or we could never afford that, or rich people are really greedy and you can't trust rich people because they're so greedy, then why would you ever become a person that becomes wealthy? If you believed that rich people are bad or wrong and greedy, and you don't want to identify as bad or wrong or greedy, you will constantly be pushing against abundance. You'll constantly be pushing against opportunities. You will constantly self-sabotage when you receive money. You'll spend it. You'll blow it on the now. You won't think about saving or investing for a future self that really needs it as well. And again, some of these phrases, you know, we can never afford that or rich people are greedy. Those phrases become your financial programming. Let me repeat myself. These phrases, these conditionings, they become your financial programming. And that programming is running in the background of your subconscious. Every time you make a decision about money, it's just spinning its wheels inside of you.