Badassery Magazine Issue 9 January 2017 | Page 46

by Mat Gunnufson

Change Your

Thoughts , Change Your Life .

Why Wayne Dyer Isn ’ t Full of Shit After All .

by Mat Gunnufson

Hello , my name ’ s Mat Gunnufson and I want to tell you the story of how my wife and I nearly lost our home and car to overwhelming debt . I want to tell you what it felt like to work for an entire year and a half with almost no income and only bills , upon bills , upon bills . ( Hardly anyone I know is as crazy as me to do that but hey , that ’ s just the way I roll )

Then by some miracle , almost overnight , our lives changed . Instead of bills piling up , it was sales notifications . You see you ’ d have to know my wife and I to understand how we suddenly came into good fortune . Both of us hate working for the man and quite frankly I really suck at it .
A ) I like to sleep in . B ) I ’ ve had employers look at me
45 like I was Forrest Gump after completing simple tasks . I can do amazing things when I work for myself , but whenever I work for someone else I tend to fuck up things royally .
My wife is similar . She ’ ll work really hard so she can be really lazy .
Anyway I want to offer some advice from experience .
Never start a network marketing business as your sole source of income with a desperate attitude . That was the business my wife and I worked 15 hour days for a solid year and a half and the only way we could recruit anyone was if we pointed a gun to their head . Even then , most people would have rather taken a bullet then work with us .
At the height of our failure we had used the last of our credit and one day it was time to buy groceries again . I got really sick and tired of feeling like a loser who had no money and was paying for necessities with the last credit we had left .
I said to myself , “ self , this fucking sucks , let ’ s do something different .”
Around this time I had a friend introduce me to the power of visualization and manifestation . He introduced me to a book called , “ You Were Born Rich ” by Bob Proctor .
Bob said in the book , that he had discovered the real secret to creating abundance . The real secret was the mind .
It turns out the mind is the most powerful tool we have to