Spiritual Badass Magazine July 2018 | Page 16

Just like your appliances come with default settings, most human beings are born with a default way of responding to the influences of our Money-Market System.

For example, humans have an intense need and desire to belong to and fit in with “The Tribe.”

So when it’s normal to be in debt, for example, that’s what we’ll feel compelled to do.

This is also where the whole “keeping up with the Joneses” idea comes in.

Your appliances will operate with the same default settings until you consciously change them.

And it’s the same with humans in this case.

If you have a tendency to spend as much as you make (or more),

if you have debt, if you don’t have as much money in savings as you’d like, or if you’re worried about not having enough money for the future, the good news is that nothing is wrong with you.

It just means that no one has ever pointed out that you’re a normal human that is still operating with your default settings.

Fortunately, you can change those settings to break free from The Poverty Cycle and enter The Prosperity Cycle.

How do you do this? Well, awareness is the first step in change

Now that you’re reading this, you’re aware.

The next step is simply a personal decision to break free and enter The Prosperity Cycle.

Then there are 3 secrets to STAYING in The Prosperity Cycle and moving forward:

1. Increase Your Financial Education.

This is the “outer game” of money, learning specifically how to make, save, manage, invest and protect your money.

2. Expand Your Prosperity Consciousness

This is the “inner game” of money, the emotional, psychological and spiritual side.

3. Put Money Systems In Place.

It’s important that these money systems work with your natural human behavior, instead of trying to overcome it.

For example, most people practice “bank balance accounting.”

This is when you make financial decisions based on how much money you have in your bank account.

If there’s plenty of money in there, you’re happy and you buy something.

If there’s not much money in there, you freak out and go try to make more.

This is part of why people tend to spend as much as they make (when their

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