Broke As A Joke

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

Do You Feel Like Your Broke As A Joke?

Every now and then I get a post over on the blog from a person just starting out in the industry that starts with “I’m Dead Broke!” or “I’m Broke As A
Joke!”

And my immediate thought is “So?”

Read what Gina posted.

“To start off I am broke as a joke; looking for something better than corporate america.
I want to try working as an affiliate; I’ve signed up with xyz and looked at a few things on there; some seem interesting, some not.

Here’s what I don’t get.

Do I need a website? How much is this going to cost? Like I said I’m broke as joke.
Trying to get a leg up! I just really don’t know where or how to begin.

Thanks again for listening and any advice you have.”

-Gina

The reply:

“Personally,

I think it’s tough to start a business with that broke frame of mind.

When you repeat that you’re broke all the time what’s your mind focusing on?

What you focus on increases, so you gotta get out of that broke mind frame and focus on more positive things before you do anything else.”

It’s easy to focus on what we don’t have, but honestly what does that get you besides more of the same old being broke?

And the honest truth is, it’s just as easy to think the other way.

Why not day dream of the success and prosperity to come in your future? Seems a lot more pleasant than being broke, it doesn’t require you actually have the
THING focused on yet, but . . .

It puts your focus in the right direction to get it.

It’s hard to break habits I know, and it’s hard to rise above what worries you when it’s right there smack in your face, but it can be done.

It will take a little mental discipline and continued focus, but it will set the path.

Here’s why this is important to your business, and maybe this is something you can’t quite see yet.

First, when you’re trying to grow and all you focus on is what you don’t have you simply can’t because your broke. You try to get by on what appears to be the cheapest least risky path to success and as a result you never get anywhere.

If you just switch that focus to what “could be” and that vision is exciting to you what happens now when you’re making decision to grow your business?

You start to take a stab at that dream, you put what “scarcity” minded people would consider risk aside, because that excitement to gain is more powerful a motivator than the fear of loss and being broke.

And . . .

As a result you take your first steps into the real world of an entrepreneur, and eventually meet and surpass that original goal you set.

Second, and most people have a hard time getting this one, but it’s one of the most powerful ideas that you can make your own and prosper by . . .

Money is nothing more than energy. It’s a tool – great if you have some, but it ain’t necessary or essential. I start my business on a credit card and dream, and to most that’s risky, but to me that’s opportunity.
(What is it to you?)

Too many people think of money as a physical thing, something that’s finite, that takes up space, and that once you run out your life is over. Far far from it . . .

Many of the most successful entrepreneurs on the planet, like Donald Trump,  have gone broke and bankrupt – $0 and a huge amount of debt, and made it all back again. Why? They understand what money really is – just energy that can always be replenished.

That’s why I never got those guys that would just horde away the money that they earn as if they can’t get more. Sure save some, create a cushion for yourself, but trying to hold onto it all just never made sense to me.
Money, is energy, a tool to be used to attain your end. For me that’s mastery of marketing, for you it may be something totally different, but it’s a tool to attain that end and surpass it none the less.

I count my blessing every day I have the money to pay for new marketing education because it’s my passion, in other words I want the knowledge and experience more than the money and as a results the business grows.

Now the last thing I’ll say here in is this . . .

The bigger your business grows the bigger the opportunities, the more of them, the bigger the risks, and the more of them, if you’re not willing to flex your muscles when you’re small, you won’t have the strength to grow big.

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