Every moment of our lives, we’re making choices.
Most people say they want to be financially free — to live a life of choice, especially later in life. Very few actually do anything about it.
Listen To The Banter
Pay attention to what people talk about at work, at the barbecue, or out on the boat. Most of it is complaining, subtle or not.
How Albo’s not doing his part. Capital gains tax. The rise of AI. Interest rates. Immigration. The price of everything.
Most people are pretty unhappy with their circumstances and would love them to change — sooner rather than later. But they do next to nothing to change them. They just keep the culture of complaint going.
So they’ve got no plan for getting the life they want, and no plan for getting out of the rat race.
Ever wondered why?
Living In A Trance
Roger Walsh, a Professor of Psychiatry, Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of California, has a big part of the answer.
In his book Essential Spirituality, he describes how society’s conditioning leaves most people sleepwalking through life in a kind of trance — like someone who’s been hypnotised. Their awareness and behaviour are mostly limited to what other people suggest.
And they don’t recognise the state they’re in, or their limits, or the fact that they’ve been hypnotised by the rules of convention.
It’s Always Someone Else’s Fault
Every moment, we make choices, and those choices lead to results. But most choices aren’t made consciously. They come from habit.
And those habits rarely produce a happy, forward-thinking, financially free life of choice.
It’s the results people complain about most. And the cause is nearly always put somewhere else: the banks, the government, the ATO, the RBA, the ref, the traffic, the boss who couldn’t organise a piss-up in a brewery.
It’s Always “Somebody Else’s Fault” — And The Trance Rolls On.
That’s why the conversations you have matter so much. Change the room, and you change the conversation. Change the conversation, and you start changing the results.
Mitch LingardMoney Mentor at Black Belt Results. Former representative rugby league player, martial artist and dad — now putting other people in the room with black belts in wealth. Get In Touch or Book A Call.