What’s driving your behaviour when it comes to the things you say you want?
Your results don’t just happen. There’s a whole set of drivers behind them — your values, your beliefs, your emotions, your habits, and the people you spend your time with.
Conscious Or Unconscious
Once you see that every result has drivers behind it, you’ve got something to work on.
If you don’t, you’re flying blind. You can’t fix a driver you can’t see — and most of them run completely below the surface.
That’s the loop in action. Earn, spend, borrow doesn’t feel like a choice. It feels like normal. That’s what makes it so powerful.
Getting What You Want Isn’t That Hard
Here’s the good news. Getting what you want isn’t actually that difficult. You just have to practise it enough.
Practise something enough and your brain turns it into a habit. That’s how you learnt to drive, how you learnt your trade, and how every black belt learnt every technique they own.
Your money habits were built exactly the same way. Which means they can be rebuilt exactly the same way.
You don’t out-discipline it. You out-room it.
Mitch Lingard
Put yourself around people practising better habits, and your practice gets easier.
Your Move
Pick one money result you keep getting. Now list five things driving it: a belief, an emotion, a habit, a person, and a time of day or week. Seeing them written down is the first step to changing them.
