“It is not the child who is taught about love but the child who has experienced love that grows into a healthy, happy, well-adjusted adult.”
Maxwell Maltz, M.D. – Psycho-Cybernetics, Updated and Expanded
And so it is with prosperity as well. Being taught about prosperity has value, but experiencing it is something entirely different.
I grew up in a family where everyone picked up a pen and wrote. It was only natural for me to do likewise.
Conversely, in that same family, no one ever picked up a pencil to draw. My only experience of drawing was in school, and it wasn’t one that filled my heart with love.
As for prosperity, I wasn’t taught that either. Not at home. Not in school.
I did my best to learn it via the “School of Hard Knocks.”
But I found a far better pathway to prosperity from the “soft knocks” I received from mentors and clients who weren’t theorizing on the subject. They were living it.
Never once did I ever hear any of them utter phrases such as, “I can’t afford that.” Even when these people didn’t have the funds to do something they wanted to do, they were not discouraged because they used what I call “look for, find and count” language.
They looked for and found a way to get the funds, then they counted it and used it to get what they wanted.
Several years ago, my son, Frank’s, high school baseball coach, Nicholas Rodriguez, showed me the blueprint for a new baseball field that would also serve as a football and soccer field. He then told me that he needed to “find” two million dollars within two years to move forward with the project.
The first year, he raised almost nothing. After 18 months, he had $100,00.00.
And then, presto bango, in the last 60 days, he raised the rest ($1.9 million).
Coach Nick had a prosperity-prone personality. Never once did I ever hear him say, “I want a new ball field for this school, but we can’t afford it.”
It wasn’t about whether or not the school had the dough. Other people had it. So Coach Nick looked for and found donors. And then he counted the funds.
The field went up before Frank’s junior year, and was and still is a beauty. I’d say it’s the best high school field in the city, if not the whole state of Florida.
If you want something, figure out a way to get it.
And part of getting it is to never, ever utter the poverty-prone personality’s words, “I can’t afford it.”
Matt Furey
Note: Next week I’ll be holding a Prosperity-Prone Personality Intensive. It’s going to be HUGE. People are already enrolling. Interested? Then reply to this email here: goals@psycho-cybernetics.com
