Picking Up Pennies

I have in my hand right now a penny that I picked up when I was on a walk today. And as I picked this up and said to myself, I'm a money magnet, I realized just how far I've come with a poverty mentality. This is actually from a book that I read where you pick up coins and you say, I'm a money magnet. But it wasn't just this book that shifted my mindset around finances and wealth. It was multiple things. But I just want to give you a few things to think about today if you struggle with a poverty mindset.

Now, I actually never thought that I did struggle with a poverty mindset, because I never grew up in poverty, so why would I struggle with that mindset? I never grew up poor. I grew up upper middle class, got everything I ever needed in life, everything I ever wanted. But yet I grew up with this poverty mentality. It was instilled in me at a very young age that we would never have enough money. No matter what we did, no matter how hard we worked, it was never going to be enough. This was the mentality that I learned as a kid, and it translated as an adult to me, where I could never earn enough.

I was earning six figures at my last job, and it still was just never enough. I paid my bills just fine, didn't have any debt, was able to do pretty much anything I wanted, but it just was never enough money. And it wasn't until I really started breaking down the pump poverty mentality that I had that things started to shift for me. I used to equate my worth with money. So, like, what I charge per hour, what I get paid per hour, my salary, right? I worked as a w two employee, and I got paid this amount per hour.

So that was what I was worth, when, in fact, that wasn't at all what I was worth. See, worthiness issues often come from a poverty mentality. Someone who struggles to charge a lot more money, like is an entrepreneur compared to someone else, often has this poverty mentality and, like, a worthiness at the core, which is why they're struggling with that, because they haven't figured out kind of the programming in their brain for how finances and wealth was viewed for them as a kid. And then, in turn, what does that mean for them as an adult?

I now, since I've broken off some of these mindsets, I don't even think about what I'm worth per hour. I charge for my coaching services, I charge for other things that I do, but I don't think about it as, like, that's how much money I'm getting paid per hour, because they don't equal in my mind anymore. My worth is not based on a certain dollar amount. My worth is based on my experience, my value, and what I bring to an organization or what I bring to my client. And the money that I get is independent of that.

This is where things really start to shift. So if you are struggling with any of these mindsets, I want you to think about these questions. Did you struggle with a poverty mentality growing up? Maybe you were poor. Maybe you did struggle financially. And how does it translate to you in. As an adult right now? Is it the same kind of thing that I struggled with where, like, I literally didn't pick up pennies because I had a pride around picking them up? I thought, I'm fine. I don't have, you know, I'm not struggling financially.

I'm gonna let the next person pick up that penny. It was, like, below me to reach down and pick up a penny because I didn't need the money. So there it comes in, like, the opposite mentality, right, with this pride. But now I pick up every single penny I find, and I say to myself, I'm a money magnet, and I pick up a penny at least once a week. This week alone, I've picked up three pennies and a quarter. And I know that doesn't sound like a lot of money, but just by shifting, my mindset has also shifted how money comes to me.

I no longer struggle financially because money comes to me in various forms. I get financial blessings all the time because I have unlocked that potential for money to come to me, because I'm not putting a cap on what I'm worth. I'm not putting a cap on my wealth or my value. I'm saying that I am welcoming the abundance of blessings in my life, and it doesn't have anything to do with how worthy I am to receive that. If I worked hard enough to receive that, because my worth is independent of my finances.

And let me tell you, if you've struggled with this for your entire life, it doesn't just happen overnight. These mindsets don't shift overnight. So I want you to really think, and maybe you spend some time journaling about this, but, like, where did my values of money come from? What was modeled to me as a kid? Did I have a single parent that was struggling with three jobs to try to make ends meet? And do I repeat some of the similar behaviors? Even if I'm not struggling financially, do I have some of the same mindsets as my single mom did.

Just sit down and reflect, like, what was modeled to you about money. Where did those mindsets come from? Do you find yourself talking about wealthy people in a negative, condescending way? Because I can tell you that by talking about them like that, you are hindering your ability to become wealthy. And I have friends like this that struggle with finances, that struggle with wealth, because they're putting other wealthy people down. They're insulting them, they're jealous, which is where it comes from.

But they're basically saying, I'm never going to allow myself to be that wealthy because I think this about that group of people. So start to brainstorm. How do you talk about people who have more wealth than you? How do you think about them? You know, who do you surround yourself with? Do you surround yourself with people who are wealthy? Or are they all struggling with the same poverty mentality as you and talking about people in the same way? Because what you say translates to what happens to you translates to what you receive in the world.

And I know that sounds like kind of cliche, but it's so true, because once I started talking about money differently and started saying things like, I'm a money magnet, I'm successful, I'm wealthy, might sound super arrogant to someone else, but once they started shifting my mindset and things that I say about myself also impacted my ability to start receiving wealth. So I know this might be triggering for some of you. I might have offended some of you. I totally understand that, because if you were like me seven months ago, you probably were super offended by some of these things because I totally was.

But I really want you to dig in and see, like, where your mindsets come from with wealth, because there's a potential on the other side of that to really unlock and shift your mindsets. Thanks for tuning in with me today. I'm Doctor Carrie on Cadre. God bless.