I was just on a phone call with T. Harv Eker, the author of Secrets of the Millionaire Mind. He’s a fascinating and brilliant guy who has figured out not only how to identify somebody’s personal ‘money and success’ blueprint, even better he teaches how it can be changed to serve you better.

If the idea of a ‘money blueprint’ is a new one to you just consider the function of a blueprint. It’s simply a preset design… or plan for the building of a house. When it comes to money…  we are limiting our flow of money based on the ‘blueprint’ set inside us as young children. In other words, those people and things in our early lives influenced our ideas about how much money is ‘appropriate’ or ‘possible’ – and whether we realize it or not, that information has caused us to set a cap on what we’re comfortable with today.

Oh… I hear you arguing with that idea. Let me ask you… how do you explain the fact that most people who win or receive unexpected, large amounts of many are typically in the same financial position 24 months later as they were before the windfall?

I remember attending a workshop many years ago where we were encouraged to discover the dollar amount at which we had set our ‘money thermostat’. Today I want you to consider discovering where your thermostat is set –

Get out a sheet of paper and write down how much you earned last month. Do you feel it’s possible to earn that amount again this month?

Okay… now double that figure. Do you believe that you are capable of earning this new amount? I’m not asking you to consider the liklihood that you will earn this doubled amount next month… just whether or not, looking at that number, you feel you’re CAPABLE of earning that amount in a month.

Are you good? Feel fairly confident you could earn the higher amount?

Now let’s double that amount. Again… how do you feel about this new figure in terms of the possibility that you could be earning that monthly? How about the probability? What thought’s are going through your mind? Check in with your body… how are you feeling about this new figure?

Keep doubling the number until you get to the place where you feel so much resistance in your whole body and mind that it makes you want to laugh out loud… or cry, for that matter.

When you’ve found that spot you’ll know you’ve hit your (current) cap. Unless you change the underlying blueprint this setting on your thermostat will kick in and sabatoge you to keep your money flow below this uncomfortable level.

Understand, your rational, analytical mind will declare how silly this is… that of course you would ‘allow’, even love having greater earnings. You need to know this is not up to your conscious, rational mind. Your subconscious is driving this train and when the subconscious mind must choose between deeply rooted emotions and logic, emotions will almost always win!

That’s valuable to be aware of since I’ll hazard a guess that part of what you may consider a ‘perfect’ business involves a significant amount of financial success too. It certainly does for me.

So the game becomes how to replace those limiting beliefs that have been programmed into you with new beliefs that expand your relationship to your abundance. During the next month or so we’ll explore the differences in the way rich people think and the way poor people think. Hopefully, this will trigger some expansion and a new money blueprint for you!