Bridget McNulty

Growing into a better person.

// November 25th, 2008 // Inspiration, Life (and the living of it), Philosophy

That’s one of my goals at the moment. I’ve just finished reading this extraordinary book (with the absolute worst title in the world…. Are you ready for it? How to Make One Hell of a Profit and Still Get to Heaven. Eeuch.) It’s by John Demartini, who’s a motivational speaker (but don’t hold that against him!) He’s also a financial mastermind, and this book is all about how to stop blocking yourself from making enormous amounts of money, and how to save in a clever way so that your money starts accumulating and making you into a money magnet, so that you start attracting large amounts of money.

It’s brain-expanding stuff, let me tell you! He makes you look at all the ways you might be holding yourself back from making money – by thinking it’s not spiritual to be rich, or by putting a subconscious limit on the amount of money you can make, or by getting too emotional about making and spending money. What’s interesting to me, though, is how deeply he delves into the psychology of money. There are a whole lot of exercises throughout the book, and they make a lot of sense to me. Things like carrying around the amount of money you’d like to make in a day, so that you get used to having cash on you (you don’t spend it, you just carry it with you and feel wealthy). And starting a savings account by direct debit each month so that you don’t have to think about whether or not you can afford to save. Fascinating stuff.

And through it all there’s this thread that he keeps weaving in and out… that making a lot of money means being able to live your best life, and to live your best life you need to grow into your best self – a better person than you already are. It’s challenging, because it means not getting emotional about other people’s actions, recognising that there are two sides to everything that happens, and, most of all, not limiting yourself in the way of dreams and goals and desires…

I’ll be speaking about all this a lot more, but it’s an interesting point to dwell on, I think, this growing into a better person. Especially seeing as the year is drawing to a close. Are you a better person at the end of 2008 than you were at the beginning?