Dreaming about wanting to be a Billionaire sounds like a fun thing to do, when you are visualizing being on the cover of Forbes magazine, smiling next to Oprah, and talking to the President. And it now all comes in a song by Travie Mccoy. I first heard the Billionaire song two days ago on radio while driving my daughter to her art class and found myself liking its easy reggae beat.

What is best about the song, obviously, is its lyrics which resonates with the ideas of visualizing. So I thought I would publish the official music video that goes along with the song – which was only recently released – in my post today. Listen to it if you have not done so……it is likely to make you smile….

I Wanna Have A Lot of Hair

Now what if you are not hoping to be a Billionaire? You decidedly declare that you no dreams of financial freedom? Perhaps you are hoping to grow more hair instead! Watch this spoof instead….the video has garnered over 750,000 views!!!

I Wanna Be A Billionaire Song Lyrics

Like the song? The song was co-written and produced together with Bruno Mars. Here are the lyrics to it….

[Bruno Mars]
I wanna be a billionaire so fricking bad
Buy all of the things I never had
Uh, I wanna be on the cover of Forbes magazine
Smiling next to Oprah and the Queen

[Chorus]
Oh every time I close my eyes
I see my name in shining lights
A different city every night oh
I swear the world better prepare
For when I’m a billionaire

[Travis "Travie" McCoy]
Yeah I would have a show like Oprah
I would be the host of, everyday Christmas
Give Travie a wish list
I’d probably pull an Angelina and Brad Pitt
And adopt a bunch of babies that ain’t never had sh-t
Give away a few Mercedes like here lady have this
And last but not least grant somebody their last wish
Its been a couple months since I’ve single so
You can call me Travie Claus minus the Ho Ho
Get it, hehe, I’d probably visit where Katrina hit
And damn sure do a lot more than FEMA did
Yeah can’t forget about me stupid
Everywhere I go Imma have my own theme music

[Chorus]
Oh every time I close my eyes
I see my name in shining lights
A different city every night oh
I swear the world better prepare
For when I’m a billionaire
Oh oooh oh oooh for when I’m a Billionaire
Oh oooh oh oooh for when I’m a Billionaire

[Travis "Travie" McCoy]
I’ll be playing basketball with the President
Dunking on his delegates
Then I’ll compliment him on his political etiquette
Toss a couple milli in the air just for the heck of it
But keep the fives, twentys (?) completely separate
And yeah I’ll be in a whole new tax bracket
We in recession but let me take a crack at it
I’ll probably take whatevers left and just split it up
So everybody that I love can have a couple bucks
And not a single tummy around me would know what hungry was
Eating good sleeping soundly
I know we all have a similar dream
Go in your pocket pull out your wallet
And put it in the air and sing

[Bruno Mars]
I wanna be a billionaire so fricking bad
Buy all of the things I never had
Uh, I wanna be on the cover of Forbes magazine
Smiling next to Oprah and the Queen
[Chorus]
I wanna be a billionaire so frickin bad!

Wealth Ticket to Top Google Listing

When I did a google search for the word “Billionaire”, the official music video was at the top listing! Way to go Travie! What a brilliant idea to create a catchy song with a highly searched keyword term for massive wealth!

The question for ourselves is: how can we create wealth in a fun and inspired manner?

Abundance always,

(photo by Carlos R; the words on the Mickey coins say “where a kid can be a kid”.)

Many of us are just too uptight when we think about money. Well, consider relaxing instead. Tune into positive feelings by lightening up!! It will also be great if we are able to laugh at ourselves in the process. We realize how attached we have been to something which has no permanence. It is true that we cannot bring money with us to our next plane of existence…wherever that is! Perhaps, in that moment of awakening, our hangups start to dissolve. We experience a breakthrough!

Well, let us look through some funny money quotes to help you gain some enlightenment today….

Money Quote #1:
“Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.”
—- James Arthur Baldwin (American Essayist, Playwright and Novelist, 1924-1987); see above photo illustration

Money Quote #2:
“This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”
— Douglas Adams

Money Quote #3:
“Money will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.”
—- Richard Friedman

Money Quote #4:
“If you want to see what God thinks of money, just look at all the people He gave it to.”
— Dorothy Parker (American short-story Writer and Poet, 1893-1967)

Money Quote #5:
“Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.”
— Will Rogers (American entertainer, 1879-1935)

Money Quote #6:
“Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.”
— Author Unknown

Money Quote #7:
“The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.”
— Frank Hubbard

Money Quote #8:
“There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.”
— Robert Graves

Money Quote #9:
“Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn’t expect to be paid back.”
— Author Unknown

Money Quote #10:
“We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.”
— Buzzie Bavasi

Money Quote #11:
“Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.”
— Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Money Quote #12:
“A bank book makes good reading – better than some novels.”
— Harry Lauder

Money Quote #13:
“We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.”
— Gloria Steinem

Money Quote #14:
“We ought to change the legend on our money from ‘In God We Trust’ to ‘In Money We Trust.’ Because, as a nation, we’ve got far more faith in money these days than we do in God.”
— Arthur Hoppe, 1963

Money Quote #15:
“It’s a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
— Albert Camus

Money Quote #16:
“Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ”
— Cree Indian Proverb

Money Quote #17:
“Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions.”
— A.A. Latimer

Money Quote #18:
“Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.”
— Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Money Quote #19:
“When it’s a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.”
—- Voltaire

Money Quote #20:
No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back.
— Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Abundance always,

Signing out from Outer into Inner Space

(Photo by bohman on flickr)

Positive money beliefs are much more empowering than negative ones. The sad thing is that when most of us think about money, we do not have positive thoughts about it. As much as we would like to be some enlightened Being who have transcended above all material attachments, we cannot not deal with the practical aspects of existence in the third dimensional world.

Let’s get real!! We still need to pay for our bills, feed our kids and ensure that we have the means to have a computer, right? For those who are bloggers in the personal development field, we can all say aye to working long hours on our sites but not seeing any returns for a good many months . Well, my post is a follow up discussion to my article on 101 Negative Money Beliefs some weeks ago. Let us examine the better side to thinking about money today.

The Meaning Of Money

Money, in itself, is neutral. You cannot bring your wealth with you, after you pass away. It is impermanent, like all other material possessions. (In case you are wondering, only spiritual wealth counts towards an evolvement of your soul for all eternity). Rather, it is the meaning that you apply to money that creates its significance.

Principles of Positive Money Beliefs

Having some basic principles of what money really is and represents can help lay the foundation of more empowered thinking. We can also choose to examine the fallacy of some of our thoughts. I hereby select 10 myths from my list of 101 negative money beliefs for discussion:

Positive Money Belief: Money is A Measure of My Positive Thoughts.
Myth to Bust: “Money only comes from hard work”, “There is a limit to how much I can earn”.

What is money? Money is a form of energy exchange. It stores value by our applied meanings. It is a measure of confidence – of how much you believe that having it can be used for your future purposes, of the value that you place on your own goods and services and of how much others are willing to do an exchange with you for. It can therefore be said to be a measure of your positive thoughts on worth.

The more confidence you have about yourself and self-worth, the more money you are likely to make and attract. For the same hour of work, person A makes $10 but person B can make ten times more because the latter is more confident, happy and easily attracts customers. Since anything is possible, there really is no limit to how much you can earn.

Positive Money Belief: Money Can Be Assigned To Good Use.
Myth to Bust: “Money is the Root of all Evils.”

Well, money does not drive you to do crazy things. Rather, you have to understand that it is the attachment or love of money that is the root of all evils. The root “evil” is craving. Craving is the seed of our egos, causing us to fight, compete or even kill, because we are unable to make peace with what we already have.

Positive Money Belief: Money is Loving Energy.
Myth to Bust: “Money is filthy or evil”.

Money is a medium that we can use to express love. It is not the only way. But it can be a useful one. Think about how the buying of gifts make you or someone else happy!

Positive Money Belief: Poor or Rich People Can Be Just As Evil.
Myth to Bust: “Rich People are Evil”.

I can never understand the myth that rich people are evil. Are they really? Are you saying that poor people cannot be evil? I can only think of the many philanthropists out there (eg. Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, etc) who have given their money for worthy causes. I have got many friends, who by local standards, will be considered rich. Believe me, they are no different. In fact, I found many to be just as kind-hearted, generous and responsible.

There are as many evil people in the rich as there are poor. The amount of material wealth that one has is no indication of his or her values whatsoever. Let us not judge a person prematurely and without reasonable basis.

Positive Money Belief: Money is in Abundance.
Myth to Bust: “Money Does not Grow on Trees”, “Money is In Short Supply”, “It is Hard to Hold On To Money”.

We believe that money is in short supply when we fret over our future, save excessively, refuse to help a friend in need and have no faith that our needs will be well taken care by The Universe/God. Our constant worries over money are essentially thoughts based on scarcity. If we harbor thoughts like “money does not grow on trees”, “money is in short supply”, “it is hard to hold on to money”, we are not aligned to abundance.

If money is a form of energy exchange, the worst we can do is to hoard it. Money has to be allowed to flow freely. Its circulation keeps it growing. At a more macro level, think about the economy. Have nations prospered when each takes on protectionist policies? When money is centered on thoughts of fear, doubts and worry, negativity becomes more pervasive. Don’t forget that what we focus our thoughts on expands.

Positive Money Belief: Money is Spiritual.
Myth to Bust: “Spiritual people are not supposed to be rich” and “I choose to be spiritual than rich”.

You have this money myth if you are thinking that spiritual people should never charge for their services or that it is “evil” for spiritual people to be rich. You find that you are in a difficult position reconciling your thoughts on spirituality and money.

Well, money is a form of energy, just like anything else. It is not the end but a means to an end. Money can be put to good or bad use. It is how you use money that is of far more importance! Hence, by having a positive thought about wealth rather than a negative one, you can create a positive money belief that it is used for its highest good.

If money is part of abundance, then why should spiritual people be less “abundant” than doctors, lawyers and accountants? Let us take doctors as an example. Many became doctors, for instance, because they felt called to be in the healing profession. They go through years of study and at work, spend hours horning their craft. So it is that doctors tend to be generally financially wealthy. It is a “given” that we pay to see a doctor at no-less-than-cheap charges. In fact, few balk at having to foot high consultation fees the greater the reputation of a specialist doctor.

No one denies the good that spiritual people bring to the world. Yet, it is common thinking that spirituality and money “should not” mix. The reality is that spiritual development requires as much study and focus. Spiritual people also need money for their practical living needs. Pastors, for that matter, also have a family to feed.

It is a question of choice in belief. If the Universe/Source is infinite and abundant, then we need to believe that expressing our god-given talents or abilities in alignment to our soul purpose (and through our work) can help us be abundant in the physical world. In this respect, money is spiritual. More about thoughts being spiritual energy is discussed in my previous post on 10 Insights into the Power of Thoughts.

Conclusion

In conclusion, our struggles with money is really how we have been thinking about money. Having a physical existence requires us to deal with the practical aspects of living. Hence, we cannot not have thoughts about money. Since this is so, it is best to choose to have more positive and empowering thoughts about it.

Scarcity and the lack of money are thoughts based on fear. If we intend to reconnect with Source, then we would need to align ourselves in thoughts of love. Money is only a means to an end. Our focus is not about how to acquire more money but how we can serve humanity in the best possible way with it.

Repeated thoughts strengthened by emotion becomes belief. If we can have and feel wonderful every time we think about money, guess what is going to happen to us? We lose the inner sense of resistance towards it. We create the resonance for abundance, including money, in the field of energy around and about us.

Share Your Positive Money Beliefs

Do share your positive money beliefs. Your unique perspective may just help another person shift his thinking. Let us all work towards the conscious creation of abundance!

Do you face extreme difficulty in manifesting material wealth? Well, can it be that you have negative money beliefs lying at the back of your subconscious mind?

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Negative money beliefs are not mere fleeting thoughts. They run a hidden program much like a software, sabotaging your best intents. They are the small “voices” in your head that actually override what you like to believe but don’t.

What goes on in your subconscious wields much power, perhaps even more so than your conscious mind. If you don’t already know this, it has been estimated that the average man uses not more than 10 percent of his mental power. The remaining 90 percent of mental activities take place subconsciously.

A Simple Way To Check On Your Money Beliefs

If you think you do not have any negative money thoughts, then try this simple exercise. Think about your parents. What kind of money beliefs do they have? Very often, your own money beliefs are unconsciously ingrained since your childhood days because of the beliefs of your parents. It might well be that your parents often discussed their money problems. Within earshot, their repeated words made an imprint in your subconscious, even while you were playing with your toys in the living room back then. Please note that this exercise is not a blaming exercise. Rather, it is one to create awareness and understanding. Your parents did not know better and they were probably brought up in exactly the same way, as they’ve raised you.

Regular Mental Housekeeping

It is a Chinese custom to spring clean our homes before the Lunar New Year begins. The whole house is cleaned to usher in good luck. Out with the old and in with the new, so to speak. In addition to clearing old books and toys, I also took some time for a mental housekeeping exercise last weekend.

Approximately once a year, I go through a checklist of negative money beliefs. This time round, while working on the list, a thought struck. Perhaps some of my readers may be interested to do the same with my 101 list! Provided in the following paragraphs are more details on how I go about addressing mine.

The recent financial meltdown may also activate the program of lack that runs inside your head. While you already know that you “should” not worry, it is easier said than done. I prefer to decisively eliminate any negative beliefs with practical applications, such as with the use of the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT).

101 Money Beliefs

To work on negative money beliefs, it is best that you identify the specific ones that possibly hold you back. When you connect with your emotional pain of not having enough, EFT works more effectively. EFT is a method that involves tapping the meridian points on your face and body.

To start you off, however, you may wish to refer to my list of 101 negative money beliefs that I have collated from books, articles and discussions with others:

NEGATIVE COMMON MONEY BELIEFS
Many of us have beliefs that come from what others say or what others will like us to believe.

1 Money doesn’t grow on trees.
2 Money is filthy and dirty.
3 Money is evil.
4 I am poor but clean (or good).
5 Money is in short supply.
6 Money goes out faster than it comes in.
7 The cost of living is so high that it is impossible to keep up.
8 It’s hard to hold onto money.
9 A penny saved is a penny earned.
10 It’s better to hoard money. You never know when the rainy day will come.
11 A Depression can come at any moment.
12 Only people who cheat have money.
13 Money only comes from hard work.
14 I can only earn more when I put in more hours at work.
15 Rich people are greedy and dishonest.
16 Money is not spiritual.
17 It is a sin to have a lot of money.
18 Spiritual people are not supposed to be rich.
19 It’s easier to spend than save money.
20 Poor people can never get out from under.
21 Rich people are seldom happy.
22 Credit card companies are loan sharks.
23 I need lots of money first to make more money.
24 It’s hard to have multiple sources of income coming in, other than from my job.
25 It is difficult to make money from my investments.
26 There is a limit to how much I can earn.
27 Good opportunities hardly come by.

IDENTITY / SELF ESTEEM BELIEFS
Many of our negative money beliefs stem from having a poor self esteem. You need to address money beliefs at root causes, otherwise you would have largely missed addressing them at the right areas. Working on self-love issues opens you to receiving abundance more freely into your life. The entire process of working on yourself may sound tedious but just remember this: Thoughts of unworthiness will not be able to attract the same vibrational frequency of money, essentially a spiritual asset and a form of energy exchange.

28 I do not deserve success.
29 I do not have unique talents or abilities.
30 Others just do not like me.
31 Everyone else comes first.
32 I am not worthy as a person.
33 I’ll probably just fail anyway.
34 I don’t deserve money.
35 I’m not good enough to make money.
36 I’m no better than my parents, so I shouldn’t make more then they did.
37 But we can’t afford that.
38 I cannot handle or manage money well.
39 I am such a loser.
40 If I’m successful, my friends will be jealous and stop liking me.
41 I will never get a good job.
42 I am always in debt.
43 My bank account will always be low.
44 I don’t want to have money and be stuck up.
45 I may just forget what’s truly important and not like the person I’ve become.
46 I resents others having money.
47 I will never be able to make much money.
48 I am just too stupid to make money.
49 I am just too slow to make money.
50 It is just too difficult to get ahead based on my lack of academic qualifications.
51 My parents were poor, and I will be poor.
52 It is best to remain poor so that my relatives will not borrow money from me.
53 Artists (or whatever your profession is) have to struggle hard to earn a living.
54 Oh, I can’t charge that much.
55 Oh, I can’t charge more than my competitor.
56 Making money is just too difficult.
57 No one has ever said that making money is easy.
58 I am just not good with money.
59 Never tell anyone what I have in the bank.
60 I can never pay off my credit card bill.
61 I don’t like receiving bills.
62 I don’t like writing checks to pay others, even if it is for a payment for their services.
63 I don’t deserve a pay rise.
64 It’s not right to ask for a pay raise.
65 I don’t like being in the limelight.
66 I like to buy gifts for others but I find it hard to spend on myself.
67 The higher I go, the harder I will fall.
68 I will never be a millionaire.
69 I will never gain financial freedom.
70 I am only worth minimum wage.
71 I find it hard to value my own potential.
72 It is best not to earn too much because I don’t want to pay more in alimony.
73 I cannot change my predetermined fate.
74 I just don’t like to think about money.
75 I don’t want to attract friends for the wrong reasons.

VALUE BELIEFS
These are beliefs that you hold about your life and your experience of it.

76 Without money, I am worth nothing.
77 I prefer to dream small so that I am not too pressurized.
78 I do not love myself for who I am.
79 I cannot be happy if I am rich.
80 I am unable to manifest abundance.
81 My life is one of suffering.
82 Only with money, can I live life fully.
83 I cannot do what I love because it does not pay well.
84 I do not like to take responsibility.
85 Life is meant to be a struggle, not a breeze.
86 Why should the Universe/God support me?
87 Everything I touch is a disaster.
88 I am never lucky.
89 Only dreamers think they can get rich but I am a realist.
90 Dreams rarely come true.
91 Miracles rarely or never happen to me.
92 I will never have enough.
93 I feel safe being poor.
94 It is dangerous to be rich.
95 I will always be poor.
96 The future has nothing good in store for me.
97 It’s okay to be able to survive each day.
98 Abundance is not my birthright.
99 The more money I have, the more problems I will have.
100 It is impossible to have it all: a loving family, a job I love, great friends, good health and lots of money.
101 There is no need for more since I can’t take it with me anyway.

Next, in order to know if there are any statement that holds true in your subconscious, you may wish to muscle test yourself. Or if you are familiar with dowsing, you can also use your pendulum to check against your subconscious mind. If any statement is found to be true, tap away the negative money belief, using the statements as follows….

“Even though I believe that money is the root of all evils, I deeply and completely love and accept myself. I forgive myself and all others who have contributed to the same situation.”

“Even though I __________, I deeply and completely love and accept myself. I forgive myself and all others who have contributed to the same situation.”

There are slight variations to how you can apply EFT to your meridian points. But they essentially achieve the same goal. Here is a video that shows the points that you can tap:

Resources:

If you need more information on EFT, check out the following:

1. The official website – Emofree provides a ton of information. Update!! Gary Craig, the founder of the technique, has just announced his retirement and may no longer be updating it!!

2. Prefer to be shown how to do EFT? If you are a Singaporean and would like to work on your money beliefs, I offer workshops. Do send me an email at abundancetapestry [at] gmail.com for more details. I also offer personal consultations if you prefer to work one-on-one.

3. EFT Downloads.

Money Blessings
May all my readers be open to receiving an endless flow of abundance – including financial prosperity – always!! May your material needs be met, your choices divinely guided and your wealth constantly increasing! May you be well, happy and complete!!

Your Comments Please

Do you have money beliefs that you suspect are holding you back? What, in your experience, have caused them to take root? What methods are you using to eliminate them?