Money Mindset

Begging vs Selling

A brief insight I keep having reinforced lately.

Money isn’t the root of all evil.

I understand the frustration of watching people sell things that we charitably give away for free. Moms who just started homeschooling during Covid might not be what we believe is the best at advising others on how to homeschool. However, many of them are out there hustling and selling homeschool advice programs for *newer* comers in order to feed their family, just the same.

Personally, I totally support bloggers and coaches, financially, emotionally, whatever. There are days that their information is critical to my decisions, and there are days when that piece of insight keeps me as a homeschool mom from going off the rails with frustration.

I found that Substack has been the best way for me to support independent media during Covid. I pay a tiny amount I can afford to follow several people who got banned from most platforms, but were still able to write on Substack. Here, they provided present day, regularly updated, medical information throughout the fake plandemic about the latest statistics and research that the media will lie to us about daily or misrepresent. This is what a media, which we already pay for in one way or another unwittingly and often by force should have given us.

We are entitled to get what we pay for.

Moreover for me, I think in goal-oriented ways. If I won a big lottery, where would I spend it? The fact of the matter is, if I had all the money in the world, I would be supporting independent media in big ways. I would be a major donor and contributor to all sorts of independent teachers, coaches, strategists and media. I learned a few years ago that I can either tell myself all the excuses about why I don’t do what I truly desire to do because I don’t have the money- or I can start right where I am today and do what I love from here. I can balance my budget to include sponsorship. I learned this is one of my deepest desires through visioning what my life would be like if I had more money or more time.

So, why put off my deepest yearning because of not having millions to share when I can spend under $10 a month on a Substack subscription to support the likes of Ryan Dawson or James Corbett or Alex Berenson? These people are telling me what’s really happening in the geopolitical sphere, in past and current medical history, and about how I have subconsciously been deceived in my own mindset about what I am capable of achieving. I absolutely support the bloggers and coaches!

And as far as what should be paid for and what should be free… personally, it’s our bad money mindset that limits many of us from selling.

“Why would I pay for this when I could be teaching it?”

Ok, do it, then! Teach it!

Just don’t believe your impoverished charity is more altruistic than someone else’s selling. Remember, too, most people won’t actually put advise into action unless they pay for it. That’s just how people are wired.

I have been having this insight about hidden vows of poverty and communistic or religious influence. This past weekend and throughout the week it has been reinforced here and there through nudges. I feel I have been prompted to speak up more about this in my blog. I notice a lot of people who give away advice, other hard-learned knowledge, wisdom and decades of true expertise from a wealth of experience for free, but don’t find it humiliating to beg or complain when in a tough spot financially. This has been something I have and do struggle with personally as well. I am not singling anyone out here.

When it’s more embarrassing for me to sell than to beg, then personally, I believe that’s my communist and religious influenced roots telling me that poverty is more virtuous than being able to support ourselves.

Aaron said, “well, people who think that don’t know the definition of ‘virtue.’ Begging is still selling.”

I reminded him that most of us don’t call begging a virtue. We only can recognize that we have these beliefs through close attention to our behaviors. Why was it easier to make a GoFundMe than to write copy for my boundaries course? That’s just an example.

Lack does not beget wealth. Lack begets lack. There will never be enough of anything to fill a bottomless pit.

Many of you, myself included, should be fully funded bloggers for all of our expertise and experience. I am serious. Many of you sit on a goldmine of knowledge I would gladly pay to read. Take my money!

Maybe, in giving it away for free, you don’t feel as obligated to share everything you know or to do so consistently. Saying you are willing to help others takes the edge off having to actually step up and help. I doubt that’s what is going on for most people: lacking the consistency, interest or motivation to help others. Most people are waiting for someone to notice what an expert they are or how much they would like to share their knowledge with others, but misguidedly assume this will somehow occur via the prospective client’s face reading or psychic abilities about your gifts, skills, knowledge and talents and your willingness to share them. How do we know what you are an expert in and that you want to help others if you aren’t putting your knowledge out there to the people who need it most? Finding your target market… Well, that’s just marketing, selling.

Substack is a great place to start. Having a Substack clearly illustrates, “no, you aren’t interrupting my life or my time with my children to be of assistance to you. This is what I would love to be paid to help you with. You can give me a tiny bit of money for this million dollars worth of life changing wisdom, and that actually helps me to BETTER support my family!”

Monetizing your blog or creating a coaching program is not the root of all evil.

Release them shackles of misguided spiritual teaching! Start monetizing.

Knowledge and expertise should not be free. That’s like saying medicine should be free or everything we need in society should be free. It’s all misguided notions rooted in communism or religious traditions. Many *ahem* elevated their own leaders on the backs of your giveaways and vows of poverty to run the world banks and steal the majority of the money you are using through inflation- every. time. you. use. it. Sit with that for a minute. The people that wrote that into your scripture are the ancestors of literally the biggest crooks on this earth. They literally get you giving or receiving.

Unfortunately, people currently pay ridiculous fees for an indoctrination in this type of mindset, like it or not. From propaganda in media to public schools, we all pay in some way for bad information. I do believe most of what universities teach should be free because most of it is absolute bullshite. No one should pay for it, and no one should even listen to it. If they were still halls of literacy, critical thought, philosophy and pillars of learning though, they’d be worth every penny people spend on them. These days, they sadly are not.

I think it’s nice that James Corbett and Jack Spirko don’t charge for anything they share. It is. That will never stop me and others from realizing they need people to buy their documentaries and programs and to support their blogs to feed their families. If it weren’t for those of us who do support these guys, they wouldn’t be able to offer so much for nothing. Someone is paying their salary, or they would have to go back to a daily grind of far less value to society.

We SHOULD be paying for information that is of value to us. I am sad to admit I haven’t done more to get this message out and to sell it or to sell more myself. This is important stuff.

We are all experts in our own right. Why are so many of us struggling? Because many of us are still operating subconsciously under the misguided mindsets that there is more virtue in poverty than in selling.

Ahem…