MLM Expert Advice

No its not a fear of cream or even chrome, chrematophobia is the fear of money. Personally I didn’t think it existed or if it did that it was as rare as Loch Ness sitings after all who wouldn’t want to have vast sums of cash; however I found out that I too had suffered from the fear of vast sums of money when attending a seminar on wealthbuilding. My realization came in the form of simply completing a statement with missing words:

___________ is the root of all evil

I and many others answered it with “Money” but if you read the Bible you’ll know the actualy statement from 1 Timothy 6:10 is:

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

So its not money but the love of money that is the root of all evil.  Perhaps I remembered wrong when I went to fill in the blank after all its an honest mistake right?  A further exercise, asking us to write down what we would feel about someone who had an absolute abundance of money and was able to do anything they wanted whenever they wanted to, completely squashed any illusions (or delusions) I had about my relationship to money.  To put it mildly I didn’t think much of that individual with all the wads of cash and if I felt that way how could I ever become that person?  My own feelings towards abundance were sabotaging my abilities to obtain it.  I had joined an MLM so that I could live in abundance but my own mind was telling me stop.

So how do you go about shutting down this programming thats been instilled in us almost from birth?  Have you not heard:

• Eat everything on your plate; people are starving in Africa/India/etc.
• Money doesn’t grow on trees.
• It’s unfair that some people make so much money.
• I wonder how he got all that money… legally.
• He/She bought that just to show off not because he/she needed it.

If you’ve ever heard these statements or spoken one of them, even if only in your head, then you too are programmed to believe that those with the money are selfish bragging liars and/or thieves and some would have other negative things to say about these individuals.  In our minds we tell ourselves we’ll never be like that… that we won’t give into the evil but we’re still held back because we “know” deep-down that others will hate us.

While others may do this anyway, it has nothing to do with anything negative about money or having money.  We can’t change others but we can change ourselves.

When I was in Jamaica several years ago I had the opportunity to hear Jim Rohn, a business motivational speaker give a talk and one of the things he said I committed to memory: “Many of you believe that if you can make enough money to take care of your family that thats enough.  Thats a big enough dream.  I would tell you you’re wrong.  I would suggest to you that it would be better to make sufficient money so that 30% of what you make takes care of your family and 70% of what you make allows you to change the world around you.”

In other words, if you make more money you can give more so doesn’t it make sense to become wealthy? If you think otherwise then its almost as if you’re saying that charitable causes don’t need anything from you.

So how do we attract abundance to ourselves?  That will be the subject of my next post.