Do you remember that scene from a few good men (one of my favorites) when Jack Nicholson looks at Tom Cruise and says, “You want the truth? You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth”? I had a really big realization over the last few months that the reason I am not making quick easy money or achieved the financial success I have dreamed of is because I cannot handle money. I do not mean handle money in the balancing the check book kind of way, I mean getting the big bucks!

I have always worked hard - I put 100% into my business. I have educated myself on the ways to make money and have learnt all about the systems and processes that guarantee big income. I know these systems work, I am part of a few different forums and speak to people regularly that make quick easy money online. So what was I doing wrong? Why were these systems only helping me break even? I was following the same process as everyone else.

When I looked a bit further I realized that I was afraid of money. I was afraid of the consequences of making it big (of getting there and losing it all), of what people might say about me if I became rich (there are always haters) and a whole load of other fears and doubts. These doubts were literally repelling money from my life. This was why when it came to the finishing line I always managed to self sabotage in some way. The great thing about this is I know now all I need to do is change this and the next process I do will bring in the quick easy money!

So I am the kind of guy who has been on all the courses and read all the books. You could call me an information junkie! I have always believed with enough information you can be successful in business. I still do not believe this is a naïve statement. I still

think you can make quick easy money by following the systems that have made other people money. I know I am a capable guy so there is no reason in my mind why I cannot use someone else’s business blueprint to great success.

This belief was getting a little desperate a few months ago after another mediocre business launch. I was following the processes and still only breaking even – to be honest it was making me feel a little bit like a loser. As a believer in positive thinking, as soon as I slipped into this mindset I decided to stop and have a good hard look at the way I was doing business. This process helped me realize a few things.

While I had the best intentions, I often ended up getting distracted. I was so caught up on other people’s systems and the idea of my making quick money online on the back of one of them that I had “magpie syndrome.” I was constantly distracted by the next great opportunity or business model. I realized that I was caught in the trap of short term thinking.

Rather than thinking of the whole process of being a millionaire (my aim) I always thought in the terms of the next few thousand, the next project. It’s crazy that one thing can make so much difference to making quick easy money, but it has. I notice since I stopped thinking short- term I approach everything in a different way.

I have always wanted to “get rich” in fact I have spent a lot of my working life “trying to get rich” – to make quick easy money. The fact that I have popped quotations in there might give you a clue that these phrases have not been working out so well for me! I have always been a positive person and believe that you keeping a positive focus on the things you want make you much more likely to achieve them. I still believe this, but to be honest my positive focus on “getting rich” wasn’t getting me so far!

I have put a lot of time, effort and money into educating myself about money and the ways to get it. I’ve attended courses; I keep up to date on the latest processes and applied it all pretty religiously. I was ticking every “how to make quick easy money” box but always seemed to fall short. This did not make me feel great about myself, in fact I was feeling a bit of a failure and was starting to doubt my ability to make money.

Doubting myself has always been a big no, no in my book so I decided to have a look at what I was doing wrong. I was following the procedures correctly, so that was not the issue. So, I started to look at the way I was thinking about “getting rich”. I realized this was the problem, when I imagined being rich it was completely abstract, I could not visualize me in the process. Worse, I was using words like “trying” which is just setting myself up for mental failure. Since I realized this I have changed the words “I get” to “I make quick easy money". As soon as I do this everything comes alive and I started seeing the checks arriving on my doorstep!

I’ve always thought of myself as pretty confident. I know I’m intelligent, I know that I am a good husband, I know I have the capabilities to make quick easy money, I know I will be a good father. All the things in my life that matter, I have always felt quite confident about. Not arrogant, I know I will have to work hard to achieve some of these things, but I have always felt that I could -that I have the resources within myself to achieve all my goals.

Believing in all that, I just could not understand why, after a few years in business I was not making the money I knew I could. Why others, using the same systems and processes as me were making big money and I was just getting by. So, to be honest I started getting a bit frustrated. I began really thinking about things, challenging a few of my personal assumptions. The conclusions I came to gave me a bit of a shock.

A few months ago after another online strategy failed to make me “big money” I started asking myself, why is that I do not have the direct route to quick easy money that some other people have? To be honest it made me feel like a business failure. I join the right programs and I get involved in the right opportunities but they never help me hit the jackpot. Sometimes I feel like swimming with the current against me, while other people are in a brand new speedboat, beating me to my end destination.

I have to admit, I did feel a bit sorry for myself at this point, but I felt it was deserved. For years my main focus has been work, I have sacrificed my social life to get ahead, to get one step further in my success plan. So why am I not on a private island, sipping cocktails right now?

Me…

Hard to admit, but the reason that other people were making more money is because of them as people, not because of the latest quick easy money making program. Even a bad opportunity can become a good opportunity in the right person’s hands. When you are working hard from the wrong mental place, you will always been swimming against the current no matter how much hard work you put in. I realized that I thought making money was hard work and that the harder you worked the more money you made. Fortunately I don’t think this is the case anymore. I think now that quick easy money comes to those who believe they deserve it and are capable of making it and I am making the changes in me to make sure I am one of them!

So, you could accuse me of being an information junkie! I attended courses, read the ebooks and registered for so much online information I thank god for email filters! I loved being informed. Knowing that l was using all the right systems and that this was going to make me quick easy money. Information gathering did not leave me much time for socializing and I am very lucky to have such a patient wife! But at the time the sacrifice of a few nights seemed worth it, who needs friends when you can be rich beyond your wildest dreams! Seriously though, making my business a success was the priority and everything else was secondary.

I can now see I was obsessed with processes and systems designed by others and totally relied on them making me rich. My role in my mind became almost a caretaker of these systems. I just had to pilot them; all I had to put in was the hard work. It seems strange that until a few months ago I made no link between my views about wealth and money and my lack of financial success. I knew about positive thinking and believed I thought great things about making money.

Since a few months back, this has changed and I feel like I was almost on a default setting or automatic pilot. I had finally had enough of my lack of business success and began looking at things from a different perspective. I realized that me and my beliefs were costing me the quick easy money. Now I challenge my assumptions about money and a lot has changed. For example now I think in terms of millions instead of the thousands and that has made a huge difference!