Lewis Howes

burdens and beliefs we learned as kids and some of those beliefs are money is stressful money is hard to make money makes people fight money doesn't grow on trees we can't afford that whatever it might be without even realizing it we live from these old money scripts and i remember growing up in a small town in ohio

It was just a stressful household.

There was love.

I knew my parents loved me, but they would argue with each other.

And so it caused stress, and my nervous system started to develop around money equals stress.

Money equals fights.

Money equals uncertainty.

And it was stressful.

It was challenging.

I didn't know.

I didn't understand at 5, 8, 12 years old, how do you navigate these things?

The idea of money was always a challenge and it made me realize like, I'm afraid of this because I don't understand it.

The key takeaway here is you can't build wealth with a mindset that was designed to keep you small.

You cannot build wealth with a mindset that was designed to keep you small.

So if your identity is going from a place of your childhood money memories or money wounds, and if your identity says money is scary or I'm not good with money, that is an identity from your past.

That means no strategy today will save you.

You'll sabotage it without meaning to.

And it's not your fault.

I've been there before many times.

I've sabotaged myself.