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Money and Spirituality: 3 Viewpoints

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How do you view money and spirituality?

How do these ideas relate, in your mind, heart, and experience?


The intersection of money & spirituality has fascinated me for years. I’d like to share with you 3 viewpoints about it...
Viewpoint 1: More Spiritual = Less Money

This is what we find in traditional scriptures, e.g. Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Taoism, Baha’i, and others.

I recommend checking out the following webpage that collects verse…

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Layer a higher meaning into each moment of work...

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What's stopping you from making more progress in your business?

It is probably not “more” knowledge, training, or ideas. The greatest obstacle I've seen in people is fear...

​Fear of making a mistake.

Fear of looking bad to others (or to yourself.)
Fear of rejection.
Fear of discouragement.
Fear of tedious work.

​There's a mistaken perspective that causes your fear:

You think that the result matters a lot.
You think that the mom…

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Stop Procrastinating: Write Down the Simple Next Steps.

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When I notice myself procrastinating, here's a simple process that helps me get unstuck:

At the beginning of a work hour, I write down the project I'd like to make progress on, and three simple next steps I can easily take.

The key is to write it down. We try to keep too much in our heads. Our brains are not built for remembering lots of details. Instead of trying to hold ideas in your head, just write it down, so that you can liberate your mental energy fo…

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Before you buy that expensive business training program, read this...

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I see a lot of people making this mistake -- buying into expensive business/marketing training / big group coaching programs.

In these programs, they're with a large group of hundreds of other students, with high hopes that the energy of the program will somehow propel them toward success...

​As someone who has sold such programs myself, and have partnered with dozens of others to sell these, I can tell you this:
These programs are highly profitable…

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Before You Check Social Media, Take A Breath.

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Next time you want to check Facebook, take a pause.

Breathe first.

Facebook has been carefully designed to get you coming back again and again, instinctively, all throughout the day, looking for new notifications, messages, and interesting posts.

It has been designed for addiction.

(This applies to any social media that you frequently check.)

​​The resulting instinct -- checking social media in order to resolve a momentary boredo…

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