Are you the boss or a slave? How to reclaim your time and your money now.
It's really common for people to feel restricted by their budget or by their calendar. By the end of
this video, you'll be back in control of both of those. I've got five specific considerations for
you to do just that. Here's the first consideration, restricting versus harnessing. Think about the
difference, what is a harness? For those of you who are familiar with horses you know that a
harness is used to channel or steer the energy of that animal. It's an apparatus that is strapped to
the horse that doesn't take away its power. It doesn't restrict the horse it's simply steers
that horse in the direction that is desired by the rider. Think for just a moment about the enormous
power of time and money. What if we could harness that power and steer it in a direction that makes
sense based on our intentions. That brings up consideration number two, think back to your
childhood for a moment. I remember when I took my kids out for their first experience flying a kite.
Have you done this before? When you're letting the kite go up it's filled with the air and it's
catching the wind and it's elevating very nicely. When you cut the string it no longer has the
resistance of that string against it and the kite simply goes limp in the sky and begins to
descend and sometimes will even crash or spin out as it falls to the earth. It has to have the string
to provide the resistance that's necessary for it to actually get the elevation. The string helps
keep the kite up it doesn't hold it down. That's something that I got to learn as a child as well.
But when my kids were playing with these kites I had a nice little review of that lesson. Think
about the kite for a minute. Now, what does that have to do with your time or with your money?
We have to attach some kind of string to it in order for it to rise. Think about that consideration.
Here's consideration number three and this is true of both time and money. You have to spend it.
You have to spend it now you might feel a little resistance on the money part. Well, I don't have to
spend my money I could just put it away. When I say spend it I mean do something with it. Because you
could just stuff it under the mattress or you could dig a hole in the backyard and put it in
there. That to me is spending it in some way. It's putting it to some use or doing something with it.
So, it doesn't mean necessarily that you're going to go to the store and spend it on something.
You have to do something with it. Look at time for a moment, you have to spend it.
You can't choose this morning, "Oh, I'm not going to spend any time today", yes you will. In fact,
how much of it will you spend? All of it. All of it, connect with that for just a minute.
What if we were to look at time and money in a similar way? Understanding that we have to spend
it all but let's go to a mindset of abundance here too, okay. So, what if I were to give you a million
dollars. Okay, do you like this game already? But there's a catch, you have to spend it all today.
Okay, you're still in? You're like, "Yeah, let's do that", now if you don't spend it you lose it,
okay. But don't worry, I'll give you another million dollars tomorrow. This game's getting even better, isn't it?
But the catch is you have to spend it all tomorrow. That's exactly what's happening with time.
Just switch out the million dollars for 24 hours. I'm going to give you 24 hours but the catch is
you have to spend it all today. You see how that works? Now, if you don't use it you lose it.
But don't worry, I'll give you another 24 hours tomorrow and the catch is you have
to spend it all tomorrow. Put this into your mind somewhere that you have to spend it
and even your money you have to do something with it. That makes it even more important to become
intentional about how we spend it or what we spend it on. What we do with it, that's the question. Now,
I have two more specific considerations for your budget and for your calendar. But before I get to
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you won't miss any of them. Here's the fourth consideration and this has to do specifically
with your budget. I want to make you the boss instead of the slave. Okay, your money works for you
not the other way around. Robert Kiyosaki teaches this that there's a time in our
life where we work for money but we want to get to a place where our money works for us.
How would you like to be the boss of your money? So, when it comes to your budget consider this,
you get to boss every dollar every cent around. You get to be the boss. You get to tell it what
to go do. You get to assign whatever job you choose to every dollar. I say dollars because
I live in the united states of America and that's our currency here. But you can substitute whatever
your currency is. Whenever I say dollar you just hear whatever yours is. Every dollar gets a job and
you get to decide what that job is. How does that feel? See, sometimes when we think of a budget as
restricting me. That I can't spend money on this or that. Well, who do you think the boss is? I had just
a moment with this a couple of weeks ago I was on the road traveling speaking and I had a few tasks
that I was trying to get done for a project that was going on back at home and I remember texting
Vicki feeling all frustrated, "I'm tired from what I'm doing and I still have to do this thing that I
haven't done yet", and then it dawned on me. I'm the boss. I get to choose who's in charge here anyway.
Do you see that? This is how your budget is. If you're feeling restricted by your budget
you forgot who the boss was. You get to boss every dollar around. So, when a dollar comes in
you get to say, "Okay, you go do that", and you might tell this dollar, "Go pay my rent because I don't
want to be homeless. Will you please go do that for me?", and that dollar is like aye aye captain.
I'll do it, you're the boss", and then you pick another dollar and you say,
"You get to buy me groceries, go do that". Now, that dollar is not going to go pay the rent because
its job is to go buy groceries. This is how a budget works. What if you want to do something
that you don't have a dollar assigned to? Well, then you get to look at the dollars that are
assigned to other jobs and decide whether you can pull them off of this job to put them on that job.
You're still the boss. This is probably the most powerful thing that you can do to transform your
mindset around your budget. You're the bos.s Boss around your money that's what a budget is.
Now, let's go to the calendar. This is the last consideration I'll share with you on today's video
and it has to do with your time. There's only one time you can do anything and it's now.
Connect to that for just a minute. I don't mean right now because right now you're watching this
video with me. Right now I'm spending this time with you but now can be defined as a start time
an end time and a very specific task in between. So, remember we're talking about bossing around
your dollars on the budget side? You're going to boss around your nows on the calendar side.
Who's in charge of how you spend your time? You are. Now, you might pick a whole bunch of those hours
and say, "Okay, these eight hours your job is to go to work", okay, if you've got a job you probably
want to allocate some time on your calendar to do that. It doesn't mean you have to go to work
because what would happen if you didn't? I like to play these mind games as a psychologist it's
kind of fun. When you think, "But I have to go to work", I want you to just ask, "Well, what would
happen if I didn't?", because that sends your mind in a different direction. It's like, "Oh, well, I get
fired probably", yeah, probably so you might choose to go to work because you prefer the outcome of
retaining your job and having a paycheck to being fired and out of work. So, just notice,
it's not that you have to do anything. It's that you're choosing to do certain things. You get to
boss around your time. Go back to the idea of now. The only time you can do anything is now.
If you doubt that just check what time it is when you're doing something and it's now.
You can't do something in the future. How would you do that? You can't do something in the past
that's already gone. The only time you can do anything is now. So, we define it now by start time
end time that's where your calendar comes in and a very specific task in between. Let
me just comment about that because sometimes people say, "Well, I'm going to do this thing",
and they'll even give a start time for it but they don't give an end time
and that's like consigning your mind to a state of endless misery because there's no foreseeable exit.
Give it an end time. This is brain-friendly. It will allow your mind to stay more focused on what
it is you're doing during that now. Start time end time, specific task in between. "Yeah, but Dr. Paul
what if I don't finish?", no problem, because you get a fresh 24 tomorrow and you have to spend every
hour of every day. So, choose how you're going to spend it and if you don't finish that task during
your now set another now and stop telling yourself "I'll do it someday", pick a day on your calendar.
Pick a start time, pick an end time, do that specific task in between. This is how you start to
boss around your hours. Let's get them working for you instead of the other way around. Are you
feeling it? I hope you found that helpful. If you're ready for more cue up that next video about how to
reprogram your mind to stay strong and positive. I think you're going to like that one as well.