Welcome back to Limitless TV, one of the biggest questions that people have is " Can I afford
it?"
Well, can you?
Hey friends, Stephen Michael Miller here.
And I'm going to answer the age old question, can I afford it?
Well, that is a loaded question and with a loaded question comes a loaded answer.
So I want to kind of dive in and see if we can come to the proper conclusion right now.
The reality is yes, and no.
Can I afford it?
That's one of those things that we often will tell ourselves with, we actually don't ask
a question.
We tell ourselves, I can afford or I can't afford it.
Usually, that statement is tied to whatever is sitting on our bank account at that time,
right?
So if we got the money in there, we'll tell ourselves, "I can afford it, I can do this."
If we don't have the money sitting on our bank account, we tell ourselves, " Ah there's
no way.
I can't afford it.
I am intimate with this question or with this statement of I can't afford it.
And many of you maybe in this is same situation or maybe you've grown up with the similar
circumstances.
I was raised in a very poor family.
A wonderful family.
But financially speaking, we were really poor.
We struggled day in and day out.
Even just to put on the table.
As a matter of fact, if it hadn't been with my grandfather, we would have been homeless
most likely because he bought the home that we lived in, that we didn't pay rent in.
And even with that, we struggled so, so much financially.
I remember going to my parents often and asking them for things.
I remember asking them even for simple things like you know clothes, or I remember one year
I wanted a yearbook.
I wanted to buy the yearbook of the year.
And often times when I went to my parents for things that has any kinds of financial
need, they would tell me, "Stephen we love you but we can't afford that."
You know, "No, we can;t do that, right now."
So as a kid, I learned this whole idea and concept of "I can't afford it" really, really
well.
It's actually one those pieces that I tried hard to eradicate on my mind.
To get rid of this idea of " I can't afford it" because when you have that thought process,
when that's your first response because you don't have the money right now is " I can't
afford it", what that does is it shuts down your positive thought processes.
It shuts down your positive actions and then you will never create it.
" I can't afford it right now" because you don't have the money for right now, doesn't
mean that you should ever say I can afford that.
As a matter of fact, if you don't have the money for it right now, you should say this,
"I can afford it.
how am I going to create what I want and what I need so that I can invest in that thing,"
right?
You need to change your language on how you approach things.
If you can't afford it or you can afford to get it, to create it, then of all of a sudden,
it changes everything on how you show up.
Instead of saying, "I can't afford it", from now on say, "this is something that I'm creating.
This is something that I can afford and I will create the ability to afford it right
now.
What can I do so that I can work this into my budget, right?
I don't think budget is a bad word.
I don't think that the word even afford is about a bad word if you're using it correctly.
So what I want to invite you to do right now is to never from this point forward, don't
ever use the terms or the phrase " I can't afford it".
Just eradicate that from your language.
If you will eradicate that from your language and choose into new language, it will influence
how you act.
That's just the reality.
You know I speak about this all the time because it' so important.
We're talking about investing, we're talking about growing our wealth, we're talking about
accumulating riches or any kind of sort, financially speaking, then we need to begin right now
to change the way that we speak.
And if you ever have that in the back of your mind, if you ever speak those words, "I can't
afford it".
Then you're going to put a stop on all positive actions.
You will literally damn yourself.
I mean think about it, what are damns do?
right?
If you ever driven over a damn, in this built and created to hold back the water, right?
The damn is created, the whole back, the forward flow, the forward motion, it holds it all
there.
It keeps it in wait.
It keep it in suspense and until you either release that damn or you break it down, right?
And so our words do the exact same thing.
When we say, "I can't afford it", it damns that up.
It stops those things that we want from ever moving forward.
It stops the flow of what we want, it keeps it at bay.
If we will break that damn down, if we will actually working, create a different scenario
and allow that to flow forward, if you stop using the words " I can't afford it", say,
"I can afford it.
Absolutely, what can I do to afford it?"
Right?
So you're asking some follow up questions.
"I can afford it.
How can I afford it?
How can I create this?
How can I create a scenario where this is going to be real in my space?"
I'm going to bring in to my reality.
Because if you're going to start those questions, then your mind goes to work for you.
See I believe that the universe, your mind got whatever you want to call it.
It's all coming into play in our financial lives based on and determined by our words
and our thoughts.
So if you;re constantly saying these things, " I can't afford it", then you're creating
this scenario where you will never be able to afford it.
On the other hand, if you start to say "I can afford it, I can do this, What can I do
to afford it?
How can work this into my budget, your mind will build a work for you.
Your years are going to work for you.
God will go to work for you and all of a sudden, you'll be able to create all these scenarios
start coming to your space, where it will become a reality for you.
So, if you want to afford things, stop saying " I can't afford it".
Just eradicate that from your language and begin affording everything that you desire
today.
Alright friends, with over some mindset about affording things.
And if you want to learn how to afford it even more, then go ahead and write questions
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