Illogical money beliefs

I've been thinking a lot about my relationship to money lately. And I just had a BIG realization. Let me explain... I've decided to sell my house. I've been thinking about it for awhile and I finally decided to pull the trigger. It's a big house on 17 acres. It has a pool and a bunch of grass. Overall it's in great shape but there's some stuff I need to do to get it ready to sell. I'm basically paying to make the pool brand new again which is like $20k. I had to put in all new grass and a new sprinkler system which was another $12k. (Yeah, it's a LOT of grass haha.) We're making some big upgrades inside the house as well and it's a bunch to deal with. Overall I'll spend around $50,000 or more to get it ready. On top of that I had another $50k or so that I had to spend this month on some other stuff. The reality is these are pretty much all investments with an ROI, but I don't know when that ROI will come. It's been interesting for me because I've been experiencing some money scarcity while all this has been going on. And it doesn't really make sense because I literally have more actual cash than I've ever had before. And I'll have wayyyy more than ever before once I sell the house. But the scarcity keeps creeping in. That's the thing about our relationship to money - it's not rooted in logic. It's rooted in programming from our childhood. From past experiences. From books we've read and (largely stupid) stuff people you've heard people say on Instagram. Independent of the numbers in our bank accounts or our income, we sometimes feel scarce and sometimes super abundant. It's more of a feeling than it is a mathematical equation. I can't count the amount of people that told me "once I hit X number in income or in the bank account, then I'll be happy. Then I won't worry about money." Guess what? They still worry. Then they move the target to a bigger number. Don't get me wrong, there's absolutely nothing wrong with moving the target, the problem is the feeling. The worry. The scarcity. The feeling of lack. I rarely feel scarce about money. But like I said, it's been creeping in. And I think it's worth admitting that publicly because it might help some of you reading this. No matter how far along you get in your journey, there's always some work to be done. Right now I'm doing that work. I'm doing some specific practices to change my feelings about money. And because of that, my actions are changing. That's the thing about stuff like meditation or manifestation. Some people think it's about putting a picture of a yacht on a board and it magically finds you. That's not what it's about. (Although some really weird cool stuff does happen when you do it.) When you change your feelings and thoughts about money - you change your actions. It happens naturally as a by product of your belief system. That's why I'm doing the "Reality Engineering" practices I'm doing at the moment. It's affecting my feelings AND the actions I'm taking. The effects have been profound pretty quickly. Both in money showing up and how I'm feeling. Anyway, that's what I wanted to share today. It's ok to feel scarce sometimes, but it's not ok (in my opinion) to allow yourself to stay there. Do the work to change shit. Or don't. It's up to you. That's all I got for now. I forgot to talk about my "big realization" so I'll talk about that tomorrow. It's something I'm tentatively calling the "money threshold." Talk soon, Ian "feeling way more abundant" Stanley P.S. I've taught some cool money practices in [Reality Engineering 1.0]( and [2.0](. People LOVE those courses. Now I'm doing some new stuff and it's working. Would you guys want me to create a Reality Engineering 3.0 to show you the new stuff? It would be another Pay What You Want Course. If you enough of you reply and say yes, I'll make it. Sent to: {EMAIL} [Unsubscribe]( Almost Passive Income, 404 S 8th St. #201, Boise, Idaho 83702, United States