Your money threshold (my big realization)

Humans are comfort driven creatures. Just like all life forms, we naturally seek homeostasis. We don't naturally seek discomfort - yet discomfort is where most of our growth tends to come from. I do an ice bath every single morning. It doesn't matter how little I want to do it, I do it. It's 3 minutes of discomfort for a plethora of short term and long term benefits. When you get comfortable with discomfort, discomfort itself disappears. I recently realized that I have a comfort zone with money. I feel uncomfortable with the idea of earning more than a certain amount. I've been working on my relationship to money for a decade and I literally only realized this last week. The most I've made in a month is close to $200,000 in profit. And each time I've hit that amount, I've made less the next month. Sometimes a lot less. Not because I couldn't have kept making more, but because my thermostat is set below $200,000 per month. That's my internal money threshold. Whenever I get close to moving past it, I revert back to my comfort zone. Now, I know that amount may sound like a lot to some people and I get that.But the amount isn't what's important. What's important is that almost all of us have a threshold where we feel uncomfortable with the idea of making more...and we probably have no idea it exists. The realization hit me like a bolt of lightning last week - until I get comfortable with the idea of living in that higher income zone - it won't happen. Or it'll happen for a month and then go back down to a number in my comfort zone. That's why my new focus is on developing a higher tolerance for that new zone. I believe that one of our main purposes as humans is to work on building our tolerance for good feelings. We all have something called an Upper Limit. We can only tolerate so much good stuff until we find a way to do something that lowers us back down again. If we can increase our tolerance for good stuff, we can experience a lot more of it. This isn't just about money - it's about all sorts of things. Our romantic relationship is going so well that we find a way to screw it up to bring ourselves back down to our comfort zone. Our business is having a record month so we decide to eat a bunch of shitty food to feel worse because we're uncomfortable with how well everything is going. We finally get into the physical shape we want so we get stop working on our business because things are going too well. You get the point. If you can increase your tolerance for good feelings, you increase your ability to create great stuff in your life. If we feel unworthy of a certain amount of good stuff, we'll always stay stuck. We don't get what we deserve in life, we get what we believe we deserve. If we increase our internal self worth - we tend to upgrade our external realities to match our new sense of self. Almost automatically. We rise or descend to match our internal compass of worthiness. Anyway, I have a dinner to get to so that's all I got for right now. Talk soon, Ian "raise your threshold" 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. About 100 of you responded yes yesterday. If I get 100 more responses I'll make it. P.P.S One of my favorite books of all time is called the Big Leap. It's all about the Upper Limit Problem. Highly recommended read. I've read it about 5 times. Sent to: {EMAIL} [Unsubscribe]( Almost Passive Income, 404 S 8th St. #201, Boise, Idaho 83702, United States