Latest / Afzal's Reset Entropy Podcast / Why Fixing the Money Won't Fix the Money
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- 0:01SPEAKER_00: I want to talk about something I see constantly with all my clients, especially people who have been stuck in this exact same loop for the last 46 years, 28 years, 20 years.
- 0:12SPEAKER_00: There have been multiple incidences, almost all of them come and talk to me about this.
- 0:18SPEAKER_00: And it's one of the most painful traps a person can be in because it feels completely logical while it quietly is running your years of your life right now.
- 0:29SPEAKER_00: Here's how it goes: money starts hurting.
- 0:32SPEAKER_00: The pressure belts, and so reasonably you start looking for a money fix.
- 0:38SPEAKER_00: Of course, you will.
- 0:39SPEAKER_00: It's survival, it's security, it's fast income, everything.
- 0:42SPEAKER_00: A quick opportunity.
- 0:44SPEAKER_00: Sometimes you just do anything to solve that number directly.
- 0:48SPEAKER_00: Get the pressure off, and you search for it for months, sometimes for years, sometimes even for 10 years.
- 0:55SPEAKER_00: And here's the devastating part.
- 0:57SPEAKER_00: In all of that time spent chasing the fast fix, you stay completely as stuck as the day you started.
- 1:07SPEAKER_00: Today I want to explain why fixing the money almost never fixes the money, and what actually has to change first for you to exactly start earning the money what you've been chasing for.
- 1:21SPEAKER_00: So here's the reframe that changes everything, and it's a hard to hear.
- 1:26SPEAKER_00: When you're in pressure, the money problem is almost never actually about the money, it is the symptom, it is the thing you can feel more sharply.
- 1:35SPEAKER_00: The bank balance, the bills, the numbers that won't grow, the added pressure of family, the added pressure of daily life.
- 1:44SPEAKER_00: So naturally, that's where you point all your attention.
- 1:49SPEAKER_00: But the money is the downstream, is the visible result of how you've been operating, isn't it?
- 1:56SPEAKER_00: If you overthink every decision and can't move, that's going to cost you money and opportunities.
- 2:02SPEAKER_00: If you can't speak up, can't change properly, you can't follow through, can't finish what you start, that is going to cost money, that is going to cost growth and opportunities.
- 2:14SPEAKER_00: If you self-sabotage right when the thing starts working, that is going to cost money.
- 2:21SPEAKER_00: The money isn't the disease, it is the fever.
- 2:25SPEAKER_00: It is the system showcasing you this issue as there.
- 2:28SPEAKER_00: And you can chase the fever all you want, but until you treat what's underneath, the fever comes back.
- 2:38SPEAKER_00: This is why people get a windfall, a good month, a lucky break, and within a while, they are right back to where they were because the number changed, but the person running the number is still the same.
- 2:51SPEAKER_00: So why do people spend years chasing the money fix instead of a real one?
- 2:58SPEAKER_00: Two reasons here.
- 3:00SPEAKER_00: They are both understandable.
- 3:02SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 3:03SPEAKER_00: First is money pain is urgent, it is always going to be urgent, and is the loudest in the room.
- 3:10SPEAKER_00: It's screaming at you right now, and the real work changing how you operate, facing the pattern underneath, feels slow and quiet and uncomfortable by comparison.
- 3:22SPEAKER_00: Money is directly linked to our survival and security, especially in today's time of how it has been presented and been worked around.
- 3:32SPEAKER_00: So the direct first fix which everyone runs towards is let me earn the money first, let me get that security done, let me do that first, and then I will think about myself.
- 3:44SPEAKER_00: Which is the exact inverse methodology, it is the wrong target, and it comp in comparison-wise is so urgent that it always wins your attention, even though it's the wrong target.
- 4:00SPEAKER_00: Second, the fast fix offer something the real work doesn't, it lets you avoid looking at yourself.
- 4:07SPEAKER_00: If the problem is just need more money, then you don't have to face the harder truth.
- 4:13SPEAKER_00: As simple as that, if that is the only issue, you will find a way to make it.
- 4:18SPEAKER_00: There is no two-way to it.
- 4:20SPEAKER_00: If you put your mind and if money is the only issue, you will find it.
- 4:24SPEAKER_00: But deep down, if you know that there is more to it, and this money is just a surface level problem, then you are just scratching that each instead of causing what is causing that each from within.
- 4:42SPEAKER_00: Chasing the shortcut and operating from that level is very different.
- 4:49SPEAKER_00: How you're operating is the thing keeping the money away, simple as that.
- 4:54SPEAKER_00: Chasing the shortcut is one quietly, a way of not doing the inner work.
- 4:58SPEAKER_00: And here's the cruel math.
- 5:00SPEAKER_00: The years you spend searching for that quick fix cost you the exact thing, and you are afraid of losing more money and more time.
- 5:09SPEAKER_00: You must have seen it time and time again.
- 5:12SPEAKER_00: People going into wrong schemes, people jumping into wrong mannerism, people joining joining with wrong partners.
- 5:20SPEAKER_00: More confidence every month spent looking for shortcut is a month that real problem keeps running, structures get torn down, there is no system, there is no peace, and keeps costing what people, relationships, family, peace, all of it.
- 5:40SPEAKER_00: People waste years hunting for the immediate cure when at the same time they could have done the actual work and been free out of on the other side.
- 5:49SPEAKER_00: To be honest, the shortcut is more expensive than the work itself because the work ends, the waiting doesn't end.
- 5:59SPEAKER_00: So, what do you actually do?
- 6:01SPEAKER_00: You flip the order, you stop trying to fix the money directly, and you fix the thing that money is downstream of the pattern is how you operate, and here's what it looks like practically.
- 6:14SPEAKER_00: First is accept that the immediate result you want isn't coming from where you are looking.
- 6:24SPEAKER_00: That alone feels a year's of things of wasted searching just done in a minute.
- 6:33SPEAKER_00: Second, find the actual pattern that specific way you keep getting into your own way.
- 6:39SPEAKER_00: The overthinking, the not finishing, the procrastination, the delaying of task, whatever it is, the self-sabotage, the not speaking up, because it's usually one core pattern showing up in different places, all quietly costing you.
- 6:55SPEAKER_00: Third, change how you operate at the root.
- 6:59SPEAKER_00: Here's what happens when you do it.
- 7:01SPEAKER_00: You start making clearer decisions, you start following through, you start showing up, you act differently, you place yourself differently, you express your ideas, you express your take opportunities, and that is where the money begins to move.
- 7:17SPEAKER_00: Not because you changed it, but because your person started handling it finally changed.
- 7:25SPEAKER_00: The security you were desperate for was never going to come from a shortcut, it comes as a product, as a byproduct of you operating differently, and that's the whole inversion.
- 7:39SPEAKER_00: You wanted the money to fix your life, but your life fixes is what lets the money come in the first place.
- 7:49SPEAKER_00: So if money is the thing hurting most right now, and you've been hunting for fast fix, you don't want you to feel ashamed about anything, don't go on a guilt trip about it.
- 8:01SPEAKER_00: I don't want you to go in that feel ashamed factor.
- 8:04SPEAKER_00: It is the most natural thing in the world to chase because how the things are placed around us.
- 8:10SPEAKER_00: Inflation is there, the cost of living is there, uh, whole money mindset is there.
- 8:15SPEAKER_00: On top of that, we have been incorporated with cheap dopamine hits that doesn't allow us to do the tasks to actually get the worthwhile achievement dopamine.
- 8:25SPEAKER_00: We are used to this quick browsing, we are used to slide sliding left and right, we are used to sending quick messages, and it has fucked it up at the base core level of everyone.
- 8:41SPEAKER_00: But I want you to see the trap clearly.
- 8:48SPEAKER_00: But that is not the thing.
- 8:50SPEAKER_00: The money problem is downstream, and every month you spend chasing the symptoms is a month that real cost keeps costing you.
- 8:59SPEAKER_00: The more time you spend running behind the wrong thing, the more time you are making the pattern stronger, you are rewiring your brain, and you're making sure that it becomes much more difficult for you to actually come out of it.
- 9:16SPEAKER_00: Because very becomes very difficult to accept the reality, especially the passage of time into play.
- 9:24SPEAKER_00: So the people who actually get free aren't the ones who found the shortcut, they are the ones who stopped looking for it and face the pattern underneath, and let the money follow.
- 9:34SPEAKER_00: If you want to find that specific pattern that keeps costing you, there's a free video at the link.
- 9:40SPEAKER_00: Break the loop, reset reality.
- 9:42SPEAKER_00: The link is in the bio or in the description.
- 9:46SPEAKER_00: You can go there and check that out.