Episode 034 – Wealth Unlocked: Financial Insecurity To Freedom In Minutes

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Note: This blog post serves as an accompaniment to the corresponding podcast episode of A Changed Mind, where we’ll distill down the core ideas of this week’s theme, along with additional distinctions and insights. If you haven’t listened to the episode yet, you can go here to do so.  Enjoy.

Let’s talk about money.  Specifically, how you can close the gap on achieving financial abundance in your life – regardless of how much money you’ve got in the bank, what your financial situation currently looks like, what background you come from, or how many times making money hasn’t worked out in your favor.  I’m going to share with you a key distinction that demonstrates that those things don’t actually matter and how with one simple perspective shift, you can be well on your way to creating more money, prosperity, and financial freedom in your life…as soon as today.

The Illusion of Future Financial Freedom

Here’s the problem.  For most people, this idea of financial freedom is something that only exists in the future.  It’s something you anticipate and look forward to, but it’s sort of like a mirage in the desert – you’re not really sure if it’s an oasis waiting for you or a figment of your imagination.

This is partly because most of us think that financial freedom is only defined by a certain amount of money in the bank.  But that’s only one metric for measuring money.  It’s fiat currency, but it’s literally just a piece of paper that treasuries around the world have influenced us to believe as being “real” and “valuable”.  I’d suggest that money alone is a poor measurement of financial freedom.  Here’s why…

Resources vs. Resourcefulness

I believe that true financial freedom is an understanding that, at any moment in time, you have access to not just the money in your bank account, but to an infinite amount of resources in the world that you have the opportunity to leverage.  Case in point: Most people can’t pay cash for a $2 million home.  But a whole lot of people can leverage resources (loans, credit, etc.) to be able to live in that home.  

Here’s another example: You may not have the financial resources to be able to hire the people you want to hire for your business, but you can leverage someone else’s financial resources to raise money for your business so that you can hire the people you want so that you can grow faster and further and reach your goals.

I’m sure if you’re reading this that there are several examples in your life when you haven’t been able to “afford” something based on your bank account balance alone, but you’ve leveraged resources to be able to obtain or invest in those things – cars, houses, renovation projects, business initiatives, mentorship, etc.

In other words, true financial freedom is not about how much money you have, but how resourceful you can be.  When you understand that you can access all of the resources that other people have been accumulating towards your goals and your experience of life, then you truly become financially free.  Might sound too good to be true, but it’s literally happening every day and you’re likely a testament to this fact whether you recognize it or not.

Reorienting the Way We Look At Wealth

To further illustrate the point, consider this.  Your bank could shut down tomorrow.  The stock market could go belly up.  Your business could be shut down.  Your crypto holdings could tank.  It’s happened before and it’ll happen again.  So is having all of the material things that give us the illusion of financial security, knowing that they could be wiped out tomorrow, really what financial freedom looks like?  I certainly don’t think so.

As far as I’m concerned, true financial freedom comes through a complete reorientation of the way that we look at wealth and aligning ourselves with the fact that there are resources everywhere.  And we can access those resources at the drop of a dime, but only when our thoughts and our beliefs are actually in alignment with abundance and prosperity.

Want a historical example of this?  Take a look at the life of Gandhi.  He was able to harness the resources of an entire nation of other wealthy individuals who supported what he wanted to do in terms of liberating the Indian people from imperialistic British rule.  He was able to accomplish extraordinary things and amass a tremendous amount of resources in pursuit of his mission.  

Your average person would’ve told Gandhi “You can’t afford to do that”.  And on paper, that might have been true.  But he understood that if he could transcend the amount of money in his bank account, he could actually experience financial freedom by tapping into the resources that existed all around him. 

You’re Already Financially Free 

Ultimately, that’s my encouragement for you, too.  Because as powerful creators, when we can close the gap between the financial freedom that we hope for someday in the future and the financial freedom that we actually have access to today, we can realize that right here, right now, at every moment in time…we’re already financially free.

Again, I encourage you to take a look at your experience of life and consider the times when you might not have had the financial resources to afford it, but you were able to get resourceful and make it happen anyway.  Reflect on this, and you’ll start to see how limited we’ve constructed our own lives by only making decisions around those things that we desire based solely on what we can “afford” based on our pre-programmed views on what money is and how it works.

We all have had such greater access to resources than we typically give ourselves credit for.  And the truth is that resourcefulness, which is the only true financial freedom, is something that’s already inside of you. It’s not something that you have to earn. It’s not something that you have to figure out.  Resourcefulness is something that you have to align yourself with. 

That alignment comes from understanding the root cause or the true nature of wealth itself, which is something that exists inherently inside of you because you have the capacity through alignment of your own thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and habits to achieve any desire through your resourcefulness.  I sincerely believe that and I hope you do too.