Wealth Rejection Syndrome

Guilt about how you make your money, how easily you make your money, or how much money you make can instruct your Servo-Mechanism in your Subconscious Mind to get rid of it as fast as you get it.

Extreme religious indoctrination has made many people devoutly believe that wealth is evil and poverty is good. This is so ridiculous. I believe that God created abundance all around us and placed absolutely no limits on how much of that abundance we enjoy and benefit from. We limit ourselves in all sorts of ways: ignorance, stupidity, laziness, lack of discipline, superstition, and so on. But God placed neither such limitations on us nor any limitations on how much of all the goodness of life we are to experience.

Picture this: you are on the beach, at the edge of the ocean. The ocean extends for as far as you can see. And it is deeper than you can see. Above the ocean, in the sky, the fluffy white clouds have spelled out the words “unlimited abundance.” Next to you on the sand there is a teaspoon, a tablespoon, a cup, and a bucket.

As a practical matter, anyone who insists that money or wealth is evil must desire to return to living in caves, killing wild animals with sticks for food, and grunting at each other as the only means of communication, because all progress since then has required the use of money as well as the creation and reinvestment of wealth. The scholarships that enable a student to go to college and to medical school; the hospital in which a child will make a emergency call when her father topples over in front of her with a heart attack; the ambulance that will get him to the hospital in time for his life to be saved; all these things are the results of wealth created and wealth invested. Rather than being the root of all evil, money, wealth creation and wealth investment is the natural, vibrant juice of all human progress. The fundamental truths of our free enterprise system - namely, that wealth is most often a representation of service and discipline.

Are lottery winners cursed? If you look at the outcomes, you might think so. Many of the huge winners of the state lotteries of as much as one to over ten million dollars have had an overwhelmingly negative results. Lives have been disrupted, families upended, careers wrecked, old friends lost, attitudes and images have been severely damaged. Why would so many lottery winners experience so much tragedy, suffering, and chaos in their lives?

One explanation is the self-image snaps back. Think of the self-image as a thick rubber band. You can stretch it quite a bit beyond its oval shape and you can forcibly hold it out there, but the second you cease your active stretching, the rubber band snaps right back to its original form, sometimes weaker than it was before.

The person who gets sudden, unearned wealth and doesn’t have the self-image prepared for it seems very likely to shift into self-sabotage almost overnight. Similarly, the sales pro or businessman who enjoys rapid, substantial income increases is stretching the rubber band, but at the some point can’t stretch anymore and it snaps back. You simply cannot sustain any success that is outside the acceptance range of your self-image.

And if you do achieve such success, the self-image rears up and says, “Wait just a minute there, buster. What make you think you deserve it? Why, nobody in your whole family ever got anywhere close to it! You certainly don’t have enough education or experience or talent or know-how or good looks or whatever for it. Get back where you belong to.” Snap!
Keep in mind that the self-image must be conditioned, strengthened and prepared for the success you seek. Begin building the healthy self-image of a person who not only earns an exceptional income but is also a good steward of the good fortune that comes your way.

Do everything you can to strengthen your own self-image. When self-image is healthy and strong, you have pride, self-confidence, the ability to express yourself effectively, and a glow or aura about you that magnetically attracts cheerful cooperation, acceptance and trust. You will use self-image strengthening exercises daily.

Conrad Hilton imaged himself to be a successful hotel man and that he felt like a successful hotel man long before he became one.

The famous basketball coach John Wooden said, “Unless a kid can clearly visualize the basketball going through the basket, there’s no chance he can throw it in when he has to.

Walt Disney used his imagination to create wonderful worlds that bring joy, happiness and wonder to millions of children and adults alike. Imagination is powerful.

It’s so important to deliberately, strategically use the imagination because everything happens first in the imagination. A great psychological secret that governs success and failure, exhilaration and frustration in our lives is how the imagination is used. If your imagination is undirected, left to wander around on its own, it will, more often than not, create images that promote anxiety and fear. This is what sabotage so many people in every area of their lives. You must control your imagination! You must demand that it works for you, not against you, and direct it to support you, not undermine you. This is up to you!

Stop taking your awesomely powerful imagination for granted. Stop letting it wander around and make trouble, without supervision. Everyday, make deliberately use of your imagination to achieve your potential.

There is a very direct connection between Mental Rehearsal and real experience. While it takes time, patience and creative imagination to mentally rehearse, the pay-off can be dramatic. You imagine and feel yourself successful and prosperous, and your Servo-Mechanism in your Subconscious Mind will responds to your habitual thinking. Your Subconscious Mind always magnifies and multiplies.

Unwrap your imagination! Leadership requires vision and the ability to convey a strong sense of vision. Clear, confident, predictive vision. Great leaders are visionary thinker. They envision a future that can be achieved and they communicate this vision to their followers. The ability not only to see things accurately as they are, to see things creatively as they can be, but also to creatively build the bridge between the two, and then to sell the entire vision to the world.

Go into the Theater of Your Mind often, to keep constructing the vivid detail of the career and lifestyle you want to have. As you focus on your goal, feel yourself attaining it. Create a picture of it in your mind – see it, as clearly as you can, and feel it as well. Keep on holding it in your mind and heart. You make your metal picture real and natural. As it becomes clearer and clearer, you will be closer and closer to attaining it. Do you have the discipline and commitment to mentally rehearse what you want to achieve 1,000 times? If yes - eventually, your visualization becomes so clear that one day you find you can step right into it. You made it so real and true that it had to take place physically.
A medical doctor said that before he became a doctor, every evening before going to sleep, he imagined a medical diploma inscribed with his name and stating that he was a fully qualified physician and surgeon. He took this diploma in his hand and he worked to make this mental picture as real as possible, as natural as he could, to impress it on his Subconscious Mind. He let Servo-Mechanism in his Subconscious Mind to open the door for him to become what his heart desired.

I talk to myself all the time and you do too. Most people never give this much thought, and the “inner dialogue” they carry on with themselves just happens. It’s this continuing conversation that programs the Subconscious Mind! You must pay attention to what you are telling your Subconscious Mind. Be alert for unproductive inner talk, like “if it wasn’t for bad luck, I wouldn’t have any luck at all” . . . or “ a day late and a dollar short, that’s just the way I am” . . . or “I’ve never been able to sell this kind of a tough prospect - I guess today I won’t be any different.” And so on. What are terrible things to tell your Servo-Mechanism!

Go into the kitchen; pour yourself a glass of water. But before you take that first satisfying swallow, take some rat poison and dump it in. Would you do that? Of course not. So why poison your own mind? Why continue recycling the same poisonous statements through your imagination over and over again?

You can reprogram your Subconscious Mind and strengthen the self-image by deliberately creating and frequently repeating statements that affirm your best qualities, past successes, and worthy ambition. What kind of person you are? You are the kind of person you create in the self-image, and affirmation is a powerful tool.

Servo-Mechanism means the deliberate steering of all powers of the human mind, in sync and in harmony, to a productive, rewarding goal. If you stay focus on your goal, your Servo-Mechanism in your Subconscious Mind can be trusted to zig and zag as need be, to ultimately arrive at that goal as surely as the military’s most sophisticated guided missile can be relied on to deliver the missile to its target.

Say to yourself, “I am highly paid, intelligent, goal-oriented professional and I am expected to get myself motivated, to go out and perform at my best.” If you are to be a highly paid, peak performance professional, you should understand this. You cannot wait for anyone else to “motivate” you.

You must create self-motivation tools like affirmations. I urge people to write their affirmation or just key words like confidence, big potato, and abundance on 3 x 5 inch cards and tack them up at their desk. Get a large potato from the grocery store and put it on your desk, to trigger thoughts of strengthening your self-image to grow to the size of a giant potato, rather than shrinking to the size of a small potato.

I saw offices where there hung on wall such slogans as
“We do the impossible – any place, any time.”
“Be a self-starter – don’t wait to be cranked.”
“Do it now.”
These slogans serve as constant reminder and as a series of suggesting forces that reach the executives’ Subconscious Mind. The executives use them to excite their imagination and to inspire them.


Little choices have a cumulative impact that literally controls the results you experience in your life.

You choose your thoughts. When a thought enters your consciousness, you must Stop! and Think: what good is this doing me? Is this productive? Will this contribute to my success? Is it accurate? What voice is speaking here, my harshest critic within me or my coach-with-kind eyes? What direction will this point my Servo-Mechanism in?

You choose your emotions. When an emotion wells up from inside, to take control of your actions, you must Stop! and Think: is this my “big self” or little-self”? Is this fear, frustration, anger or resentment? Or is it confidence, creativity, and compassion? Is this an emotion to be ashamed or proud of? Is this enhancing or dissipating my energy?

You choose your actions. As you invest your precious time during the day, every once in a while you must Stop! and Think: is this habit or creative? Is this contributing to reaching my goals or distracting me from them? Is this important or trivial? Stop – Think – Choose!


You need relaxation for renewal. At the end of the day, you should defuse your frustration, celebrate thanksgiving for the opportunity and accomplishments of the day, and relax. Please don’t do this with chemicals. The do-it-yourself tranquilizers available free of charge right in your own imagination are safer, more powerful and more beneficial than any pills you can buy in the pharmacy or alcoholic beverage you might consume.

I urge people to create their own personal “quiet place” in their imaginations, in copious detail.

If you find the ocean or a quiet lake particularly relaxing, by all means build in your imagination a luxurious beach-front vacation home, with thatched roof, comfortable furniture, and a porch that directly faces the ocean, where you can sit with favorite cocktail in hand, and watch sailboats go by.

If you find woods more to your liking, build yourself a mountain lodge out of rock and timber, surrounded by tall shade trees, next to a babbling brook.

With a bit of practice, you will be able to close your eyes and instantly transport yourself to your quiet place and mentally shift into decompression and relaxation. This is a terrific thing to do at the end of the day, so you do not carry any of your hard-to-forget business troubles into your home. This is also a very useful thing to do before going into an important business meeting, so you can “clear the mind” and go into the meeting relaxed, renewed, and focused. When you present yourself to the world relaxed, renewed, and confident, people “feel” that security.