1. Is it true?
Yes. More money means more help, better health, more fun things to do, more stuff to learn, more opportunities …

2. Can you absolutely know that it is true?
Well… when I worked as an option trader and also as a consultant, I had a LOT of money. Yes, I did afford a cleaning lady and I did buy nice clothes but even with a lot of money I still had a scarcity mindset and would not spend my money on things like massages, singing lessons, or travelling.

3. How do you react when you think that thought?
I get aintsy. I can’t wait for more money to come in. Yeah, I think the theme is hating to wait. I think I am also closed to other options of making life easier. Yeah, I see impossibilities instead of possibilities. I am in the future. I defer the easy/good life to some point in the future.

With the thought: Stuck, waiting for something to happen in the future.

4. Who would you be without the thought?
Without the thought I would be open to possibilities. It actually would be exciting. I could exchange services. "Relief from stressful beliefs" for "Relief from back pain". Wow!

Without the thought: Possibilities and action

Turnarounds:
More money does not make life easier.
- I had much more money than I do right now, and I can’t say that I made my life easier by using that money.
- Not when I am not free to spend it.

More money makes life harder.
- When I made a lot of money, I remembered that unspoken (and sometimes spoken) expecation of me picking up the bill with friends and family.
- When I am not happy with the service I am spending my money on, in that moment of dissatisfaction and having to address it, stop it, or find someone else, my life gets harder.

Less money makes life easier.
Mmh, still thinking of an example…

I might come back to that one later.

Do you know of an example of how less money makes life easier? If so, please share by using the comments box below. I am looking forward to opening my mind. And thank you for that.

Ah! One actually just came to mind:
- I don’t have to worry whether the money spent was worth it and whether it was the best I could have gotten for my money.