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I was broke into my forties.
A sense of urgency is motivating.
Nobody gets to the top without failing.
I've read, like, 10,000 self-help books.
A healthy desire for wealth is not greed. It's a desire for life.
Talk to strangers. They're never who you think they are at first.
People who truly love their lives are the most inspiring people of all.
Treat everyone on Earth like you're staying in their home. Because you are.
I'm in trouble with some activist women because I refuse to say I'm bisexual.
If you want something badly enough, and decide that you will get it, you will.
The key to growth is acknowledging your fear of the unknown and jumping in anyway.
Take lots of walks. It's the best way to discover your world, both inner and outer.
Our 'realities' are make-believe - whatever we make ourselves believe, we experience.
Getting a compliment, even if you need a cooty shot afterwards, is still a compliment.
Being cool was always very important to me, but I decided to get rich, so I went for it.
We don't even realize how loaded of a topic money is. We've got really serious judgments on it.
Awareness is the first key step in breaking the spell of your not-so-awesome financial 'reality.'
If you're serious about changing your life, you'll find a way. If you're not, you'll find an excuse.
Scare yourself every day, and do something that makes you feel totally excited and totally terrified.
Sometimes, if the people in your life really drag you down, you need to stop spending time with them.
People love to tell you what you should and shouldn't want, regardless of what you have to say about it.
Make an effort to do the things that you enjoy instead of being lazy about it. Life is worth the hassle.
My big journey was around money. I was a successful writer, I was a musician, but I was just always broke.
Sexuality has become much more fluid, and you no longer have to be locked up into a convenient compartment.
If you're in a ditch, and you're looking down, you can see where you're going but you can't see the way out.
If you'd rather spend the holidays with your friends or your dog or digging wells in Kenya than with your family, do it.
When I meditate, I can feel an energy that is much bigger than me but is also part of me, and it's a very powerful energy.
I have more experience than I care to have on what it feels like to be broke, confused, and frustrated when it comes to money.
The good news about being full of crap is that once you're willing to admit that you're full of crap, you can de-crap yourself.
I have a theory that people tell you everything you need to know the first week you meet them. And often even on the first date.
For the vast majority of my adult life, I was a freelance writer, forever scrambling for work that paid an insulting non-amount.
So many people live lives of silent mediocrity, convinced that what really matters to them is out of their reach. So they settle.
We are on this planet but once, and to spend it holding back our gushing appreciation of the things that light us up is a shameful waste.
If you want to be a powerful woman, you need money. It gives you options and freedom so you don't have to think about money all the time.
If something bothers you, focus on the solution or the desired outcome, not the part that has you spinning out in the middle of the night.
Safety is an illusion, and trying to protect ourselves does nothing more than protect us from experiencing a full, evolved, and juicy life.
I've been broke and sad, rich and sad, broke and happy, rich and happy, and I'll take the rich version over the broke version all day long.
Wanting money has been made so taboo. We're not allowed to talk about it or admit we want it, and yet we use it every single minute of our lives.
If your entire relationship with money is devoid of fun, money becomes something you fear and loathe rather than something to celebrate and enjoy.
At times, I find a degree of inflexibility in the more traditional homosexual community that seems to me to be every bit as 'straight' as straight.
Pay attention to how you think and speak, and if it turns out that you're sounding snide or crappy or doubtful, make the conscious decision to change.
We live in a fearful society that has perfected the art of doubting, weaned us on worry, and trained us to focus on everything that can or has gone wrong.
You must go after the things you desire like your life depends on it, because guess what? Your life does depend on it. The life you truly want to live does.
Yes, there will be challenges, and things will blow up in your face, but learning experiences are different from wasting your life pushing a boulder up a hill.
Pick the one thing that you've really been putting off, that seems too big or too scary or too whatever, and do it this week. You might be very pleasantly surprised.
If you are a human being in modern society on planet Earth, you need money to do pretty much everything, especially to grow into a more expansive version of yourself.
When we push against who we naturally are, we feel stress, things don't progress easily, we beat ourselves up for getting crappy results, and everything is an effort.
Basically, I chose not to identify with being broke any longer. I realized I deserved a beautiful life, and abundance was something that I needed to welcome into my life.
Even though most of us love, love, love it when we're flush with cash, and we fantasize about what we'd do with more of it, we'd feel gross saying 'I love money' out loud.
Get practiced at taking deep breaths before you speak. This will give you the space to stop, notice what was about to come out of your mouth, and course correct if needed.