In this video, I am going to share with you how the Bob Proctor Quote really helped improve my life. for good. Okay, wishing you an awesome day. This is a really cool video. This changed my life and made me a millionaire. It's something I learned from Bob Proctor, and it has to do with making more money and the perception behind that, and it was something. I was really struggling with that. I didn't even know I was struggling with it until I realized it's how you're conditioned. You are literally conditioned this way. It's keeping you broke and you don't really realize it, and lucky for me, I was able to have a phone call with one of my mentors, Bob Proctor, and he said, do this, and do that. .He introduced the Bob Proctor Law Of Attraction to me. I followed what he said, and it changed my life and made me a millionaire by the time I was 28 and a multi-millionaire by the time I was 30
The Bob Proctor Quote Teaches You To Start Reprogramming The Subconscious
In the last 24 months, there have been shutdowns, governments declaring people non-essential, a lot of people have lost their jobs, and a lot of people are struggling financially. I don't want you to be one of them, and I think this is going to really change your life and really change your bank account. Let's dive right into this Bob Proctor quote money advice that made me a millionaire. All right. So I'm making this video because many people have asked me, "How do I make more money?" How do I make more money? How do I have more freedom? Help me with that, and you know, I'm certainly not Jeff Bezos, but I was able to, by the time I was 30, have a liquid net worth of over three million dollars, have multiple businesses and no debt, and retire with my wife.
When I met her, we were 20 and 21. Both of us were totally broke. She was in credit card debt because she was spending more than she was making because she wasn't making very much, and I just kind of thought I'd always be broke or just over broke. I was reasonably happy. So I would say things like money isn't everything and at least I'm happy, as if there was some type of consolation prize to being broke. I got to a point where I wanted to change that. The reason that I got to that point is because my wife and I, we weren't married yet, but we were living together in a twelve-hundred dollar apartment that we were renting in Hollywood, and every month was so stressful when it would become time for rent.
We Constantly Lower Our Standard Of Living Instead Of Raising Our Income
Ashley was working over 40 hours a week at a clothing store, and she was commuting in traffic for at least an hour each way. It's Los Angeles, it's Hollywood, so you know, a lot of times it was much worse than an hour commute. She's exhausted when she comes back, and we're barely scraping by. When she comes back and we're barely scraping by and she's in credit card debt, my career hasn't taken off. So I wasn't really making regular money. I had just gotten my first book contract, but you only get paid once every 12 months. We were stuck, and I wanted to change that. Through a lot of synchronicities, I met a mentor named Bob Proctor.
A lot of people have heard of him. He's probably one of the best prosperity teachers out there. I was talking to Bob, and Bob said this phrase that really changed my life. He said, "Don't lower your standard of living to meet your income; raise your income to meet your standard of living," and that's what most people do. That's how we're conditioned in our world. All of our habits are reactionary patterns, whether they have to do with money or not, but specifically money. We live in a reactionary state of consciousness and reactionary behaviors, so we constantly lower our standard of living instead of raising our income, and it seems easier said than done. It's like if it was that easy,
Move To A Creative State Of Consciousness
I would have already done it, but it's about moving out of reaction and into creation, because the fact is that wealth has to do with ratios and percentages, not with digits. When I was broke, I always thought wealth had to do with digits. So it'd be like, "Oh, that's a thousand dollar rent." Yeah, that's way too much. I couldn't afford it. Now that I have a semblance of financial freedom, everything I look at has nothing to do with digits, and it has to do with percentages or ratios of my monthly or annual income. When I was broke, I spent 50, 60, or 70% of all my income on living expenses. Now that I have money, I spend five, ten, or fifteen percent max, and I live a good life doing that. Well, what changes?
Instead of reacting to the digits that are in your bank account, you have to move to a creative state of consciousness, and you have to start looking at things as ratios. It is not any harder to make ten thousand dollars a month than it is to make two thousand. They're both equally hard and they both equally have their own sacrifices. They both equally have their own difficult and easy things, but both of them are equally hard. It's not much harder to go from two thousand dollars to ten thousand dollars, but you have to change who you are, how you think, and how you perceive money and the habits that you have around it. So I sat there thinking about what Proctor said to me, "Don't lower your standard of living," which is what most people do.
The Problem Is Not How Much Things Cost
They just keep lowering their standard of living to meet their income. So they're always living like an animal in a state of reaction, and that's who I was. I was just basically like a deer in the headlights. What should I do? All I was doing was reacting and I finally had to go, "Well, do I want to spend my whole life fitting my standard of living into a little box because I don't control my income?" Or do I want to change that belief? " I take full responsibility for my income and will figure out how to change it. I didn't even know how you actually make money, and I found out that money is actually a reward for service rendered, and you are paid in direct proportion to the value that you provide to the marketplace of needs.
In the marketplace of needs, people pay for things because they need them, whether it's food, whether it's a massage, whether it's consulting, whether it's help with marketing. They need something, so they're willing to pay for it. You're solving somebody's problem, and I realized the reason I was broke wasn't because money was that hard. The reason I was broke was because I was reacting instead of growing. I wasn't solving very many people's problems, and I wasn't thinking creatively about how to solve those problems at all. I was just saying, well, money's not everything. At least I'm happy. It's harder than people think. If you want to change your financial life, you have to realize that the problem isn't how much things cost. The problem is your inability to earn more money.
You Might Be On The Wrong Income Earning Road Map
But there's always going to be an increase in the cost of living as long as we have a fiat currency system because it relies on them pumping more debt into the monetary system. We're seeing a huge jump in inflation regardless of whether the government tries to promise you. They're going to get it under control. They can't; it's impossible unless the monetary system changes, which it probably won't anytime soon. So what am I saying here? That there's always going to be an increase in the cost of living. So, if you continue to lower your standard of living to meet your income or purchasing power, because all income is your purchasing power, you will always be a cog in the wheel.
So then what has to happen? You have to realize a couple simple things, and number one is that you might be on the wrong income earning road map because all of this is just conditioning. We don't need to make it the fault of the new world order or the system. You don't need to blame the education system. Let's just take full responsibility. Somebody else may have made you, but it's your responsibility to change it. So the very first thing is to start reprogramming your subconscious for wealth. The chances are you've been programmed to be broke. We're just getting by. That's why 80 percent of people live paycheck to paycheck.
The Bob Proctor Quote Gives You Options To Raise Or Lower Your Living Standards
The average American can't come up with $500 in 24 hours for an emergency. What is this showing us? Almost everyone we interact with is struggling financially. So all of those patterns we've inherited, whether they're behaviors or perceptions and beliefs, whether there are certain ways we perceive and interact with money, have all been programmed by other people. The second part is to look at how you earn your money because we're conditioned in our world to be robots. So if the premise is to raise your income to meet your standard of living instead of lowering your standard of living to meet your income, those are two different things.
Let's say you're a boxer, right? Floyd Mayweather became such a great boxer because he was so good at avoiding punches. He was like the best defender ever. So there are other boxers that just think they can just keep taking hits. They aren't moving. They're two different game plans. You could be the person that takes all the punches in the face from society and you constantly react and you go, "well I'll just lower my standard of living, money's not everything," or you could raise your standard of living. The first thing is, "Are you busy?" If you're not busy, you could probably be doing things that could increase your income, at least gradually. It seems basic, but it gradually increases your income.
Take Inventory Of Your Financial Roadmap
Step number three: this is the thing that made me a multi-millionaire, but let's stick with step number two first. So step number one is to start to reprogram the subconscious. Somebody else may have made you, but it's your responsibility to change it. Someone else may have influenced your financial behavior, but it's up to you to change it. Then number two is to take inventory of your financial roadmap. If your day is open with Netflix, and your day is open with having drinks with friends, and your day is open with shooting with your buddies, and your day is open with scrolling the internet, then if you're honest with yourself, you'll find out why you don't have enough money. That's what I found out. I loved ease, so I was always broke.
I'd sleep in as late as I possibly could, then I'd just go walk in the sun all day. Come back, hang out, and read for a while. I always did the bare minimum, and it served me for a while, but then I realized my life was constrained because Ashley and I wanted to go to Canada in the summer, but I couldn't afford it. Ashley and I wanted to go to Hawaii but couldn't afford it. Ashley and I wanted to go on a trip but couldn't afford it. I needed a second car but couldn't afford it. So I finally realized, Okay, I've got a problem here. I guess I'm going to lower my standard of living. That's when Bob said "No, do not do that. You must raise your income to meet your standard of living.
So the first thing that I started doing was filling as much of my time with anything that was an income producing task. A lot of the time, our day goes by very quickly. A lot of things happen. We feel like we're busy or doing stuff, but a lot of that day is spent doing low-income tasks or no income-producing tasks. So I started filling up as many of my time slots as I could, whether it was pitching a high school to let me speak for $500 or assisting someone who wanted to be an author because I had self-published my first book. I'd done a TEDx talk, I've been on local TV a bunch of times, and I pitched myself for everything. So I had some skills in the marketplace of needs.
Reflect On Your Skills And Start Pitching Yourself
You have to reflect on your skills and then start providing value to individuals. So I said, "Well, what are my skills?" Well, I self-published my first book. I sold 10 000 copies, and 95 percent of books don't sell 2 500 copies in their lifetime. So I've done pretty damn well on my first self-published book, even though I wasn't making good money or anything. I had completed more than 95 percent of the authors' I learned how to do because I couldn't afford a publicist. I learned how to pitch myself to the media, so I had things to teach people. This was ten years ago when people started self-publishing and it was just becoming popular.
So I began selling and consulting to people who wanted to learn public relations and how to get their books self-published and out there. I started pitching myself to spiritual churches, to unity churches on Sundays, anything I could. Then I started filling my time with farmers' markets, and I'd get a table for 15 bucks next to someone selling kale. Every time someone walked by, I would stop them for the six-hour farmers' market and try to sell them my book for $14.95. If I could sell it to you for that price, I would. If you said no, then I'd start lowering the price. I'd sell it for as little as five bucks. So I just started doing things that were positively moving the direction of my income.
Focus On Income Producing Activities
That's what you have to do; focus on income-producing activities. Albert Einstein said nothing happens until something moves. Money doesn't come until you move, until you show up for it, but most people never show up for it. They just keep lowering their standard of living or just accept their life circumstances. Do you see what I mean? As soon as you accept your life circumstances and you just try to constantly shrink your standard of living, as you just try to constantly manage what you have, you're stuck that way. If you make the same amount of money every year, you're actually going backwards. The Federal Reserve just said inflation is seven percent. We all know it's more like 25. That means you're getting a 20 to 25.
Let's say inflation is 10 percent. That means if your income isn't increasing by 10 per year, you're going backwards. So if you make for even numbers, 40 000 a year, you're actually losing if inflation is 10. Every single year, year over year, you are losing four grand in purchasing power. So, in fact, you actually have to be growing; otherwise you're going to go backwards, which is crazy to think about. So then, in step number three, I got the wheels rolling. You can get the wheels rolling. Number two is that you don't accept your life circumstances and you start somewhere. Ashley began selling her artwork. She had never sold art before, but she always wanted to be an artist when she was a kid, and we just said, "Let's try to save our first ten thousand dollars together."
I thought that was a reasonable goal, and we just started everywhere we could. That's how my wife began these awesome wood burnings that she did. We just started somewhere. That's what we did, and you have to start somewhere with income-producing tasks because nothing happens until something moves. Then number three is your income earning road map. One of the three primary ways to make money is to trade your time for money. If you trade your time for money, you could get better at what you do and increase your fees, but there's a point at which you can't increase your fees anymore, and there are only so many hours in a day.
Think Of Your Income As A Business
Number two is to actually start to remove yourself from the equation. That would be a business where you are not directly trading your time for money infinitely. It's changing your model in which you're earning income so that you raise the ceiling on how much you can make in a 24 hour period or how much you can make in a 365 day period. Number three is investing money to earn money, but let's focus on you taking inventory of your income-earning road map. This one was really daunting for me because I dropped out of college and I always thought of myself as a creative person, not a money person, not a numbers person. I didn't think of myself as an entrepreneur. I thought of myself as an artist. I was a book writer. That's what I was.
So when I realized there was a limit on how much money I could earn, trading my time for money, doing book consulting, when I realized there was a limit on how many high schools would let me speak, first of all because I was a college dropout, and second of all because there are only five days in a week. There are only so many hours in a day when I realize that then you get to a place where you can accept the reality and you stay where you are, and this is what most people do. This is why most people earn the same amount of money every single year. It hardly ever changes. Maybe a couple percent increase in a bonus, but remember that if you get a 4% bonus but inflation is 7%, it is still a 4% bonus. You actually got a three percent pay decrease, and this is why it's important to be growing.
I was really intimidated by number three. I want you to think about this with me. If you raise your income to meet your standard of living, you're probably going to want multiple sources of income. The best way to think about this, I found, was for me to realize I was in two businesses. Think of everything as a business, even if you work as a cashier at a grocery store. Think of it as a business, your own business. You are your own corporation. You are your own entrepreneur, and you're making x amount of dollars doing x job. Just think about it like a business instead of a job. In order to change your income producing map, you have to be in two businesses.
Applying The Bob Proctor Quote In Your Life
One that provides the current cash flow and two is the better income earning model, or just a second stream of income. What I realized was that I had to change my road map. I had to raise my ceiling on income because I could only trade my time for money for so much. So I started changing my model. I was doing seminars and things like that. Instead of running seminars, instead of doing speeches, I started putting together, at first, very cheap online courses. I started putting stuff together so that once it was made, people from all over the world could buy it at any time. I didn't have any way to sell those because I didn't have a brand. I didn't have a youtube channel. I didn't have a website.
I didn't have any of that, but I built a different income-earning road map. So remember, don't lower your standard of living to meet your income; grow so you can raise your income to meet your standard of living. Money is a direct reward for the value you provide to the marketplace of needs. When people need things, if you provide value, eventually you will be compensated for them. If you are good at it and you can market and sell it and get it in front of people, it's easier than you think. Remind yourself that it's easier than you think. It's just as hard to be broke and stay where you are and give up than it is to push forward. Fulfillment comes from the progress of moving confidently in the direction of your goals, and so I started putting together online courses.
I realized it would be much more effective if instead of trying to do high school speeches everywhere, I started making YouTube videos. Then I could make a video once and 365 days later, somebody could find it. There was more leverage to that income-earning road map even though there wasn't any money immediately. I started to build my online courses, I started to build my YouTube channels, and I didn't make any progress, and it took me about a year. I almost quit many times because YouTube is harder than people think it is. The videos don't go viral, and everybody quits because you don't get any progress eventually. So take inventory of how you earn your money.
The Bob Proctor Quote Says Raise Your Income To Meet Your Standard Of Living
Take inventory of how you earn your money and then ask yourself, "How can I add more leverage and more scale to this?" How can I, in the marketplace of needs, solve more people's problems? You probably have something people need. You can probably solve some problems. Everything is problem-solving, whether it's plumbing, whether it's accounting, whether it's financial investment. If it's teaching people about, whether it's therapy, whether it's parenting stuff, whether it's ballet, whether it's golf, you have some skill of some sort that if you focus on it, you can get better and better at it and provide more value to people. So you start reading psychology books; you start reading sales and marketing books; you start reading money books.
I always used to always think "well I'm too young to make more money", so I never tried that hard or I don't know how. I didn't know anything about business, I didn't know anything about YouTube, I didn't know anything about the internet. I would just say I don't know how, so flip the question and say how can I earn more money and just quietly sit there with the answers and start writing them all down. If you continue to focus on your own personal growth, you will continue to do the mindset work. Don't lower your standard of living to meet your income; raise your income to meet your standard of living. So the first thing is to set a clear goal. How much money do you want to earn in a month? And then what's your plan of action?
To do that, take inventory of your existing roadmap. From constraint and conservation to how can I produce more because production is abundance, creativity, and the more you produce, the more financially rewarded you are. If you save the difference between what you produce and what you consume, you build capital, you build wealth, and to the degree that you focus on producing and providing more value to the marketplace of needs, that is to the degree you will see the digits and commas in your bank account.
So let's just conserve what we have and then they go "well, money isn't everything, why would you say that?" I believe money has ears and adheres when you call it. Most people never get money into their lives because they never believe they can get it. That's the whole idea of lowering your standard of living to meet your income. They never call it in because they don't even think they can get it, so they psych themselves out before they even give it a try.