Ep 59: Money Doesn’t Come From Hard Work

You're listening to episode number 59 of the Transform Your Life from the Inside Out podcast. Planting simple, the headline is pretty self-explanatory. In this episode, I talk about the fact that money doesn't come from hard work. Keep listening. Hi, I'm Jim Fortin, and you're about to start transforming your life from the Inside Out with this podcast. I'm widely considered a leader in subconscious transformation, and I've coached superachievers all around the world for over 25 years. Here, you're going to find no raw, raw motivation and no hype because this podcast is a combination of brain science, transformational psychology, and ancient wisdom all rolled into one to take your life to levels you've never thought possible. If you're wanting a lot more in life, to feel better, to heal, to have peace of mind, to feel powerful in a life, and to bring more abundance and prosperity into your life, then this podcast is for you because you're going to start learning how to master your mind and evolve your consciousness. And when you do that, anything you want then becomes possible for you. I'm glad you're here. So when I say that money doesn't come from hard work, you know that probably flies in the face of what a lot of you believe, and if you've been listening for any time to this podcast, you're already aware that what I do flies and you know things that I say flies in the face of a lot of conventional thought and a lot of cultural myth. And you also know you probably heard me tell my story that you know I grew up a small town tax as farm boy, literally 2000 people in the town. I grew up on a farm, a real farm and I find you know a lot of people find that shocking when they know that I lived in New York City and I've been all around the world that I really don't look like a air quote farm boy. But I was thinking this weekend as I was driving that my mother had us working when we were 12 years old and obviously well not obviously, but it wasn't like child labor or you know abuse and all that. But definitely when we were kids, I remember in sixth grade my mother already had us outside working from the age of about 12 and then I worked all the way through. After school I worked all the way through high school. I'd get up at five o'clock in the morning, feed the cattle, get dressed, go to school, come home three o'clock. If I wasn't doing sporting activities or whatever, then I was back working again. And I even remember, I've never told this story and it's such an ancillary story. If you've ever picked up a bail a hay anywhere in the world, I mean I don't know you know there's people here from all over the world. But a bail of hay is I don't know it's about 70 pounds. And my last summer before college I got named Jamie Marrick and I worked for his dad. Jamie and I both of us bailed 49,000 bills a day that summer just just a two of us. I mean that is hard work and we got paid a nickel each per bail. But I'm going to tell you that I grew up and it was hammered in my head. I mean hammered and drilled and instilled for my grandfather and my father and my uncles that you have to work hard. You've got to struggle. You have to grind. You've got to put in the long hours. You've got to sacrifice. And you've got to just as I said work hard to make money. Well, that's not true. You know in my family I make more than in terms of attracting money and wealth. I have more wealth in my entire family put together and I help a lot of people in my family. The reality is the family mentality which is pretty much universal. I don't care where you are in the world is that you have to work hard. And when I went to college, you know I when I went to college I said you know what no more physical labor. I mean I'm a college guy now and I'm going to be college educated back in the 80s and I got a good education, etc. I got out one in the world and I even believe back then that you had to work hard and you had to put in the hours and you had to struggle. And I'm going to tell you if you look around you, look around you. I don't care if you have a college degree. I don't care how many hours you work. If you look around you and I'm about to demonstrate to you and you might have heard me say before is that hard work is for the most part. There might be an exception every so often. But if you look at the masses hard work is not going to bring you a great deal of money and it's not going to attract wealth and abundance for you. You might work hard but you know what you're doing for the most part is trading dollars for hours and for the most part you're trading dollars. I'm sorry you're trading hours for not very many dollars. And the story that I just gave you about me growing up, you know I've done this for a lot of years and I talk to a lot of people and most of you have the same story. As a matter of fact and then you've heard me say before that I read an article in the Wall Street Journal, I believe that it was. It was a reputable publication and the statistics are that 78% of the population works paycheck to paycheck here in the US. And it's probably similar around the world if not even you know much worse than that. And many of you might be working in long hours, you're working two jobs, you're working three jobs, you're working in long hours. Some of you are working in unhealthy conditions and then go look at your bank account. And I can give you a thousand examples of people working really, really, really hard but not being successful financially. And you know I want to point out that you know financial success really isn't a big deal to me and that you know the old phrase you can't take it with you. But I'm going to tell you it sure makes life a lot easier. And your life would be a lot easier as well if you had money just piling up in your bank account and you had money coming into you to show that you could cover all the things that you want, whether it's taking care of your elderly parents or extra healthcare or healthcare even for that matter here in the US, which is extremely expensive. As a matter of fact here in the US, I know people in the middle class that have to pick between healthcare and a mortgage because they can't afford both. And yet they're working really, really hard and still not making their ends meet. So if you look at your own life and if not just look at your window, look at people you know, look at your neighborhood, look at your family, look at your friends, I guarantee you I 100% guarantee you there are people working very, very hard. Their nose to the grindstone and guess what they're not making a lot of money or they're struggling to make ends meet. Now let's go somewhere else with this and I did create a similar episode, episode number nine, which I definitely recommend you listen to. But I want to take a little different slant and talk a little bit more about where money comes from and give you some more perspective on it as well. I know because I get emails and Instagram messages all the time that many times you listen to something and you absorb part of it and you listen again later or you hear it in a different way. And then finally that little, you know, that little click, the little ah ha goes off and you're like, whoa, okay, I get it. Right, most people work from what I call the the Newtonian, which is a serotic Newton, the Newtonian mechanistic model of the world. And basically it's like the entire world is just a machine and calls an effect, if I do this I'll get that. But the Newtonian, the Cartesian, the Cartesian Newtonian model of the world is that the universe is one big mechanistic machine. And at the turn of the last century, quantum mechanics, quantum physics started changing that. The work of Max Born and Warner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauling, they're the ones who actually coined the phrase quantum mechanics. And then we have Einstein a little later and then Max Planck a little earlier and then String. And all of these, all these scientists, all these physicists actually completely invalidated the mechanistic model of the world. So what quantum mechanics and quantum physics basically says is that everything in the universe e equals mc square, everything is energy. And you know what's interesting is that you are a radiating bundle of energy and most of us have never really sat down to really, really grasp what that means. I mean, you literally are electrons, neutrons, and protons. You have consciousness running through you. So if this is the case, which it is the case, it is a fact of science, then the laws of the universe and consciousness apply to you, yet most people insist upon working on the or through the Newtonian Cartesian model of the universe being one big gigantic machine. And it's a 3D world and I have to work in that 3D world and I'm not working with what I call the invisible world, which is the world of physics. Now let me go simmer with this for you. Everything started to change for me in 1996. That was the year that I met my brother-in-law, Don Haviere, the shaman. And that same year I was in a bookstore and I picked up a book. Well, I used to read vorigiously and I mean a lot of books. I've read over 5,000 books in my life. So I'd go in the book stores and spend that half a day just picking out a dozen books that would be my books for the month. And I picked up a little book called The Abundance Book. You can find it on Amazon today for probably $5. The author is John Randolph Price. Again, this is 1996. I remember I picked it up. It was September of 1996 because I remember where I was when I picked it up. And the books are really easy. I mean it probably take you 30 minutes to read and it has 40 days of meditations. 10 days of meditation repeated four times. And off topic here, what you're supposed to do is do the 10 days of meditation four times in a row and just being candid with you. It took me many, many tries to be able to actually finish the 40 days of meditation. Whole different topic and that would be a topic on habits which I do have an earlier podcast about habits. One of the first episodes, I think first 10 episodes is about habits. But in the book, he said something. something and it just made sense to me. And I had no basis, I had no foundation, I had no reason for it to make sense other than I used my sense, not my common sense, but my higher sense, S E N S E. And it made sense to me what I read. And what he said in the book is that, and he uses the word God, I prefer to use the word universe, but he said that money doesn't come from work, money comes from the universe. Now, if you've listened episode number nine, you have heard me say that before. All right. At that same time, the same year, I met my brother-in-law, Don Havier, the shaman. And he wanted to, and I wanted to, I mean, I was eager to start working with him and to start doing dream time work with him where he assists people. He started assisting me to master dream time and to master understanding dream time and different aspects of dream time. And by the way, there's a podcast on that here also, I think I call it your greatest superpower or something like that in a dream time. But back then I quit my corporate job and I was kind of hobbling along waiting tables at that time, not making a lot of money, working hard, working, you know, so many hours a week, trading my, you know, my time, my life energy for dollars and not a lot of them, even though I was working at a nice restaurant. And he said to me one time, he said, how come you've not started the instructions that I gave you? And I said, well, I can't afford to pay you. Now mind you, he never asked me for any money, not even one penny, literally not even one penny. And I don't know why I had the solution that I had to give him a set amount of money, but I wanted to give him like x, y, z amount of money. And he said to me, did I ask you for any money? And I said no. And he said, you know what? My job I am here, meaning on the planet, I am here to serve. And he goes, I do what I do. I, you know, I do the service that I do and I get my compensations from the universe. And that's the way that I've always seen him work. And I have a couple of podcasts here on money and I know I talk about him a lot because I've learned, I've learned that I've come to know so much higher wisdom by following him for so many years. And it's worked beautifully in my life to help me create a health, you know, a life of health, wealth, and abundance and prosperity and many, many life areas. So in the price book, he had also, and I'm, you know, I'm thinking here at this time because I was just starting to get to know and to start to work with my brother-in-law. I thought the same thing. I'm like, well, price says that in his book is that money comes from what he calls God. So like I said, I knew it was true and I'm watching my brother-in-law live that way. And back then we didn't have any social media. And even today from back, it's crazy today, you know, 25 years later he still has the same ridiculous AOL address email. I mean, who uses AOL anymore for the most part. And the same phone number that he said 25 years ago. And I've watched the universe compensate him. Yet I have no evidence in my 25 years with him. And I have no evidence from anyone that's encountered him. No evidence from anyone ever saying, you know, what can you please give me money? He has never said that. Why? Because he's also not a shaman, but he is a sorcerer. And a lot of people don't know what that means. They don't think it exists. But he's a sorcerer. And being a sorcerer means that he works with source. And all of us, whether or not we know it, we work, you know, with source, which I'll get to in just a moment. So the very first Christmas that I knew him, I said, hey, you know, I called him a hobby air back. Then I'm like, hobby air, what do you want for Christmas? And he says, I don't know. He goes, you know what? He goes, why don't you get me a copy of a book called The Caballion? And you spell it. KYBALION. He says, you know what? Many years ago, somebody gave me that book and I lost it over the years. And it would be nice to have another copy. Now, me thinking in a very simple way that I did back then, I thought, oh, okay, he wants a copy of The Caballion. No, that wasn't it. He doesn't need a copy of The Caballion. What he was literally thinly veiled doing is saying, hey, Jim, I want to introduce you to and I want you to get The Caballion and I want you to start understanding The Caballion. Now, The Caballion was written, it's believed, the manuscript was post was was published nearly 1900s. But it's believed that The Manuscript was written by Hermès Thresmeschestus, which means Thrice Great. He's also an Egypt known as Hermès. And it's an ancient manuscript of the seven cosmic laws. The first cosmic law is that the universe is mental. Now, this is believed to be, this manuscript is literally believed to be thousands of years old. And when the first universal law is the universe is mental, well, quantum physics is everything is consciousness. Everything is and even thinking is consciousness, which is mental. All right. So I want to jump ahead here. As I said, I read a lot of books and I tell a lot of people to read a book that was written about, I guess 100 years ago called The Science of Getting Rich. And it's by Wallace Wattles. It's an extraordinary book. It's very simple formula, an extraordinary book. And I want to say that I endorse what's in the book through what I've learned in my own life experiences and what I've learned through working with a shaman and a sorcerer. And in the book, he says one of the main principles to getting wealthy, to attracting money, is to understand that there is a thinking substance that pervades all things. Now listen again, a thinking substance, substance. And this is by the way, was prior to even quantum mechanics and all the news about it. It was around that same time, but I mean, news traveled really slowly back in the early 1900s. And basically, Wallace Wattles says, if you don't get this concept, then nothing else is going to matter when it comes to creating great wealth and abundance is that there is a thinking substance that pervades all things in the universe, which in the Kabali and thousands of years old manuscripts says the same thing in terms of the first cosmic law, everything is mental and quantum physics validates it. So money doesn't come from hard work. It doesn't. It can, but really very unlimited supplies because also hard work is finite because to do hard work, you've got to trade your time and your energy to do the hard work and your time and energy are finite. Therefore, the hard work is finite. Therefore, the wealth you can make from your hard work is finite. 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If you're done collecting insight and information and ready for deep level transformation, go to gymporton.com/souljimforton.com/soul back to the episode. So what I'm I'm sincerely wishing and sincerely hoping that you get here is that your level of wealth in life doesn't come from your behavior and your physical activity. It comes from your prosperity consciousness. So you can work hard and you can be you can have high prosperity consciousness and the hard work will contribute to the wealth. But you can work really hard and have low prosperity consciousness and you're going to do nothing but work really hard and not a cracked a lot of money. What I'm sharing with you in this podcast and in episode number nine, I'm not sure the correct word that I want to use here, but this leap leaping from the new Tony Cartesian model of the world, everything's physical and I've got to go do things to make money to the quantum mechanics, quantum physics model of the world that everything is consciousness and everything is energy. That leap is when I say I've got to be careful of words, but I'm going to use the word hard. That leap was one of the hardest leaps I ever made and it's one of the hardest leaps for most people is because in our behavior, we can see our behavior and we can say, well, if I do X, Y, you know, Z behavior, and then I calculate XYZ dollars or my metrics or my conversions or whatever. If I do XYZ behavior, then I can make XYZ dollars. If I punch the XYZ time clock for eight hours, and I get paid 20 bucks an hour, then I've got XYZ dollars coming. That's all mechanistic. It's all mechanical. And to make this leap, to make this leap requires, and Wallace Wattles said it and I agree, is that we must embrace, we must come to know, we must own, we must work from, that there is a thinking substance in the universe that pervades all things. Now when I say thinking, that's a very a very nebulous way to put it. But basically, what he's saying is everything is consciousness. And if you can't get your mind around that, then in my experience with me and watching the world is most of us continue to toil away and get up early and work long hours and not make and not attract a significant amount of money. Many years ago I had a client when I did a lot of one-to-one coaching and he refused to accept this and literally he was making what I would say is decent money. He was making 700,000 dollars a year and I actually had to let him go as a client because he wouldn't let go of his old paradigms about money and about service. And I'll just leave it at that for now, but he said to me and he was always worried about money because he lived in California. He has two boys. They wanted to go to private school. He lives in a wealthy area of California and he said to me, he goes, "You know, Jim, you don't worry about money because you have money." And I started, you know, gently laughing and I really liked the guy back then. I like him now. He's a good guy and I said, "No, no, you have it reversed. I have money because I do not worry about money. I have money because I do not worry about money." And I want you to look at your life. Do you have money? Do you not? Do you worry about money? Because for the most part, there's always exceptions to the rules, but just take a step back and look at this. Have you noticed that most people that have money don't worry about money and people that actually don't have money do worry about money? Do you see a big "aha" here considering the fact that science demonstrates that everything is consciousness, the cabalian, you know, the science is getting rich. Everything is mental. Are you starting to see the correlation here that the more peaceful of mind that we are, the more wealth we can attract, the more abundance we can attract, and the more worry that we entertain, the more that we actually repel money because money, money, is consciousness. Thought is consciousness. Consciousness has a vibration. Worry is consciousness. Peace is consciousness and vibration as well. So what I want to share with you, think about this, and this is the biggest leap for most people. I get it. And actually, I consider this to be one of the greatest victories you will ever experience in your lifetime is when you stop working from the 3D mechanistic model of the world and you start working from the quantum mechanics, the quantum physics, the consciousness aspect of you and the world and physics, and recognize that every thought that you have even earnest homes who wrote the science of mind back in the early 1900s. Now, I don't have this in front of me, but let me see if I can recapitulate one of his quotes. And there's a good chance I will mangle this. But he said something along the lines of, and again, I'm not going to be able to recapitulate all of this, but he said, just imagine your mind so plastic, so receptive that it receives the slightest impression of your thoughts. Not some thoughts, but every thought is taken up and acted upon. Actually, I think I nailed the first paragraph, but notice what he said there is that not some thoughts, but every thought is taken up and acted upon. So what are your thoughts about hard work, and what are your thoughts about money? And then again, do your own research if you want, go to YouTube, look up the double slit experiment, double slit SLIT experiment on YouTube, watch the one by Dr. Quantum, and basically the material world around you bends to your consciousness. So I also want to point out, actually before I point this out, is have you ever noticed? Have you ever noticed that the people who need the money the most have the least amount of money, generally speaking? And that's pretty much 9.9 times out of 10. The people who need the money the most, which where is their consciousness, where is their energy, have the least amount of money? Why? They have the least amount of money because they're in need for money and they're wanting money, which is weary and fear and angst. These are all vibrations. They create a corresponding experience in the physical 3D world around them. This again is why money does not come from hard work, or at least at paradigm, that I've got a struggle and I've got to work till my eyeballs bleed and I've got to just bang it out and I've got a hustle and I've got to be the first one up in the morning. Every bit of that's absolute nonsense. Okay, so to contribute more to this is go listen to episode number 9. And in it, I talk about this in a different way. And I think if you take episode number 9 and you put it with this one that may actually help you chip away even some more and give you more epiphanies and more a-haz about how to attract the kind of abundance and prosperity that you want into your life. Okay, so the big leap is this and this is requires trust. And the second hurdle when I say it requires trust, I've been there- oh geez, I've been there before. The first hurdle for most people is to stop working from the 3D mechanistic model of the world and to fully embrace that we are consciousness. We as beings, we have energy running through us. You might have heard me say before, we have a heartbeat which is energy. We have an EEG and an EKG. Brain waves and a heartbeat. We are electro-magnetic beings. Sit with that for a second. You are an electro-magnetic being because without electro-magnetic's running through your physical body, which is your 3D body, your 3D body would be a dead bag of skin. So the fact that you're an electrical magnetic being also means that you are subject to the laws of physics, which are the laws of the universe. And what that means is that you're part of consciousness. And what that means even further is that wherever you hold your consciousness, according to the double slit experiment, wherever you hold your consciousness, the physical world, because it's responding to consciousness, actually organizes its way around you. So what a lot of you are doing is you're working from circumstance and then you feel bad about the circumstance you're working from because you know what, I'm working all these hours. Oh my gosh, I'm really, really tired. And then I look at my bank account and I feel bad. And then because I feel bad, what's happening is I'm actually creating that and putting that out out of the consciousness and the universe is returning that to me. You know, episode number nine, which is your transformational takeaway, is I clearly lay out that the layers and levels of thinking. And actually, let me just say this. What I see in that episode is that from our thinking comes our feeling. From our feeling comes our vibration. And from our vibration comes our frequency. And guess what? Money responds to frequency. And when you think things like I'm going to worry, worry, worry, then you feel and that brings your vibration and your frequency down. When you're thinking that you know what, I'm grateful and money flows into my life and money's easy to attract. And I am part of this, you know, this quantum soup. And when I feel rich, I vibrate that and that frequency brings it to me. So the takeaway is this is that and I tell people this and I've seen this. There could be you know, there could be an exception to the rule, but really I haven't seen it is that you will not be rich. You will not be rich and attract wealth until you feel wealthy. Now the next question is going to be here is people will say, and I'm going to make this very short people will say, you know, but Jim, I don't have any money. How do I feel wealthy? Easy. Look at all the things in the in the world around you that supports you, the water that you drink that supports you, the air that you breathe that supports you, your lungs actually supports you because without lungs, you wouldn't be alive. But what about this? What about being grateful? Because when we are in gratitude, you know, Oprah used to say gratitude is the attitude, well, gratitude is a way of thinking which creates a way of feeling, which affects your vibration, which affects your frequency. So be in gratitude. And when you start feeling rich and you start feeling grateful for what you have, the money starts coming in based upon, or I'm going to say, comment for it with your level of consciousness relative to money. Okay. So I think in our time together, I have fully this spelled and you know, I'm probably going to do some more episodes on this because again, 78% of Americans alone, alone, let paycheck to paycheck. You must get, you must accept, you must embrace if you want to stop working as hard as you've been working is that money doesn't come from the hard work. It comes from your consciousness. And when you're working from the 3D mechanistic model of the world and money comes from hard work and hard work comes from your time and energy and time and energy or finite, what happens is you are then at fail point. That's what I call it. You're at fail point when it comes to attracting a significant amount of abundance of abundance into your life. Okay. Okay. Okay. So the next episode is a Q and A episode from Kathy. And her question is this. Her question is you talk about working from point B, meaning where you want to go in life, to point B, meaning instead of trying to work from where you are to where you want to be, work from where you want to be, which is point B. And then she says, but I don't know what my point B is. Well, she says many other things and I'm going to take it apart in the next podcast. So in this point, podcast, remember that I just said that everything is consciousness, everything is energy, and the double slit experiment, the physical universe actually organizes itself around your consciousness. Well, I didn't even realize it until I started thinking about this. The next episode corresponds because when you work from point B as if you are at point, I'm sorry, let me back up, when you work from point A, that's where your consciousness is, so you keep creating more of point A, where we must work from is point B, because when we work from point B, then that's where our consciousness is, and the physical universe actually materializes around that. So these two episodes kind of go hand in hand, and again, I didn't know what tells us now, so thanks for listening, and I'll catch you over on the next episode. Bye-bye. As we close out this episode, remember, information does not change lives, it educates, but it does not change you, only application does that. I'm excited to remind you, doors are now open for soul forge, which is where you will work with me personally. Go to gymforton.com/soul to find out more and to get enrolled. Remember this, nothing changes in your life until you change. Thanks for listening, and I'm looking forward to meeting you in soul forge.