“It’s Not Nice To Talk About Money”, Or Is It? 

We hear so much about money when we are in business.  What is it that people want?  More money!! And why is that?  Because it will buy the freedom to spend our time doing what we want, with whom we want, where we want.  We spend our lives stressing about making money, and waiting for some magical time like retirement to enjoy it.  

I would like to share something I’ve recently discovered with you…the spiritual nature of money.

I grew up with authority figures like parents, teachers, clergy, supervisors and others who told me all about money.  

“It doesn’t grow on trees.” 

“It’s better to give than to receive.” 

“All wealthy people are greedy.”  

“It’s not nice to talk about money,” and other unhealthy “money scripts.”  

Much of what I learned about money was taught unknowingly during my early childhood and first jobs as a teenager. 

As with me, many might not recognize there is a spiritual side to money and the process of making it.  Rabbi Lapin, who wrote the book “Business Secrets from the Bible” helped me understand it like this:

When I provide a service and get paid for it, I receive money, whether it is in the form of cash or credit, and I think of every dollar as a  “certificate of performance.”  Then I use some of the money I earned to pay for other services like a haircut or manicure, allowing that person to receive “certificates of performance” for the service they provided to me.  Therefore, I am a part of a valuable circle of serving humanity.  

“When I have a lot of those certificates of performance dollars, it means that I have provided many services and helped many people.”  

I see the process of making money as good, helpful and necessary to help the world and myself to achieve dreams of time and money freedom. 

How did Rabbi Lapin come to this conclusion?

He said, “Because God wants us to be preoccupied with the needs and desires of others.  We are rewarded for serving other people”.  

And as Zig Ziggler says, “You get what you want by helping others get what they want.” 

Money is the consequence of one human being serving the needs of another. The more people you can serve, the more wealth is generated not only for the person serving, but those who receive it. To Quote Rabbi Lapin again “money is proof you served another human being well.” 

I am seeing money through a different lens, as getting it isn’t the goal…,  rather, the result of my service is what is important, in terms of how I choose to value myself.

I love how Brendan Burchard sums it up, “Don’t price yourself based on your insecurities.  Price yourself based on market realities”.  

Now, that is a money script I can get behind!

In future blogs, I will discuss how to stack and bundle your fees to quote appropriately and then how to allocate it once you have it so you make a profit from job 1.  I will be presenting on these topics at the NNA Fall Summit this Oct 19, 2023.  Go to www.nationalnotary.org/NBB

Always at your service,

Laura