part 1. of making your brain work in your favor

The lack of money is your actual problem. It may just be your lack of repeated behaviors. Today I wanna talk about how neuroscience can bring you wealth. You're probably not bad with money and you might not even be bad at discipline. You might just be asking a brain that has been trained to survive the present to suddenly be good at building a future. One of the most important things that your brain does is keep you alive, right? And part of keeping you alive is keeping things around you predictable. Not necessarily things that are good for you, but things that are familiar. (your brain loves repetition, your brain loves predictability) The devil I know, the toxic ex that you always go back to because you're familiar with it. Or the behaviors that you are having with your child or with your parent because they are all familiar to you. So if your relationship with money has historically been stress, avoidance, impulsivity, uncertainty, whatever. Your brain can get extremely, extremely good at repeating those patterns. So one of the most underrated wealth building exercise or exercises. Brain spasm. I don't know. Sorry y'all. One of the exercises that I think are very underrated is planning. (+an element of routine in said planning that you can always come back to) Planning your life, planning your week, planning your day, planning your hour. Do what doesn't feel overwhelming because every time you deliberately think ahead, instead of only reacting to whatever is in front of you, you're practicing this future oriented thinking. Planning your delayed gratification. And wealth requires an enormous amount of future oriented thinking. Saving money is sacrificing something today so that you have something later. Learning a skill is working towards something today and you may not see that payoff for years. You need to work hard now and in 2-3 years you may be almost fluent. Building a business is doing work today. You're building towards a future that doesn't technically exist. So the people who get very good at building long term aren't magically disciplined. They've practiced thinking beyond the present moment, but beyond thinking past today. And that doesn't mean don't stay grounded, don't be present. Those things still need to exist. It doesn't mean you need to control and be in charge of everything. But you can reroute, you can pivot. Allow for planning but be flexible for change. If you have the steps in plan, then you can say, uh, bad idea, let's go to the next. You have a goal that you're working towards. This North Star. And I think this is where neuroscience gets really interesting. Because once you understand that your brain can learn these new patterns, you can stop trying to completely reinvent yourself through motivation. You start training yourself through repetition. REPETITION. Repetition is what I want you to remember in part two. In part two, I wanna talk about why motivation is actually one of the worst things that you can build your life around. So repetition and habit building being a way that I have found a lot more success. And that has actually allowed me to feel more calm and to feel more grounded. Structure can actually liberate you to have more freedom if done the right way. Like, here is where I'm going to focus, here's where I'm going to be hyper productive, to then relax when those are not the times to be productive. But I digress. In part two, we'll talk a little bit more about that.