A week and a half ago, I flew to Portland for the World Domination Summit — a conference with an admittedly eyebrow-raising title.
The conference is hosted by Chris Guillebeau, the New York Times best-selling author of multiple books, including The Art of Non-Conformity. He was also a previous guest on this podcast.
I’ve wanted to check out WDS for years, so I was thrilled when Chris asked me to give a presentation there.
Then he mentioned that my presentation should be three hours long, which sounded terrifying. But that’s all the more reason to say yes.
I choose my own eyebrow-raising topic, How to Afford Anything … but Not Everything.
At the beginning of July, I isolated myself in a remote, empty house for several days to work on this talk. (Past guest Cal Newport would call this a “deep work retreat.”) The result was a half-day workshop that synthesized many of the ideas about money that I’ve formed after six years of nonstop reading, writing, talking and thinking about this topic.
In today’s episode, I share the first one-third of this presentation. Today’s episode focuses on myths, assumptions and limiting beliefs that we hold around money, work and life.
This is the first of a three-part series. In episodes 89 and 91, I’ll share the second and third parts of the talk.
You can catch the slides (and watch this as a video) on YouTube.
Enjoy!
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click here to download my wds presentation
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Nicole Sanders
Fabulous! Great food for thought. I love how you tie everything back to your individual goals/values. I love that there is a real movement to look at money differently and take you financial future into your own hand. I love that there are real learning tools (like this podcast) to help people like myself do it.
Laura
I really enjoyed this one. Combined with reading Lean In and hiring a new Superintendent for our school district, this podcast made me realize that their are myths that I (and other young women) tell ourselves about career choices, too. I believed education administration was not the path for me because (1) administrators don’t care about teaching, and teaching is where it’s at and (2) I wasn’t good at crisis management. (Yeah, at 23 years old, I already decided that was something I couldn’t learn. Youth.) I didn’t understand the work of the job of principals or district leaders and wasn’t interested in learning because I thought the only want to really make a difference was to teach. As I get to know more administrators, I do see examples of principals and superintendents who know a lot about teaching and want to help others teach better and make sure no students are lost through the cracks. I limited myself both career-wise AND financially – rarely do teachers make more than $80,000 in our area at the top of their career, whereas a new superintendent can bring in $150,000. Combined with the belief that money doesn’t matter, the work does, I limited myself straight out of graduate school. I’m happy where I am now, a professor of mathematics, but I’m newly dedicated to making sure that new teachers (especially female teachers) see the importance of administrators and leadership so that they can envision themselves in such a role, rather than writing it off.
Another limiting belief: “I’m not good at _________ [fill in the blank].” People say this to me when I tell them I’m a runner or a math teacher. “Oh, I’m not good at that.” Well, you’re not good at it because you don’t do it. I wasn’t good at running before I started running. I wasn’t born a math prodigy; I just wasn’t going to let math beat me. So, I’ve started changing those statements in my head. Not, “I’m not good at making money,” or “I’m not good at conflict management,” but “I’m not good…. *yet*” or “I need to get better at ______” or, to be honest, “I’m not prioritizing getting good at ____ right now.” (Like, my weirdo BIL asked why I didn’t learn to knit when I explained the difference between knitting and crocheting – um, maybe because there are more important things right now, like World Domination?)
Thank you. This got me reinvigorated after a tough year!