I understand exactly what you’re saying and I completely agree, and I want to elaborate a bit because it resonates with something one of my mentors told me like 15 years ago (who is now a retired multimillionaire selling the most absurd of products, but making tons of cash). And this guy had no reason to even take me on as a “student,” as he was already rich. Was literally one of the things that changed my life.
Anyway, I think anyone looking at his good post should take note of the central idea here:
I took this as a suggestion that you change the idea of “high status” within the self, moving it away from “high status” equating to celebrities and other far off ideals that society imposes but are largely out of reach for most people, and simplifying it in a manner that allows you to reach your goals.
When I was first deciding to become an entrepreneur, as I had long lost faith in “the system” and was compelled to go my own way, I had A LOT of imposter syndrome as I was moving into the “online course” space. I felt guilty for selling information like that, given that I wasn’t making thousands and thousands of dollars each month. And I’m the type of person that deeply contemplates vocation – if I feel guilty, I cannot meaningfully engage with the work and it falls off.
During a call with him, he asked me what I thought the mental and emotional block was, and I explained the above to him. And he asked me, “how much did you make online last month?” It was around 3.5k to 4.5k, but that came easy to me – it’s something I’ve always been able to do. And his response was simple: “Do you know how many people out there would LOVE to just make $2k extra each month. Not everyone wants to make hundreds of thousands a year. Some people just want an extra cushion so they can enjoy their families or go on trips or just buy / do more things that they love.”
It hit me like a train. I realized that the reason I was having so much imposter syndrome was because I placed “high status” on only people making over a certain wealth threshold and if you didn’t make more than that, I was subconsciously declaring them “low status,” and with that definition, I had nothing to offer and thus felt like an “imposter.” But his point remains: there were indeed many people who loved hearing how to go from $0 to $1.5k a month.
I realized that I was crippling my own ability to earn income in this manner, because what I SHOULD’VE been doing is finding mentors, teachers, networks that had status in a more fluid manner that allowed me to create internal frameworks to learn from. For example, if you were like $10k a month consistently, which was more than I was earning, I should’ve been investigating the strategies and tactics they used to improve their wealth rather than writing them off as “not successful / high status enough.”
This even began to apply in ways that aren’t obviously linked to material wealth. When we decided we wanted to create a neutral, harmonious company that strived to give as much value to people as possible, we began to surround ourselves with people who exemplified that idea, even if they didn’t have lots of material wealth. They were still highly respected individuals who sacrificed so that others who did not have as much could still prosper.
And what I began to notice is that my earning power started to slowly rise, because I was grounding the lofty ambitions that society can demand – especially in the United States where successful entrepreneurs are often glorified – into a more realistic, practical framework that also honored the unique skills and talents that every person brings.
And this is one of the reasons we refuse to accept too much credit, or let people exalt us above the status that we feel like we legitimately have earned. If we did that, we’d be allowing others to project their ideals of perfection and status onto us, when the message of Subliminal Club and the idea of “becoming legendary” is for you to recognize your innate perfection that’s simply waiting for you to reveal it.
Zero Point is not “making” you do anything. It is simply helping you uncover everything standing in the way of you expressing who you truly are. You are the one doing the work. And just these simple changes in perspective can make quite the difference in how you approach life.
