But making money isn’t always easy, especially if you don’t have the right mindset.

The truth is, that your mindset and beliefs about money play a huge role in your ability to earn, save, and invest.

If you want to improve your financial situation, you need to program your mind for financial success.

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

Before we get into specific techniques, it’s important to understand the power of your subconscious mind. Your conscious mind is the part of your mind you actively think with to reason, create, and make decisions. But your subconscious is far more powerful.

According to world-renowned neuroscientist Dr. Caroline Leaf, the conscious mind makes up just 5% of your overall mental activity, while the subconscious accounts for a whopping 95%.[1] Your subconscious controls your habits, behaviors, emotions, and beliefs without you even realizing it.

So if you want to change your financial situation, you need to access and reprogram your subconscious mind. When your conscious and subconscious are aligned and working together, you unlock tremendous potential in your life.

How Your Beliefs Impact Your Financial Success

Your beliefs about money are buried in your subconscious mind, and they shape your financial habits, choices, and behaviors. If you believe money is hard to come by or that you’ll never be rich, your subconscious will make choices that confirm that reality.

For example, research by Dr. Brad Klontz, a financial psychologist, found that people’s money scripts (subconscious beliefs about money) predict their income and net worth later in life. Participants with more self-limiting money scripts like “money corrupts people” ended up earning less and accumulating fewer assets than those without such beliefs.[2]

So if you want to increase your income, you need to become aware of any self-sabotaging money beliefs lurking in your subconscious, and then work to replace them with empowering beliefs through the techniques I’ll share below.