Becoming Incredibly Successful Means Saying No to the Wrong Money

The wrong money will keep you in mediocrity.

Anthony Moore
7 min readMar 25, 2021

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“People are unhappy in large part because they are confused about what is valuable.” -William Irvine

Most people are making the “wrong” kind of money right now.

The wrong money is any money earned while doing tasks that are irrelevant to your Big Goals.

Wrong money is abundant. It’s everywhere. Ironically, it becomes especially abundant when you finally start to take a few steps towards that which matters most.

It’s funny — when I was unemployed and not-funny-anymore-broke for 6 straight months, money was nowhere to be found. I would have done any job for grocery money.

But now that I’m finally making progress in my personal business, wrong money requests come in every day.

I had to freeze my coaching services because I’m getting too many client requests and I want to focus on writing. Magazines, websites, and publishers email me constantly asking if they can pay me. Gigs, jobs, projects, and opportunities are flooding my inbox.

I’ve said no to all of them, because it was the wrong money.

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Anthony Moore
Anthony Moore

Written by Anthony Moore

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