Lesson 1: Your Brain on Broke 🤯

Your brain isn’t “broken.”

It’s overprotective, like a paranoid tío who thinks every sound is a grenade.

When you’ve lived with:

• rent hanging over your head
• food running out on Thursday
• phones vibrating with bills
• a neighborhood that feels like a movie soundtrack of chaos

…your nervous system becomes a fear machine.

And fear feels smart.

Fear feels responsible.

Fear feels like the adult in the room.

But fear also does this:

• 👉 Makes you say no to opportunities
• 👉 Makes you accept bad deals
• 👉 Makes you shrink instead of stretch
• 👉 Makes you spend money impulsively because you feel doomed anyway
• 👉 Makes you confuse caution with destiny

Scarcity isn’t a personality — it’s old wiring.

Your brain has been running “danger scripts” long after the danger passed.

The truth nobody told you:

• 💛 You can be broke without being “broken.”
• 💛 You can be scared without being stuck.
• 💛 You can be grateful without pretending everything’s perfect.

Gratitude doesn’t erase fear — it puts a leash on it.

It separates you from the voice in your head that always screams “careful!”

🧪 Today’s Activity

Catch one fear-thought today.

Just one.

When it pops up (“That’ll never work,” “Don’t try,” “You’ll lose”), say out loud:

“That’s old wiring. Not me.”

Say it like you’re shooing a stray dog.

Not angry. Not scared.

Just done.