Semantics – How you Self-Sabotage

Most of my clients before working with me are doing well financially, but just don't feel they are successful. Now it is not because they aren't Successful, but because they just don't FEEL successful due to their Brain's?Semantics Self Sabotage!

Now just what does semantics mean:

Semantics = the meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text. The branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning

And just what is?Semantics Self Sabotage!

Semantics Self-Sabotage is when you use words that don't properly motivate, convey, or result in the proper mentality to achieve an action.

In a sense, you are using the wrong words to achieve a desired result.

Now some quick examples:

Mostly some of my most hated word/phrases/texts in the English language:

Fairy-tale words such as Dreams and Get-Rich Quick, “Loaded Words” such as Choice and Investment, Logic Fallacies such as Common Sense and Correlation/Causation.

If you find your vocabulary littered with these Semantic Self Sabotages, you will find yourself feeling unsuccessful, making bad decisions, and even DEPRESSED! As you are what you say.

Fairy-Tale Words?– words that for all intents and purposes relay an unrealistic expectation or is just impossible to accomplish due to the messy nature of life.

Words like DREAMS and GET RICH QUICK.

Dreams-?Dreams are things people never accomplish realistically. But if you simply changed the word from Dream to Goal, it changes everything. Goals get accomplished. Goals sound like you can accomplish them. With one switch of the word, you go from a wishy-washy, “I hope my dream happens...”, to “I'm going to accomplish my goal, one step at a time.”

Get Rich-Quick.?Get Rich-Quick is a catchall for any scheme or scam that says you can get rich quick with no work. Now I can confirm for you... no one gets rich quick on purpose. People get rich quick by accident. Luck plays the most important part to people who get rich quick. I will also CONFIRM AGAIN, NO ONE CAN GET YOU RICH QUICK! Because if they could, why would they be working with you in the first place? Their already rich as they got rich quick...unless... the way they got rich quick was selling get rich Schemes and Scams? This is the Hypocrisy Moment in the Get Rich Quick Argument. Why would anyone who Got-Rich Quick sell you their secrets to get Rich Quick? If their Rich, they don't need to sell their Secrets!!!! The Fairy-tale they use to sell you is the idea that you can Get Rich Quick at all for just 3 easy payments of $299.00. Which is Unrealistic and Impossible.

Loaded Words?– Words Loaded with Incorrect Meaning/Logic or Elicits Blinding Emotion. These words usually take a conversation to a standstill as the words themselves cannot be used to describe the debate at hand as the word itself is loaded with false logic or elicits such a emotional response that the other side shuts down debate and digs in.

Choice?– The word choice always pops up in the Free-will vs. Destiny Philosophical Argument, but the word is a Loaded Word as the word itself entails that Free-will exists in its own very definition! You literally can't use the word Choice as the argument is whether Choice EXISTS in the FIRST PLACE! This is a perfect example of a Loaded Word.

Investment –?Investment is a Loaded word as it has become synonymous with putting money into ANYTHING! And I mean anything. Here are some of the most egregious examples I've seen:

The Quote

“Buy a New CAR! IT IS AN INVESTMENT in yourself and the ability to get from Point A to Point B”

SideNote... new cars are not investments as they immediately lose value and will never recoup them. They are a necessary evil at best and we wish you could write them off as dependents in their ability to eat money...

The Quote

“Buy this Stock, Crypto, or ________ (Insert anything really) that you assume will go up in value for no real reason but BECAUSE I TOLD YOU TO.... I MEAN MY EXPERTS TOLD ME TO TELL YOU BECAUSE THEY GOT A HOT TIP FROM THEIR PYSCHIC WHO HAPPENS TO READ PENNY STOCK ARTICLES, THAT GIVES HER AN INKLING INTO THE FUTURE OF HOW IF YOU BUY IT, WE ALL WILL BE MILLIONAIRES AND THAT IS JUST HOW ITS WORKS... WHY ARE YOU ASKING SO MANY QUESTIONS... DON'T YOU WANT TO BE RICH?”

This quote stabs at the heart of the Loaded Meaning in the word Investment, as too many people use the word speculation interchangeably with the word Investment. Although they inhabit the same world, they ARE DRASTICALLY DIFFERENT!

For example:

Investment means putting money into something to BUILD VALUE! Perfect examples are businesses, buying residential/commercial real estate to lease for income, buying something, restoring it and reselling it, etc.

Speculation is Money Squatting. You are squatting on an asset in hopes someone will give you more money than you bought it for with little to no VALUE INPUT by you.

The reason people mix these up is that you can literally change from one to the other mid-swing. Some good examples:

Fix N' Flips?– Buying a property to?fix up?and sell for a profit, Investment. Buying a property and doing absolutely nothing to it and simply reselling for a higher price, Speculation. You can literally do this with any asset and many speculators can find themselves haphazardly finding themselves changing their speculation into an investment by accident, if they read their speculation wrong and have to BUILD VALUE in their asset, they have unwillingly made an investment.

Collectibles?– purchasing Fine Art, Collectibles, NFTs, and other Antiques in hope their value will go up. Many of these are speculations and can never be anything but (here is looking at you, NFTs..). HOWEVER, if you RESTORE THEM TO SELL, they are investments.

URLs?– the ultimate Money Squatters. They buy all the domain names in hopes to extort someone with a good idea who wants build value from them.

Now why does this disconnect between Investment vs. Speculation Matter?

Well for starters, Speculation as a word, sounds much less secure than investment, BECAUSE IT IS LESS SECURE! Speculations by their very nature are inherently riskier as that is their actual definition. They are not as secure as an investment. In fact, the word itself sounds so insecure, it makes things harder to sell when you call them Speculations. Which is why linguistically people use them interchangeably because selling a speculation as an investment is so much easier than selling a speculation as a speculation, even though it is HIGHLY incorrect to sell a Speculation as an Investment. But that is why it is so imperative to know the difference. You need to understand the risk you undertake by using the proper words. And if someone is selling a Speculation as an Investment, you should be very wary. If they don't don't understand the risk of what their selling by knowing the simple difference between the two, how are you to?

There are?many more examples of Loaded words... do you have any?

Next up is Logical Fallacies...

Logic Fallacies?–?bad /false logic that people feel should be correct, but isn't. People use them anyway as that feeling of correctness can be incredibly powerful, but the logic is still bad and false.

Fallacies are by far one of my favorite subjects as people can go their entire lives using, and not even realizing their wrong. How does this happen? Well, that is for another post for my Paradoxum Training Program, which has not been released yet to the public, but we digress...

Fallacies just happen mainly due to bad semantics and logic. Here are some of the main components to why Fallacies are so Persistent.

Common Sense Fallacy?- Common Sense is a fallacy that you hear almost daily. Well, its common sense. The issue with common sense is that it actually not common at ALL. For example... Taxes. Everyone has to do them. However, most people have no idea how to do them and thus pay money to people to help them OR just do them for THEM. Thus, a common task that everyone has to do annually and you can nearly never get a common sense to taxes. Even professionals have differing opinions to taxes. Now this is true to ALL COMMON SENSE. Because nearly everyone has their own way of doing things and it makes common sense nearly impossible to achieve. Which Is ironic cause it's supposed to be common and easy to achieve, which what makes it a fallacy.

Correlation/Causation Fallacy –?To start out this fallacy, we must state an ultimate reality... CORRELATION DOES NOT MEAN CAUSATION! This fallacy is happening everyday, all day. You probably used it yourself today. Read an article and saw that one thing happened and it must of caused the other thing to happen. IT IS OBVIOUS. But its not. It is not obvious. In fact, it is clear as mud.

That is because two things happening together can be either completely UNRELATED or are being caused by the same thing, but we have no idea what that thing actually is. Therefore, it is nearly always impossible to pick two variables and find any meaning to them together or apart. You have to do research and find out, which is why this fallacy exists. The time and effort to find the root answer is usually high and people opt to use logic shortcuts such as this fallacy to save time, but sadly ends up in a wrong result.

Now you can see how the words and phrases you are using every day that are sabotaging you. Simply by relaying to yourself the wrong message, getting you in the wrong mood, or making you make bad decisions because you didn't quite understand the risks involved or how things work.?