Earlier this week I posted a picture to a few places on social media that had a flashy, very expensive sports car with a vanity plate that read "2.7 GPA". 

The point of it was that formal education isn't everything. 

(This is coming from someone with a university degree, by the way) 

A lot of people got a chuckle from the picture, and agreed with my point. But being the Internet, some used the opportunity to criticize the guy who owned the car and his apparent "lack of values". 

I can't say that I was surprised, since I'm seeing a lot of negativity around money online nowadays. 

It's very visible in the coaching world, where coaches who want to make more of the green stuff are labelled as "greedy" or "in it for the wrong reasons"

I wasn't fully aware of this backwards thinking until a few years ago, when I hosted an online summit called The Command Higher Coaching Fees Summit (original name, eh?). 

Once I started promoting the summit, a lot of "Mother Teresa Coaches" (the ones who think you should be coaching for free barefoot in a far off village) crawled out of the woodwork to paint me as a modern day Ebenezer Scrooge, JR Ewing, or Gordon Gekko. 

Another example: 

I once posted on Facebook about the movie The Founder, which showed how Ray Kroc grew McDonald's to what it is today. Kroc had his share of enemies, but you can't argue that he wasn't successful. When I said that the movie was a must-watch for entrepreneurs, people again crawled out of the woodwork to slam Kroc and spout off about the evils of capitalism (while scrolling through Facebook on their brand new, shiny iPhones). 

A final example: 

After Fidel Castro died in 2016, I posted something about it on social media. I had no idea that I was connected with so many people who were fond of Communist dictators, but a number of them said that Canada and the United States would be ever so lucky to have a leader like Castro. 

(If the Communist Utopia of Cuba is so great, why are people risking their lives on rafts to escape the place? Why aren't more people from other countries hopping on boats to race to Cuba???) 

When you go off about the evils of money and take every opportunity to bash it, don't be surprised when it avoids you and moves towards other entrepreneurs who are more friendly towards it. 

If you aren't afraid to admit that you like money, and you'd like to make more of it in your coaching business, you'll be right at home in Secret Coach Club. 

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If you want to whine about capitalism, best to stay away ... 

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Marc