The Problem with Living in a “More” Society
Years ago, I had a client who had a net worth of $5 million. He wanted coaching so that he could build his net worth to $10 million because he believed that with $10 million he would be happy and satisfied.
I explained to him that if he wasn’t happy and satisfied with $5 million, chances were that no matter how much money he had he would feel exactly as he did at that moment. I suggested we work on helping him develop a satisfaction habit. That wasn’t what he wanted to hear. He just wanted $10 million.
In contrast, a friend of mine just returned from Tibet. He described the intense poverty of the people he saw who were happy and generally satisfied with their lives despite lacking what you and I would consider essentials. Continue reading
Prosperity and the Human Need for Connection
A long time ago, I realized that one of the main emotions that people act out through their money is the feeling of aloneness, which I described in Build Your Money Muscles and the Letting Go of Your Aloneness CD.
The reason lies in the fact that money is a symbol of relationships. How much money you draw in is related to how connected you feel to others. When you think you need more money, you actually need more people because money is always attached people.
The feeling that you get when you crave more money is really the feeling of aloneness or loneliness. What you’re craving is connection. Continue reading
Rethinking Affirmations and Treasure Maps
Do you do affirmations in order to manifest love, money, or something you want? Have you done a treasure map with pictures of what you’re hoping to achieve?
Lots of people have done both of these activities, only to be disappointed in the results. This can lead to feelings of failure, inadequacy, or not being loved. Perhaps it’s time to rethink the message that affirmations and treasure maps are a path to material satisfaction.
Over the past few months, I have been examining a lot of the messages that those of us on the personal growth and development path have been hearing — or teaching. It seems to me that a lot of what has been taught can be classified as fantasy. A big aha moment for me came when I heard that John Assaraf, one of the stars in the movie The Secret, who touted the positive value of treasure maps, was going bankrupt.
Here are some of the thoughts I’d like to share with you: Continue reading
Practical Action Versus Fantasy Thinking
Feelings of powerlessness and fear about the future often cause people to retreat into inaction. At the same time, denial about the reality of current world economic conditions can cause both job seekers and business owners to hold onto the dream that the world of commerce is going to return to what it was before the recession.
Holding onto this dream often prevents people from finding innovative financial solutions. Economic recovery is going to be a slow and lengthy process, but that doesn’t mean that you have to suffer.
There are proactive steps you can take to protect yourself and develop comfortable streams of income. Here are some ideas: How to succeed, make more money, website basics
1. Rethink your career or business.
If your job hunting has yielded few results, you may need to seek employment in a new field, which may require retraining. While you’re waiting for employment, you might also consider starting a modest business for yourself. In both cases, you will have to spend either time or money learning new skills. Here’s where you get to choose between practical action and fantasy thinking.
If you have a business now and your income has decreased, as it has for many, than it’s imperative that you cut costs and rethink your product and services mix as well as your pricing. People who succeed in this economy are those who are flexible and creative about what they have to offer and the marketing methods they are using. Continue reading
Fighting with a Sword of Light
Two months ago while I was at a meeting, my house was broken into and the burglar took a laptop, camcorder, and all the jewelry in my top dresser drawer. Gone were pieces of my mother’s and grandmother’s jewelry and my favorite costume jewelry and beads.
When I first realized what happened, I was a mass of emotions. As I consciously tuned in to what I was experiencing, I could identify both a sense of violation and, even more pronounced, a feeling of vulnerability. Anger surfaced when I saw that the burglar had taken one of my pillowcases to put everything in. That seemed like the ultimate insult.
While I allowed myself to fully experience the emotions, I also knew that I had to find the strength within myself to let go of whatever was taken and try to see it as a releasing of the past. Since I had previously given away everything I owned on three occasions, I had some practice doing this. Continue reading
Are You Using the Net for Your Prosperity?
More and more, the Internet is becoming an essential tool for developing your personal prosperity because using the Net makes it easier to:
- Keep track of your finances
- Learn financial management skills on sites like www.mint.com
- Develop working relationships with people all over the world
- Learn how to build and run a business effectively
- Network in order to find a job
- Find out about techniques and resources for building the internal environment necessary for prosperity
- And much more
I’m amazed at how often people I talk to identify themselves as technologically challenged. Yet knowing how to use the Internet and other technologies effectively can definitely affect your ability to prosper.
Even if you are doing lots of spiritual and emotional release work vis-ŕ-vis your money issues, in this day and age, in order to build and manage wealth, you will need to invest time in learning how to use technology. Something as simple as financial management software can positively affect your financial outcomes. Continue reading
Dealing with Current Events in a Healthy Way
There are those who say that it’s better to ignore the news. I disagree with this. Ignoring political and economic trends makes it difficult to strategize for the future.
For me, watching the news is a spiritual discipline because I learn how to detach from what I’m seeing. I can imagine that I’m climbing up a mountain and watching the drama from a much higher point of view – to be in the world but not of it.
From that elevated point of view, it’s easier to remove “good” or “bad” from what I’m seeing. Whatever is happening is just what’s happening, and how I deal with it on a physical, emotional, or spiritual level is my choice.
Years ago, I had a big AHA. I realized, it ALL depends on how you look at it. I can see current events as filled with pain and tragedy, or I can see a rapidly changing world where people have the opportunity to learn that when anger, fear, and selfishness are replaced with love, acceptance, and a social consciousness, everyone benefits. Continue reading
A Shift in Focus
I often ask myself how I can best offer value to the subscribers of my newsletter and visitors to ProsperityPlace.com, especially in these changing times. Until now, most of the information I have shared has been an extension of the material found in my book, Build Your Money Muscles.
Because so many people are concerned about maintaining a healthy cash flow, the time has come for me to be more proactive about sharing what I know regarding building multiple income streams and doing business online. I’m especially interested in helping people who consider themselves technologically challenged.
There is a lot of information available about how to build and maintain a website and how to sell product and services online. However, I find that a lot of the material makes unrealistic claims about what is really possible in this crowded marketplace. At the same time, information is often geared towards people who are computer savvy and have the time to do the work themselves. Continue reading
Prosperity Tip: What Are You Feeling?
Anyone who follows the news these days can get the feeling that the whole world is falling apart. And maybe it is!
With protests, corruption, drug-gang violence, severe state and national budget cuts, rising gas and food prices, an unstable job market, so-called leaders acting like children, and seemingly endless extreme weather events forefront in the news, it’s no wonder that people are feeling anxious, overwhelmed, depressed, powerless, and concerned about the future.
Many people are either out of work or only a paycheck away from financial disaster. Even those with what used to feel financially secure are beginning to worry about the future of their investments.
Here’s what’s happening:
It’s not the whole world that is falling apart, but rather systems that have outlived their usefulness. As the old systems decay and new begin to form, the foundations of society are in turmoil We are in that place between the old and new that doesn’t have clear form or definition.
The Egyptian Crisis and Your Finances
There is no doubt that many factors such as income inequity between rich and poor, high unemployment, rising food prices, and suppression by autocratic governments are contributing to the growing unrest in the Middle East that is likely to spread from country to country.
Because the unrest may be far away from where you live, you may not think that it’s going to affect you, but it will. All countries are now connected, especially economically, and what happens in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, and other countries will eventually affect the economies of seemingly stable countries.
I watched a program about the Middle East crisis on CNBC Sunday night and they talked a lot about the effect of the crisis on various currencies. What was really interesting, was the fact that at the time of the 2007 revolt in Myanmar, the value of their currency tanked and savvy investors put money into the country. With the return of some stability, these investors have now realized profits of about 400%. In other words revolutions are profitable.
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