Prosperity Project Day 4

Every day, we get $1000 more dollars to spend in our imaginary checkbook. We are only on day 4, and already this is getting hard. I'm beginning to see why I've never attracted any money into my life! It seems that I'm willing to allow money in for things that I absolutely need, but even then I settle for the low end. I've always figured that if they don't have it at Walmart, I probably don't need it. Until today, though, I didn't realize that's what I always figured. It reminds me of that saying, "Whatever price I had asked of life, life would have gladly paid." I think I may have uncovered my first limiting belief about money.

When I started this a few days ago, I bought things that I need but haven't been able to afford. I've spent $6000 over the past three days, and don't really need any more than I already have. But then, that's the point of this exercise, isn't it? We're not here to practice getting what we need, we're here to practice receiving anything our heart desires.

So in the next few days I hope to break through my anti-materialistic mental block and start retraining myself to want things. I know, some of us have been taught that wanting things breeds discontent. I think that's one of the limiting beliefs about having lots of money that keeps many of us broke. We're taught to believe that it's selfish or somehow evil and wrong to buy lavishly expensive things. It's not. It's ok to want the best of the best. It's ok to own luxury items and to buy things just because you love them. It's not ok to go into debt for those things, but if the universe is going to give you a $1000 raise every day, I say just roll with it!

Yesterday, I had planned to do some high end shopping to prepare for my list today. Unfortunately, my cat Pearl died yesterday morning, leaving me unmotivated to buy things. I was tempted just to give the whole $4000 away to someone else until I'm done grieving. But since that would defeat the purpose of this exercise, I decided that I would spend my $4000 at Walmart while I was there picking up some needed stuff. Every girl's dream, right? Wrong. I walked around that store and realized there was nothing in there worth buying. After three days of the Prosperity Project, I've already outgrown Walmart!

So, being a gadget girl, I'll make that the focus of today's dream list.

$4000 deposit

$ 400 God's money: Goes to the Space Coast Oratorio Society to buy music for the season.
$ 800 Wealth Building Account (Total $1400)
$1000 Quickbooks Premier - 3 users
$ 700 Brother MFC-9840cdw Color Laser Multi-Function Center with built-in network
$ 170 Mac Box Set - To upgrade the software on my Macs
$ 500 Canon Powershot G10 Digital Camera - Point and Shoot- I'm not a photographer
$ 280 Bose Quiet Comfort Acoustic Noise-Cancelling Headphones for my iPod/iPhone
$ 100 Two wired mouses for the iMacs - the battery operated ones are making me crazy!
$ 50 One wired keyboard for Keith's iMac.

Wow. That was fun. All of this stuff has been on my list for a while. It's good to finally be able to buy these things. Now I can move on to a much bigger list!

btw, The Space Coast Oratorio is a chorus I sing with. They are sponsored by a church right now, but when they get enough money they'll be able to be independent. Wouldn't it be nice to make that happen for them? Then I could move on to buying the percussion section for the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra. Like Robyn, I am a patron of the arts.

Happy spending!