Prosperity Project Day 19

Welcome to Day 19 of the Prosperity Project!

Are you becoming more aware of how you really feel about having money as you play this game?  As I write this, I'm sitting in the downstairs office of a mountain "cabin" that is four times the size of the house that I live in.  There are signs of prosperity here.  All of the rooms are impeccably appointed, and it has an amazing kitchen that is just calling for me to make some apple pies.  This incredible place is someone's extra house.  It is a house that just sits here most of the time, unless someone wants to use it for vacation, as we are now.  All of that just screams money to me.  

How do you feel when confronted with signs that someone else has gobs more money than you do?  The answer to that question reveals volumes about the current state of your relationship with money. 
Are you contemptuous?  Envious?  Uncomfortable?  You might have those reactions if you were taught, as I was, that if someone has a lot of money they must have done something immoral to get it.  If that is your core belief about money, then you would resist attracting money.  Think about it:  we want to be good people; if we believe money only comes to the corrupt, then we will always sabotage any chance of money being attracted our way. 

Or, you might be having thoughts like, "I wonder who she slept with to get that?" or, "Looks like she married well." or, "She must be a drug smuggler or something."  In this reaction you feel somehow superior to the person with money, because YOU managed to stay pure an uncompromised, even if it meant you had to stay poor.   The underlying sense of this reaction is that the person does not deserve the money that they have.   Hmmm, do you think maybe that means you feel that YOU don't deserve to have money?

Of, if you know that the person has a legitimate high-paying job, you might feel jealous that they got some breaks that you didn't get.  You might start playing the "if only" game:  if only I had known the right people, or gotten the right breaks, or if only my family could have afforded college.  The brand of jealousy that lives in this reaction is poisonous and destructive to your spirit.  If you have this reaction you might be tempted to hate the person for having more than you.  You might also be tempted to steal from them or to break something out of spite, just to get them back for having more than you.  It's not fair!  If you have this reaction, you would not be able to enjoy a vacation in a fancy second home because the obsessive jealousy would spoil your chance of being present and revelling in the abundance.  I'm thinking that if this is your reaction to people having way more money than you, it is a good chance that money will not be attracted to you.  If you hate people with money to the point that you want to do harm to them, again it's a good bet money will run from you. 

You could, on the other hand, have an envy that is more of a longing to have what they have.  In this reaction you don't begrudge the person their riches; you are able to be happy for them that they have made a success of their lives.  Instead of hating them for having money, you could be wishing you were like them.  You could be looking at them in their fancy car, with their beautiful clothes, or you could be vacationing in their gorgeous second home just imagining yourself as the owner, enjoying the luxuries that money can buy.  If this is where you are, chances are you are beginning to attract money your way.  After all, this is exactly what we're doing here at the Prosperity Project, isn't it? 

Or, you could be feeling gratitude.  Yes, even if the wealth you see belongs to someone else, you could be grateful that you can have the opportunity to experience abundance first-hand.  You could see it as a sign that you are beginning to attract wealth into your life, even if it is someone else's wealth just at the moment.  Feeling gratitude, appreciation, and love for the finer things in life are a wonderful way to attract the wealth that you are appreciation. 

So as you go through your day, pay attention to your reactions concerning money.  Don't judge yourself good or bad for how you feel, just pay attention.

Now let's spend some money of our own.

$19,000   Motherpearl Enterprises is raking in the royalties from books, CDs, and public speaking.

$  2,000   God's money goes to buy instruments for promising young music students
$  5,000   Wealth Building Account (Total $55,000)

$12,000   Motor home fund (Total $22,000)  I want this so I can take long road trips exploring this beautiful country, visiting friends, doing book tours and speaking engagements and still feel like I am at home. 

Now it's your turn.  How will you joyfully spend your $19,000 today?