Prosperity Project, Phase 2: It's Not What You Do, It's How You Do It

Greetings, prosperous friends!  Yesterday we gave some thought as to what wealth is, and we found that we are already abundantly wealthy right where we are.  We remembered that if we focus on the wealth that we already have in our lives, even more wealth can be attracted to us.  We learned that the secret is to look upon all that we already have with an attitude of grateful appreciation, seeing it all as very good.

Start Where You Are
In Phase 1 of the Prosperity Project we had dreams of homes and vacations, gifts to friends, charitable foundations ... all things that require big money.  How, then, do we get from where we are now to where we want to be?  The answer has always been to Start Where You Are.   Buddhists have been teaching us that for centuries.  The Tao Te Ching teaches that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.  Since all we ever really have is the Right Here And Now, we have no choice but to change our lives in this present moment by changing ourselves.  Since in the present moment we have whatever job we have (or don't have), then instead of trying to change WHAT we do we should focus on changing HOW we do things. 

The Certain Way
In The Science of Getting Rich,  Wallace Wattles tells us that in order to earn more money we must do all that we do in what he calls a Certain Way.  In an earlier post, we learned that when we do things in the Certain Way we make it a point, in every transaction, to give people more in use value than they give you in money.  We learned to always give way more than we are paid to give.  We also learned to be larger than our current position, by never leaving undone anything that can reasonably be done by us.  Not to say that we should overwork, but we should always do all of today's work today.  Tomorrow's work will take care of itself.

Do Today's Work Today
Wattles is very clear on why we should never leave work undone, and if you think about it, it makes a lot of sense:  When we set our intention, when we have a Clear Mental Image of what it is that we want to create in our lives and we intend to make that a reality for ourselves, the universe starts setting things up so that our dreams can materialize.  That requires an incredible amount of orchestration, because other people will need to be inspired to do their part, which in turn will cause even more people to do their part, which will eventually cause a synchronistic opportunity to present itself to us, which will be the break we need to materialize our dreams.  If, however, we fail to do that one all-important thing because we're too busy watching General Hospital; if we decide to wait until tomorrow, or the weekend, or next week to get around to it, then it throws off that divine timing.  By doing the thing we were inspired to do that very same day we get the inspiration, we are honoring the Universe's time schedule.  If we fail to do that one thing, then the Universe's beautifully orchestrated miracle of timing is thwarted, and things must be set up all over again.  What could have happened quickly for us, now must take quite a bit more time ... all because we got in our own way by procrastinating!

It's Not What You Do, It's How You Do It
Many of us here on the Prosperity Project have been wondering what THING we can do that will earn us large sums of money.  We are looking at our present jobs realizing that no matter how hard we work, we will never make a lot of money there.  Napoleon Hill tells the story of a man who worked outside his office window selling peanuts on a street corner.  That man worked hard every day; he was always busy.  When he wasn't selling peanuts he was cooking peanuts and doing all the busywork involved with selling food.  But in spite of how hard he worked all day, he still only earned pennies.  Many of us are like that peanut seller:  We are busy all day, working hard with little time for ourselves, to earn just a few pennies a day.  Many of us work hard all week and barely make ends meet.  People who make gobs of money work no harder than we do, they just work a bit differently.

The secret to earning more money is to remember that what we do is not nearly as important as how we do it.  Whatever our work may currently be, we should do it with enthusiasm.   We should do more than is expected of us, and always do all of today's work today.   Yes, in order to make more money we will eventually need to do more lucrative work.  But here and now, today, we don't need to decide what that work should be.  We don't need to make plans to quit our jobs and start some get-rich-quick scheme.  We need not make any heroic efforts at changing our circumstances.  What we do need to change is how we go about doing the things that are already ours to do.  We need to BE the kind of people who deserve to be paid the kind of money we would like to be earning.  Someone once gave me some excellent advice:  If we think we should be earning $100 an hour, then we should do the job currently set before us as if we were being paid $100 an hour to do it.

Here's today's study question:  PRETEND YOU ARE A CONSULTANT BEING PAID HUGE AMOUNTS OF MONEY TO WORK IN YOUR COMPANY AND IMPROVE THINGS FROM THE INSIDE.  HOW WOULD YOU WORK DIFFERENTLY IF YOU WERE BEING PAID TEN TIMES THE AMOUNT OF MONEY YOU CURRENTLY EARN?