During the course of the Prosperity Project exercise, in which we began with $1000 and every day had to spend $1000 more than the day before, we found that we very quickly ran out of things we wanted to buy. After about four days, the amount of money we were expected to spend became ridiculously large. When the game got to that point, many people stopped playing ... I mean, we were clearly being forced to spend unrealistic sums of money, so why bother? Those of us who stuck with it for the full 28 days -- in which we had to spend yet another $28,000 in one day after already having spent $27,000 the day before and $26,000 the day before that, after having already bought everything we've ever really wanted -- were forced to really stretch our imagination in order to complete our assignment. The exercise was not a pointless one, however, because we can't learn where our limits are if we never attempt to move beyond them (ask any teenager).
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Sunday, August 15, 2010
PROSPERITY PROJECT: How Much Money Do You Really Need?
During the course of the Prosperity Project exercise, in which we began with $1000 and every day had to spend $1000 more than the day before, we found that we very quickly ran out of things we wanted to buy. After about four days, the amount of money we were expected to spend became ridiculously large. When the game got to that point, many people stopped playing ... I mean, we were clearly being forced to spend unrealistic sums of money, so why bother? Those of us who stuck with it for the full 28 days -- in which we had to spend yet another $28,000 in one day after already having spent $27,000 the day before and $26,000 the day before that, after having already bought everything we've ever really wanted -- were forced to really stretch our imagination in order to complete our assignment. The exercise was not a pointless one, however, because we can't learn where our limits are if we never attempt to move beyond them (ask any teenager). 
Monday, September 21, 2009
The Science of Getting Rich; or, What the underpants gnomes don't tell you.
There is a science of getting rich. You don't get rich because you work in a certain industry, live in a particular place, were born into a specific kind of family, or are exceptionally smart or hard working. You become rich because you do things in a Certain Way. So says Wallace D. Wattles in his book, The Science of Getting Rich.
Written in 1910, The Science of Getting Rich is one of the source documents upon which the movie The Secret was based. When I watched The Secret, I could sense the truth of the message and was eager to learn how to apply the Secret to my own circumstance. But there seemed to be something missing from the Secret, as if they had kept the actual Secret of it, well, secret.
In one episode of South Park (season 2, episode 17), one of the children, Tweek, has a big problem with underpants gnomes. They keep coming into his room in the middle of the night and stealing his underpants. Since no one believes him, the kids all wait up one night to catch the underpants gnomes red handed. After Cartman hits one of them in the head with a stick (Cartman's like that, you know), the gnome explains why they steal the underpants: "Phase One, steal underpants. Phase Three is profit." So then, what's Phase Two, the kids want to know? The gnomes all look at each other as if none of them had ever thought of that question before. "Phase One, steal underpants. Phase Three is profit," the gnome smugly repeats, as if that explains everything. Well, The Secret felt a bit that way to me, too. As if they had left out Phase Two.
The Science of Getting Rich is all about Phase Two. According to Wattles, one of the biggest lies we've ever been taught is that there is a limited amount of resources on this planet, and that we must compete to get our share before it is snatched up by someone else. This erroneous belief is at the root of all competition and greed. The truth is, all of nature is abundant and excessive. There is more than enough of whatever we could possibly want. There is no need to scrap and compete.
First, we must realize that things are produced by thought. All things. In other words, whatever we think about consistently and with great emotion, is what manifests in our lives. That is why we speak of "manifesting abundance." This idea lies at the heart of the Prosperity Project. We all seem to realize that if we can change the way that we think about money, we will be able to allow money to flow to us more freely. This is the same idea that prompted Napoleon Hill to write Think and Grow Rich.
Second, we must understand that it is perfectly normal and healthy to desire to be rich. All of nature seeks to grow to its ultimate fullness of being. As people, we need money in order to be and do all that which we are capable of being and doing. In order to live life to its fullness, we absolutely need money. Being rich is not wrong or evil, as some of us were taught to believe.
When I first started exploring my strained relationship with money, I realized that I had been trained to believe that anyone who had more money than we did had necessarily done something immoral to get it. Or, that once they got the money the having of it corrupted them in some way. So, naturally, if you want to be good and pure, you have to be poor. Boy, was that ever a messed up point of view. There are still vestiges of that lurking in my mind, which is why I was so excited about trying the Prosperity Project.
I think one of the biggest hurdles many of us face in attracting wealth is this belief that money is somehow bad. It isn't. Money doesn't make us evil any more than spoons make us fat. The Science of Getting Rich spends the first couple of chapters convincing the reader that it's ok to want money. Really. It is the nature of life to continually increase. In order to know more, do more, and be more, it is necessary that we have more of whatever it is that we need to make those things happen. Money helps, although money, in and of itself, is not wealth. Abundant life is wealth.
The real Secret, if you will, is to go about earning and spending our money In a Certain Way. Wallace cautions that we must be careful to examine WHY we want more money. If we want it so we can have more power, women, drugs, booze, toys; if we want it just so that we have more than everyone else; if we want money just to hoard it so we can get to a really big number in our portfolio, then we are acting out of a competitive mind, not a creative one. That is not the Certain Way of which Wattles speaks.
So what is the Certain Way? The attitude we must take concerning every single thing that we do is that of More Life for All. Always give the other person more in value than they give you in exchange for your goods and services. In every transaction, you must have the idea of INCREASE for all concerned. If you provide a service, give them more than they pay for. If you are an employee, give your employer more in services than your paycheck requires. If you continually add value to every person that you encounter in your daily life, then the universe will respond by adding value to you. That added value will often take the form of money.
If you want to be and earn more than you currently do, then the way to grow is to be LARGER than the place you are now. If you more than fill your current position, then growth is inevitable. For example, if you are paid only $10 an hour but you feel you are worth more like $50, then do your $10 an hour job as if you were being paid $50. If, on the other hand, you do mediocre work because you are insulted that you're only being paid $10 an hour, you are pretty much proving that you are being overpaid at $10 an hour. Who would want to put someone like that in a high-paying position? I mean, really? That is the Certain Way. It is a way of excellence, and of More Life for All.
Since attitude is an important part of the Certain Way, Wattles spends a lot of time talking about my favorite topic, Gratitude:
WHERE TO GET A COPY OF THE BOOK:
The really good news is that this book was written 100 years ago, and the copyrights have long since expired. Here is a link to a pdf file of the book. If you want to get the book for free, you can print it out, as I did, or just read it online. (iPhones are great for reading online books.) Just click on this link:
Finally, if you are intrigued by Wallace D. Wattles and his Science of Getting Rich, I encourage you to check out the following link to Certain Way Productions. There you will find a link to an e-course that is well worth whatever money you decide to pay. She leaves you on the honor system to pay whatever you believe the course will be worth to you. If you feel like you really cannot afford to pay anything, she will honor that decision, because she believes that if you take this course and apply what you learn, that you cannot help but get rich. She knows that when that happens you will come back some day and pay the money you did not pay today. I think she may be right. I took the course for free, but as I write this review I realize that one day, I will go back and pay her. The audio course is exceptional, and I urge you to take the time to listen and do the workbook exercises. Here is the link:
I'll see you back here tomorrow for Day 7 of the Prosperity Project.
Remember, Phase Three is PROFIT!
Written in 1910, The Science of Getting Rich is one of the source documents upon which the movie The Secret was based. When I watched The Secret, I could sense the truth of the message and was eager to learn how to apply the Secret to my own circumstance. But there seemed to be something missing from the Secret, as if they had kept the actual Secret of it, well, secret.
In one episode of South Park (season 2, episode 17), one of the children, Tweek, has a big problem with underpants gnomes. They keep coming into his room in the middle of the night and stealing his underpants. Since no one believes him, the kids all wait up one night to catch the underpants gnomes red handed. After Cartman hits one of them in the head with a stick (Cartman's like that, you know), the gnome explains why they steal the underpants: "Phase One, steal underpants. Phase Three is profit." So then, what's Phase Two, the kids want to know? The gnomes all look at each other as if none of them had ever thought of that question before. "Phase One, steal underpants. Phase Three is profit," the gnome smugly repeats, as if that explains everything. Well, The Secret felt a bit that way to me, too. As if they had left out Phase Two.
The Science of Getting Rich is all about Phase Two. According to Wattles, one of the biggest lies we've ever been taught is that there is a limited amount of resources on this planet, and that we must compete to get our share before it is snatched up by someone else. This erroneous belief is at the root of all competition and greed. The truth is, all of nature is abundant and excessive. There is more than enough of whatever we could possibly want. There is no need to scrap and compete.
First, we must realize that things are produced by thought. All things. In other words, whatever we think about consistently and with great emotion, is what manifests in our lives. That is why we speak of "manifesting abundance." This idea lies at the heart of the Prosperity Project. We all seem to realize that if we can change the way that we think about money, we will be able to allow money to flow to us more freely. This is the same idea that prompted Napoleon Hill to write Think and Grow Rich.
Second, we must understand that it is perfectly normal and healthy to desire to be rich. All of nature seeks to grow to its ultimate fullness of being. As people, we need money in order to be and do all that which we are capable of being and doing. In order to live life to its fullness, we absolutely need money. Being rich is not wrong or evil, as some of us were taught to believe.
When I first started exploring my strained relationship with money, I realized that I had been trained to believe that anyone who had more money than we did had necessarily done something immoral to get it. Or, that once they got the money the having of it corrupted them in some way. So, naturally, if you want to be good and pure, you have to be poor. Boy, was that ever a messed up point of view. There are still vestiges of that lurking in my mind, which is why I was so excited about trying the Prosperity Project.
I think one of the biggest hurdles many of us face in attracting wealth is this belief that money is somehow bad. It isn't. Money doesn't make us evil any more than spoons make us fat. The Science of Getting Rich spends the first couple of chapters convincing the reader that it's ok to want money. Really. It is the nature of life to continually increase. In order to know more, do more, and be more, it is necessary that we have more of whatever it is that we need to make those things happen. Money helps, although money, in and of itself, is not wealth. Abundant life is wealth.
The real Secret, if you will, is to go about earning and spending our money In a Certain Way. Wallace cautions that we must be careful to examine WHY we want more money. If we want it so we can have more power, women, drugs, booze, toys; if we want it just so that we have more than everyone else; if we want money just to hoard it so we can get to a really big number in our portfolio, then we are acting out of a competitive mind, not a creative one. That is not the Certain Way of which Wattles speaks.
So what is the Certain Way? The attitude we must take concerning every single thing that we do is that of More Life for All. Always give the other person more in value than they give you in exchange for your goods and services. In every transaction, you must have the idea of INCREASE for all concerned. If you provide a service, give them more than they pay for. If you are an employee, give your employer more in services than your paycheck requires. If you continually add value to every person that you encounter in your daily life, then the universe will respond by adding value to you. That added value will often take the form of money.
If you want to be and earn more than you currently do, then the way to grow is to be LARGER than the place you are now. If you more than fill your current position, then growth is inevitable. For example, if you are paid only $10 an hour but you feel you are worth more like $50, then do your $10 an hour job as if you were being paid $50. If, on the other hand, you do mediocre work because you are insulted that you're only being paid $10 an hour, you are pretty much proving that you are being overpaid at $10 an hour. Who would want to put someone like that in a high-paying position? I mean, really? That is the Certain Way. It is a way of excellence, and of More Life for All.
Since attitude is an important part of the Certain Way, Wattles spends a lot of time talking about my favorite topic, Gratitude:
"The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when good things come to us, the more good things we will receive, and the more rapidly they will come; and the reason simply is that the mental attitude of gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come."There are a lot of clues in The Science of Getting Rich. Over the past year I've read this book three or four times. I've listened to the audiobook in my car dozens of times, over and over again, like when my daughter was three and she watched The Wizard of Oz three or four times a day. Every day. She learned that movie by heart. That's how well I want to know the truths set forth in this little book.
WHERE TO GET A COPY OF THE BOOK:
The really good news is that this book was written 100 years ago, and the copyrights have long since expired. Here is a link to a pdf file of the book. If you want to get the book for free, you can print it out, as I did, or just read it online. (iPhones are great for reading online books.) Just click on this link:
Finally, if you are intrigued by Wallace D. Wattles and his Science of Getting Rich, I encourage you to check out the following link to Certain Way Productions. There you will find a link to an e-course that is well worth whatever money you decide to pay. She leaves you on the honor system to pay whatever you believe the course will be worth to you. If you feel like you really cannot afford to pay anything, she will honor that decision, because she believes that if you take this course and apply what you learn, that you cannot help but get rich. She knows that when that happens you will come back some day and pay the money you did not pay today. I think she may be right. I took the course for free, but as I write this review I realize that one day, I will go back and pay her. The audio course is exceptional, and I urge you to take the time to listen and do the workbook exercises. Here is the link:
I'll see you back here tomorrow for Day 7 of the Prosperity Project.
Remember, Phase Three is PROFIT!
Saturday, September 19, 2009
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!
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!
Friday, September 18, 2009
Prosperity Project Day 3
On day 3, we deposit $3000 into our imaginary bank account and decide how we will spend that money.
Yesterday I bought a first class plane ticket to San Francisco. All day I kept feeling the seat under me, imagining myself enjoying the ample leg room and sipping on a free cocktail.
I've also been thinking about how best to spend my money now that so much of it is rolling in. So I've devised a plan that today seems prudent. Not being used to having money, I reserve the right to change my mind later; but for now, I'm going to follow some advice I got from Robert Kiyosaki, who teaches to always save some of every money you get. That is how you build capital, he teaches, and capital is another name for wealth.
So my financial plan is this:
10% is God's money. I will follow my heart each day in deciding where this money should go.
20% will go into the wealth-building account, and I'll keep a running total of how much it grows.
Day 3:
$3000 goes into the imaginary checkbook
$300 to my friend Marie who fell and broke her shoulder, to help with expenses.
$600 Wealth-Building Account (total: $600)
$300 New 32-Gig iPhone 3Gs so I can take pictures with enough pixels to make a
SendOutCard and the ability to record video. 32 Gigs will give me enough room to
keep audiobooks, videos, and lots of music on my phone. When I travel the world,
I'll be able to have a powerful little tool that will do almost anything my laptop can
do, except spreadsheets (I'll be able to hire my own bookkeeper). I'll give my current
iPhone to my daughter as a house-warming gift.
$200 Pay Keri to come and give my house a really good cleaning.
$200 Have my car detailed
$500 Four new hubcaps for my Matrix
$900 Body work to make my car shiny and new
Today I'm going to the mall. I realized yesterday that I've never allowed myself to really shop before. I go to the store only to buy, and then only to buy absolute necessities as inexpensively as possible. I always have looked for the least expensive items in the store, because I believed that was all I could afford, and all that I deserved. Today I'm going to try on the most expensive clothing I can find, and I'm going to start getting used to the way they feel on me.
How will you spend your $3000?
Yesterday I bought a first class plane ticket to San Francisco. All day I kept feeling the seat under me, imagining myself enjoying the ample leg room and sipping on a free cocktail.
I've also been thinking about how best to spend my money now that so much of it is rolling in. So I've devised a plan that today seems prudent. Not being used to having money, I reserve the right to change my mind later; but for now, I'm going to follow some advice I got from Robert Kiyosaki, who teaches to always save some of every money you get. That is how you build capital, he teaches, and capital is another name for wealth.
So my financial plan is this:
10% is God's money. I will follow my heart each day in deciding where this money should go.
20% will go into the wealth-building account, and I'll keep a running total of how much it grows.
Day 3:
$3000 goes into the imaginary checkbook
$300 to my friend Marie who fell and broke her shoulder, to help with expenses.
$600 Wealth-Building Account (total: $600)
$300 New 32-Gig iPhone 3Gs so I can take pictures with enough pixels to make a
SendOutCard and the ability to record video. 32 Gigs will give me enough room to
keep audiobooks, videos, and lots of music on my phone. When I travel the world,
I'll be able to have a powerful little tool that will do almost anything my laptop can
do, except spreadsheets (I'll be able to hire my own bookkeeper). I'll give my current
iPhone to my daughter as a house-warming gift.
$200 Pay Keri to come and give my house a really good cleaning.
$200 Have my car detailed
$500 Four new hubcaps for my Matrix
$900 Body work to make my car shiny and new
Today I'm going to the mall. I realized yesterday that I've never allowed myself to really shop before. I go to the store only to buy, and then only to buy absolute necessities as inexpensively as possible. I always have looked for the least expensive items in the store, because I believed that was all I could afford, and all that I deserved. Today I'm going to try on the most expensive clothing I can find, and I'm going to start getting used to the way they feel on me.
How will you spend your $3000?
Thursday, September 17, 2009
CLUE: 68 seconds
Here's another useful clue I got from Abraham-Hicks' Money and the Law of Attraction:
What we attract into our lives is in response to the quality of our vibration at any given moment in time. If you want to see the quality of your vibration, look around you and see what is manifesting in your life right now.
The Law of Attraction directly responds to emotion-filled thoughts. If you hold an emotion-filled thought for 17 seconds, it will attract another thought just like it. If you then hold that emotion-filled thought for 17 seconds, it will attract yet another thought just like that. Do that deliberately, four times in a row, and you've consistently held the same emotion-filled thought for 68 seconds.
Here's the exciting part: Once you've held an emotion-filled thought for 68 seconds, your vibration has changed to match that thought, and the law of attraction kicks in to bring into your reality that which you have been thinking.
This is great news for two reasons. First, if you find yourself thinking a negative thought you have time to choose a better-feeling thought before it affects your overall vibration. Second, you can deliberately begin to attract what you want by spending at least 68 seconds every day imagining how wonderful it will feel to have it.
Did you spend more than 68 seconds spending your imaginary money for the day? You are already in this moment attracting more prosperity of all kinds. Just wait and see how your day unfolds!
What we attract into our lives is in response to the quality of our vibration at any given moment in time. If you want to see the quality of your vibration, look around you and see what is manifesting in your life right now.
The Law of Attraction directly responds to emotion-filled thoughts. If you hold an emotion-filled thought for 17 seconds, it will attract another thought just like it. If you then hold that emotion-filled thought for 17 seconds, it will attract yet another thought just like that. Do that deliberately, four times in a row, and you've consistently held the same emotion-filled thought for 68 seconds.
Here's the exciting part: Once you've held an emotion-filled thought for 68 seconds, your vibration has changed to match that thought, and the law of attraction kicks in to bring into your reality that which you have been thinking.
This is great news for two reasons. First, if you find yourself thinking a negative thought you have time to choose a better-feeling thought before it affects your overall vibration. Second, you can deliberately begin to attract what you want by spending at least 68 seconds every day imagining how wonderful it will feel to have it.
Did you spend more than 68 seconds spending your imaginary money for the day? You are already in this moment attracting more prosperity of all kinds. Just wait and see how your day unfolds!
Prosperity Project Day 2
Every day we get to deposit money in our imaginary bank account and imagine ourselves spending it. Today we get $2000.
$2000 Deposit Cha-Ching!!!
$1500 First Class Ticket to San Francisco to replace the economy class ticket I bought yesterday.
$ 500 Set aside as spending money while I'm there.
I know I bought an economy-class ticket yesterday, but I'll cash that in and put that money in Keith's account to spend on bills. It's easy to be generous when you know without a doubt that you'll be getting even more money tomorrow (right, Bob?)
All my expenses will be paid while I'm in California. I'll be staying with the people I'm meeting, and I'm sure they'll be feeding us. The money is for buying gifts and enjoying experiences that would be unavailable to me if I were broke. I'm so grateful that I can do anything my heart desires.
I decided last year that I'm tired of flying coach. I got moved up to first-class for one of my flights because the universe loves me; I had no idea how comfortable those seats really are! I enjoyed being treated like the exceptionally special person that I am. I enjoyed having personal service, not to mention all the free drinks and the better food.
One thing I noticed on my tour of the ultra-rich lifestyle is that once you have a lot of money, you no longer use cash. When I visited Fisher Island, I discovered that there is no place on the island that accepts cash. You just sign for everything. Even the tips (gratuities, they call them) are included. You don't tip your parking valet or the concierge who lets you onto the elevator that opens up onto your penthouse suite. I imagine that at Christmas I will be very generous in giving them gifts to thank them for their excellent service.
I'm loving this game. I already feel more prosperous! And it's working too: Before I'm even out of bed this morning, someone gifted me with a free professional upholstery cleaning. I wonder what exciting experiences await me today?
$2000 Deposit Cha-Ching!!!
$1500 First Class Ticket to San Francisco to replace the economy class ticket I bought yesterday.
$ 500 Set aside as spending money while I'm there.
I know I bought an economy-class ticket yesterday, but I'll cash that in and put that money in Keith's account to spend on bills. It's easy to be generous when you know without a doubt that you'll be getting even more money tomorrow (right, Bob?)
All my expenses will be paid while I'm in California. I'll be staying with the people I'm meeting, and I'm sure they'll be feeding us. The money is for buying gifts and enjoying experiences that would be unavailable to me if I were broke. I'm so grateful that I can do anything my heart desires.
I decided last year that I'm tired of flying coach. I got moved up to first-class for one of my flights because the universe loves me; I had no idea how comfortable those seats really are! I enjoyed being treated like the exceptionally special person that I am. I enjoyed having personal service, not to mention all the free drinks and the better food.
One thing I noticed on my tour of the ultra-rich lifestyle is that once you have a lot of money, you no longer use cash. When I visited Fisher Island, I discovered that there is no place on the island that accepts cash. You just sign for everything. Even the tips (gratuities, they call them) are included. You don't tip your parking valet or the concierge who lets you onto the elevator that opens up onto your penthouse suite. I imagine that at Christmas I will be very generous in giving them gifts to thank them for their excellent service.
I'm loving this game. I already feel more prosperous! And it's working too: Before I'm even out of bed this morning, someone gifted me with a free professional upholstery cleaning. I wonder what exciting experiences await me today?
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Prosperity Project: Day 1
This game I call the Prosperity Project was suggested by Abraham-Hicks in the book, Money and the Law of Attraction. The idea of the game is to get used to the idea of having, spending, and enjoying money. Start small, and every day increase your allowance by $1000. Gradually, you will be able to easily picture yourself having larger and larger sums of money, and that idea won't seem entirely ridiculous to you, because your dream grows incrementally over time. If you want to join in this game with me, write your dream checkbook entries in the comments. Let's attract some major abundance!
Deposit $1000 into imaginary checkbook. Spend it on:
$500 Plane Ticket to San Francisco
$200 Excellent walking shoes
$300 All-weather jacket that fits perfectly and makes me dazzle
I'm going to San Francisco next month to meet the people that my brother works for. He is their personal decorator, making $100K a year fixing up homes they rarely live in. They have a home in Cleveland Park, in Washington DC, a home in Sonoma Valley, CA, a home in South Beach and one in Fisher Island off Miami. I want to talk to the husband about The Attitude of Gratitude Project; I want to talk to the wife about the possibility of being her personal assistant when I'm done making the pool store sparkle. I'm going to imagine what a beautiful life of opulence and joyful abundance might be like for me. I suffered in Florida this summer, and would love to summer in Northern California where there is no humidity. I kind of like the idea of living in those beautiful homes, three of which I've already visited. I wonder what my jacket will look like?
Deposit $1000 into imaginary checkbook. Spend it on:
$500 Plane Ticket to San Francisco
$200 Excellent walking shoes
$300 All-weather jacket that fits perfectly and makes me dazzle
I'm going to San Francisco next month to meet the people that my brother works for. He is their personal decorator, making $100K a year fixing up homes they rarely live in. They have a home in Cleveland Park, in Washington DC, a home in Sonoma Valley, CA, a home in South Beach and one in Fisher Island off Miami. I want to talk to the husband about The Attitude of Gratitude Project; I want to talk to the wife about the possibility of being her personal assistant when I'm done making the pool store sparkle. I'm going to imagine what a beautiful life of opulence and joyful abundance might be like for me. I suffered in Florida this summer, and would love to summer in Northern California where there is no humidity. I kind of like the idea of living in those beautiful homes, three of which I've already visited. I wonder what my jacket will look like?
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