Today marks the beginning of our third week on the Prosperity Project. I've heard it said that it takes 21 days to form a new habit. I'm suspecting that the habits we are forming here every day as we play this game run deeper than we can even suspect. I'm really excited as I see the changes beginning to happen in each one of us. Our circumstances may not be any different out in the real world, but we are rapidly becoming different people. We are becoming the kind of people who can attract $15,000 for one day's pay. I like it!
$15,000 The tickets sales are brisk for the first annual Attitude of Gratitude Conference!
$ 6,000 God's Money gets a boost today, as we are led to top off the $20,000 needed to start production on Lee's Tropical Motivation festival. I will see Lee later today as we meet for a writing session on the new play. He will be so pleased to know that we were able to raise the money he needed in only one week.
$ 3,000 Wealth Building Account (Total $33,000)
$ 5,000 Goes to the boyfriend, to help him pay off some personal debt.
$ 1,000 Goes to Billie, because she really needs a good computer.
I'm feeling exceptionally generous today, because I know that all of my needs will be met. Just for today, I think I'll help out my friends.
What will you do with your $15,000?
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Prosperity Project Day 14
Greetings, prosperous friends! Today marks the end of our second week on the Prosperity Project, so it's a good time to look back and appreciate everything that we have created with all of the money that has flowed our way.
This week, working together with Robyn, we were able to raise just over half of the $20,000 my friend Lee needs to produce his Tropical Motivation festival. This festival will do a lot to raise awareness of local musical talent, plus it will help my friends make some money to help pay for the house they just moved into. The success of the musical that Lee and I wrote should help to draw quite a crowd to the event.
I hired staff this week! This one is huge for me, because it has bought me gobs of free time. I immediately used that free time to do some travelling. I took the boyfriend on a first-class cruise of the Eastern Caribbean, and spent two weeks at a lake house in Maine visiting my friend Billie. I love this imaginary world, because I managed to fit a three-week vacation into one week. Talk about buying time!
The boyfriend made out even better. He got back from our week-long cruise and then headed off to Costa Rica for a month of surfing. For someone who says he doesn't like to travel, he sure is doing a lot of it. (Why doesn't the boyfriend have a name, you wonder? He's asked that I don't talk about him online. Since that is impossible, I just don't say his name. Girls are sneaky.)
On the home front, I finished my room addition, which ended up being a whole second story suite. Instead of having just one room, I now have a studio with a separate napping area, following the same footprint as the downstairs. The boyfriend made me an amazing custom desk, built to my very unique specifications. He also built cabinets and countertops to make the space as functional as I could want it. While I was on vacation I had Mark Griffo at All Florida Computer Repair come in and set up a network that connects all the computers in the house. While he was at it, he also set up the boyfriend's new flat screen tv so he can use it to watch all his stuff on internet TV as well as broadcast. Now when the boyfriend comes back tired from his surfing safari, he'll be able to lay around in the downstairs living room and watch all the TV he wants. He'll be in boyfriend heaven!
I bought a new digital piano and music software this week, so now my upstairs office doubles as a music studio. I'm sure I remembered to soundproof it in the process, so that I can sing and play without interfering with any TV enjoyment or napping going on downstairs.
I didn't get a whole lot of work done this past week, but I did get to spend some excellent quality time with two of the people I love most. I feel happy and fulfilled, ready to do some serious writing.
So, let's get busy!
$14,000 Advance from Hay House on my first book.
$ 1,500 God's Money to Tropical Motivation (Total from me $8,000 + Robyn $5,000 for a whopping total raised of $13,000. Just a few more days to go!)
$ 6,500 Wealth Building Account (Total $30,000)
$ 6,000 Will be just enough money for the boyfriend to finish building the kitchen cabinets and drawers. Although I don't actually cook, I love puttering around in a nice kitchen, and it will be such a treat to finally be able to put everything away. I love the way the house is looking, and we are so happy living here. Life is really good.
Now it's your turn. What thoughts do you have about your second week here on the Prosperity Project? And however will you spend your $14,000 today?
This week, working together with Robyn, we were able to raise just over half of the $20,000 my friend Lee needs to produce his Tropical Motivation festival. This festival will do a lot to raise awareness of local musical talent, plus it will help my friends make some money to help pay for the house they just moved into. The success of the musical that Lee and I wrote should help to draw quite a crowd to the event.
I hired staff this week! This one is huge for me, because it has bought me gobs of free time. I immediately used that free time to do some travelling. I took the boyfriend on a first-class cruise of the Eastern Caribbean, and spent two weeks at a lake house in Maine visiting my friend Billie. I love this imaginary world, because I managed to fit a three-week vacation into one week. Talk about buying time!
The boyfriend made out even better. He got back from our week-long cruise and then headed off to Costa Rica for a month of surfing. For someone who says he doesn't like to travel, he sure is doing a lot of it. (Why doesn't the boyfriend have a name, you wonder? He's asked that I don't talk about him online. Since that is impossible, I just don't say his name. Girls are sneaky.)
On the home front, I finished my room addition, which ended up being a whole second story suite. Instead of having just one room, I now have a studio with a separate napping area, following the same footprint as the downstairs. The boyfriend made me an amazing custom desk, built to my very unique specifications. He also built cabinets and countertops to make the space as functional as I could want it. While I was on vacation I had Mark Griffo at All Florida Computer Repair come in and set up a network that connects all the computers in the house. While he was at it, he also set up the boyfriend's new flat screen tv so he can use it to watch all his stuff on internet TV as well as broadcast. Now when the boyfriend comes back tired from his surfing safari, he'll be able to lay around in the downstairs living room and watch all the TV he wants. He'll be in boyfriend heaven!
I bought a new digital piano and music software this week, so now my upstairs office doubles as a music studio. I'm sure I remembered to soundproof it in the process, so that I can sing and play without interfering with any TV enjoyment or napping going on downstairs.
I didn't get a whole lot of work done this past week, but I did get to spend some excellent quality time with two of the people I love most. I feel happy and fulfilled, ready to do some serious writing.
So, let's get busy!
$14,000 Advance from Hay House on my first book.
$ 1,500 God's Money to Tropical Motivation (Total from me $8,000 + Robyn $5,000 for a whopping total raised of $13,000. Just a few more days to go!)
$ 6,500 Wealth Building Account (Total $30,000)
$ 6,000 Will be just enough money for the boyfriend to finish building the kitchen cabinets and drawers. Although I don't actually cook, I love puttering around in a nice kitchen, and it will be such a treat to finally be able to put everything away. I love the way the house is looking, and we are so happy living here. Life is really good.
Now it's your turn. What thoughts do you have about your second week here on the Prosperity Project? And however will you spend your $14,000 today?
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Prosperity Project Day 8
As we begin our second week of the Prosperity Project, I think it's a good time to set some goals to strive for in our everyday lives. It's time to start working on what Wallace Wattles calls our Clear Mental Image.
But wait: Isn't that what we've already been doing here every day? In part, yes. By spending a few minutes every day deciding how we will spend our daily allowance, we are doing some very powerful visualizations that will have massive repercussions in our daily life. In the process, we are finding out what we value most. Most importantly, we are feeling really good as we are imagining ourselves enjoying the things that we are buying, and we are imagining others feel good about the gifts they are receiving from us. We have even spent some time imagining the benefits our spending has brought to people further removed from us, the people who manufacture, distribute, and install the items that we buy.
Today, though, I want us to take a minute to set a financial goal for ourselves in the real world. We've all heard the saying, "If you don't know where you're going, how will you know when you get there?" So today I'd like us all to set a short-term financial goal, so that when we reach it we will have clear evidence that we are moving toward prosperity, and will be encouraged to continue with our Project.
This isn't as easy as it sounds. When I first started visualizing future abundance about a year ago, I started affirming that I made $100,000 a year. That's not an outrageous amount of money, really. People make way more than that every year. But it's a number that I just couldn't really believe. Even as I affirmed it, I knew that it was impossible. As Abraham teaches, it's not your words that necessarily attract reality, it's how you feel about those words. After a few months I lowered my number to $5000 a month: way more than I'd ever made, but still not believable. As I mentioned before, my first stab at visualizing wealth ended in bankruptcy!
I'm sure you've already heard the advice that goals should be SMART: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Timely. They need to be goals you can believe, or you will sabotage yourself with doubts. So today, I don't want you to try to set your ULTIMATE goal, because I have a feeling that where we ultimately end up will be far and beyond anything that we could possibly imagine today. What I'd like you to do is to set a very small, measurable, attainable, realistic goal that you can attain by a specific date. It should be a stretch, but a believable stretch. Remember, here on the Prosperity Project we are training ourselves incrementally to allow more wealth to enter our lives. So let's start small, and then as we reach those goals let's make them a bit larger as time goes on and we gain more confidence.
Are you ready? Here's my first goal:
In six months (by Valentine's Day) I will have saved $5000 to pay for my trip to Fiji on the first week of June. I will save it easily, and will not have to forfeit my quick trip to San Francisco or my vacation in the mountains to achieve this goal. As I am saving this money, I will continue to live comfortably, paying my bills and buying groceries with ease.
And now it's time to spend some money!!!
$8,000 Today's deposit is revenue from my website, which has quickly gone viral.
$ 800 God's money. Over the past week, The Space Coast Symphony Orchestra has gotten enough money out of the Prosperity Project to make it through their first season. There is still much that they could use, but they will be able to buy music and pay their musicians. So for the next week, I want to focus on another musician friend with a huge need. My friend Captain Music has a dream of producing a huge Tropical Motivation event right here in Port Canaveral. This event will jump start his career, and will benefit countless musicians and others who will be involved. He needs $20,000 cash before he can begin to schedule it. The rest of the revenue will come from ticket sales. So Lee, here is your first installment, my friend!
$1,600 Wealth Building Account (Total $7,200)
$5,600 To put the finishing touches on my room addition (Total $17,600). My project came in slightly over budget, but not by as much as it could have. I'm glad that Keith is such a genius at building things or this could have cost me a whole lot more.
So now it's your turn. How will you spend your $8,000 today?
But wait: Isn't that what we've already been doing here every day? In part, yes. By spending a few minutes every day deciding how we will spend our daily allowance, we are doing some very powerful visualizations that will have massive repercussions in our daily life. In the process, we are finding out what we value most. Most importantly, we are feeling really good as we are imagining ourselves enjoying the things that we are buying, and we are imagining others feel good about the gifts they are receiving from us. We have even spent some time imagining the benefits our spending has brought to people further removed from us, the people who manufacture, distribute, and install the items that we buy.
Today, though, I want us to take a minute to set a financial goal for ourselves in the real world. We've all heard the saying, "If you don't know where you're going, how will you know when you get there?" So today I'd like us all to set a short-term financial goal, so that when we reach it we will have clear evidence that we are moving toward prosperity, and will be encouraged to continue with our Project.
This isn't as easy as it sounds. When I first started visualizing future abundance about a year ago, I started affirming that I made $100,000 a year. That's not an outrageous amount of money, really. People make way more than that every year. But it's a number that I just couldn't really believe. Even as I affirmed it, I knew that it was impossible. As Abraham teaches, it's not your words that necessarily attract reality, it's how you feel about those words. After a few months I lowered my number to $5000 a month: way more than I'd ever made, but still not believable. As I mentioned before, my first stab at visualizing wealth ended in bankruptcy!
I'm sure you've already heard the advice that goals should be SMART: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Timely. They need to be goals you can believe, or you will sabotage yourself with doubts. So today, I don't want you to try to set your ULTIMATE goal, because I have a feeling that where we ultimately end up will be far and beyond anything that we could possibly imagine today. What I'd like you to do is to set a very small, measurable, attainable, realistic goal that you can attain by a specific date. It should be a stretch, but a believable stretch. Remember, here on the Prosperity Project we are training ourselves incrementally to allow more wealth to enter our lives. So let's start small, and then as we reach those goals let's make them a bit larger as time goes on and we gain more confidence.
Are you ready? Here's my first goal:
In six months (by Valentine's Day) I will have saved $5000 to pay for my trip to Fiji on the first week of June. I will save it easily, and will not have to forfeit my quick trip to San Francisco or my vacation in the mountains to achieve this goal. As I am saving this money, I will continue to live comfortably, paying my bills and buying groceries with ease.
And now it's time to spend some money!!!
$8,000 Today's deposit is revenue from my website, which has quickly gone viral.
$ 800 God's money. Over the past week, The Space Coast Symphony Orchestra has gotten enough money out of the Prosperity Project to make it through their first season. There is still much that they could use, but they will be able to buy music and pay their musicians. So for the next week, I want to focus on another musician friend with a huge need. My friend Captain Music has a dream of producing a huge Tropical Motivation event right here in Port Canaveral. This event will jump start his career, and will benefit countless musicians and others who will be involved. He needs $20,000 cash before he can begin to schedule it. The rest of the revenue will come from ticket sales. So Lee, here is your first installment, my friend!
$1,600 Wealth Building Account (Total $7,200)
$5,600 To put the finishing touches on my room addition (Total $17,600). My project came in slightly over budget, but not by as much as it could have. I'm glad that Keith is such a genius at building things or this could have cost me a whole lot more.
So now it's your turn. How will you spend your $8,000 today?
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