Category: Money


Dreaming It

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7 July 2011

In the Artist’s Way course, Julia Cameron has us doing affirmations out the wazoo.  I’m on board with this practice, actually.  I lurve affirmations, and when I get stuck in the morning pages, I always know I can write affirmations for as long as I want until the next astonishing thought reveals itself.  Early in the book, Cameron provides a set of starter affirmations to use, one of which is “My dreams come from God, and God has the power to accomplish them.”  While I enjoy that, I decided to tweak the first part, so for me it reads: “My dreams are God’s dreams, and God has the power to accomplish them.”  If I may say so myself, and I’m about to, that is an incredibly powerful statement.  I was using this affirmation yesterday and felt a remarkable shift – mentally, spiritually, even physically.

I mean… think about it.  Seriously.  Are we so egotistical to think that the most brilliant idea or dream we may have hasn’t already been conceived by the INFINITE INTELLIGENCE?!   Or that any idea from anyone, anywhere, throughout time didn’t already exist before they thought it?  Let’s use Einstein’s “E=mc2” energy equation as a point of reference.  It’s well known.  It’s commonly accepted.  As spectacular as this theory is, do you really think that equation didn’t come into play when, say, the Universe was created?  That once Einstein published it, God was thinking, “Son of a bitch!  Wish I’d thought of that.”  Are we really willing to say, “Yeah well… there’s Infinite Intelligence/Source/God, whatever, you know… yeah, it created the Universe and stuff… but my three-pound brain came up with this OTHER, separate idea that’s totes awesome!”  Really? REALLY????

So along those lines, if my dreams are God’s dreams, who am I to (a) resist their demonstration in my experience or (b) presume I have a better system or better set of resources for accomplishing them?  I don’t normally like to get caught up in ‘why’ questions, but I suppose I want to prove a point here.  Why would any of us stand in the way of the Power that created EVERYTHING wanting to co-create our lives with us?!  Why would I think I couldn’t do this or that thing to accomplish a dream or goal that is simply God wanting to express through me?  And why would I think I have a better set of contacts or connections or encyclopedias or internet links or factories to bring those dreams to fruition than the very Source Power that created all of those things?  And with that, why would I let ANYONE outside of my Self tell me I should adjust or rethink or let go of my dreams or goals?  Do they know better than Infinite Intelligence?  What do you think?

My dreams are God’s dreams, and God has the power to accomplish them.  Sweet.  Sign me up.  If God can create… you know… all of time and space and Life and perfection and beauty and Love (and then some), it’s a not a big stretch to think God – working for me by working through me and AS me – can sell a television show.  And whip this body into shape.  And enjoy loving relationships with friends, family and a perfect partner.  And have a sweet abode near the beach.  And start a new company.  And drive a black BMW 650i convertible.  And travel the world in style and comfort.  And be financially independent.  And… and… and… and… and…

There is a power for Good in the Universe, and I can use it – consciously, fearlessly and RIGHT NOW!  Who’s with me?

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The World I Feel

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27 January 2011

As part of her Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity, Edwene Gaines teaches that we should identify specific, tangible goals.  She calls them Golden Goals – your most important desires.  I’ve had an ongoing list since first seeing Edwene speak in 2009, but after seeing her speak Sunday, I knew mine were due for an overhaul.  It was time to reassess, and to get as clear and specific as possible without writing a book on each goal.  (After all, Edwene also instructs you to read your goals three times every morning and every evening.)

On Tuesday night, I went to see Marianne Williamson give her weekly talk on A Course In Miracles.  I’ve never studied the Course, but I understand what it is at a very basic level.  Spiritually speaking, it has many similarities with what I study and believe, and I love hearing the Truth from a variety of sources.  I also happen to enjoy that Marianne is an intelligent and compelling speaker.  This week was about Lesson #128:  “The world I see holds nothing that I want.”

Well, crap.  Which is it, people?!  How shall or why should I set my goals if the world I see holds nothing I want?  What I’m getting from Marianne is that the physical world – the world of form -  is not where I will find anything that makes me happy, and then I have Edwene telling me that “The more specific you are, the faster your goals manifest.”

What I know is that I am a spiritual being living in a spiritual world governed by my use of the spiritual Law of Cause and Effect.  In the scope of my experience in this physical plane – what I lovingly refer to as “God having an A.J. experience” – these goals on which I’m focused, be they things or experiences, are ephemeral.  They are based in time and space.  God, however, is Eternal, Infinite, and unbound by time and space.

Still… a pimped out new 7 Series BMW would be a sweet ride.  A-ha!  There’s the link, I believe.  What we really want are NOT those things as we know them to exist in this realm, but rather the experience of the feeling that new car, new home, $10 million dollars, healthy relationship or whatever will lead us to.  We want to know peace, happiness, love, joy, abundance, beauty – all things (and more) which we can not see, and which are qualities of God, are they not?  Unity with the Divine is our natural state, and these feelings remind us of that.  And it feels goooooood!

Ah, but the question becomes:  how do we experience this Godliness when we don’t have “the stuff”?  I think that’s where creating the goals and being specific comes in.  The clearer we are on what we want, which is really what God wants to experience through us and as us, the easier it is to tap into the feeling we believe that thing or experience will provide.  Each detail unlocks more of the feeling, intensifying it.  In my goal setting work, I’m even going so far as to identify what I believe each goal will make me feel.

When we live from those feelings, we are living as God, and “the stuff” manifests.

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Forgiveness

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25 January 2011

This is a biggie, y’all.  Forgiveness is one of the most powerful and healing things we can do as spiritual and Divinely human beings.  It’s also connected directly to our abundance and prosperity with regard to money, love, relationships, health and work.  Oh yeah, it runs through everything.

Forgiveness is a popular topic among spiritual thinkers, especially as it pertains to money and prosperity.  I’ve heard Marianne Williamson lecture about how ANY financial debt or adverse financial situation you may be facing is the result of forgiveness work you need to do – and it’s usually your own self that needs your forgiveness.  Along those same lines, Edwene Gaines says that “Debt is a socially acceptable form of self-punishment.”  Yeouch.  You know… both of these brilliant women are doing pretty well financially, so I’m paying attention.

I’ve made forgiveness work part of my daily spiritual practice.  In fact, it is part of my personal “$10 Million Dollar Project” directives.  There are countless forgiveness techniques you can use.  I’ve taken a cue from one of Ms. Gaines’ techniques.  At the end of each day I ask myself, “Have I put anyone outside of my heart today?”  The answer is usually yes, because at the very least, it’s likely I’ve beaten my own self up for something ridiculous.  I breathe deeply, forgive unconditionally, and invite those I’ve put outside of my heart back in.  I usually cap it off by forgiving myself for everything I have ever done wrong in my entire life (or, to be clearer, those things I’ve labeled as “wrong”).  It is powerful work.

Another forgiveness technique I’d love to share is one I found online:

Get into a meditative state of mind (calm, relaxed and peaceful) and think about the person or situation that is bothering you. Ask your soul for a symbol for the relationship or the event. Play with the symbol or image that you receive. If it’s dark, add light to it. If it’s closed, open it up. Working with things as energy is very powerful for as you transform the symbol, you transform the relationship or event as well. This is one of those techniques that is very effective, but I have no idea how or why this works. You can use this same technique when you want to resolve a problem or when you just want to get in touch with your inner guidance.

I’ve been using this a few days, and I absolutely love it!  I’m also planning a larger forgiveness ceremony where I review the phases of my life from childhood, through adolescence and young adulthood, to where I am today, and find out where I need to forgive.  I already know… there’s a list.  With each act of forgiveness, I create more space for my Good to enter in and fill me up.

My pastor just sent me this quote:  “What do you need to forgive?  Who do you need to forgive?  Start with YOURSELF, then continue onward, until there is nothing and no one left to forgive.  And then… watch what happens!”  Sounds like a great plan!

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Abundance Consciousness

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24 January 2011

Yesterday I had the privilege of seeing a seminar led by my favorite prosperity teacher, Edwene Gaines.  I’ve seen her speak live three times now, read her book twice, and have also listened to the unabridged audio version of that same book twice.  Just about everyone who knows me knows I put her “Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity” into practice in December 2009, and my financial situation saw a complete reversal (for the better) within six months.

Seeing her speak in person, one can’t help but note a lightness, grace and compassion in her directives.  She’s also hilarious, using humor to drive her point home.  She is a brilliant speaker!  (Seriously, check out her workshop dates.  If she’s ANYWHERE nearby – even a day trip away – she’s totally worth it!  She’s so incredible, I’d actually travel to see her.)

I’ve noticed there are different tidbits I pick up on whenever I revisit her material (whether it is live or Memorex).  On Sunday, she told the anecdote of how when she goes to speak somewhere, she’ll sometimes throw $30-40 dollars worth of coins onto the parking lot of the space where’s she’s speaking, and then she sits back to watch.  The two groups who find the coins?  (1) Children.  (2) RICH PEOPLE!

Rich people, she says, see abundance everywhere because they have a raised consciousness around it.  Maybe this awareness contributes to that whole “rich get richer” thing.  I believe it.  It starts in the Mind!

Another popular teacher said, “I have come that you might have and enjoy Life and have it IN ABUNDANCE, to the full, until it OVERFLOWS!”  Regardless of what you or I might believe about Jesus and his role in expanding our consciousness… living Life in abundance sounds pretty good to me.  All of these things in Mind, I’ve decided to further expand my consciousness around abundance.  I am choosing to seek out and find abundance in as many places and situations and moments of which I can be consciously aware.  I plan to be crazy-ridiculous with this, because I am DONE with any consciousness of lack.  Thank you for playing.  Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.  Goodbye, lack!  You’re sooooo 2010!

I will make note of how many times my friends make me laugh, or I make myself laugh, or anyone else makes me laugh, or I see anyone else laugh.  I will look at the THOUSANDS of text messages, emails and phone numbers stored in my phone and marvel.  I will see the abundance in blades of grass, blossoming flower beds, and leaves and fruit on the trees.  I plan to celebrate the bazillion dog hairs I remove from my clothes, sheets and floor on a daily basis.  I will ponder the incalculable number of functions that take place in my body every single day, without me even asking – from breaths I take, heartbeats, sensory perceptions and right on down to the miraculous functions taking place at a cellular level – in every one of the millions of cells in my body!

There truly is astonishing abundance EVERYWHERE if we choose to see it, and from now on, I do!

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The $10 Million Dollar Project

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19 January 2011

On January 1st of this year, I started this new project currently known (by me and five whole other people!) as “The $10 Million Dollar Project.”  It is a spiritual intensive I’m developing designed to align people – starting with me – with their inherent, Divine abundance.  In a nutshell, the idea is this:  manifesting $10 million dollars or more in 300 days or less.

I KNOW, RIGHT?!

I’m pretty excited about it.  My 300th day is October 27, 2011.  Right around my 40th birthday.  Happy Birthday to ME!!!

Think it’s not possible?  Well, then this is not the project for you.  Perhaps you are someone who thinks I’ll believe it when I see it. As Henry Ford famously said, “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”  This all starts with a belief in what’s possible, then a leap of faith, followed up with daily action.  (Or maybe they’re daily leaps of faith.)

The thrust of this practice is twofold:  (1) aligning your Self with your inherent, Divine abundance; and (2) opening your mind and changing your beliefs around all that’s possible in your own life.  Of course, as Divine beings, there is NO LIMIT to our true abundant nature.  $10 million dollars is a human invention.  In the realm of Spiritual Abundance, it’s chump change.  In this plane of existence, however, $10 million dollars… well, it ain’t too shabby.  It’s a nice, pretty, round number that looks good on a bank statement.  All the same, while that’s lovely, that is not what this project is entirely about.

I’ve often seen metaphysics authors use travel as an analogy for faith and action toward a goal.  If you’re traveling from Boston to San Diego, you go one foot, one mile, one highway, one state at a time to get from east to west.  It’s a journey completed by taking action.  You don’t sit in your Barcalounger in Boston and magically arrive in San Diego moments later.  You make a plan.  You pack your bags.  You gas up the car and you go.  You know San Diego is there, you follow your map, and you know you’ll arrive.  You don’t SEE San Diego the whole time you’re driving, but you know it’s there.  You believe it’s there.  This is an example of I’ll SEE it when I BELIEVE it.  And act accordingly. Yeah, I added that last part.

The investment in this program?  Some time up front to figure out how to make it work for you.  A willingness to honor that which You Are at your core.  A belief in what’s possible – or, at the very least to start, a willingness to be open to possibility.  Daily, consistent action toward your abundance.

Many more blogs to come about this, I know.

I’m looking for guinea pigs…

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Wealth and financial abundance

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6 January 2011

Money money money

Always sunny

In the rich man’s world

Ahaaa, ahaaa

All the things I could do

If I had a little money

It’s a rich man’s world

When is the ABBA reunion tour, already?!

Wealth and prosperity – specifically financial abundance – is one of the topics I’m most excited to be blogging about and Proving I Am.  I mean, in 2010 I became a lottery winner without even buying a ticket.  Yeah, that’s an abundance consciousness I want to continue, thank you very much.  Seriously… if I can attract that kind of cheddah without actually playing the lottery, surely I can manifest even more when I’m actively stepping into and engaging my abundance energy.

In recent conversations with friends, it has come up repeatedly how we, as a society, tend to equate financial prosperity solely with our jobs.  Employment is definitely part of the prosperity equation for most people, but it is a limiting belief, don’t you think?  That the only path to abundance is tied into a job or career, which is but one of the roles we play and/or labels we put on ourselves?  These are conventions our human minds have created to make sense of the world and of our place in it.  I don’t know about you, but personally, I’d much rather tap into the Infinite Intelligence of the Universe for answers and understanding around this topic.  I’d bet on the All-Knowing Source energy, Creator, God (or whatever you call It) over human race consciousness ANY DAY.  Tapping into that Intelligence, Trusting It and taking inspired action… THAT is the practice and that is the work!

Life becomes all that much richer when we awaken to the Truth that, because we are Divine spiritual beings, we ARE abundance.  We ARE prosperity.  We ARE infinite wealth.  The source of our financial supply is not something outside of ourselves, it is within.  Our prosperity is not a result of what we do or the roles we play, but because of who we are.  (A shout out to my pastor, James J. Mellon, for planting that delicious kernel into my consciousness.)  This is going to be a fascinating topic to play with and explore as I’m Proving I Am.

Believe me, even with good fortune, I still have consciousness work to do around money, and I will get into it in greater detail in future blogs.  What I can tell you now that I know unequivocally is:  in 2011, I will become a millionaire.  Many times over.  Just letting y’all know that right here at the start.

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