Break Out Of Your Money Box
“Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.” ~Rebecca Johnson
Just like a cat that was placed in a box while growing up, we all have existing constraints on the amount of money we believe we can have. A cat who grew up in a box will always maintain a smaller posture, but we as humans can change our constraints.
Sometimes our constraints come from our childhood, the attitudes of our family and friends, or just what we believe is possible for ourselves. Your money comfort zone affects both the amount of money you earn on a monthly basis, and your net worth. Continue reading »
Learning to Say No Again
When it comes to people who are interested in spirituality, the law of attraction and other self-help topics, I have noticed a strange pattern. It seems that these people appear to outsiders as being more soft and this therefore results in them being exploited more. I don’t know about you, but I often find myself agreeing to do things for other people that I really don’t want to do. You might think that there’s a very simple solution to being in this predicament, and there is. Just say no. We all know this word, but sometimes mustering up the courage or the backbone to say it can be tough.
How many times have you given in to a request to babysit someone’s kids when you were already busy. I’ve done that. How many times have you agreed to proof read someone’s resume (essay, dissertation, etc). Ditto. How many times have you let yourself invite someone who was pressuring you over for dinner? Ditto, ditto. How about pushy sales people who make you feel like you are getting a bargain and then add some hidden costs, while you feel obligated to finalize your purchase despite this fact. Ditto, ditto, ditto. What about tele-marketers calling during dinner? I think you get the picture.
Well this is where all of these push-over tendencies stop. Let us explore a bit more of this “yes-sir” type of mentality before I explain how I plan to stop saying yes to every request thrown at me. Continue reading »
Accepting The Source Of Your Income
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Starting from a young age, we are taught that we need to work hard, get a job and earn our money. This mentality is great to motivate youth to get off the couch and develop a little bit of ambition. The downside of teaching everyone that they need to work hard to earn their income is that it develops a scarcity mentality. It also causes us to think that the only way for us to create income in our lives is to work harder or to generate it by adding a second or third job into our already busy lives. This type of “work is the only way to get money” thinking can also lead people away from their true purpose in life, their true passions
One clear example of this type of narrow mindedness came about in my own life. I was always taught that in order to be successful I needed a lot of money, and therefore that meant that I needed to get a very high paying job and work grueling hours. And I did. I got several high paying jobs and worked upwards of 60 hours per week, despite still being enrolled in school in a co-op program. It was all great for awhile because I believed that I had reached my “success goal” and that I was finally successful because my income was coming from a high paying job. But then things started to unravel, as they are so likely to do in such situations. My health got worse and I started to loose my hair, my acne flared up and I was always tired. My relationships suffered immensely because I had to move away from my boyfriend, my friends and family. Continue reading »
Do All Self Made Millionaires Use the Law of Attraction?
There are plenty of rich men and women out there. Yet most of us tend to respect those rich people more if they managed to get to where they are on their own, say without inheritance money. In fact, I personally love rags to riches stories and reading about how people made it big through sheer will and determination. Most people might label people as “self-made” when either a man or a woman goes from a regular life to that of a millionaire or billionaire.
My question recently has been about where the law of attraction and the idea of deliberately creating things comes in. For instance, how does the lottery fit in to the self made millionaire definition? Would you consider it to be a fluke or a luck of the draw event? So would lottery winners automatically fall into the category of rich women and men who are not self made and who got it easy? I would like to explore this question, and if you disagree with me I would love to read what you think in the comments section.
After doing some extensive research in the area of the wealthiest women in the world, I discovered that most of the top women actually inherited their wealth. Personally, I don’t think there is anything wrong with gaining tremendous wealth through such means. However, I want this weblog to act as inspiration for the rest of us regular women out there, who want to be able to take charge of our finances and increase our incomes. So I started researching more into the self-made millionaire women out there.
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