30 Day Trial. I Love what I do and Love the Money I make!
Day 1. My friend and master mind cohort is very big on doing thirty day trials. Erin says try it for thirty days and see what happens. It’s a good way to see if what you’re doing or not doing is working for you. So I’ve been struggling with the fact that I absolutely love my life…BUT not the amount of money that I make.
Now some would say that this shouldn’t matter. If you love your life, isn’t that good enough? Money is just a means to enjoy your life, and if you’re already loving and enjoying it, why do you need more money? I understand their arguments, in fact, I’ve been telling myself the same thing but there’s still an urging to inside of my to really create an abundance of wealth with the love for what I’m doing. So I thought I would use the next thirty days to really examine what I can do to marry the two ideas and boost my financial net worth and how my work is valued in the world.
Today I went down to Apple Computer store to work on my website. I love their one to one project classes. I decided to build my own web-site because I have the time, and if I can learn to do it, I will have the creative control to really make it a place where people can learn from all modalities and I can create something unique and valuable. So I’ve been doing that for the last six weeks. Because I’m doing it myself, I don’t need to pay someone $4,000 to build my site. I love it!
But the creepy thought comes into my head, if I had a regular job then I would have the money to pay someone and perhaps get my products out in the market place sooner. Again, that thought doesn’t fit with the part of LOVING what I do. So, does this mean that I can only get part of the equation at a time? IE. Love what I do and “wait” to love the Money I make?
I did have a beautiful girlfriend treat me to lunch after my class. I loved the restaurant, the food, and the wonderful friendship that I shared with Judith. I got both the love and the experience of a great lunch. There was no waiting there.
What I found in working on my web-site is that there is alot of free downloads that will make my products and services much more attractive for people to want to buy. Does that equate to money? When I find these downloads I truly love them, and love what they create for my business. Seems like that meets both criteria but again there’s a pause, or a “wait” with the “love the Money I make” half of the equation.
It’s as if I have a mental equivalent that says, “I can love what I do, but have to WAIT to love the money I make. It feels like a vibrational governor someone put on my car so I can only go 20 miles an hour. What’s that all about? I know plenty of people who love what they do and love the money they make doing it. I want to be one of them. I just need to find out how to do it.
So for the next thirty days, I want to get my mind around the abundance mentality in its highest form. I’m not inventing something new. Others have done it …..now it’s up to me to do it.
First thing I need to look at is who do I know who is having an easier, more delightful time with their life and the money they make. I need to get my mind around what that must feel like and be like.
I have quite a few friends that seem to be having an easy time loving what they do and loving the money they make. Sue is one person. She loves her marketing job, and how she helps her clients and company make a difference in people’s lives. She loves what she gets paid and enjoys her time at work and her weekends. She’s happy, at ease and always seems grounded and ready to go. So for me, I still have only half of the equation. I love helping my clients, doing the work, and feel grounded and at ease when I’m doing it. But ….there’s the but, the money is not consistently flowing towards me.
I’ve been told that until you get there you’ve got to build a bridge, a way to move your thoughts and yourself to be where you want to be. That bridge is built on the powerful tool of imagination. If I can imagine it, I can be it. But I’ve got to practice the feelings, the pictures, the way it would be. I’ve got to refuse to accept the appearance of anything in my life that is unlike what I want. I’ve got to see me “loving the money I make.” I’ve got to be gentle with myself and patient. Right now that’s easy to do because I’m writing about it. But the truth is it’s really just like when I learned to play the piano. I didn’t play Beethoven perfectly the first few times of practice but I knew what I wanted my music to sound like and I was willing to play some wrong notes to get to playing the right ones all the time.
I’m going to have to replace those “bad notes” with my imagination of the good pictures that I will be creating Every time I hear I have “to wait” I’ll replace it with a feeling, an image, an action that shows me that I have it now.
Wow, this feels like freedom! I guess I wasn’t born knowing how to “love the money I make,” so I’ll just have to practice how it would look and feel until it’s natural to do it. So for today I’ll just have to imagine what that would feel like.
Sue must have done that at one time too, until she got really good at it. If she can do it…..so can I. Day one was kind of fun!
I wonder what will happen tomorrow? Right now this feels like alot of fun. Day one is done!