The Breathing Prosperity blog

How do you feel about this sentence:

Money will not make you a better person.

?

The Proof

Think about someone you dislike (come on, we all dislike someone…) and now picture them with a newly acquired 10 million dollars in their pocket. Picture them walking around sporting fabulous new clothes, and perhaps driving around town in a fancy new car. Now, while you may love the new ’stuff’ they have, and you may (or may not) feel jealous, you should easily be able to see that a) they are NOT any different than they were without the infusion of cash, and b) if anything, the money is exaggerating who they were. For instance, if this person has/had a tendency to be arrogant, then a lot of money will only exacerbate this trait.

Got it? Now that we have seen that the person in our theoretical exercise is NOT made any better - no nicer, no more gorgeous, no more likable - by their money, no matter what they may think, it’s obvious that money is empty, hollow and cold. It is a tool for exchange and nothing more. It doesn’t care who has it, and it doesn’t improve someone’s personality no matter how many beautiful clothes and trappings they surround themselves with. Sooo…see where I’m going with this? What makes you think money will improve your life?

Your Truth

Many of us hold certain sacred beliefs about money - especially when we don’t have any. We secretly believe that if we had ‘enough,’ we would live exciting, different lives. WE would be more exciting, better and different. We would be better-looking, more likable, maybe more outgoing and popular. Even though we have read and been told that money doesn’t do these things, many of us still somehow think it will.

The sooner you can clearly separate your emotions from the subject of money and see it as the tool it is - and nothing more - the sooner you will be able to take postitive action and create more for yourself. You will also be able to take a look at areas in your life which you wish to improve, and work on those as well. You know, those places where you have been waiting for money to fix things…your fitness level, your relationships, your communication skills. If you have been harboring fantasies forever about your ‘wealthy’ future self being fit, gorgeous, socially savvy and popular, but in reality you sit at home eating ice cream and watching TV, you are not facing the truth. Even if you won that theoretical $10 million tomorrow, you would not miraculously be any better at connecting with people, nor would you be fit, well-groomed and confident IF YOU ARE NOT ALREADY.

Today could be the day you take a hard look at reality and begin making some changes. This is a good thing! Sometimes we hide behind our illusions our entire lives and then realize, too late, that we’ve messed it all up. Eye-openers are always good for us, even when they’re tough. If this post has done anything to make you think differently about money and your life in general, then I am indeed blessed.

Thanks for visiting. We hope you are inspired to get out there and create what you want!

Additional posts you may enjoy:

• Wealth: Mindset vs. Education
• Wealth: The Progression of Views
• Are You Looking Prosperous or BEING Prosperous?
• Wealth: Your Financial Education

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Today we have a small task; an exercise, if you will.

We are going to take an everyday word…a word that many of use very often - daily, I suspect - and look at its underlying implications with respect to our beliefs and our lives.

The word is EXPENSIVE.

A seemingly innocuous, innocent little word, isn’t it? It comes in quite handy; we use it to label just about anything we can’t afford, or that we think is a ‘rip-off.’ And here we begin our exploration…

When we use the word expensive, the beliefs we are expressing are not objective; they demonstrate our perception not just of the item in question, but of the world around us and ‘how it works.’ Here are just a few of the common ways in which this word is meant:

• Too much money
• Decadent, or ‘over-the-top’ in a way that is frivolous
• Not worth it
• Someone is ripping you off
• It would take selfishness to get it
• There are better things to do with your money
• Dear, as in it costs too much life and heart - too much of your time went into earning your money to spend it on ‘just this one thing’
• It’s wrong to spend ‘that much’ on something
• It should be cheaper
• I can’t afford that
• Who am I to think I can/should have that?
• It will take all of my money, then I can’t have anything else

As you read to this list, you may even find yourself mentally adding to it. Hopefully you will also begin to notice all the underlying garbage that is insinuated in these common thoughts. This is just ONE example of ONE word that is used in everyday language…and look at how much it tells you that you can’t have and can’t do! By nonchalantly using the word expensive, you are inadvertantly reiterating to yourself that:

• Something can be out of your reach
• You lack: money, resources, hope for more of the same
• You are limited in what you can do and have

By uttering this simple little word, you are stating to the Universe that you live in lack and limitation. You are pinching off the flow of energy, love, life force, joy, happiness…both for yourself and for the person or company that created the ‘expensive’ thing. For if they are not deserving of the money that would flow to them from their creation, then no one is. Either we are all deserving, or no one is. When we judge, which we do by using words like expensive, we try and preclude someone else from experiencing abundance…and this never works.

Thanks to my friend Lexi Sundell at Energies of Creation for reminding me of this post, which I had written some time ago and never published. She sent me a link to Steve Pavlina’s great post about Money & The Law of Attraction which is bang-on and which re-iterates and fills out even further what I am trying to say here.

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“We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.”~ Jim Rohn

Patience is a virtue, my mother always told me…and I’ll bet your mother (or someone else close to you) may have told you the same thing.

But is it really?

The Good

Patience can serve us in many circumstances, both personal and professional. When we are likely to jump to erroneous conclusions, for instance, or when we react in a panic and almost do something against our own good…these are times when patience is a virtue. A prior commitment to - and practice in - patience allows us to calm down, assess a situation and react with calmness and dignity. It prevents us from ruining relationships and from making rash decisions we might later regret.

The Bad

However, what about situations where we are waiting for something good to happen, where instead of creating what we want in life, we sit back and hope they will happen the way we envision? What if ‘all good things’ don’t come to those who wait? What if, instead, the only thing that comes to those who wait is regrets at the end of life?

The Ugly

I have come to believe that ‘All good things come to those who wait’ isn’t necessarily true.

With respect to meeting life’s hopes and goals, this is definitely mis-guidance. (Sure, that’s not a word, but it works!) As anyone who has lost someone close to them or perhaps experienced a life-threatening illness or incident truly knows, LIFE IS SHORT. 

It is extremely easy to get complacent, and also to save our dreams for ’someday.’ For many sad and regretful people, someday comes when they are nearing the end of life and wondering how all that time slipped by so quickly. Someday comes and the realization of so many lost and forgotten dreams hits like a blow to the heart and soul…and the sense or urgency that should have been present all along becomes painfully apparent. We have all heard the adage about how much better it is to look back and be proud of everything we’ve done and tried, rather than to look back and wish we had done and tried things…yet many of us do not take this into account in our everyday lives. Even now, for instance, as I look back on my twenties I think to myself that if I had only known and practised then what I do now, I’d be much farther ahead financially by now.

The pain of discipline Jim Rohn speaks about is that of making the effort to do the little things every day which ensure our dreams are met, and do not instead fall by the wayside. The weight of regret truly  is far heavier.

The question then becomes, What will the future me look back and say to the woman I am today?…

I can see this because I am asking clearly: She will wish I was more consistent with my fitness, more proactive with my goals, and even more appreciative of loved ones. She will remind me to be kind to myself, while at the same time asking more from myself on a daily basis. 

The Beautiful

When we open our minds and perspective in this way, we can see opportunities and storylines to which we are now blind. We view our lives from a higher and wider place, and admit that someday is not only now, but is also coming sooner than we think. We bring our actions and our goals into alignment, and in doing so we enrich our current lives and our future days beyond measure.

Life can be a beautiful balance between being patient with ourselves and being impatient with our intentions, between passionately and actively pursuing our dreams and having the humility to allow the Universe to show us the way.