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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.

Enjoy, and prosper in every sense of the word!

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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.

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Today I passed a remnant of a past life; a green folder was in my kitchen and in it sat bills stacked neatly with dates of every bill I got, this folder held bills from - WAIT FOR IT - 2004! So in 2004 my life and my bills were in order, 2004 was also the year my son was born and I attribute it to my life going to hell shortly thereafter but back to my green folder. In this folder I had neatly labeled each bill when it was due and each creditor had its very own section, all checks that I wrote to each creditor was also filed along with the folder- I even filed my paychecks of course there was a misc section for any bills that just popped up as we call it, so this morning as I passed this green folder with bills, paychecks from 2004 the thought occurred to me that my mailbox was now currently overflowing, I had no clue when bills were due and paid them barely on recollection, If a creditor said I owed x amount, I’d have to go by their word as I had no files or bills to prove anything as a matter a fact most of my life had been going in this direction. My employees would tell me they made x amount and I’d make payments based on their calculations - as a matter of fact you could say I AM IGNORING MY LIFE. So today when I passed this green folder I decided today might be a good day to start organizing my bills, I had basically lived on the edge for 4 yrs not even sure if I was paying my bills on time and frankly not really caring either as long as I wasn’t 30 days late. Now that I think back, up until 2004 I had some of my most prosperous years and part of that probably had to do with the things that I did including having some organization to my life and my finances.

With the state of the Economy and us basically going into a recession it gets harder to think positive thoughts about finances and everything revolving money issues. I have some very good friends of mine who are now losing their homes in foreclosure, and one of the things I hear often is that they ignore phone calls and bills and the creditors trying to contact them to work things out…they feel if they just ignore things it will get better but instead they wake up and there is a sheriff at the door taking their house. My response to alot of things is just NOT TO DEAL with it, but not dealing with things and ignoring them does not help your life, actually it makes it worse when you realize if you had just answered a creditors phone call or told them the problem you could have been helped.

IF YOU ARE CURRENTLY IN A SITUATION - WHETHER LOSING YOUR HOME OR YOU OWE DEBTS AND YOU CANNOT PAY - STOP IGNORING YOUR LIFE, START ANSWERING YOUR PHONE CALLS, START TELLING THE CREDITORS YOU HAVE A PROBLEM AND NEED HELP BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY STOP IGNORING YOUR LIFE!!