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Healing Your Relationship With Money Commitment Seven: I
am committed to having a good time in my relationship with money. Playing
on Life's Abundant Playground This
is the seventh and final commitment to healing our relationship with money. We
make the commitment to having a good time in our relationship with money. A good
first step is learning to recognize the joy and the gifts that come from
honoring the other five commitments to healing your relationship with money. One
subscriber recently shared with me her recognition of these gifts. Committing to
the awareness that she is 100% the source of her current financial situation --
as scary as that is to her -- has resulted in her showing up more for things
that are financially related, like getting her expired drivers license renewed. In
the past few weeks, she's noticed that every time she shows up and takes steps
to rectify situations she's avoided in the past, the Universe rewards her by
reducing the amounts of money she would have owed, or by removing obstacles that
in the past had been financially and emotionally draining. Simply by having the
WILLINGNESS to accept responsibility, she has created a healing energy force
that is effortlessly healing her relationship with money. She is creating
momentum and enjoying the ride. So,
how can you build momentum in your prosperity consciousness? How can you learn
to "go with the flow?" Think
of the last time you pushed a child (or an adult!) on a swing. When do you push
the person on the swing? Do you connect with them and push as they're coming
back toward you? Or do you wait until they've reached you and are just at the
turning point, just at the moment when they're about to begin going forward
again? You
wait. You bide your time. And then you join in the forward momentum, without
fear, without hesitation. Too often in life, we wait too long to take action on
something. We hesitate out of fear of being wrong, of choosing a wrong path for
ourselves. We hesitate out of fear of the unknown. Or we hesitate because we
haven't clearly defined what we want. When
pushing a swing, we are present in the moment. We are committed to having a good
time and what we want is clear. We want to be part of something that is going
higher and higher, part of something that is giving ourselves and someone else
joy, part of something that is breaking free from the limitations of gravity
here on earth. In
the rest of our lives, what we want isn't usually as clear. For example, we may
have picked a career path because it was something we knew others dreamed of for
us, or it was a way out of circumstances we wished to escape, or because our
parents had the same career, or because we were avoiding having the same career
as our parents, or because we thought it would bring in the right among of
income to support ourselves and our loved ones. We
deny our hearts longing because we feel that following our heart's path will
leave us wanting. Such was the case for a woman I had a wonderful coaching
session with this week. In her heart, she is an artist and the Universe has
dumped wonderful opportunities in her lap to follow her art, but she has been
afraid to follow-up on them. She has been listening to the age-old voices within
her that tell her she's not good enough and that she can't make enough money to
support herself with her art. By
affirming that what she has to offer is not enough, and by affirming that what
is being offered to her isn't enough, she's missing out on the opportunity to
fulfill that longing. By stepping out in faith, by following through and staying
the course, by stepping up and embracing the potential in the opportunities that
have been presented to her, she's now embarking on a new journey -- a journey
toward fulfilling her lifelong goal of supporting herself with her art. And she
is not alone. I've
recently run into two engineers -- singer/songwriters Steve Ducey and Andrew
McKnight -- who are pursuing their lifelong dreams of being musicians. And I
myself have returned to a childhood calling and will be pursuing my ministerial
degree in the fall at The New Seminary in New York. I see my ordination as a
natural extension of the ministry I do, by helping people heal their
relationships with money. But it took me a long time to let go of the fear that
this was a valid calling. Others, like Sandra Mizell have taken steps to pursue
dreams to help women who have been battered and abused reclaim their self-esteem
and their rightful place as strong, vibrant women. One by one, we're all
stepping out in faith. How
will YOU know when it's time to step out in faith? When you begin to remember
that everything is in divine order. When you're willing to feel the fear and do
it anyway, you will be ready to commit to having a good time in your life -- no
matter what the results may be. Making
the commitment to having a good time with our money, and in our lives in
general, means letting go of our expectations of the outcome. Yes, we may desire
a certain outcome -- but if we affirm that this outcome OR SOMETHING BETTER is
in store for us, then we can step out in faith. A mile is walked one step at a
time. A swing How
do we learn to put one foot in front of the other? How do we learn to push a
swing at just the right time? Trial and error. Not every attempt is perfect.
It's progress we're seeking, not perfection. Ask anyone who's jammed a finger
pushing too soon, or felt their fingertips barely brush the back of the person
on the swing because they've pushed too late. Ask any toddler who's taking those
first tentative steps. It's all trial and error. But
what keeps us trying? What keeps us moving forward and waiting for the next
opportunity to take those steps or to push the swing again? Hope. Hope and a
commitment to having a good time playing on the playground. Life is your own
personal playground. And each swing represents a different relationship in your
life, money being one of these relationships. For the next two weeks, I
encourage you to commit to having a good time in your relationship to money.
Start now with these four small steps: 1:
Bless your bills every time you pay them. You will soon discover that there is
great joy in giving thanks for what your bills represent -- and you will soon
stop dreading the arrival of your mail. 2:
Incorporate simple affirmations into your day, like "THERE'S GOLD DUST IN
THE AIR" (a good affirmation as springtime pollen flies everywhere!) or
"EVERY DAY, IN EVERY WAY, MY INCOME GROWS AND GROWS AND GROWS, THANK YOU,
GOD!" or "GOD IS THE SOURCE OF MY SUPPLY" or "I LET GO AND
TRUST. 3:
Make a daily game out of tithing. Actively seek out people who feed your spirit
and tithe to them. Look for the times you smile or chuckle to yourself over
something that you see, read or hear and immediately ask yourself: who can I
thank for this gift? Give of your time, give of your talents, give of your
possessions, give freely, willingly and joyfully. 4:
Reframe how you're approaching your relationship to money. Rather than view a
budget as a restricting tool, for example, view it the way a beachcomber views a
metal detector. A budget is a tool that helps you get untold and unexpected
rewards. Yes, a beachcomber could find gold doubloons simply by walking around
all day, waiting for a teak treasure chest to wash ashore, or stopping and
sifting through handfuls of sand. But a metal detector makes finding the buried
treasures much more likely. With a budget, you expand your possibilities and
create the opportunity for limitless abundance to appear in your life. Simply
write down where your money comes from and where it goes for the next two weeks
and see what patterns emerge. Before
you know it, these baby steps will turn into giant strides, until you find
yourself skipping for joy at all the abundance that has appeared, effortlessly,
in all areas of your life. This does not mean that you won't have missteps,
jammed fingers and missed opportunities as you deal with money issues. But I
guarantee that you will keep moving forward if you have hope and keep this
commitment to having a good time playing on the playground of life. Paula
Langguth Ryan is a contemporary prosperity advisor, |
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