Do this, not that to boost your happiness and prosperity …and it only takes a minute!
Prosperity Tip #5
Let’s Change the Conversation About Money
Prosperity in a Minute: Want to Swap Money Worries for CALM?
At some time, nearly everyone has some anxiety and worry around money. But those feelings can seriously delay you from reaching your goals. What if you had a way to conquer those feelings? Here’s my 4 step model for approaching your money decisions focused and relaxed.
Prosperity in a Minute
Tip #4 How to Stay Calm Around Your Money
Is Background Noise in the Way of Your Prosperity?
Do you spend time worrying about an investment that went badly? Or do you stress about financial decisions you have put off? All this background noise will zap your energy. Money is a mind game – follow this next tip to start clearing your mind and notice the new energy you have to focus on what you want to create for yourself.
Tip #3: Don’t Let Mind Clutter Slow You Down
What’s Keeping More Prosperity Away from You?
Prosperity in a Minute Tip #2
Make Way for Prosperity: Clearing the Clutter
There are so many ways to increase your prosperity. It’s not only about doing those things that bring prosperity to you- it’s also about stopping those things that keep it from you. Most people don’t realize how clutter limits your prosperity. Tip #2 offers a quick way to make room for the energy of prosperity to appear in your life.
You never know if the changes will be gradual or immediate when you take this action. Listen to what happened to Kate after one of my prosperity workshops. It only takes a minute!
If you missed Tip #1 in my Prosperity in a Minute Series:
How Long Do You Think It Takes?
One of the Absolute Best Ways to Boost Your Prosperity
How long do you think it takes to have prosperity begin to flow to you? A week? 2 weeks? A month? Would you be surprised to hear that you can start creating immediate prosperity for yourself?
And here is the most amazing part:
In just 1 minute you can learn how to boost your prosperity. Over the next few weeks I am going to share with you valuable video tips to get your prosperity power into high gear.
Start today with my new video series, Prosperity in a Minute
Prosperity in a Minute Tip #1:
Stop Waiting for Prosperity – Create It!
What’s Your Financial Superpower?
What if you already had everything you needed to be great with money? What if the power was within you all the time and you just needed to learn how to access it? We all have financial superpowers, but for many people they have yet to be revealed. Often all you need is to be reminded about the power you have within you to be great.
You now have the POWER
When our son turned five years old he had a very important talk with his pre-school teacher, Mrs. Brown. She sat with him at one of the tiny pre-school tables, looked deeply into his hazel eyes and told him “You now have the POWER.” Benjy asked her “What power?” She replied slowly as she delivered this critical message, “You are five years old now … you have the power to ride a two wheeler.” He nodded accepting the new gift which had been bestowed upon him … his bike-riding super powers. Shortly after that morning, Benjy took his first successful ride without training wheels.
What if you were given financial superpowers?
What would you choose? Super natural savings abilities would be awesome. Maybe you’d pick investing x-ray vision – able to clearly see the opportunities that abound. Perhaps you’re a generosity giant, using your money as a force for good in the world. How about money magnetism: the ability to draw money and opportunities to you easily and effortlessly?
Many people are blind to the strengths they already have inside to successfully create their own prosperity. By having the light shine upon your strengths you can clearly see what was there all along.
So, by the power vested in me as an Abundance Activist®, I grant you the clarity to recognize the financial superpower you have within.
Turn your superpower on and see what happens!
Worried About Money? This Fear-Busting Strategy Will Surprise You!
Here’s a regular practice that will make a huge difference in creating a positive outlook:
Make a true difference for others without expectation of anything in return.
Studies have shown that givers are happier. Generosity breeds financial contentment: People who are great with money know that when they give to people in need (and causes that they value) it shifts their attention from themselves onto helping others. Studies on happiness have shown that when we assist others we benefit as well. Financial stress is usually associated with fears of not having enough, losing what’s been accumulated or making a big mistake. Giving is an amazing stress buster.
How and where you choose to give will depend on what you most value in life. But you can start today by doing something unexpected for someone else.
Are You Tangled In a Web of Money Lies?
I was recently in a women’s clothes store in my home town. As I was trying on a top I overheard a conversation between a woman who was checking out and the store owner. I happen to know that the shopper is a successful professional. Here’s how it went (the names are changed to protect this woman’s marriage…)
Shopper: Oh, I’m so sorry, Lisa, but I need to pay cash for this sweater and I’m a little short. I’ll run over to the ATM at Walgreen’s. I’ve learned after 26 years of marriage that it’s better if my husband doesn’t know what I spend money on so I don’t want to charge it or write a check.
Store-owner: I completely understand, Barb. Women do this all the time here.
Seriously?! What’s this about?
Is it that these women don’t truly spend money on things they value and then are embarrassed to talk to their spouse or partner about it? Is it that they are spending money instead of working toward some joint goal? Is it that they feel guilty that their husband is earning money and they are spending it? (Clearly not the issue for the woman that I eavesdropped on.)
What I would want to ask this woman is, “How would you feel if your husband was doing this to you?”
What we put out into the world is what we get back. Secrets create separation. From a financial standpoint, a marriage is like a business partnership. A healthy money relationship includes creating a vision for your financial futures, building a solid and healthy plan, as well as sharing information. If you are hiding financial issues from your spouse you are creating big cracks in your financial foundation.
Have a conversation.
I’m not suggesting that every penny spent must be reported and justified to your partner. Instead, have money allocated each month for each of you to spend as you please. Any extraordinary expenses over a certain dollar amount (at a level which you both decide) should be discussed.
Quit hiding shopping bags in your trunk or the back of your closet! Stand in your power around money and make purchases you feel great about!
Olympic Winners: 4 Ways to Tap Their Success
The personal stories of the athletes are one of my favorite parts of watching the Olympics. I love hearing about their journey to get to London, their struggles and triumphs. I am also fascinated by the training the athletes commit to in order to make the Olympic team.
Over and over in interviews the athletes share how important the mental preparation is to their success. There is so much that we can learn about creating prosperity and success from these athletic superstars.
Mental Training Just As Important as Physical Training
Did you know that the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) has 4 full-time psychologists on staff to help their elite athletes with mental conditioning? Here’s what they say on their website: “Both research and our experience strongly suggest that as athletes move up into the elite ranks, mental training skills become as important as the physical side of the sport.”
4 Ways to Tap Success of Olympic Winners
The USOC suggests mental training guidelines which could just as easily apply to building wealth.
- Mental training can’t replace physical training. Similarly, picturing abundance isn’t enough; you must also take responsible actions with your money.
- Physical training and physical ability are not enough to succeed consistently. The right mindset is crucial for both athletic success and financial success.
- A strong mind might not win an Olympic medal, but a weak mind will lose you one. Having the right mindset might not ensure that you’ll hit every one of your goals, but a weak one will make is harder to hit your targets.
- Thoughts affect behavior. Our thoughts and beliefs affect everything we do. Our thoughts are like the ruder of a boat – they guide our actions. Right thoughts + Right Actions → Right Results.
Recent Training Research
Dr. David Hamilton (Institute of Sports Science research) writes about recent research carried out at the Institute of Sports Science at the Justus Liebig University Giessen in Germany. They compared 5 different groups of people. The first group did 100% of a training program physically, the next group did 75% of the training physically and 25% of the training in their minds, the third group did 50% physically and 50% mentally, the fourth group did 25% physically and 75% mentally and the last group did not train.
Ready for this…
There was only a very small difference in physical improvement between the group doing 100% of the training in the gym and the group only doing 25% of the work in the gym and 75% of the training mentally.
Picture Your Financial Goals and See Opportunities
This type of mental training is not just effective for physical activities. We can use mental training for our financial success as well. There is a small part of the brain called the reticular activating system (RAS) which acts as a filter for important information between your conscious and subconscious mind. This is what helps us to hear our name being called across a crowded room, but ignore the background noise of glasses clinking. We have the ability to actually help to program our RAS. The more you program your RAS with thoughts and pictures of your goals, the more likely you are to be open to seeing the opportunities to help create these goals.
3 Keys to Programming your RAS
1. Choose a Time When You Are Calm
2. Focus on What You Want
It is crucial that you focus on what you want to have happen as opposed to what you don’t what to happen. Your RAS is not very discriminating. If you focus on what you don’t want, for example if you say to yourself, “I don’t want to have to worry about money,” your RAS will focus on worrying about money. Instead, focus on “I have financial freedom.” Create a specific mental picture of what financial freedom looks like to you. For example: Where do you live? How do you spend your time? Who is with you?
3. Feel the Sensation of Success
Here’s another crucial part of the formula. As you are picturing your goals, make sure to feel the emotion you will feel when your goal happens. If you are not sure how you will feel, before you start the visualization process think back to a time when you felt very successful. How did you feel then? Happy? Excited? Calm? Actually feel this emotion as you are creating your mental picture of accomplishment.
This visioning process will train your mind for success. It is so easy in today’s economy to focus on volatility and problems. Stop it! If this is what you focus on, you will find lots of evidence to support your experience of problems. Instead, if you look for the opportunities that arise in times of change, you will find those.
As Henry Ford said: “If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right”
5 Rules People Who Are Great with Money Know That Others Don’t
1. SPEND CONSCIOUSLY. A wise (and financially savvy) woman once told me: “The less you need the more you have.” Need is the most important word in that sage advice. It is easy to build a lifestyle with things that feel like needs. Problems arise when the things you spend money on become needs and the thought of losing them grips you in fear. Now, I’m not saying you shouldn’t spend money on things you value, indeed you should. But spend money intentionally.
2. BE A GREAT SAVER. It may seem painfully obvious, but spending less than you earn is one of the most important ways to build financial flexibility for yourself. Designing a lifestyle that is based upon only utilizing a portion of your income is really one of abundance: you have more than enough money to do what is important to you. The rest is put away (or given to causes important to you). This will allow you to have greater choices when you are ready to make financial transitions in your life.
3. THINGS ALWAYS WORK OUT THE WAY THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO WORK OUT. People who are great with money take personal responsibility for their financial situations. They don’t blame the government, their employer, their estranged spouse, their dead-beat son or their parents for the realities of their financial lives. Instead they learn from past mistakes and move on. They adapt to changes in the economy and look for opportunities.
4. GENEROSITY BREEDS FINANCIAL CONTENTMENT. People who are great with money know that when they give to people in need (and causes that they value) it shifts their attention from themselves on to helping others. Studies on happiness have shown that when we assist others we benefit as well. Financial stress is usually associated with fears of not having enough, losing what’s been accumulated or making a big mistake. Giving is an amazing stress buster.
5. FOCUSING ON WHAT YOU HAVE WILL BRING MORE OF WHAT YOU DESIRE. People who are great with money put their attention on what they appreciate in their lives as opposed to what is lacking. They share about how content they are and what is working well. You won’t hear them saying that they don’t have a fancy car or go on big vacations; instead, they’ll share that they really love their home or spending time with their grandkids. When we put our focus on what is working well, and not on what’s missing in our lives, we are not only happier but abundance finds us!
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