Attracting Abundance

Apr 29
2009

Previously I talked about how those of us involved in an MLM to make some more money — well really to do the things that money will allow — can have a fear of money and I gave some things to think about to help you get past your chrematophobia.  Today I want to discuss a little about how to attract abundance to you.

The Law of Attraction is quite simple:

What you focus on, expands.

So if you dwell on the negative thats what you will attract.  For example if you are constantly worried about where the money is coming from to pay the bills that are already here and you’re thinking “I don’t have the money to pay my bills” you’ll soon find that there is no money to pay them and the more you think about it, the worse it gets.

If instead, you focus on what you want as though it already exists and think and say “I am grateful for the abundance of cash that I have” then, because what you focus on and think about expands and becomes reality, you will have that abundance.

So now you’re thinking “I’ve heard of this Law of Attraction stuff before and its never worked for me no matter how hard I concentrated on what I wanted.”  And if you are thinking that, don’t worry, I did too until I realized a few key things about why my desires weren’t manifesting… yet:

  1. The timing is not ideal – if you’re asking for a mountain in the time for a molehill it isn’t going to happen.  Further your desires may be linked to other people doing things in which case it won’t happen until everyone is aligned.  I know it may feel like things aren’t happening fast enough but give the universe time to line it all up and it will — right when you really need it to.
  2. You’re trying too hard – have you every heard the saying “Let go and let God”?  Well whether or not you believe in a divine presence you have to remember the universe is lining things up so give in to it.
  3. You’re being too needy – I can’t say this any better than what Joe Vitale discovered:

    What’s the secret to getting what you want?
    Not needing it.
    When you would welcome it but you don’t need it, you begin to attract it.
    It all begins by being happy right now.
    And you don’t need anything to be happy right now.

    – Joe Vitale

  4. You are being too serious – don’t take anything too seriously.  The same wind, both good and ill, blows across all of us or as the Jewish folklore states “This too shall pass”.   Be at ease and playful and choose to feel good.
  5. You are not open to greater possibilities of happiness – not everything we ask for, if we got it, would actually bring us good or happiness in the long run.  So instead of being specific you could say “I am grateful for the abundance of cash, or something better, that I have”.  Let the universe know you’re ready for the best possible outcome for you.

Simply put, while you need to think “right” you also need to choose to be happy and thankful for everything you have.  Do you remember as kids wanting that shiny new bicycle that someone else got for their birthday and your parents telling you that while you can’t have the bike you have so much more to be thankful for?  Well as kids we rarely understood… as adults we need to take it to heart and remember that to the universe, we’re kids!

In order to get on the path to attracting abundance in your business and your life I suggest you sign up for the free attraction marketing bootcamp where you will learn how to use attraction effectively to market your business and never have to call on someone again who isn’t interested in what you have to offer.

Are you Chrematophobic?

Apr 27
2009

No its not a fear of cream or even chrome, chrematophobia is the fear of money. Personally I didn’t think it existed or if it did that it was as rare as Loch Ness sitings after all who wouldn’t want to have vast sums of cash; however I found out that I too had suffered from the fear of vast sums of money when attending a seminar on wealthbuilding. My realization came in the form of simply completing a statement with missing words:

___________ is the root of all evil

I and many others answered it with “Money” but if you read the Bible you’ll know the actualy statement from 1 Timothy 6:10 is:

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

So its not money but the love of money that is the root of all evil.  Perhaps I remembered wrong when I went to fill in the blank after all its an honest mistake right?  A further exercise, asking us to write down what we would feel about someone who had an absolute abundance of money and was able to do anything they wanted whenever they wanted to, completely squashed any illusions (or delusions) I had about my relationship to money.  To put it mildly I didn’t think much of that individual with all the wads of cash and if I felt that way how could I ever become that person?  My own feelings towards abundance were sabotaging my abilities to obtain it.  I had joined an MLM so that I could live in abundance but my own mind was telling me stop.

So how do you go about shutting down this programming thats been instilled in us almost from birth?  Have you not heard:

  • Eat everything on your plate; people are starving in Africa/India/etc.
  • Money doesn’t grow on trees.
  • It’s unfair that some people make so much money.
  • I wonder how he got all that money… legally.
  • He/She bought that just to show off not because he/she needed it.

If you’ve ever heard these statements or spoken one of them, even if only in your head, then you too are programmed to believe that those with the money are selfish bragging liars and/or thieves and some would have other negative things to say about these individuals.  In our minds we tell ourselves we’ll never be like that… that we won’t give into the evil but we’re still held back because we “know” deep-down that others will hate us.

While others may do this anyway, it has nothing to do with anything negative about money or having money.  We can’t change others but we can change ourselves.

When I was in Jamaica several years ago I had the opportunity to hear Jim Rohn, a business motivational speaker give a talk and one of the things he said I committed to memory: “Many of you believe that if you can make enough money to take care of your family that thats enough.  Thats a big enough dream.  I would tell you you’re wrong.  I would suggest to you that it would be better to make sufficient money so that 30% of what you make takes care of your family and 70% of what you make allows you to change the world around you.”

In other words, if you make more money you can give more so doesn’t it make sense to become wealthy? If you think otherwise then its almost as if you’re saying that charitable causes don’t need anything from you.

So how do we attract abundance to ourselves?  That will be the subject of my next post.

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