I grew up with lots of MONEY stories – that it was hard to create, that it was even harder to keep, that there was never enough of it…
And because of the stress that money seemed to play in my and my family’s life, I vowed to focus on making a LOT of it when I was pretty young…
Unfortunately, that often led me to work to the point of burnout to ensure my “financial security” – making well over $100k a year in my mid-20’s and still worrying about it all disappearing!
Then I was told that the solution was to redefine my RELATIONSHIP to money, to treat it or speak about it differently – BUT still, the focus was on making money something OTHER than a simpler way to exchange goods and services than carrying around chickens or goats for trade…
But one day it occurred to me, through being coached around this myself, WHAT IF it’s possible that we are wasting our creative energy trying to create a different RELATIONSHIP with money?
WHAT IF instead of treating it like a person that we needed to have more effective “communication” with, that focusing all of our energy on purposeful SERVICE and seeing how we can make a real difference in the lives of others is the missing link?
Water boiling is simply the side effect of applying focused and consistent heat to a pot of otherwise still, room temperature water
If I want it to boil, I don’t need to change my RELATIONSHIP with water, I simply need to shift my attention to how to increase the heat being applied in a focused manner…
Apply YOUR HEAT, YOUR POWER, and YOUR IMAGINATION to consistently SERVING and watch how WEALTH becomes a natural side effect!
AND NOW to TOTALLY sound like I’m contradicting myself…
I had a moment about 18 months ago where I was in TOTAL scarcity mode about money…
I had just moved to Los Angeles where the cost of living was LITERALLY double where I moved from and my “MONEY STORIES” went on FULL BLAST!
So as a way to keep myself in a place of CREATIVITY and SERVICE with a “salt bae” pinch of SURRENDER, I wrote something that I STILL read to myself once in a while…
Thoughts about money will get NO more of my time or energy UNLESS it is to be creative and easy around it…
Fear of “running out of money” will NO LONGER be a belief I hold…
My NEW TRUTH is that money is ALWAYS on its way…
…AND proportionally so to how LIGHT, LOOSE-GRIPPED, PLAY-FULL and CREATIVE I am being in the world each and every day!
I can’t HIDE from money! It is like a HEAT SEEKING MISSILE that has me in its crosshairs and is ALWAYS coming for me-I can DODGE it for a while, but it will ALWAYS find me…
It feels SOOOO GOOOD to no longer have any HEAVY STORIES about Money!
My challenge for you is a simple one. If you took your focus OFF of changing your relationship with the CONCEPT of money and instead asked yourself, “what is ONE way I can dial up the VALUE and SERVICE I bring to the world today?” – what might that look like for you? It might be astonishing a current client, it might be crafting a creative offer to help those who aren’t able to afford to work with you at your full rate, or it may even be giving the gift of a complimentary coaching session to a FORMER client, just to deepen your bond and intimacy with them.