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Author Insight
Discover Your True Money Priorities
Do you collect Gazingus pins? Uh? What the heck is a Gazingus pin? I didn’t know either until I listened to a recording by Joe Dominguez that asked that question. It turned out that I definitely did collect them. Joe, whose work was later published in a wonderful, now classic, book about money, defined a Gazingus pin as something you bought automatically and stuffed into a drawer and left there. Mine turned out to be proof sets of US coins. These are specially made extra sharp regular coins, sealed in plastic, produced every year by the mint. They are for looking at, not spending. They are supposed to increase in value, but they are so common that the increase is very, very small. Once I started collecting them, I bought them faithfully each time a new set was released. Joe’s whole point was that becoming conscious about how you use your resources makes a major difference in your long-term prosperity. What are your Gazingus pins? The world has changed in the years since I heard those recordings. I think today’s Gazingus pins are likely to be found on our monthly charge bills. How many subscriptions do you pay for every month without even thinking about whether you still use them? When you shift to being conscious about how you use your money, you have more of it to spend on things you truly enjoy. It’s another way for you to “Embrace Prosperity.” Get your copy now.
Book Excerpt
Embrace Prosperity
If you can, you get so busy trying to earn enough money to buy the things you are brainwashed to believe you need that you feel anxious and stressed. You rarely stop to notice that the happiness you do find lasts for only a short time—because you can’t ever experience enough of something when it isn’t what you really need.
Trying to live this way, whether or not you are successful at getting enough money to acquire “stuff,” creates a sense of scarcity. But if, like Helena, you’ve spent years in this pattern, changing can feel very threatening.
You Try to Fill the Void
If you have not sorted out your priorities and don’t know what your life mission is, it is easy to get sidetracked and allow this outside energy to define you and what you believe you should have.
You try to solve the problem in ways that don’t work and often make the problem worse. You keep trying to get enough of something to make you happy, but it does not help, because is not what you really need. (Knowing your life mission guides you to choose what you need to fulfil it.)
Collections
One common way to try to fill the void is to collect tangible things. Some people collect tools they never use. Others collect books they intend to read, but don’t. Some collect kitchen gadgets, and some collect shoes.
Laurie: Among the many things that I have collected over the years are coin proof sets.
Every year when the new coins became available, I would automatically order three new sets—one for me and one for each of my children. I would then put them into a drawer and forget about them until it was time to order the next sets.
Listening to a recording that challenged the purpose of collections finally brought me to my senses.
What are you collecting and buying automatically that you don’t use or enjoy? It may be useful to notice what outside energy influenced you to start your collection and whether using the Logosynthesis sentences would help you let them go.
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