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Author Insight
My Money Monsters Attacked
My own money gremlins caught up with me yesterday. It took me a full page of journal writing to figure out what was going on and several hours more to come to what to do about it. I started to order a $90 item from a catalogue and spent some time looking at ways to bring my order to $100 so I would meet the minimum for free shipping. When I learned that the free shipping offer had been cancelled, I couldn’t bring myself to pay the extra $15 shipping fee and cancelled my order. This is especially strange because I really want the item which was something of a splurge for me. I can easily afford it and will never notice spending the extra $15. What I learned is that I had activated an old belief which was once an important protection for my family. The belief is basically that “you can only be extravagant if you get something at a bargain price.” It made sense when my family had very little extra money and I frequently heard “money doesn’t grow on trees” from my parents. My parents died over 30 years ago! I used the 3 sentences we teach in the book to release the old, outdated belief which was interfering with my experience of prosperity. After all the personal work I have done, it startles me when something like this turns up, but it does! It happens to everyone! Get the book and free yourself now!
Book Excerpt
Embrace Prosperity
Laurie lives and works in the US. Willem lives in Switzerland and works internationally. When we asked an international group of folks what they heard about money when they were children, these are some of the things they posted on the virtual wall of the Internet.
- Money doesn’t make happiness
- Learn to live within what money you earn or receive
- Don’t throw away your old shoes before you get new ones
- Easy come, easy go
- Money doesn’t grow on my back
- Money is not everything
- Money is all you need
- I’m not your ATM, I’m your parent
- Spend half, save half
- You will become a pauper
- It’s too expensive
- You can only become rich by being a criminal
- You have to work hard for your money
These messages are rarely shared with evil intent. Children don’t experience limits and often share freely. Many people who grew up in poverty had no idea that they were poor when they were small. Others who grew up in wealthy families learned to fear not having enough.
Scarcity Is A Belief System
Most parents do their best to prepare their children for the world as they know it. Some parents do this from their own belief that there isn’t enough, hoping to protect their children from what they believe to be the harsh realities of the world.
Almost everyone who is attracted to information about abundance has a childhood history of hearing statements like those we have listed. But not everyone believes that money is scarce.
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