Abundance, Money, & Thriving Business
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Start With a Money Step Small Enough to Repeat
When we do not know what to do about money, the mind often demands a complete answer. The body hears a project with no edge, no finish, and a high chance of shame. A useful yes step is doable, sustainable, and difference-making at its actual size. It does not need to solve the entire future;…
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Money Secrecy Can Carry Shame Into the Nervous System
Money is treated as intensely private in many families and cultures. We may be expected to understand earning, spending, debt, value, and negotiation while never asking honest questions about any of them. The silence does more than limit practical knowledge. It can make confusion feel like personal deficiency and turn the need to learn into…
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Gratitude Works Better as a Practice Than a Demand
Gratitude can expand attention toward what is nourishing and alive. It becomes constricting when we use it to silence anger, grief, need, or the honest gap between what we have and what we want. A gratitude practice is more grounded than an attitude we are supposed to perform. It notices specific experiences and lets their…
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Enough Fun for the Budget You Actually Have
When money is tight, pleasure can feel irresponsible or unavailable. We postpone summer, holidays, rest, creativity, and celebration until the finances become different. A smaller budget changes the menu, but it does not have to cancel aliveness. The practice is to find experiences that feel genuinely nourishing—not consolation prizes we are required to pretend are…
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Dare to Be Different Without Using Money for Status
We can reject a money-based status game and still organize ourselves around another hierarchy: education, spirituality, productivity, taste, sacrifice, or how little we supposedly need. Daring to be different is not replacing one ranking system with a more flattering one. It is choosing relationships and work from values while remembering that every person remains more…
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When an Affirmation Meets a Yes-But
A positive statement can point toward possibility and immediately evoke a yes-but: Yes, abundance is available, but not to me. Yes, I am worthy, but I cannot imagine the route. The objection is not evidence that we failed at affirmation. The yes-but is valuable information about the part that does not yet believe the new…
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Are You Delaying, Avoiding, or Putting Off What You WANT To Be Doing?
Rick here… and ever since Carol Look told me she was working on a program to Eliminate Procrastination using EFT Tapping, I’ve been taking a deeper look at how I work… and what is going on inside me when I am *not* doing what I truly WANT to be doing. What are your dreams and…