The Emotion of Money

The Emotion of Money

photo credit Doug Wheller

I want to share this fantastic example of how much we are motivated by our emotions when it comes to money, and valuing things.

Ask yourself:

Is the value of the Empire State Building high because the value of rent is high, or vice versa, is the value of rent high because the building is highly valued?

What do you think?

Does it change if I asked you to substitute WHAT you are valuing?

Is the value of a cow high because the value of calves and milk is high, or vice versa, is the value of milk and calves high because cows are highly valued?

In altering WHAT you are valuing, did your willingness to pay change?

This analogy’s purpose is to highlight that your willingness to pay is fluid, and not set. How you value things and what you are willing to pay depends on how you feel about (yourself and) the thing you are valuing.

Fascinating, isn’t it?

photo credit: Doug Wheller

Playing With Plenty

Playing With Plenty

Plenty

It’s taken me a while to see it. And how it limits me.

I’ve always wanted exactly what I need. Nothing more.

I didn’t necessarily get enough as a child, despite their being lots around, and getting exactly what I needed seemed like a decent (and perhaps lofty) enough goal.

Exactly what I needed. Nothing more.

Love. Money. It didn’t matter. Never too much. Only what I needed. Never more than I needed.

Or thought I needed.

I wanted what was sufficient, not ample. Nothing extra. Just enough.

Plenty of Love, Plenty of Money

But here’s the thing. What I actually need is to have more than what I need. What I need is to have plenty. To be ample.

Ample in money, ample in love. I need to swim in it. I need to flow with it.

To accept anything less than plenty is to deny my true wealth. To want exactly enough is me restricting it.

To be truly wise with money and with love, I must learn to receive them with grace.

Supporting the Flow

I’ve been playing with plenty and how I can support this flow of expression and energy in reaching me — and how I can be more conscious of when I am restricting it.

This led me to my relationship with Rise of the Innerpreneur, and how I receive from it. And by playing with plenty I saw that there was more space for it within the value I create here.

In light of this, you now have more options for expressing the value you receive from Rise of the Innerpreneur.

As always, you have the option to share your love with your words by writing me. And now you have the option to share your love with a value payment.

I’ve created an option on ROTI for you to make a single Pay What It’s Worth payment if you feel moved to express to the value you receive, and for loyal readers, I’ve also created a Pay What It’s Worth monthly subscription option.

I look forward to playing with plenty with you.

photo credit: francescobellu

inspiration credits: Brain Pickings by Maria Popova (got me thinking about reader giving), Wild Money by Luna Jaffe (got me thinking about needing more than enough)

Spending Your Energy

Spending Your Energy

photo credit hikingartist

Look around you.

Where, and with whom, are you spending your Energy?

Do you feel like your spending it wisely?

If not, it could literally be the reason why you are having issues with money. For money, too, is an Energy.

Reflecting on your “money situation” does it mirror back important information about how you spend your Energy?

What do your money spending habits reveal about your energy spending habits?

A Fair Exchange.

Is there anywhere that you are “spending” too much “Energy”? If so, this is a to pay attention to.

For your Energy is worth so much more than that.

photo credit: hikingartist

The Credit We Give Ourself

The Credit We Give Ourself

Credit photo credit: 401(K) 2013

Money can be very revealing. It can help us identify the places where we are allowing lack in our lives.

Our money, the credit we have, is a reflection of the value we place on our gifts, and as a result, the value the external world places on them.

When we find ourselves with an external debt it may be because we are not giving ourselves enough credit internally. We have not yet fully realized the value we create. The value we are. And thus we are in lack.

When we give ourself allowance to access all the credit we have inside, the external world will no longer show us a deficit.

We can employ money as a guiding tool to shape the best life (and work) we can have.

photo credit: 401(K) 2012

Improving Your Game

Improving Your Game

Money Game

Like any game, if you don’t actively participate in it, you will not be a player.

If you can see money as a game, you can understand the importance of playing with money; of learning to flow with debit and credit.

Like in any game, it’s important to your success as a player to maintain a positive attitude, regardless of where you are in your flow. Whether in debit or credit, your job as a player is to ensure you are always doing your best while in the game.

This means choosing to be skillfully aware of how you can improve your game. Specifically in the game of money, it means being honest about where you limit the flow of giving, and receiving, in your life.

If you want to maximize your flow and make your game all the more effective, watch your limiting thoughts and ideas around money. It’s those thoughts and ideas that are hurting you as a player, and altering money’s rate of circulation to you.

photo credit: dirac3000