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If It Is To Be, It’s Up To me
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Have you heard the old story about the frog? Put a frog in hot water, and it will jump out. Put a frog in cold water and turn on the heat. The frog doesn’t notice the change until it’s too late. The frog will stay in the water and get cooked.
Sometimes changes are so slow that you don’t notice them. And sometimes changes come as suddenly as an earthquake or the sudden devastation of a tsunami.
A Parable
Once, there was a skillful electrician. He worked for a company that maintained oil burners. He was an excellent employee. The owner relied on him to handle the most difficult jobs and many regular customers insisted that he was the only technician they would allow to service their furnaces.
After several years, the owner of the company decided that it was time to retire. He offered to sell the business to his most valued employee.
It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the electrician. He could buy an established company with an established client list, providing a service he understood thoroughly.
He went home and talked with his wife about it. They decided that they couldn’t afford to take the risk. They had a family to feed. They had a mortgage to pay. They had all of the benefits that come with being an employee. And so, he turned down the offer to buy the company to stay with the safety of his job.
And before too long, he discovered that the safety of the job was an illusion. The new owner fired him. For a while, the electrician went from job to job, until he finally found a job that would pay him a guaranteed pension if he worked to the age of seventy.
And so he did. He got his pension and monthly Social Security check. He died as he lived, an unhappy man who never took the chance to create his own financial independence, because he wanted to be safe.
This parable is actually the true story of my father-in-law. I was not part of the family when he made this decision. I did see evidence of an unhappy man who felt that he had no choices in his life. I often wondered how his life would have been different if he had decided to risk creating his own financial security rather than to depend on others to provide if for him.
My father-in-law lived and died in an era when an employee could trade choice for the security of a guaranteed pension. Leaving aside the reality that he was an unhappy man, his choice did bring him a certain level of financial security.
The fact is, we are living in different era. Employees can no longer rely on guaranteed pensions and the entire Social Security system has become the object of speculations, rumors, and proposed restructuring. By the time the politicians are through taking an axe to the system, who knows what will be left. To depend on Social Security for your financial needs in retirement is about safe as building a house on a mud flat in earthquake country. And to depend upon a guaranteed pension is to risk going to sea in a leaky boat.
Anyone who is depending on a pension to fund retirement needs to pay attention to the financial tsunami that occurred last week. On May 11th, a federal judge made a fateful decision about the pensions of United Airlines employees.
“Tuesday a U.S. federal Bankruptcy judge approved a plan by UAL, the parent company of United Airlines, to transfer its pension plans, which are underfunded by $9.8 billion, to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., which is itself underfunded…”
“The decline of pensions is likely well past the tipping point already. No so long ago, the defined benefit pension — guaranteed retirement income — was a prevalent aspect of the U.S. financial scene. But no more. In 1980, 38 percent of Americans had a defined benefit pension as their primary retirement plan. By 1997, just 21 percent of Americans had such plans, according to the Pension Benefits Council. That percentage is certainly lower now, and more and more plans have been passed off to the PBGC, a federal agency that insures pensions, but which does not necessarily pay the benefits retirees expected.”
Dan Ackman
Forbes
For businesses, the decision to transfer pensions to a federal agency makes economic sense. By shaking off the burden of funding retired workers, companies can be more competitive. For employees, the decision is a clear sign that companies are setting them adrift to fend for themselves.
The news media has published stories of 30-year employees who feel betrayed. Sixty year old employees now face the prospect of getting only a small fraction of their promised benefits. At the time they were planning to retire, they are faced with drastically reduced retirement funds.
The real warning of the UAL decision is that the water in the pension kettle is almost boiling and the employee frog is almost cooked. No employee can depend on financial security from any outside source, including a promised pension.
“Yesterday’s ruling is a real landmark, not only for these industries but for American culture,” said William Rochelle, a New York corporate bankruptcy attorney. “What we have in politics and business today is an assault on the well-being of retires.”
Adam Geller
Associated Press
The safest way to secure your own financial future is to take on the mindset of an entrepreneur, and create your own economic security. The way to real security is willingness to risk. As recent events demonstrate, the “risky” way of the entrepreneur is far safer than the illusive “safety” of the employee.
The ultimate sad irony in my father-in-law’s decision was that playing it safe came at a high cost. Maybe he would have failed in the business. It is more likely that he would have succeeded and created greater financial security than he got with his social security check and his monthly pension. And I am convinced he would have been a happier man.
At least my father-in-law had the choice between the constrained safety of a guaranteed pension and the calculated risk of an entrepreneur who would rather risk than play it safe. Most of us no longer have that choice.
And this brings me to the entrepreneur’s primary motto, “If it is to be, it’s up to me.” If you are playing it safe, check the temperature of the water around you before you get cooked. If you are depending on someone else to provide for your financial security, now is the time to jump.
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Are You Setting Limits On Your Prosperity?
Years ago, I had a teaching colleague who was slightly taller than six feet six inches. (The fact that he was slightly taller than six feet six was especially important to him because that tiny fraction of an inch meant he was too tall to be drafted.)
While we were working together, he bought a new car with a built-in problem. He was too tall to sit upright behind the wheel. I still can picture him driving along with his head tilted to one side. What was especially interesting to me is that he could sit in my Volvo without having his head bump the roof.
He looked so uncomfortable driving that that I wondered why he bought that particular car. My friend brought up the topic himself. He said he tried other cars that fit him better but he got a good deal on his car. He said he was willing to put up with the discomfort to save money.
A Scarcity Choice
This is a prime example of someone operating from a scarcity model of money. He settled for a car that actually forced him to contort his body to drive, because he told himself he couldn’t afford to have a car that was big enough for his tall body. He made money his master rather than his tool.
The Obvious Question
The obvious question after such a story is, “When have you forced yourself to undergo some sort of contortion in your life because of money?” I’m sure you can come up with some examples. I certainly can. Rather than dwell on that question, I want to make the less obvious distinction between acceptance and toleration.
Acceptance Means Telling the Truth
The second step of the creative process is the acceptance of current reality. In other words, you tell the truth about your current situation. This allows you to know where you are. The more accurate you are, the better, because you can decide what you need to do to create your desired result.
Toleration Means Putting Up With What You Don’t Want
Toleration is a different matter. Toleration means putting up with something undesired without making any effort to change it. You know you are tolerating something when you talk about “putting up” with something. Tolerating is “making do with what you have.” Tolerating is buying a car that forces you to drive with your head cocked to one side, because you tell yourself you don’t have enough money to buy a car that fits you.
The Power of Acceptance
Acceptance of current reality is powerful. Toleration of current reality with no intention to change what you don’t like in your life is debilitating. Creating an Abundantly Alive Now life means that you accept “What Is.” And if “What Is” constricts you and forces you to contort yourself into a structure that does not serve you, you don’t tolerate this situation. You accept it and decide to create a more liberating structure.
This article was originally published October 19, 2004.
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Why Not Bless Your Creditors?
Blessing Increases Abundance
In my ebook, Debt or Alive: How To Get Out of Debt And Feel Abundantly Alive, I suggest that people bless their creditors.
I must admit I felt a bit uncertain about putting that idea into print, because it seems such an idealistic and naïve suggestion.
In this article, I intend to go beyond what I wrote in the book, and suggest several reasons why blessing your creditors is a powerful practice for creating your “Abundantly Alive Now!” life.
1. What Is Blessing?
The root idea behind blessing is that you desire unconditional, total, and unrestricted good for another person. When you bless, you are recognizing the deepest value of that person. You are expressing in words and actions that you truly desire that the other person prosper, be healthy, be happy, and feel vitally alive.
“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.”Eric Hoffer
2. Why Bless Your Creditors?
Blessing your creditors might strike you as a ridiculous notion. Why would you want your creditors to prosper?
Here are two thoughts for you to consider. The first is that quantum physics and spirituality claim that you get back what you put into the world. If you pay what you owe to others, others will pay what they owe to you. If you think thoughts of prosperity for others, you will be much more likely to experience prosperity.
If these claims represent reality, sheer self-interest is reason enough to bless those you owe.
3. What Your Creditors Have Done For You
Beyond self interest, blessing your creditors is an act of gratitude for what other people have done for you.
If you owe money to someone, it is because you bought something using borrowed money. It could have been something you really desired to have. It could have been something you bought because of a sudden emergency.
Whatever the reason, you were able to buy something without putting your own money on the line at the time of the purchase.
Whatever you charged, you got something for your money. And even more significantly, behind every loan and every bill you owe charge, there is a person or group of people who did something for your benefit.
You can make a case that the banks are taking advantage of you. Fees and interest rates can be excessively high. Our economic system has allowed people to borrow who are not strong credit risks. People get in trouble because they are overextended.
However, it is also true that no credit card company has ever forced me to buy anything. If I owe money, it is because I made a decision to buy something.
4. The Benefits of OPM
Consider also the concept of OPM, which stands for Other People’s Money. Most of us would not be able to buy houses or cars without an economic system in place which lets us borrow Other People’s Money.
Entrepreneurs are able to use OPM to establish all kinds of businesses, which they would not be able to start unless other people have loaned them money.
Consider also that your ability to get a loan or buy on credit says something about you. The creditor thinks you are trustworthy. You can use credit foolishly or you can take credit and turn that borrowed money into the foundation of your own financial independence. This is especially true in real estate investing where you can buy property with no money of your own.
My point is that your ability to get credit is itself a source of blessing
5. Pay With Gratitude
Once you acknowledge the connection between your debts and what other people have done for you, gratitude is an appropriate response. One way to express gratitude is by blessing those you owe. Whether you pay by check or some other means, you can send positive thoughts that your creditors will prosper. Be grateful for what they did for you. Send them the money you owe gladly and willingly. You are paying them for doing something for you.
6. The Benefits of Blessing Your Creditors
Believe it or not, blessing those you owe will have two results. One is immediate. You will feel better. Try it once. You cannot be angry and afraid at the same time you are sending thoughts of blessing.
The second result might not be immediately apparent, but this simple act of blessing those you owe will sooner or later bring powerful changes in your life. When you use your money to bless others, others will use their money to bless you.
This article was originally published October 5, 2004.
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Awareness Is The Secret Weapon Of Abundance
The Power of Awareness
1. What Is Your Current Financial Reality?
According to Robert Fritz, the essential second step in the creative process to analyze where you are right now. Fritz says that setting your goal is the easy part of creating. The hardest part is to accurately assess current reality. He claims that this is the primary reason that people fail to create what they desire.
For example, if you set out to travel to Hawaii, it is critical to know where you are when you start. The route to Hawaii is dramatically different if you are in Tokyo rather than Topeka.
In addition to your desire to create financial abundance, you also need to have an accurate assessment of your current income, expenses, liabilities, and assets.
“The best advice about money is only three words: Get it handled!”
T. Harv Eker, Speedwealth
2. Doing What Most People Do
Successful people often claim that the secret to success is to observe what most people do and do the opposite. If we apply this criterion to awareness of our financial lives, the question is, What do most people do?
Women especially have been taught to be unaware. How many old movies include a man telling a woman, “Don’t worry your pretty little head about money?”
I was in a shop in Carmel, California once, waiting to pay for a ceramic tile of a dolphin to hang on the sofit in my kitchen.
Another customer was ahead of me. She handed over a credit card. That card was declined. She handed over a second credit card. That card was also declined. She handed over a third card. That one was approved, to the relief of everyone watching. The woman signed her name on the slip. The clerk handed her the paper, and she tossed it down on the counter, saying, “I don’t need it.”
I remember the astonished look on the clerk’s face. This is a woman who doesn’t know where she stands, and probably has a husband or sugar daddy paying the bills for her.
I also remember a good friend whose husband left her for another woman. When my friend got around to checking her bank accounts, she found out that her husband had taken all the money. She was also a woman who didn’t know where she stood, until it was too late to protect her own assets.
It is also a sad reality of life that legions of widows are left with shoe boxes full of receipts and no knowledge of what to do with money.
3. Electronic Banking and Financial Awareness.
Although I can’t prove it, I see a direct correlation between increased personal debt and growing reliance on electronic banking. The more banks make it easy for us to conduct our financial lives electronically, the less aware we become of our current economic reality while we plunge deeper and deeper into debt
4. Two Benefits of Financial Awareness.
There are two positive benefits to being aware of your own current financial reality.
The first is that knowing where you stand saves you from unwanted emotional and financial consequences. Perhaps you know what it feels like to hand over a credit card with your fingers crossed, because you don’t know how close you are to your credit limit.
Financial awareness simply costs less than unawareness. You pay fees and penalties to bounce checks and send in late payments. You end up with higher interest rates and lower credit scores, which can affect your ability to get additional credit.
A second benefit of financial awareness might not be as obvious. Knowing where you stand can be very encouraging.
Businesses create profit and loss statements to give a complete financial picture. If all you do is look your expenses and liabilities, you can be easily discouraged. You get a more complete picture by including your assets as well as your liabilities. You might find that you are closer than you think to creating financial abundance.
This article was originally published October 12, 2004.
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What Is The Difference Between a Real Estate Investor And A Gambler?
Gamble: To play games of chance for money or some other stake. An act which depends on games of chance.”
Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary
Getting money by beating the odds is on my mind this week because I have just returned from Las Vegas. I want to tell you up front that I don’t gamble in Las Vegas. I was there to attend a real estate investment seminar.
I also want to tell you that I make no judgments about the ethical or moral aspects of gambling. I also make no judgments about gambling as a pastime. Obviously thousands of people find gambling fun. What interests me is the connection between gambling and money.
Walk through a Las Vegas casino and you will see people mechanically feeding slot machines, hoping for a payoff, motivated by a combination of greed and hope.
“Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.” Wilson Mizner
Las Vegas dangles before people the promise of winning lots of money. Money is both the price of playing and the tangible reward for winning. But the real game is much deeper.
Unless people are hopelessly na
How Do You Tune Into Abundance?
What Station Are You Tuned Into?
1. Everything Has Its Own Frequency
Tuning into abundance compares to tuning into a radio station. At this very moment, no matter where you are, your space is filled with radio signals. You can’t hear them until you turn on a radio and tune into the right frequency.
Everything in the universe vibrates in its own frequency. Astronomers use radio telescopes to identify stars by their unique frequency patterns. In my long past days as a chemistry major, I remember taking laboratory exams in which I had to identify an unknown compound by identifying its frequency. Music consists of patterns of distinctive frequencies, produced by voices and instruments.
2. The Frequency of Words
Words also have frequencies. If you use recording instruments, you can see the vibratory patterns of your words on a screen in front of you.
Spiritual and metaphysical teachers also claim that the words we use take on energetic vibrations. Certain words, such as “abundance,” “love,” and “compassion” vibrate at high frequencies. Other words, such as “lack,” “hate,” and “fear” vibrate at lower frequencies.
Almost every success teacher has made the same claim.
Thoughts have energetic vibrations. The thoughts we think turn into the material reality of our lives.
Thoughts of low energy attract low energy results. If you fill your mind with constant low energy thoughts of lack, you will experience lack in your life.
High energy thoughts attract high energy results. The way to tune into abundance is to think high energy thoughts.
In his classic book, As A Man Thinketh, James Allen claims that good thoughts bear good fruit and bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
3. Radio KABD
Imagine “Abundance” as a radio station, with its own characteristic frequency. Call it Radio KABD. Also imagine that “Lack” has its own frequency. Call it Radio KLACK.
If you follow the analogy of tuning into a radio station, you can choose to tune into Radio KABD or Radio KLACK. You can’t tune into both at the same time.
4. Tune In With Gratitude
So how do you tune into Radio KABD? One technique, taught by spiritual teachers everywhere is to express gratitude for the abundance you already have.
The next time you are filled with thoughts of lack, turn your awareness onto what you have. Look around you. Be aware of what you already have, both materially and immaterially, as a living being in an abundant universe.
I remember an old song with the lyric, “When I’m worried, and I can’t sleep, I count my blessings, instead of sheep, and I fall asleep, counting my blessings.” The sentiment might seem sappy in our cynical age, but the song identifies the shift in frequency from Radio KLACK to Radio KABD.
The process also compares to what happens when you drive a distance away from home, and your radio is set to the frequency of your favorite station. As you travel beyond the range of the broadcast signal, you begin to lose the original signal and pick up the signal of another station. For a while, both signals interfere with each other, but sooner or later, the new signal becomes clear and the old one fades away.
5. You Don’t Have To Create Abundance
Another key element of the radio analogy is that you don’t have to create the radio signal. You only need to tune into it.
I love the quotation by Eden Phillpotts. “The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
Can it be that simple? You don’t have to create abundance. You can simply tune into it by changing your thoughts and being aware of the abundance already in your life.
This article was originally published September 28, 2004.
http://www.abundantlyalivenow.com/archive/AANN-2004-09-28.htm
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Tuning Into Abundance
When are you going to feel abundantly alive? Will it be when you are debt free? Or when you reach a certain annual income? $50,000? $100,000? $250,000? $100,000,000? When your investment account reaches $5,000,000?
The most critical word in “abundantly alive now!” is “now.” Right now. Not next week, not next year, not when your debts are paid. Not when you reach some predetermined income level. Not when your portfolio reaches some set number. The time to feel abundantly alive is right now.
Are you asking, “How can I feel abundantly alive while I’m up to my eyebrows in debt?” “How can I feel abundantly alive while I am still living from paycheck to paycheck?” “How can I feel abundantly alive before my IRA reaches a million bucks?”
If Not Now, When?
1. It’s Not Your Money, It’s Your Mind
If you cannot feel abundantly alive right now, no amount of money will ever be enough. This is why gazillionaires can live miserable lives. Being poor is not the answer either.
The fact is, abundance is not equivalent to the balance in your bank account. Abundance is first of all a state of mind.
If you tell yourself, “I will feel abundantly alive when my debts are paid off, I earn $200,000 a year, and have a million dollars in my IRA,” I ask, “Will you? If you can’t feel abundantly alive right now, what makes you think you will feel that way at some time in the future?”
The truth is that feeling abundantly alive now not about your money but about your mind.
2. The Moment is Now
The reality is that the only time any of us has is now. This is the moment of decision.
If you are going to live in abundance, if you are going to feel radiantly alive, the time is right now. I know that this statement flies in the face of just about everything all of us have ever been taught about money.
3. Work Now, Play Later
We all know the story about the grasshopper and the ant. The ant works all summer, putting away food for the winter to come. The grasshopper plays all summer and has nothing put aside for winter.
The story is told as a parable about planning and saving and putting away for a rainy day.
The negative reality of the parable is that it describes the way we are taught to live our lives, focusing on the future rather than the present.
The ant works all summer, having no fun, and the grasshopper plays all summer, with no thought of the future. If those are the only two options, why not choose the way of the grasshopper? At least, the grasshopper has more fun along the way.
When my husband was a child, his mother told him again and again, “You can’t play until you get your work done.” The temporary restriction of childhood easily becomes the lifestyle of adulthood. Childhood chores tend to be limited. For adults, the work never ends and so playtime never comes. “Work now, play later,” becomes a way of life.
4. Living in the Moment
Planning for the future is a wise thing. Putting life on hold until later is not.
Money worries can keep people so focused on the future that they don’t live their lives in the present moment.
In this era when debt levels are at record highs and saving levels are at record lows, many of us have become a strange ant-grasshopper hybrid. We work constantly, without saving, and spend recklessly without having fun.
Are these our only choices? Ants, who work and save without enjoying the moment? Grasshoppers, who play without saving? Or ant-grasshoppers, who work without saving and spend without having fun?
5. This Is The Moment To Choose
The better way is to feel abundantly alive now. This is the state of mind that allows us to live in the present without being foolish about the future. To be alive is to be fully present and fully conscious right now.
Now is the only moment you have. Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not come. It is always that way. Tomorrow never comes. And yesterday is always past. All you have is right now. This is the moment you can choose to feel abundantly alive now.
This article originally published in Abundantly Alive Now! Newsletter on September 21, 2004.
http://www.abundantlyalivenow.com/archive/AANN-2004-09-21.htm
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Are You Making A Living or Making A Life?
Have you looked carefully at the connection between what you do to earn a living and the quality of your life?
Do you work for your living? Does your work feel like something you have to do to pay your bills? Does your job leave your drained and exhausted?
Or do you work to make your life? Does the way you earn money enrich your life, filling you with a sense of purpose and fulfillment?
Isn’t it ironic that what many of us call making a living leaves us stressed, unhappy, and unfulfilled? Making a living gets in the way of making a life.
Is Making A Living Costing You Your Life?
1. How Much Does It Cost You To Work?
No one has done a better job of asking this question than the authors of the profound book, Your Money Or Your Life. Although people go to work to earn money, it costs money to go to work. And sometimes the amount you earn in your job is simply not worth the amount you earn by working.
Do the math. Add up what you spend to go to work. Count the cost of commuting. How much do you pay for your car, gas, insurance, registration, and parking fees? How much do you spend on buses, trains, taxis, ferry fares, and bridge tolls.
How much do you spend on work clothes, tools, equipment, and specialized training for your job?
How much do you pay for lunches, coffee, and dinners out because you’re too tired to cook? How much do you pay for childcare?
Add up all that you pay to go to work and ask yourself, “How much does it cost me to go to work?” You might be astonished at how much you are paying for the privilege of making a living.
If you say you have to go to work because you have to pay the bills, first figure out how many of your bills are the direct result of going to work. It’s a vicious circle. You work to pay the bills you incur to go to work.
2. How Do You Feel?
The next question is to ask how you feel? Does working for a living cost you more in life energy than it returns in satisfaction and fulfillment?
How do you face each day? Do you dread going off to your job? Do you drag yourself home each day, worn out and exhausted from working for a living?
Do you tell yourself you have to go to work because you have to make money to pay your bills? Do you drive off to work with a bumper sticker announcing to the world, “I owe, I owe, it’s off to work I go?”
Are you marking time until retirement? Is TGIF your theme song? Do you live for the weekends when you don’t have to go to work?
I remember once waiting in line to pay for some items. The clerk at the register went through the motions of her job with the energy of a slug. I asked her if she was feeling well. She said, “It’s Monday,” as if that was enough. I asked, “Do you feel this way every Monday?” She said she did because she hated Mondays. Monday was the day she had to go to work. I left the store thinking about the high cost of her attitude. Her Monday misery was costing her one-seventh of her life.
3. Changing your Attitude About Your Work
So, what do you do if you have a job that drains your energy? One option is to do what my unhappy clerk did. Wallow in your misery and tell yourself you have no choice.
A second option is to change your attitude. No matter what the job is, and no matter how bad it is, your attitude is completely up to you.
In her book, How To Control Your Destiny Through Your Attitude, Joan Gustafson identifies the life-changing results in her own life of changing her attitude. One method she used was to monitor herself for the “3 Cs” of Complaining, Criticizing, and Condemning.”
Indulging in these 3 Cs will deplete your own life energy.
4. Making A Life
The third option is to put your energies into work that makes a life, rather than simply making a living.
If you know that working to make a living is costing you your life energy, it’s time to claim your birthright to feel abundantly alive. The solution is to connect your work with your life purpose. In future issues, we’ll return to the connection between living according to your purpose, creating wealth, and feeling abundantly alive.
This article was originally published in “Abundantly Alive Now! Newsletter” on September 14, 2004.
http://www.abundantlyalivenow.com/archive/AANN-2004-09-14.htm
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