Create a life of prosperity

When we get upset about money, we think that the problem is the lack of income, but this is seldom the case. Most of the people in this world would love to have our level of income. The problem is how we handle the money that we have. Most of us overspend.

We use every resource available to raise our standard of living. The result is a lifestyle where expenses can equal or exceed our income. When this happens, you can expect to be upset. No matter what your income is, it will soon be gone. You will never have enough. This creates a consciousness of lack which then produces more lack.

Now notice what your prosperity consciousness would be like if you took 10% of everything you earned since you were eighteen years old and invested it wisely. What would your prosperity consciousness be like? You would be wealthy and your prosperity consciousness would be one of abundance.

So why do we overspend? We overspend in an attempt to get more of what we want. But no matter what we have, it will never be enough. We always want more. We are driven by our wants and our wants are insatiable. You can never get enough of what you want because the void you are trying to fill isn’t outside of you, it’s inside, and it can only be filled from within.

We overspend in a subconscious attempt to make life be a certain way. We do this so we won’t have to feel the hurt of a core issue. For example, if someone is running from failure, that person will tend to overspend in order to feel like a success. Unfortunately, overspending creates more failure.

To heal this inner void and to remove the need to overspend, find the hurt that drives your insatiable wants. What would it say about you if you lost everything: your job, your home and all your possessions? Dive into this hurt and feel it willingly like a child. Own this part of you.

Get to the place where you are totally willing to have nothing. When you are truly willing to have nothing, something very special happens. You become very thankful for everything you have, and you have a lot.

When you deeply appreciate what you have, you experience a profound state of abundance. This in turn produces more abundance. When you focus on what you have, what you have grows. When you focus on what you don’t have, what you don’t have grows.

True prosperity is spending less than you earn and appreciating what you have.

This article was taken from lesson 28 of the Mastery of Life E-course.