In my last post I talked about the feelings of envy, jealousy and resentment at people who have more money or wealth and the dilemma this raises if you are aspiring to be like them.  The two feelings almost cancel each other out.

On the one had you want more money and a successful business and on the other, you resent the heck out of people who are better off than you.  Feel the disconnect?  Understand how impossible it is to achieve greater success when you feel envious or jealous of those more fortunate?

A friend wrote me after my blog post and told me that he often struggles with these similar feelings as well as confusion around his mindset which tells him you can’t be a good person and be rich.  In other words, you can’t be spiritual and wealthy…you need to be one or the other. I know where this belief came from and I want to help you realize this old belief system is false.

There was a time when I was exploring my spirituality and was reading anything and everything that I could get my hands on.  I grew to love reading and listening to Marianne Williamson and her talks on the principles of A Course In Miracles.

Marianne states:  “Like everything else, money is either holy or unholy, depending on the purposes ascribed to it by the mind. We tend to do with money what we do with sex: we desire it but we judge the desire. It is the judgment that then distorts the desire, turning it into an ugly expression. Because we are ashamed to admit that we want these things, we have insidious ways of pretending that we don’t – such as condemning our desires even as we act them out. “

The reality is, our judgment of money is just our ego’s way of making sure we don’t have any.

What we repel against, we can never have.  But on the other side, what we bless, we draw to ourselves.

It’s our small ego’s that make us believe  we have to sacrifice if we are to be spiritual or a good person.  This just isn’t so.  The world is there to support us and lead us to whatever abundance awaits.

I know that many people intellectually understand the statement, but there is a lot of work to be done to overcome the feelings and old beliefs that we carry around with us, weighing us down and preventing us from having all that we desire.

My coaches request to you today is to try on this new mindset:  Be open to receiving money and trust that it always will find its way to you.

This small but simple mindset shift will have a profound effect on your ability to start attracting money into your life.  Post your comments as I would love to hear how this mindset shift helps you.

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