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by Eric Garner
It's tempting when you're struggling with money issues to think
that this really is
a cruel unfriendly world. There you are, working
your socks off, and it's all money out, out, out, leaving you
constantly on the bread line while others around you seem to have
anything and everything they want.
But just as the sun seems to move around the earth rather than the
earth around the sun, that's just an illusion. I'm going to show you
that, despite your tight financial circumstances, you are infinitely
richer than you think. And that, when you discover just how abundant
your life is, your financial situation will dramatically change as
well.
We tend to think that abundance, or wealth, or riches, or the
flow of all good things, is confined to having money. Well, it
isn't. Here are six other kinds of abundance that are almost
certainly available to you right now, without any investment or
effort on your part. Once you focus on these areas of abundance, you
will find that your AA, or "Abundance Attitude" will
automatically trigger a corresponding reaction in the state of your
finances and make you abundant financially as well.
1. Creative Abundance. Even if you don't have a nickel,
penny or yen to your name, you can still have a torrent of great
ideas. For the truth of the matter is that, while God did not create
money, (it's purely a human concept), He did create a thought-based
Universe. There are no limits to your thoughts. You can have as many
as you want. You can make them as grand as you want. Your thoughts
literally travel around the Universe and even, say some, through all
time. Allow yourself to dream of what you can bring into this world
and you'll realize how abundant you really are. More to the point,
all your money-spinning ideas come from your thoughts. It's a huge,
free and endlessly renewable resource. Use it.
2. Choice Abundance. Unless you are reading this from a
prison cell, you are a free person, with free will, and free choices
about how to live your life. So, if your present circumstances are
not what you want, all you have to do is change your choices for
something else and you'll get a different result. Choose another
habit, another action, another way of working, another style,
another task, another location, another venture. You have an
abundance of choices in every moment of your life. Choose wisely.
3. Gifts Abundance. Many people who remain poor in their
lives do so because they don't realize how gifted they really are.
They are locked in to a victim mentality where any number of excuses
are used to explain why they don't have what they want. There's the
excuse of "I'm not good enough" or "I'm not wealthy
enough" or "I'm not lucky enough" or any other
similar phrase. The truth is that God has not singled out anyone to
have more gifts than anyone else. We are all uniquely - and
abundantly - gifted. Once you find out what your gifts are - through
a process of experience, trial and error, feedback from others, and
honest self-assessment - then you'll find yourself in an Aladdin's
cave of treasure that will grant you endless wishes for the rest of
your life. You are abundantly talented and you owe it to God who has
gifted you these talents to find them and use them.
4. Health Abundance. Even if you find yourself down on
your luck financially, there's no reason why you cannot bask in the
glow of abundant health. One of the ironies of modern life is that
many people are caught in the trap of working long hours in order to
have enough money to buy the antidotes to the stressful and
unhealthy lifestyle they lead. They work to excess so that they can
buy the holidays they need to recover from their excessive working.
The fact is, you were meant to live a healthy and abundant life,
full of energy and vitality. It is your birthright. If you seek out
how to live the abundantly healthy lifestyle you were meant to live,
it may well be the financially wealthy who envy you!
5. Love Abundance. The idea that we are all abundant in
love may sound sentimental, but there is no getting away from the
fact that, while your capacity to earn has limits - even for the
super-wealthy - your capacity to love and be loved is without
limits. When you uncork the Love stoppers in your life, you release
such a flow of good things for yourself and others, that it's like
champagne all the way. Give and show love to those who are important
to you. Love strangers rather than fearing or judging them. Love
every creature you share this planet with. Love what you do each
day. And most of all love yourself. Don't be sentimental about it.
Love is the most powerful force in the universe. And there are no
limits to it if you'll just let yourself do it.
6. Material Abundance. Our modern age has brainwashed most
people into believing that without money they are not materially
rich. This is simply a clever marketing ploy aimed at making the
perpetrators of the myth money-rich themselves. The truth is that
God, who, you remember, didn't invent money, created you to enjoy
the fruits of the earth in abundance whether you have money or not.
You simply don't need a big house, a big yacht, a villa in Spain, a
six-figure income, and four holidays a year to enjoy abundance. And
the place to look? Well, it's not in the man-made malls and
supermarkets. It's in nature. Wander through a wood in autumn and
see the sheer abundance of food for free. Walk along a beach after a
stormy sea to see what has been given you for free. Turn your small
garden patch into a summertime larder. Look at the wonders of nature
and you'll never again believe that you must have lots of money to
live happily and well.
And now for the key to your financial future. When you focus on
these six areas of super-abundance - your endless gift for
creativity, your infinite range of life choices, your unique
talents, your inalienable right to health, your unlimited capacity
to love, and the cornucopia of the natural world - you cannot help
but live a wonderfully abundant life. If you really believe that
abundance and wealth is already yours, you will create the seventh
abundance with astonishing ease. And money will flow into your life
as if by magic.
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