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Originally Posted by Ninja  I've noticed that a lot of forummers (including myself) wrestle with the question: how will I survive if I quit my job?
Steve, how about a blogpost that tackles this subject? [...] I'd love to see a 'moneyless limbo 101' from you!  |
For me, he already wrote it in the form of the following posts:
Money and the Law of Attraction
The above post got me thinking, but it wasn't enough. When I started reading these forum posts from Steve, however, my old paradigm kind of broke:
And then I re-read this the
Making Money Consciously post, with the truth, love, and power model in mind, "I understood." When I first read it, I didn't have enough awareness of certain things to really get much information from the article. Now that I have more (or at least, a different) perspective, I was able to download--to receive--much more information from the article.
Reading those links and lots of pondering was my particular solution for this "problem", taking into account my experience, my talents, my strengths, my knowledge, my skills, and all of my previous personal development experience which gives me a degree of awareness when dealing with certain things.
My answer was not about moving away from fear, that even Steve suggested to me previously (although that's no slight on Steve; he's super helpful 99% of the time and I'm pleased he even replied to my thread to try help out; he did end up helping with that post indirectly). Perhaps I might have a bit of that, but for me, facing my fear goes against my Maximiser talent. I'm not a fan of focusing on the negative, non-strong areas of my life. They make me feel not-good, but worse, they make me feel less-strong. I can take the not-good part, but less-strong cripples my ability to be effective. So I deem those solutions to be not effective for me.
What was effective for me was more truth. This is usually the case for me. Whenever I have an issue, it's because I don't understand how it works. I'm trying to understand the labels that people throw around, without understanding what the labels actually mean. In my case, I had to learn what money really is (social debt), and that there are different types of value (for the moment, the model I use to describe this is: social value, personal value(s), intrinsic value, absolute value). That works for me.
I also learned two more high-level concepts: concept fragmentation, and I learned that life is more about sharing value, not going out and working to earn money. It may seem so fundamentally simple, but to me, it was a major realisation that has shifted my whole approach and led me to take different action, or at least, action that comes from a different energy--a new understanding--and so I, even if I'm taking similar action to what I was doing previous, now have a different "energy conversation" in the way I interact with life, and life is responding in turn by giving me an abundance of reflections and "thought ripples" in some sort of Law of Attraction-like effect--helpful reflections that seem to serve the boarder purpose of me coming into more alignment with manifestation, which is something I had trouble with before.
But that is my specific journey. It is likely your specific journey will be very different to mine. You have a completely different configuration to me, so trying to draw on the same solution I used when you have different knowledge or skill isn't going to be very effective unless you learn what I learn, develop the skills I've developed, and then, to make it even more complex and difficult, have similar talents to me that allow you to see the world like I do. (You and I both have talents, but they're very different, and they cause us to see life differently.)
I really think it's important for people to throw away all notions of "what is the solution to this problem" and instead of "what is the solution to MY problem?" And then consequently don't focus on problems at all, and rather bring more truth, love, power, or a combo of all three, into your life.
You're living your own desires, so you need to focus on what you want, not what fixing your problem. Dipping into the work of Abraham-Hicks, when most people, including myself, tend to look at even their solutions to a problem in a way where their focus is still 80% or so on the problem. That isn't a good way to solve anything!
Imagine if, when you get a flat tire on your car you focused 80% on the flat tire and didn't (A) acknowledge that the tire is flat (truth), (B) realise that you don't want to sit here with a flat tire (love, since you're aligning more with your desires--or at least, you will shortly after that realisation), and (C) took no action (power). You wouldn't go anywhere.
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