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Originally Posted by judge45  Emotions are important, yes, but I'm not convinced they have to be supercharged.
I remember thinking about the $5000 often, but I can't remember getting into a high emotional state about it.
There's a fine line between being emotionally connected to your goal and tipping it over the edge where you are strangeling the flow.
Jeff |
You know Jeff, I had a similar thing happen with the same amount. We are buying a house, and at the beginnign of this month things looked pretty shaky as to wether or not we could manage to get it. Well, these unexpected costs kept popping up (oh, to be young and ignorant about real estate!) and things started looking bad. But, I refused to be negative. I kept telling myself the house was ours, and I felt excited about it, but mostly kept it to myself and reminded my partner that it would be our home.
I was sitting and thinking about it, and on a whim I grabbed a check and wrote out the amount $5000, in our names, dated and signed it, and said "this should about cover everything we need to get into our house".
Along comes my dad, with an offer to help us out with the downpayment if need be (he's never offered money before and I have never asked!) after offering to cover the cost of a house inspection. So after him transferring the money into our account, plus the money we had put there to cover all the legal costs, we had $5057 in our bank account.
I definitely think it's both the words and the feelings behind it, but you do have to be specific.