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Originally Posted by Keith It sounds like you're fretting about a problem that you don't currently have and may never have. |
I agree with that, Keith.
VetTechJess, the issue you're grappling with reminds me of Steve's blog entry entitled,
The Dark Side of Financial Abundance. One of the potential concerns that he acknowledged people might have was the potential for family members and friends to treat them differently if they acquired wealth. He described in some detail how much more complicated his own tax situation had become since his income had increased and the measures he had put in place to minimize his taxes. But he said that expanding his horizons to handle the issues that accompanied more money was part of the process of "growing into" the role of a more affluent person (or words to that effect). I thought this bit of his blog entry was especially relevant:
As I explained in a previous article called Manifesting Intentions Without Resistance, for an intention to manifest, we must accept the entire package of anticipated consequences without fear or resistance. If A causes B, and you intend A without B, you get neither A nor B.
I have been doing an exercise described in
Ask and It Is Given by Esther and Jerry Hicks. The purpose of the exercise is to become increasingly comfortable with the idea of abundance and to increase your confidence in your ability to handle money.
On Day #1, you write, "$1,000" in a notebook, and you write down how you would spend it if it fell in your lap.
On Day #2, you double that amount, write "$2,000," and record how you would spend it.
On Day #3, you double the previous day's amount, and you itemize how you would spend $4,000.
By Day #4, you're up to $8,000.
By Day #5, you're up to $16,000.
Apparently if you do this every day for a year, you'll get up to $66 million.
I've only been doing it for a few days, and I've reached an amount just over $2 million. Although it's only imaginary money, doing this exercise really has changed my perspective.