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hotwired · 07-29-2007, 09:40 AM

I'm curious about those types of questions. I call them "reconciling questions". ie, How do you "reconcile" this thought with this belief. My two cents on THIS particular one is as follows;

When you budget, you are creating a "plan". By creating this plan you are indeed putting your "attention" on it. Now, the law of attraction works by giving you that which your attention is on. Now the "action" of doing a budget does not necessarily bring ANY result, it's the intent and emotion behind it. In other words, are you creating a budget because you're afraid you're going to get in trouble if you don't? Or are you creating a "spending" plan complete with an income that's increasing? And what state of mind are you in when you do your budget? I personally used to do my business budgets very conservatively, because my mindset was being "right'. If I budgeted $150,000 gross income and only took $100,000, I'd feel stupid and wrong. NOW that I've "studied up" so to speak on the LOA, I set the budget a little higher and then look forward to breaking it on the high side. So far it's looking great! I've taken in $16k more than budgeted so far and KEPT (profit) $10,000 more than expected.

An example of the "energy" vs. the "action" is when you save. When you "save for a rainy day" , you're "calling for" a rainy day. When you save for great travel, new house, child's education, you're calling on those things instead.

Hope this helps, and I'm right there with you, I still have some pesky questions that "bump" into each other in the night.

07-29-2007, 09:40 AM	#2 (permalink)
hotwired Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 100	My 2 Cents I'm curious about those types of questions. I call them "reconciling questions". ie, How do you "reconcile" this thought with this belief. My two cents on THIS particular one is as follows; When you budget, you are creating a "plan". By creating this plan you are indeed putting your "attention" on it. Now, the law of attraction works by giving you that which your attention is on. Now the "action" of doing a budget does not necessarily bring ANY result, it's the intent and emotion behind it. In other words, are you creating a budget because you're afraid you're going to get in trouble if you don't? Or are you creating a "spending" plan complete with an income that's increasing? And what state of mind are you in when you do your budget? I personally used to do my business budgets very conservatively, because my mindset was being "right'. If I budgeted $150,000 gross income and only took $100,000, I'd feel stupid and wrong. NOW that I've "studied up" so to speak on the LOA, I set the budget a little higher and then look forward to breaking it on the high side. So far it's looking great! I've taken in $16k more than budgeted so far and KEPT (profit) $10,000 more than expected. An example of the "energy" vs. the "action" is when you save. When you "save for a rainy day" , you're "calling for" a rainy day. When you save for great travel, new house, child's education, you're calling on those things instead. Hope this helps, and I'm right there with you, I still have some pesky questions that "bump" into each other in the night.