Manifesting Income (No imagination)

[TiffyLove]

I really think my "problem" with being able to increase my income is that I can't seem to imagine other ways of income coming into my life.

The only ways I have come up with is:
New Job
My own Business (online businesses)
Winning Lottery

I honestly can't seem to expand this. I truly feel the magic will happen when I see possibilities rather than limitations. I am looking to blow my current limiting perspective around money to pieces.

But I can't seem to get out of my little "bubble".

[Lakshyayidhi Lakshmihi]

Maybe this is because of a fundamental view of yourself as separate. I see this reflected in your list of income sources. It's the American way, I guess, to be indpendent and do it all yourself.

have you ever lived communally? Not just in a family system, but comunally with nonrelated individuals? Take the concept of sharing and blow it wide open. Nothing "belongs" to anyone, really. Everything belongs to - everyone! We just get to use stuff for a while.

Money as a concept stems directly from the conditioned construction of "other". It's entirely an abstraction. Without this view of self vs. other, we would just all support each other and not care about possessions because we see that we are all connected and to support others is to support yourself.

This is actually par for the course in other cultures. For a large part of my life I lived in a 3 bedroom house with 9 people, extended family from southeast asia mostly. This is probably why I have always been able to intend income without having to work regularly - I never had to release any kind of shame feeling associated with being helped by/supported by my tribe; but I see this is a real issue with people of mainly western cultural origin.

I just visualize enough money to pay my bills, it always comes, from wherever. Doesn't matter to me, I don't even ever have the money anyways. I just use it to do stuff. Passes in and out of my hands like water, because it is meaningless and worth nothing intrinsically.

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by TiffyLove

The only ways I have come up with is:
New Job
My own Business (online businesses)
Winning Lottery

You could get a pay raise at your current job.

You might find some money on the ground.

The tax authorities give you a rebate.

You sell something that you don't want anymore, and to your surprise, someone is willing to pay a lot of money for it.

You invested in some stocks and it made you a lot of money.

A stranger knocks on your door and offers you a great price for your property.

A very distant and old relative of yours, whom you had actually forgotten all about, passes away and leaves you some money in her will. She last met you when you were five years old and she remembered you as such a cute, good little girl, that's why she wanted to give you the money. Anyway she has no other relatives to give the money too.

To your surprise, you learn that you can make money from your hobbies.

You help your friend, and she insists on paying you for it.

Something exciting happens to you, and you are briefly in the media spotlight. During this time, newspapers pay you for the chance to interview you.

You find a lost diamond ring. You can't trace the owner. So you keep it for yourself. Turns out that it is worth a lot.

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Or you could just change jobs and get a big pay raise; make a lot of money from your online businesses; or strike the lottery. All of these work pretty well too.

[cylon]

Infinite ways. Our imaginations aren't equipped to visualize all the possible ways the universe could bring stuff to us.

[catalyst]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

You could get a pay raise at your current job.

You might find some money on the ground.

The tax authorities give you a rebate.

You sell something that you don't want anymore, and to your surprise, someone is willing to pay a lot of money for it.

You invested in some stocks and it made you a lot of money.

A stranger knocks on your door and offers you a great price for your property.

A very distant and old relative of yours, whom you had actually forgotten all about, passes away and leaves you some money in her will. She last met you when you were five years old and she remembered you as such a cute, good little girl, that's why she wanted to give you the money. Anyway she has no other relatives to give the money too.

To your surprise, you learn that you can make money from your hobbies.

You help your friend, and she insists on paying you for it.

Something exciting happens to you, and you are briefly in the media spotlight. During this time, newspapers pay you for the chance to interview you.

You find a lost diamond ring. You can't trace the owner. So you keep it for yourself. Turns out that it is worth a lot.

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Or you could just change jobs and get a big pay raise; make a lot of money from your online businesses; or strike the lottery. All of these work pretty well too.

What a splendid idea? Shall we just hope to wake up and find money under the pillow? Talk about wishful thinking...

I have a better idea.

Get a job if you're unemployed. If you're already employed, look for any possible opportunities for advancement, or look for a higher paying job. If you have the ambition, put you mind and effort into it.

[cylon]

You do realize this is an LOA forum, right?

[Lakshyayidhi Lakshmihi]

Originally Posted by catalyst

What a splendid idea? Shall we just hope to wake up and find money under the pillow? Talk about wishful thinking...

I don't know about you, but I am connected to an unlimited source of abundance. The right people and the right circumstances are already here, always show up at the right time.

[Acting Like Godot]

Those who have read my posts over the past few years will know that most of the examples I mentioned are actually drawn from my personal experience.

The skeptics will scoff, but then I am the millionaire. Not them.

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by catalyst

What a splendid idea? Shall we just hope to wake up and find money under the pillow?

And incidentally, this is the technique I call the old sleep trick. You hold an intention in your mind and go to bed. This method exploits the fact that as you fall asleep, your mind naturally falls into the alpha frequencies, which are ideal for manifesting.

The technique can be used for all sorts of intentions - I find that it works best for modifying aspects of your own behaviour, but it also works for money coming out of the blue etc.

The biggest single lump sum I ever got, from using this method a single time, is $22,000. Here is an account of how it worked for me - LINK.

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by TiffyLove

The only ways I have come up with is:
New Job
My own Business (online businesses)
Winning Lottery

The above seems to suggest that you currently have a job but do not believe that you could get a pay raise. Why? What are your limiting beliefs here?

Be aware that you can get a pay raise even if it may appear that there are powerful reasons why you cannot. You might not even know why you are getting a pay raise. You might NEVER know - but you can get it anyway. See my personal example.

[themaster]

Originally Posted by TiffyLove

I really think my "problem" with being able to increase my income is that I can't seem to imagine other ways of income coming into my life.

The only ways I have come up with is:
New Job
My own Business (online businesses)
Winning Lottery

I honestly can't seem to expand this. I truly feel the magic will happen when I see possibilities rather than limitations. I am looking to blow my current limiting perspective around money to pieces.

But I can't seem to get out of my little "bubble".

Tiffy, I remind you the "how" is not your job..

All you need is a "permission slip" for money.. you understand the universe can give you anything, right?

It's the EGO and beliefs that get's in the way.. someone's not going to just drop a $1,000 on my door.. no one's going to randomly mail me free money! (yet this stuff does happen all the time.. )

Easiest permission slip out of the 3 is definitely a business..

2nd might be lottery tickets the "low" winning kind.. wining the mega-once a summer jackpot may be pushing it..

You do know you can ask for ideas yes.. so just ask.. you also might find that gardening has lucrative endeavors.. yah, never know till you try..

Recently, I'm manifesting on purpose like no money.. which is weird

For like 3 days now I had like no phone calls so either that's a record or something's wrong with my phone

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by catalyst

Get a job if you're unemployed. If you're already employed, look for any possible opportunities for advancement, or look for a higher paying job.

If you're strong at using the LOA, be careful what you wish for here. I have manifested deeply for jobs before, and it just went overboard. Before I even started sending out resumes, I was flooded with cold calls from headhunters and fixed with so many appointments for job interviews that I had difficulty keeping up.

That was in late 2006. Since then I have slowly learned to adopt a more calibrated, measured approach to using the LOA. Even positive changes can get uncomfortable, if they happen too fast and are too large.

[Savage]

Originally Posted by TiffyLove

I really think my "problem" with being able to increase my income is that I can't seem to imagine other ways of income coming into my life.

The only ways I have come up with is:
New Job
My own Business (online businesses)
Winning Lottery

I honestly can't seem to expand this. I truly feel the magic will happen when I see possibilities rather than limitations. I am looking to blow my current limiting perspective around money to pieces.

But I can't seem to get out of my little "bubble".

This means you have a weak education in this area. You need to read more.

Go to the business section of your local bookstore, and read about real people who made real money. Make it a habit to read such books, and you'll increase your income-generating IQ.

[JeffistheAnswer]

ALG, do you have like an archive of all your stories? I'd love to just read through each and every one of your examples.

[TiffyLove]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

The above seems to suggest that you currently have a job but do not believe that you could get a pay raise. Why? What are your limiting beliefs here?

Well I guess while I am there I would like to increase my earnings which I work off tips but other than that I would love to get into a means of income that I enjoy!

Originally Posted by themaster

All you need is a "permission slip" for money.. you understand the universe can give you anything, right?


You do know you can ask for ideas yes.. so just ask.. you also might find that gardening has lucrative endeavors.. yah, never know till you try..

Yes and just hearing the universe can do anything makes me feel wonderful.

I like the gardening Idea but I can feel the resistance behind money in general because most ideas I have this feeling of "I can't make money doing that, or that would never make enough money to make it worth it, etc.."

But I am working on removing these beliefs!

P.S. I just started my garden yesterday. )

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

That was in late 2006. Since then I have slowly learned to adopt a more calibrated, measured approach to using the LOA. Even positive changes can get uncomfortable, if they happen too fast and are too large.

I would love to hear how you manifested these things so many opportunities. I have been well aware of LOA for years just hoping it would work for me, lol. But I just recently started practicing it.

I am curious to hear what works for you in regards to when you are trying to manifest something specific such as a new job.

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

This means you have a weak education in this area. You need to read more.

Steve,

Do you have any suggestions of certain people's stories that inspire you or that you can think of off the top of your head.

The last thing I wanted to hear was more reading but I am willing to do it! )

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by JeffistheAnswer

ALG, do you have like an archive of all your stories? I'd love to just read through each and every one of your examples.

From late 2006 to early 2008, I did keep quite detailed written records of my ongoing intentions + actual events in my life. I wrote it all down in my personal blog.

The records were detailed, because at that time I didn't quite trust the LOA that much. To ensure that I wasn't fooling myself, I would:

(1) do my IM
(2) promptly record down what I'd manifested for

And then I would wait to see if it would really happen. And in my blog I would keep an ongoing record of events in my life. So I could constantly check the events occurring in my life, against the thoughts I had recently had.

From early 2008 onwards, I didn't really keep such detailed records anymore. It wasn't necessary. By then, I had realised that yeah, the LOA was genuine, and I didn't have to prove it to myself anymore.

I did continue to maintain some records, but it was more sporadic, less detailed, and I was mainly recording whatever, to me, still struck me as really interesting and unusual and worth recording. Still I wasn't very regular about it.

Now, I *still* have a blog, but the motivation is different. I basically use it to store my own useful ideas and intentions, for my own record purposes.

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by TiffyLove

I would love to hear how you manifested these things so many opportunities.

A few of my old blog entries:

Tuesday, 12 December 2006
Undecided


I went for my second interview for Opportunity M today. It's a top investment bank. The two interviewers looked like people I would really enjoy working for. They're intelligent, friendly, direct, no airs. They sound like they have deep pockets to pay me too. The job environment is the kind where I thrive best too - a high degree of autonomy, working with a relatively small group of people with whom I can build strong relationships. It's going to be a tough decision.

Meanwhile, Opportunity S is pressing me for an answer. I am finding it difficult to think of how to delay them any further. I'm not even sure why I should delay. I can easily see myself becoming very, very wealthy within a few years of joining them.

And then, there's Opportunity R. I already told them that I'm not interested. But they still want to meet me. In fact one of their VIPs is flying in from Tokyo next week, and he really wants to meet me even though I had said that I don't want to explore this opportunity any more. It sounds like I could quote a ridiculously high figure as my desired salary, and they would still bite.

I'd placed some thoughts into the universe to attract new job opportunities. Now I'm seriously being deluged with opportunities. And I'm feeling undecided.

The thing is - knowing what I know now about LOA, I know I could go to any of these jobs, or stay in my current job, and I can still succeed in turning the job into whatever I want it to be. Doesn't this mean that nothing really matters any more?

Here's another one. Pay attention to the words in bold, then read the post after that:

Saturday, 9 December 2006
The Job Oppportunities

So the status is:

Opportunity S - They are willing to make an offer. The question is whether I want it, and how much I would ask for.

Opportunity L - This has fallen through, but quite possibly because they're mistaken about my current income. They think they can't afford me, but they could be wrong.

Opportunity R - The 1st interview is over, and they would like to fix the 2nd, but I don't feel that keen about joining them now. I suspect that they don't offer quality work, in my area.

Opportunity M - This again is in my court. The chap has said that if I'm interested, he will fix a 2nd interview with the relevant business people.

I guess I should do something, but I'm undecided, so that makes the next step difficult. Maybe I'll just wait for someone to call me. Or not. Let the universe move this forward. Maybe the best place to fulfill my career aspirations is right where I currently am

Okay, read on:

Monday, 11 December 2006
The Universe Came Knocking

Just yesterday I wrote this about my various job opportunities:

"I guess I should do something, but I'm undecided, so that makes the next step difficult. Maybe I'll just wait for someone to call me. Or not. Let the universe move this forward."

Well, the universe clearly has no intention of moving slow on this one. Today I received two phone calls.

Firstly, Opportunity S came knocking. Basically they will match my existing pay AND their bonuses are very high too. "12 months is not an issue," the man confidently asserts. That is, it would usually be more.

Secondly, Opportunity M wants to meet up with me tomorrow for a 2nd interview.

I've closed off Opportunity R. I said I'm not interested. So that leaves me with Opportunity S and Opportunity M to think about.

A funny post (looking back now) but it wasn't funny at that time. The perils of juggling too many job interviews across different time zones, at the same time. The last part of the post also makes a point about the importance of straightening out your thoughts, before you do anything important.

Monday, 4 December 2006
Opportunity 3


I did an Opportunity 3 interview this morning. By phone, because the interviewer is based overseas. I did it from home because it was scheduled for early morning.

It was not a great interview. Okay, that was an understatement. This may have been one of the worst interviews of my life.

Because I was quite distracted. Halfway through the call I was trying to wake my wife up so that she could go to work (she'd be late). I was on the phone and could not walk to the bed. From where I was, I pushed a couple of heavy books across the floor to hit the bed so she'd wake up.

The books slid across the floor and hit the bed and made loud noises, which was very distracting for the interview, but she still wouldn't wake up. Finally I had to tell the interviewer to hang on for a bit. Then I ran to the bed and woke her up. Then I ran back to the phone to continue.

(In fact, I had had the presence of mind to wake her up before the call started, and she had woken up, but she had fallen back into asleep again).

After a while, my father unexpectedly showed up at my house and knocked hard on the door - another distraction. I waved desperately at him to go away. Then the kid woke up and started crying really loudly about something. Normally he doesn't but of all days, he had to pick today to do it. So here I am, doing a job interview with a kid crying loudly in the background. Stuff like that.

Basically it's not good to do a job interview while trying to wake up your wife, chase your father out of the room and get your children to stop crying.

I couldn't really concentrate on what the interviewer was saying on the phone, and I don't think I said any very intelligent things myself.

Part of me wants to get angry but what's the point.

At the end of the call, I apologised to the guy and said, "Sorry, I've been a little distracted."

I got the impression that he was distinctly unimpressed with what I'd said on the phone, but somewhat impressed by my resume.

It occurs to me that I had not done any IM for this interview. This is a bit scary. Have I reached the point that I can't do anything right unless I "IM" it in advance?

Me going nuts trying to juggle all the job opportunities flying at me:

Thursday, 30 November 2006
So Many Things Happening on the Job Front

I went through 4 interviews on Monday & Tuesday, for Opportunity 2. The respective interviewers are all overseas (Tokyo, London, Hong Kong) so the interviews were by telephone and video conference. They all went well. Anyway, I have one more interview scheduled for next week, for Opportunity 2.

Today, I went for a further interview regarding Opportunity 1. I had said that I am not interested in this one and would not take it up unless they offered great bonuses. My 1st scheduled session was supposed to be with their HR guy, but unfortunately he was ill and that didn't happen. So I never got into any real discussion about money. The next session was with four folks. I hate to say this, but they seemed like nice, smart, capable people - people I would enjoy working with. The picture painted of the role was also terribly interesting. Dang it.

A third thing happened. The recruiter who's trying to place me for Opportunity 2 called me and left a voice message. She has an Opportunity 3 for me to consider. I returned her call, intending to say "NO!, there are just too many things happening now!" but it turns out that Opportunity 3 is something which I cannot rationally refuse to consider.

The reason is that Opportunity 3 and Opportunity 2 are highly alike. The job scope is similar; the reporting line is similar; the department setup is similar; the growth prospects are similar; both are top-tier investment banks. There is no reason to consider Opportunity 2, and not consider Opportunity 3.

The big attraction of both roles, for me, is that I run my own show and I have the future prospect of building a team of my own, entirely from scratch, in this country.

I know why Opportunities 2 and 3 are happening. I had manifested them. On 18 September 2006, I had manifested the intention that in 5 years' time, I should be managing my own team of lawyers in a major investment bank.

[escapeplan]

@Tiffylove,

Reading books as Steve suggested is a great idea- and there are enough people out there to learn from!

I have found in the past and still find that if I have reached a block on a subject, then reading often helps. It's not that the book itself will provide the exact answers for you, it's just that it gets your creativity going and may help plug knowledge gaps.

Reading inspirational business books also has the added benefit of giving you a feeling of optimism and excitement. I find at this stage I can normally get through my "block". I don't know whether the reason for this is a natural process (purely neural) or the LOA or both, but read and get inspired! You may find this is an easier way to break through gradually from your current belief system to a more favourable one.

[CherylL]

I was in a spot when I had two kids and couldn't program websites with as much concentration. I tried hiring people, that was even more of a problem then doing it myself. After I held finding a solution, no matter what it was, I found a online work at home job where you learn and then help people start their own internet marking firm. Almost every company can use it, and you don't have deadlines.

Then the company had bonuses and I found stewart lichmans creative visualization course, and that was the most amazing change I've made...
How to Get Lots of Money for Anything - FAST, by Stuart Lichtman & Joe Vitale

That's how I was able to solve my problem.
Cheryl

P.S. Private Msg me if you want to know the company and take a look.

[SlicK]

I really think my "problem" with being able to increase my income is that I can't seem to imagine other ways of income coming into my life.

And isn't it normal that when you observe what already is and you want something you don't have and then you look at what is.. isn't it normal that you can't see a way?

The first thing is to get clear on what you really want, something that excites you. The next thing is to DECIDE you're gonna do that/get that. Then comes FAITH -> PURPOSE -> EXPECTATION because without faith, you quit and don't have the purpose to achieve it. Why work on something if you believe you CAN'T? Why try flying if you believe you can't? Did you ever try to fly? Did you ever believe you can?

If you have FAITH and the PURPOSE to achieve it, then you will EXPECT to get it. With FAITH, PURPOSE and EXPECTATION your subconscious will slowly but surely begin to accept and believe in your intention. It will become "his" job to find the ways to accomplish it, in physical and non-physical ways. That is "his" job.

[Futhark]

I have really nothing to say about this, but I'm posting anyways.

When I was a kid I used to draw pictures of dracula, frankenstein, pumpkins, goblins, etc and walk around the neighborhood before Halloween asking people i they wanted to buy my "art" (coiugh). Believe it or not, I sold most of my "art".

The problem is that as an adult, you think of stuff like "what will people think of me??"

Just say to yourself, "buy my Frankenstein, please". It really isn't any sillier than when I was a kid, I'm just older now.

We all have entrepreneurial skills because we are all human and we are all from one source.

Right now I'm thinking of going and buying a cheap sandwich then trying to sell it for more money just to see if it would work. I think it would.

Just a thought.

[escapeplan]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

Those who have read my posts over the past few years will know that most of the examples I mentioned are actually drawn from my personal experience.

The skeptics will scoff, but then I am the millionaire. Not them.

That depends on the currency. It's easy to be a millionnaire with USD.