{"id":4949,"date":"2009-09-21T04:05:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T09:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=4949"},"modified":"2015-10-05T08:39:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T13:39:57","slug":"doing-the-prosperity-project-brings-up-my-excuses-trust-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/doing-the-prosperity-project-brings-up-my-excuses-trust-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing the Prosperity Project Brings Up My Excuses & Trust Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dollars<\/a>Yesterday I wrote about Valerie Saurer’s Prosperity Project *\u00a0 $1,000 More Each Day<\/a>.\u00a0 The project is one of those fun writing games that gets you to delve deep inside yourself and see what core beliefs you are operating with. Specifically, the idea of the game is to get used to the idea of having, spending, and enjoying money. You start small, and every day increase your allowance by $1000. The process is –> here.\u00a0 <\/a>Gradually, you will be able to easily picture yourself having larger and larger sums of money.\u00a0 That idea won’t seem entirely ridiculous to you, because your dream grows incrementally over time.<\/p>\n

One thing I notice as I begin creating my list is that I don’t know what the prices of things are. Another is that I am leery to take on new time-consuming projects.\u00a0 Example: <\/em>I’d like a new floor put down and know I have 2000 square feet to cover, but I’d have to find out what the cost of tile is and what my options are.\u00a0 That requires either research on my part or me hiring an assistant to research for me.\u00a0 Even for fantasy visualization purposes, I make excuses.<\/em><\/p>\n

And that brings my trust issues up.\u00a0 I’ve had many assistants in the past.\u00a0 I tend to hire people I like and click with.\u00a0 In the past, that tended to be more important than their actual skill and experience.\u00a0 I relied on what they told me they could do, because I wanted it to be true.\u00a0 Then one of two things would happen. Either we’d goof around so much during “working hours” that the work didn’t get done, and I’d have to do it after they left.\u00a0 Or I’d leave them alone to do their work while I did my own, and later find it was not completed as I wished.<\/p>\n

But there goes my mind off on another tangent, taking me off the topic of what I’d spend $1,000 more a day on.\u00a0 My mind so easily goes, by default, to what I do not want to experience, and I have to self talk myself out of that habit.\u00a0 It’s an ongoing learning process.\u00a0 My mind always tries to sidetrack me, but I know I am the master of my mind, and the thinker of my thoughts.\u00a0 So no, making the daily list for the Prosperity Project <\/a>is not easy to do, although you think it is.\u00a0 Get a pen and piece of paper and try to do it yourself.\u00a0 $1,000 more each day than the day before.<\/p>\n

So, much contemplation – and releasing of justifications and excuses – later, the first thing I’d do knowing that I’d get $1,000 more every single day <\/span>is formulate exactly what kind of assistant or personal\/business manager I need to hire to oversee:<\/p>\n

the detailing of my car
\nthe expansion of the back porch
\nthe building of a deck over the roof
\nthe replacement of the flooring at home
\nthe painting of all interior and exterior walls
\nthe building of a studio and wood shop inside my shed
\nthe purchase of the one lot adjoining my east property line
\nthe upgrade and replacing of all my windows with bigger ones
\nthe building of a raised deck inside the east woods, with a zip line
\nthe upgrading of the gutters and rain management system
\nthe implementation of in-house distribution team
\nthe stocking of the wood shop
\nthe upgrading of all software
\nme taking a Photoshop class
\nme planning and taking a cross country trip: who to bring, who to leave the work to<\/p>\n

I also tend to get hung up, as you will, on what should be a priority. Should I really spend money on a week in the Bahamas before I spend money on new flooring? Yes, our minds will jump in with every excuse to keep us from completing the visualization. Remember it’s an exercise and suspend belief for the 5 minutes it takes you to visualize.\u00a0 Remind yourself that you’ll get $1,000 more every single day<\/p>\n

Ah, now the wheels are turning.\u00a0 Thanks, Valerie!\u00a0 You’ve helped me UP my vibration.\u00a0 Hmmm, what does one wear when zipping through one’s own woods on one’s own zipline?<\/p>\n

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