You now feel "Okay" with your financial situation and you’ve come to a place of acceptance that you’re powerless. How did you do that? Well, you read the last article and brought clarity to your financial situation.

Clarity and acceptance are powerful vibrations to live in. It means you are non-resistant to what is and life begins to flow, like water passing through a garden hose. However, you want full functioning. You want to enjoy the fruits of life and the "good" that money can do for you and the world. Isn’t that game worth playing?

You don’t want to keep playing the same game of a stagnating paycheck and hold yourself in a job that doesn’t feel congruent with the desires your soul wants to express. You can become a conscious participant in the out going flow of the universe. And, you can do it in a very practical way because you’re aligned with truth and have surrendered to life.

Being in the real estate development business for half a decade was an excellent spiritual practice for truth and surrendering to what is. One of the activities you must become proficient and accurate in is project management, if you want to have any success in the real estate industry.

In the beginning of my real estate career, my accuracy was missing the mark. Okay, I confess, that’s modest. My accuracy was flat-out horrible. If I calculated four days and $500 for an exterior paint job, it would take 8 days and $1,000. After losing half the potential pay I should have been earning, I naturally became better at my predictions. It was either evolve as a real estate entrepreneur or hit the streets $20,000 in debt before you could finish singing your "ABC’s".

The way I evolved was accept how powerless I was in this area of my business. I literally threw my hands up and admitted to my co-workers (and my father) that I sucked at making predictions. I understood what I wanted (accurate predictions that led to profit), accepted the truth that I wasn’t the man for the job, and asked "How can I get what I really want?"

After weeks at the drawing board, this is what I have decided upon: examine an area of life that received positive results, look into the past for the type of thoughts and actions that worked, and do more of that, but in context of real estate.

Here’s what I discovered:

My health has always been an A +. I thought back 90 days and examined the types of thinking and acting that led to my outstanding health. I noticed that I was very appreciative for my body, regardless of the condition or shape it was in, and I didn’t go about my health goals alone. I had workout buddies and applied the advice from health experts I had relationships with. Then, I took the framework of my positive health experiences and applied it to my real estate financial life. I decided to look at my real estate estimates and predictions with gratitude that I was learning something. And, I also reached out to a mentor who helped with my predictions until I became very accurate.

The lesson here is to understand what has worked for you in the past and apply those learning experiences to your now situation. This will ensure that you make accurate predictions and align with the principle of truth. As you know, alignment with truth is essential for positive personal growth in any area of life.

Creating Accuracy for Positive Personal Growth

Accuracy gains clarity and helps you move into alignment with the principle of truth. What you need to do is look into your past 90 days, or up to a year, determine what works as far as brining in money, determine what doesn’t work so well, and do more of what DOES work and less of what doesn’t work. It’s such a simple idea that is overlooked 99% of the time.

Here’s an easy approach for creating accuracy and determining what works. Answer the following questions in your journal.

• What type of actions do you take that result in money?

A good way to get a handle on this question is to thoroughly document your time and activities. For at least two days, write down every action you take and the time frame of that action.

For example, yesterday I woke up at 6 AM. Meditated from 6:15 AM to 7:15 AM. Showered and dressed from 7:20 AM to 7:30 AM. Prepared and ate breakfast from 7:35 AM to 8:00 AM. Updated Living the Fulfilled Life from 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM. Chatted with my girlfriend from 9:00 AM to 9:30 AM. Drove and walked to work from 9:30 AM to 9:50 AM. Worked at Life is good from 9:50 AM to 5 PM. An so on and so on. You can see holes in my time frames, for example, I didn’t document the time between 7:15 AM and 7:20 AM. What happened then? I remember sweeping the kitchen floor and blowing my nose real quick. However, something like that is not worth documenting. If you went to the bathroom and blew your nose for 3 minutes, please don’t document that activity. You want to document activities that are above five minutes and have more value than blowing your nose.

When I looked at my time-activity document, I could see that I’ve invested 9 hours worth of activities that directly led to money in my pocket. I want you to have that same objective view, but it will only happen if you do these exercises. I bet that you invest more time on activities that do not contribute to your income. There’s nothing wrong with that, except if you’re suffering over the fact that you don’t make enough money.

• How do you feel about how you earn money? Describe your feelings and thoughts.

Once you have an objective view of where and how you invest the time given to you, how do you feel about the activities you do that earn money? Are you completely happy, fulfilled, and wouldn’t change a thing?

The intention of this exercise is to get an accurate snapshot of your internal reality. If your job or means for earning an income is stifling your spirit and soul, is it worth continuing? Once you’re clear about how you feel towards money and the activities that earn you money, then you’re able to move in the direction of what you actually want in life.

• Who would you be without those negative feelings and thoughts? Describe the way you want your financial life.

Most people in the world have laser beam focus on what they don’t want in life. They’re always talking about how bad their day was, what pissed them off, how bad the economy is, how they don’t have enough money, and so on. I understand if you’re in a "money-pain" situation (been there, done that), however, if that’s you, please STOP THAT! Nothing good comes out of complaining. And if it does feel good afterward, it’s because you’ve satisfied your ego, not healed your relationship with money.

If you’re having financial troubles and it seems like money only trickles through your life, then your focus and attention is most likely on what you don’t want in your financial life. The exercise in this section is meant to refocus your energy on what you want to create in your financial life.

If you had every resource available to you and an infinite amount of time, what would your financial life look like? What would it sound like? Feel like? What type of person would you be? Who would you hang out with? What kind of relationship would you have with money?

Seriously pretend that you have infinite amounts of time and money available to you and write your thoughts on paper. I want you to think about how you would contribute to life as if money was a flow; if money was like water. Get your mind out of accumulation and focus on allocation and collaboration.

• Look in the past and see what thoughts and actions helped you received money in a fun and easy way. Do what works and do less of what doesn’t work.

Money is not a hard thing to attract. Everyday I find at least ten cents on the ground that goes in my piggy bank savings. And if you haven’t noticed, most cultures in the world are "money cultures" where they associate money with economic well-being. Whether or not this is a healthy direction for the world is another story, but the point is that billions of people have money as their highest values. Therefore, we are literally swimming in a sea of money and it’s not a scarce resource.

Somewhere in your past you did certain things in a certain way that earned you money. What were those things?

For example, Last year I created the Money Attractor Formula and it was born from using this principle – looking in the past to see what worked and do more of that. I did a quick assessment of the thoughts and actions that led me to easily earn money. What I noticed was that when I produced relevant products to my readers, I earned money. I also noticed that when I focus my attention on serving others, money seemed to flow. So, I did more of that – releasing relevant products and thought about serving – and began earning a sustainable income.

It’s so simple that it’s stupid. But it has enabled me to double my income over and over again. This doesn’t mean I’m not inventive and try new things, far from it! What I do is gain momentum in what works, then evolve that practice from the insights received.

What are the thoughts and actions that have worked for you in the past? How can you apply that structure to your now situation? How can you drop what doesn’t work?

• What if you don’t have a positive experience in making money? What if nothing in the past worked for you? Then What? You look at an area of life where you get positive experiences and apply that thinking and acting.

As I explained earlier, great health in my life has always been easy to come by. I’m at my natural weight, I feel great, and I believe I look great, too. When my body get sick, which is less than once a year, I recover quickly. There were times in my health when I became overweight from neglecting my body, however, being overweight was short-lived and within 30 to 60 days I was at my natural weight again.

When it came to money, it always seemed I was a buck short and a day late. Positive experiences were minimal and something had to change. I needed to build momentum and it was obvious that I didn’t have the right type of thinking and acting to do that in the financial area of my life.

That’s when the idea of modeling the thinking and acting of an area of life where I consistently had positive experiences, my health, made sense.

For example, Firstly, I believed that good health is my natural state as a human being. So, I formed the belief that "enough money" is my natural state. Secondly, I was continuously thankful for my health and body, even when it didn’t look the way I wanted it to. So, I became appreciative for what I had in the area of money, even when it apparently looked as if I didn’t have enough. Finally, I realized that I consistently exercised to stay healthy. I stepped into my power and took direct action to bring health. So, I decided power and courage was something I needed to train myself in the area of money.

I applied the thinking and acting from my sustainable health and created a sustainable financial environment as a result.

There is no magic when it comes to creating positive change in your life. There’s also not any secret you have yet to uncover. Everything you need to know has already happened to you in some shape or form or it’s modeled in another person. It’s your job to become truthful about your financial life and set the stage for sustainable growth. Then, once you are clear and accurate with how you do your financial area life, you can move in a direction of positive change.

The days of a stagnating and unfulfilling paycheck are short and thin. You don’t need to keep putting yourself through an unfulfilling job that stifles your spirit and soul. When you apply the teaching here, which is to look in your past, determine what works, and do more of that, then you’re free to grow and explore the past ideas that worked and apply them with fresh ideas and actions to create something truly beautiful for your life and the world.

Peace and love,
Big Heart