From Underearning to Abundance

Before my life took this adventurous turn I had started to read a very interesting book, “Excuses Begone!” by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer.  In it he goes through the most common reasons we come up with to not do things, why our life is the way it is and we can’t do a thing about it.

When he talks about these reasons it becomes obvious they are only excuses we hold onto and it is those excuses that keeps us stuck.  By throwing out those excuses we become more powerful and our life can change.

One excuse that comes to mind is: “I have never been paid more.”  This is about the past and belongs in the past.  It is time to change.  Now is the time to be paid more, the future is unwritten.  Think of all the things that had not been done until someone did them.  After they had been done many others came and repeated them.  No woman had ever been democratically elected president of a nation until Vigdis Finnbogadottir became the first one.  After her there have been many.  Before I wrote my first blog I had a very good excuse for not writing a blog.  I had never written anything like that.  I could not write and so on and so on.  Then I wrote my first blog.  After that, the excuse was not usable anymore.  Think about what excuse you have been giving yourself to not take action.  What has that excuse been costing you?  What will your life be like after you let go of the excuse?  A Life of Abundance?

Love and peace,

ElinAnna

Tags: excuses, excuses begone, holding back, let go, Life of abundance

This has been an exciting time for me.  My life has been turned up side down and I am enjoying every minute of it.  I used to live in an old New England town, Salem, Massachusetts.  It is tough to get much older in what used to be the old English colonies, unless you go to Plymouth, Massachusetts.  Now I am living in Arizona, Phoenix area.  I am sure there is a long history in this area for the Native Americans, but its main growth has been in the 20th and 21st centuries.  Everywhere I look I see new stuff.  The place I am living in is only 5 years old.  A big difference from the 18th century house I used to live in.

Both places have their charm and I enjoy both.  This shows us how very different surroundings can be great when we open our eyes and hearts to it, and how it can enrich our lives.  Too often we get stuck in our ways and don’t want to change.  As a result we miss out on the great life that we are meant to live.

It doesn’t mean that there was something wrong the way we were living.  It just means that Life has more to offer and we can joyfully accept it.  It is up to us to take the opportunities that are given to us.

How can you see the opportunities that are coming your way and joyfully accept the new direction in you life?

Love and peace,

ElinAnna

Tags: accept, change, get stuck, life, Life of abundance, opportunities

A new year is here and the question is are you still lost in the money fog?  It is absolutely amazing how many people just continue to stay in a money fog.  They resist stepping out of the fog.  This is hard to understand.  But the worst thing is that by staying there, they are making things worse form themselves. On top of it all, they know it.

You might think for yourself that this is not the case for you.  Maybe you are right.  But the money fog sneaks up on you and suddenly everything is dark.

One thing that comes with a new year is taxes.  We have to prepare our taxes, which means that we will have to look at our money.  Some people dread this time of the year.  They think it is too painful to look at their money situation.  To them, ignorance is bliss.  That reminds me of a woman I talked to last summer.  She hadn’t done her taxes, because she feared that she owed the IRS money.  When talking to her it was obvious that she was in a money fog.  She had no idea about her money, what she was earning and spending.  Her rationalization was that it was better not knowing, even after acknowledging all the fear and anxiety she was suffering from.  She was constantly saying that she couldn’t afford this and that, and there was anger in her voice as she was talking about her situation.

Finally she did her taxes, grudgingly.  When I talked to her afterwards, she told me she got money back from the IRS.  After all of these months of being afraid and suffering from anxiety, she got money back from the IRS.  She had been staying in the fog regarding her money, causing her to feel miserable for no reason at all.  When I asked her about that, she looked at me, as there was something wrong with me.  Her fog was so thick and dark that even after getting money back from the IRS, she still was staying in the fog.

When I thought about it afterwards it came to me that being in this fog and feeling afraid about her money situation was normal for her.  It didn’t even occur to her that things could be different.

How are you with money?  Are you lost in the fog and can’t find your way out of it?  What is it costing you to stay in the fog?  It is difficult to find your way to abundance when you are lost in the fog and don’t know where you are or where you are going.  Take this opportunity to get out of the fog and make this year the one when you know where you are and where you are going.  Put yourself on the path to a Life of Abundance.

Love and peace,

ElinAnna

If your New Year’s resolutions have failed in the past, then you are in the majority.  The fact is that most people who make New Year’s resolutions fail to keep them.  Well, we might have suspected that this would be the case.  Now a group of researchers at the University of Hertfordshire in England have shown that it is actually so.  The main reason they found is that most people focus on how awful it would be to fail.  In their attempt to keep their New Year’s resolution, people half heartedly try to fight their temptations and only dream of reaching the goal.  Then they look for someone who supposedly reached the goal, plaster their picture up for motivation.  plaster their picture up on their wall or refrigerator for motivation in the hope that this will help.  On top of everything else, people put their trust only in their own willpower to get them where they want to go and don’t make any plans for how to get there.  This a sure way to fail at your New Year’s resolution.

So now you know how to increase the probability of accomplishing your New Year’s resolution.  Do the opposite of the failure described above.  Follow what the researchers found by doing the following:

1. Make a plans for how to achieve your goal
2. Involve others (get support and accountability)
3. Focus on how positive it will be when each small step of your plan is reached
4. Keep a journal over the journey to help you understand your successes so you can do them again!

and you will drastically increase the probability of reach your new year’s resolution.

So good luck and have a great New Year!

Love and peace,

ElinAnna

Tags: failure, make plans, New Year, resolutions