Step #1: Define what Abundance means to you.
Step #2: What does it feel like when you are in Abundance? This is your Abundance IQ (Inner Quest)
Step #3: Surround yourself with images, people, and experiences that feed your Abundance IQ.
Wondering about Steps 4 and 5? Wondering what your Abundance IQ is?
If you have a body, you'll want enough money to keep it healthy.
If you have feelings, you'll want enough money to feel at peace and happy.
If you have thoughts, are they very often about money (some good thoughts about money, some stressful about money)?
If you have a spiritual self, it is best served when the physical (body), emotional (feelings) and thinking selves are content.
Although money may not buy happiness, it can often support it.
Being in Present Moment Awareness, experiencing Mindfulness, (through meditation, journaling, being in nature, making art/music, anything that truly brings you into this moment), reduces stress, increases joy.
Stress is an inside job, your perspective, your Internal Map of Reality (IMR).
Want to know the steps to re-framing your Internal Map of Reality (IMR), breaking free of denial, and reducing stress, and increasing joy?
I teach a course in child homelessness.
I am re-reading some materials on this issue. How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, by Paul Tough (I love that his last name is Tough and he writes about Grit) demonstrates that success is possible no matter our circumstances.
According to those who study success, resiliency is key.
