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I was only 22 years old when I got married. We started out as the typical middle class couple with each of us working and nothing much in terms of savings or inherited wealth or great financial gifts from rich parents. In fact I still had to help support my younger siblings through school because my father died when I was only 16 years old, leaving my widowed mother with parcels of inherited property which she sold little by little for a song because we were eight children in the family and there were still four younger ones to sustain and support through schooling. View full article »

Evolving from Scarcity to Abundance!

How? Fulfill needs rather than cater to wants. View full article »

First we need to ask, What Are Your Thoughts About Money?

Here is an exercise that will make you stop, look, listen and discover your hidden unconscious beliefs about money that may be blocking you from having more of it, or if you already have enough of it, you may not be managing properly or enjoying it. It seems as if there is always never enough. Why? View full article »

Essentially we are spiritual beings in human form. There is the invisible and visible aspect of who we are. There seems to be two separate realms. But is there really? We know the unquestioned power of who we are as soul-spirit because consciousness gives rise to all matter. Yet on the body-ego-personality level there is no denying the power of money in our everyday life. For most people on this planet the struggle to get money for survival or advancement consumes all of their time and energy. View full article »

A DIFFERENT KIND OF INVESTMENT

Almost always, if not always, when one hears or reads the word “investment”, it is immediately related to money – where to put money to make it earn, like for example in a savings account, a time deposit, the stock market, corporate or government bonds, mutual funds and so forth and so on – the list could be endless. View full article »

“If money be not they servant, it will be thy master” . . . . Francis Bacon

Are you having money problems? Are you willing to face your money challenges?  For the truth is,  whether we are poor, rich or in between, many of us avoid dealing with our financial situation head-on.  However, there is a direct correlation between our consciousness around money in relation to other aspects of our life – relationships, health, career, addictions etc.

If you answer yes to most of the following questions, then you have a clear need to address your financial situation head-on.  Yes it can become scary but the pay-off is that life can be better.  You can experience more freedom, happiness and a better quality of life.

1.  Are you stuck in a financial survival mode?  Are you wasting a lot of time just coping and moving around in a vicious cycle?

2.  Are you experiencing chaos as a  result of your financial situation?  Are you now having relationship, health, career and addiction problems?

3.  Do you easily get influenced by mass conciousness desires and illusions? Are you ignorant of your own deeper needs?  Are you overburdened or overwhelm with too much responsibilities?

4.  Are you alllowing yourself to be victimized by outside circumstances?  Do you find it difficult to say “no” when you should?

5.  Are you allowing your past (limiting beliefs) to determine your present and consequently your future financial situation?

6.  Are you reactive, without any clear goals and focus, experiencing unresolved subconscious issues, wounds and fears and acting without any higher purpose?

Are you now willing to take the first step toward facing your money problems and learn the basics, the fundamentals of managing money?

What has helped me overcome my own personal financial challenges was a workbook on Manifesting Abundance which may be accessed in this link.

For helpful tips on managing money you may visit MoneySense website.

I would like to share with you my firsthand experience in overcoming financial difficulties after I have discovered this wonderful workbook on Manifesting Abundance which I committed with passion to follow and apply the teachings in my life.  After three years I am now debt free and experiencing abundance.

I learned:

1) How to manage money with discipline but without being a scrooge.

2) Thinking Prosperity.  I learned that its ok to become wealthy.  I was able to overcome my limiting belief that I did not deserve to be wealthy.

3) Manifesting Abundance.  I learned that being very wealthy does not necessarily mean that one can experience abundance.  In fact experiencing abundance is not connected at all to the amount of money one has.

I remember Mother Theresa and how often I would would refer to her as an example of a human being living in great abundance.  She was my hero.  Here was a human being who had nothing – she was not endowed with physical beauty (like for example Princess Diana).  She was not a famous celebrity endowed with youthfulness or expensive jewelry.  She was not a famous intellectual, scientist or great statesman or President or a King.  She was old with craggly features and faltering in her speech.  She wore a simple nun’s habit with simple sandals.  She owned nothing and yet she lived in abundance because she had everything.  She could travel all over the world and Kings and Presidents would be dying for her to be their guest.  She could ask for any amount she needed for her charities and it would be given to her immediately by all the wealthy men in the Universe.   She could eat any of the most delicious meals and all the rich and famous chefs would have rushed to prepare it for her.   Mother Theresa lived her life in abundance until she died because she could have anything she needed or wanted – she only had to ask.

But not everybody is Mother Theresa.  I have a family.  I had to send to college four children and I took over the breadwinning functions for my family after my husband was unable to recover from a failed business venture.

I needed to reconcile being wealthy with the experience of abundance and be disciplined in managing money – follow basic principles of a sound financial plan.

I was able to attain all these within three years by appling the principles I learned in the Manifesting Abundance workbook.  To access the workbook please click on the link

To learn how to manage your personal finances  please visit MoneySense.