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Reflections on the Evolving Consciousness of Money Continued...
money, to create a new story of beneficial wealth and conscientious abundance.
I recently attended a course led by Lynne Twist, author of“ The Soul of Money” and founder of“ The Soul of Money Institute”. She made a powerful observation with regards to a recent mindset shift in our society from regarding ourselves as citizens of these United States to being referred to and primarily labeled as Consumers. As citizens we hold ourselves accountable as contributors to the greater good. As consumers, we are merely expected to devour the greater good.
We have the power to consciously create a collaborative, abundant and resourceful life as citizens of our communities, our country and our planet, through mindful thoughts and behaviors with regards to how we respond to the financial situations in our everyday environments.
• Be generous, yet do not deplete yourself.
• Claim yourself as worthy.
• Have the courage to demand the Universe provide you with‘ enough’!
• Help others see their own value through your eyes.
Reflections of Money and Love Finally, and this is a big one … Love money as a representational vibration of yourself. Money is a representational currency our society uses for the exchange of goods and services. What currency are you vibrating at? Love is the highest vibrational currency available to us humans. Where is your heart / love with regards to money? Is it for the greater good of all? Can you receive without judgement and allow others to receive as well? If your heart holds fear and resentment around money, then your treasure will also be filled with fear and resentment. When we take the time to practice love in all things, even and especially towards money, we can then celebrate a new age of abundance and collaboration. The sooner we get started, the better!
Resources History of Women and Wealth: www. kbkwealthconnection. com / women-and-money / history-women-wealth
Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission: supreme. justia. com / cases / federal / us / 558 / 08-205 / opinion. html
Lynne Twist: www. lynnetwist. com
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Achieving your personal goals and life’ s dreams by creating a thriving garden Continued...
When we hear negativity towards our dreams the most empowering thing you can do is say,“ thank you for your opinion. While I don’ t agree with it, I do respect it, and I respect both of our freedom of choice to follow our dreams.” And then let it go and continue dreaming and taking steps towards achieving your dreams. If we learn to get ourselves to“ Higher Ground” then we won’ t dissolve away in the muck of the stagnant pond, which swallows the dreams of those who sink into the abyss.
As spring arrives, our foundation should already be in place and ready for putting the seeds in the ground. If you’ re an athlete this could mean signing up for your next race or competition. If you’ re in sales this could mean calling on your clients or sponsors and inviting them into a conversation around how your products and services can support them. If you’ re a parent it could mean signing your child up for next year’ s school year or signing up for summer activities that will keep everyone engaged and outdoors during the summer. If you’ re a business owner or manager, it could mean calling on investors or setting up interviews for new employees. There are infinite ways to“ plant your seeds” in the spring, but remember you can’ t plant your seeds until the ground is ready to accept those seeds.
Now at this point you can wait until everyone else plants their seeds, or you can give yourself an advantage by setting up a greenhouse, grow racks, or by creating a space near south facing windows where you can start various plants weeks ahead of the normal planting time. This is not in reference to being“ first” or competing against others, it’ s in reference to finding ways to get a head start in your own life so that you’ re giving yourself the most amount of time and opportunity for success. There are always ways to give you a head start in life as in gardening. Many of those ways include things like attending a seminar, taking online courses, listening to educational content on your phone or
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youtube, reading positive books, infusing your mind with positive messages, creating a dream board, surrounding yourself with people who are successful at what you’ re trying to achieve, and continuously expanding your educational resources and know-how in the areas that are directly related to your dreams.
Next on the list of achieving your dreams comes maintenance. Just as you must maintain your garden with watering, planting, weeding, mulching, and managing, you must also maintain your dreams and take continuous action towards your goals. The exciting part about this is that if we followed the advice we learned from sustainable models such as permaculture, then the amount of maintenance we have to implement is reduced drastically because we are implementing models of sustainability and self-regeneration. In business this means putting things on auto-pilot and creating evergreen offerings while investing in systems and procedures that reduce the amount of time of repetitive training and repeat actions that could otherwise be automated. In gardening this means planting guilds and support species that bring the pollinators, add mulch, fix nitrogen in the soil, gather and distribute water, and attract the beneficials to help balance pest invasions.
Even following the most sustainable practices in life and in gardening, there’ s always going to be some level of maintenance. The question is whether maintenance is taking 80 % of your time, or 20 % of your time. With proper planning and preparation, you can reduce your maintenance to 20 %, leaving you more time to continue advancing towards your dreams.
The final step in achieving your dreams is the harvest- reaping what you sow. The harvest is about experiencing the outcome of all your hard work and in many cases taking the harvest to market while investing the results in your future. Harvest time is the culmination of all the planning, preparation, planting, and maintenance along the path towards achieving your dreams. When all of these steps lineup perfectly, your harvest will be one of abundance and joy. When there are gaps
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in the process or if the amount of energy invested in the process is minimal, then you will have a minimal harvest. And sometimes what happens is that you simply don’ t have the experience and hard-earned wisdom you need for a successful harvest and so you lose crops, lose clients, lose investment, and make some mistakes along the way, giving you a poor return.
No matter whether you have an abundant harvest, or a sparse one, the key to achieving ongoing success is to honorably accept the harvest as is, learn what worked, along with what didn’ t work, and eliminate the things that didn’ t work while continually implementing and improving upon the things that did work.
If you’ re strong-willed enough to make it to the harvest, then don’ t ever give up just because your harvest was weak. You laid tremendous groundwork to get to this point and if you take this opportunity to learn from your mistakes and continue the process of personal growth, your next harvest will most certainly be one of more success.
While others may be sinking in their sorrow and sadness from a poor harvest, we must remember that achieving success in life and in gardening is always about getting to“ Higher Ground.” Getting ourselves to Higher Ground means getting up out of the muck of despair and pity while moving confidently towards our heart’ s desires. It’ s not always easy to get back up after life knocks you out, but most certainly it’ s the only way to experience the harvest you most desire.
For more information and tools on how to get to“ Higher Ground” visit www. HigherGroundInstitute. com
Yours in abundance, Nathan Crane
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