Money is a Moment by Moment Decision
As you read this, I will be finishing up the second of my extended trips for the summer. We are bringing my youngest daughter’s two cats to her new apartment in DC and then spending time in a couple of National Parks.
These two trips have been as much learning process as enjoyment (I first wrote about them in the article Spending with Joy which you can read on the blog here).
The day after I made full payment on our VRBO in Virginia, I received notice that we would be without power one of the nights – and if that wasn’t ok, I could either move my reservation or receive a full refund. I opted for the latter since moving the reservation just wasn’t a choice.
The refund came quickly, but not in full. In fact it was about 25% short.
The management company blamed VRBO and VRBO blamed the management company and I am now out 25% AND literally hours of time.
This incident combined with a couple of other “weird” situations spun me into a feeling of powerlessness. Powerless with money. Powerless with the Divine. I stewed here for a while – got mad at myself for stewing here – and felt even worse.
What created even more frustration was I was supposed to be working on content for my new Soul Abundance Circle. I don’t know about you, but powerlessness and frustration simply do not allow creativity. So now, I was out the time, the money, and the ability to do my job.
Fortunately, that was enough to trigger me back to consciousness. I was making a choice to feel powerless. I was making a choice to feel frustration. I was making a choice to allow myself to feel cut off from my ability to work. None of these choices were allowing abundance to flow my way. In fact, not only was I feeling powerless, but I was feeling scarcity – of time, power, and creativity.
In the past, I have allowed myself to stay in these feelings because making a new choice was too hard. And those feelings of powerlessness were super familiar and easy to swim in.
Now I have a whole toolbox of tools that help me make new choices. And I am making new choices first and foremost because I want to FEEL better, not simply because I want a different outcome from the original situation. When I concentrate on the feeling instead of the outcome, the change of emotion happens quickly.
Would I like that 25% back from VRBO? Without a doubt. But I want to feel better even more.
I want to feel better because:
- Who wouldn’t rather feel powerful instead of powerlessness
- This choice keeps my flow of abundance open instead of closed
Consistency of emotion matters to the rate of flow of abundance (I have a lot more to say about this – in fact, I will offer a mini-experience around this topic in September. If you’re on the waitlist for the Soul Abundance Circle, you will receive this for free. To get on the waitlist click here.
Abundance is a moment by moment decision.
Abundance is a moment by moment decision to feel the best you can feel in the moment. Not the best that you have ever felt, but the best you can feel in the moment. Fear, worry, angst, powerlessness, etc., all put up stop signs that slow the flow of resources from the Divine. Better said, they stop your RECEIVING the flow of resources from the Divine – the Divine is always flowing them to you.
This is not one of those toxic messages that tells you to “just feel positive all the time”. Yuck and no thank you.
This is about being aware of how you’re feeling, aware of where your thoughts are taking you, aware of how your body feels. All of these are going to give you clues about how conscious and connected you are in this moment – when you’re conscious about it you can make choices that support you in much better ways.
(oh, and in the amount of time it took to do the EFT work to shift out of powerlessness and write this article, I received my full refund PLUS some extra for the inconvenience. And while I love the tangible demonstration, simply shifting back into a place of feeling my own power was so relieving that it really didn’t matter.)