Moving Beyond a Limiting Poverty Consciousness

Let's take a walk into the future. I don't mean living in the future of “what will it be like when, how can I make this happen”, etc.

I'm talking about having a vision of what you would like your future to look like five years from now. The way I want us to look at it is to be right where we are now, in the present.

When we look at where we are right now, even though we might not like what it looks like, it's a reality. The reality is we might have debt, we might be in a job we don't like, we might not have the kind of income that affords us to take a vacation, etc. However, when we know what we want and are willing to vision that for ourselves, then we can proceed with allowing vision to be created in our lives.

I’m not talking about sitting and taking no action and simply having magical thinking. But magical thinking is exactly what this takes because, in order to get our minds out of a limiting consciousness, it’s going to take a little magic, yes?

Let's say that you have $60,000 worth of debt, you've just lost your job, and you're upside down in your mortgage. Now, even though this is a pretty dire situation, it could be worse… or it could be better. The first thing I'm encouraging you to do is: make a decision for your life to get better for you.

That's what I'm talking about when I say let’s go five years into the future. Then look back on where you are today and, from that perspective, vision what you'd like to have your life look like. After you've made that decision, the first thing that’s necessary is for you to know what you want, and believe that you are worthy of having it.

We live in a society, particularly today, that tells us there isn't enough and we aren't enough. If we continue to buy into that lie, then looking at your life from the future isn’t very optimistic because we don't have the mindset it takes to create your ideal life.

I'm sure that many of you have heard of vision boards, vision books and creating visually what it is you’d like to have in your lives. I know that for the most part a lot of what comes up are material things. That's not to say that the material things we'd like to have are not okay to desire, however, what we really must understand is prosperity and abundance are more than material things or stuff. Prosperity and abundance also includes peace and serenity around wherever you are financially.

Regardless of where you are financially or with your jobs or your business, you’ve got to move into a place of having peace and serenity rather than only fear. That comes before you can get into a mindset of “what is it that I'd like to see in my life and how can I go about allowing this and creating my life to look this way?”

One of the things about our beliefs is that they're not necessarily true in and of themselves. But, if we believe them, they become true in our experience. You know the old saying “as a man thinks so shall he be” or “you get what you think about all day long”.

If this all sounds a bit airy-fairy, that's okay. The question that I would ask you is “how is looking at it from the perspective of world-speak working for you so far?” Because, if you do not have peace and serenity in your life, you feel that life is nothing but a struggle and are unhappy much of the time, then what would be the harm in looking at it from a perspective that might “look a bit crazy”? What harm is that?

Would it be okay with you if your life got better? Try it on, it couldn’t hurt.

Reva Kussmaul
CVO – MoneyVisions
http://www.moneyvisions.net