Hello,

I'm writing today because I have a doubt about the mental image I should have for my purpose. First, I have to tell you that most of all, I want to retire (but I'm not 65 yet), take care of my family, renovate my house without worring about money and expenses. This is what I want to do in my "new life". To be and to do all this, I must begin by having money.
So, my question is : Am I doing wrong if my mental image is the check with the amount big enough to retire and renovate ? Of course, I imagine my house renovated and me being all the day at home. But what should be my most important image to put all me feelings on it ?
I have too many activities I'm planning to do at home to visualize on all of them. That's why I think that visualizing the check with the big amount on it,would do better ?
I appreciate all the suggestions you will give me about this and I thank you in advance.
Success to everyone !

it is best not to think about a check -
because all you will get is paper - better
is to think about the molecules and atoms
of energy inside the check...

Enjoy!

Hi Maryse,
Ask yourself this question: What would I feel if I already have the things I wanted (in your case- a renovated home, taking care of your family and financially free)? Use your feeling to built the image, choose the one that feel best for you and focus on it. Do the one that has the least resistance for you. As with imaging a check, does it conjure up a feeling to you, if it works for you, then go for it. Some people find it hard to solicit a feeling while looking at numbers only.

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Originally posted by MARYSE:
Hello,

I'm writing today because I have a doubt about the mental image I should have for my purpose.

Am I doing wrong if my mental image is the check with the amount big enough to retire and renovate ?

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Hi Maryse,

One prosperity teacher I know teaches: ‘Never ask for money’ and he give various reasons for this.

But other prosperity teachers say it’s fine to ask for and focus on having a certain amount of money.

(Maybe you’ve heard the story comedian and actor, Jim Carrey has told. He had read or heard of ‘Think And Grow Rich’ by Napoleon Hill, and took the idea of making himself a fake check with the amount he wanted. So he made this check out for $10 million dollars, and he wrote on it ‘for acting services rendered.’ And he said he used to carry it around with him and pull it out and look at it. As you know, he eventually did a movie and got paid $10 million for it. And then he did another and got paid $20 million for it.)

The one thing that I’m seeing both teachers advocate is like SmartMoney said: Practice feeling the FEELING of having whatever it is you want.

Another part of what Jim Carrey said (in a TV interview with Barbara Walters) was, sometimes when he felt really bad about not making it (before he got famous) he used to drive his old convertible to the top of the Hollywood Hills and park it and just sit there imagining what it would be like if he ‘made it’. He said he would sit there until he could actually FEEL what it would be like for him to make it and be famous. Then, when he really felt this feeling, he said he would drive back down the hill, all the while feeling as if he were already a big star.

So, maybe this feeling thing really does have something to do with it. (And I imagine it probably didn’t hurt that he kept honing his acting and comedic skills, and taking bit parts and roles here and there. Do you recall that he played a crazed rock star in one of Clint Eastwood’s earlier movies, The Dead Pool’? Or that he had a stand-up act, and he was a regular on the TV comedy show ‘In Living Color’?)

Just fyi, another thing that Carrey said that stuck with me was, he said there was an early low point in his life when his father had lost his job, and he found himself working side-by-side with his dad cleaning toilets, just so they had some money coming in. He said he thought about how his dad had lost his job and thought, if nothing is certain I might as well do what I want.

Phil

Is it the cash that you want or what the cash can purchase? Perhaps your focus should be on the life you would live if you had the amount of the check.
I too used to carry a check and for me it didn't work. I got the money but it didn't give me the life style I wanted. Now, even if the check were enormous, I would still do the work I do. I love it. I don't do it for the great income, I do it becuse of how it makes me feel. Martin