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Should I really just spend it all and trust that there will be enough to pay the staff later? Can that be right? I don't want to be stupid...

I don’t think spending all your money is a good idea.

What do your feelings tell you? Do you FEEL like it’s a good idea?

On another note: What is the possibility of you doubling your income, and at the same time working a little less?

Phil

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Yeah, I've noticed that I often get things free or discounted AFTER I've decided to buy them.

Part of that is the awesome power of simply MAKING A DECISION.

And part of it may be that once you've decided to buy something, you've let go of at least part of your scarcity thinking -- that part that's SCARED to let go of money.

Rebecca, I love this thought. I can decide to go and buy something even if I don't know how the money will come to me.

In a responsible way. I am sure that Wally did not want me to run up a credit card debt.

I think today is a wonderful day for making decisions and for bouncing after tennis balls

God bless you,

Caroline
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Originally posted by Phil:

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Should I really just spend it all and trust that there will be enough to pay the staff later? Can that be right? I don't want to be stupid...

I don’t think spending all your money is a good idea.

What do your feelings tell you? Do you FEEL like it’s a good idea?

On another note: What is the possibility of you doubling your income, and at the same time working a little less?

Phil

Phil, thanks for that. I don't want to be paralyzed by fear, but I also don't want to ignore it. I think that if I use fear for what it is intended, a warning system, then I can calmly observe the underlying feelings and make an "inspired" decision.

Is it possible to double my income and work less? Certainly it's possible. It's not specifically part of my CMI. Do you think it should be?

Rachel

A really cool thing happened to me tonight. I was driving home, listening to my SOGR CD, like ya do... and I had a daydream compelling enough to make me turn off the CD.

I imagined myself, years from now, talking to someone about what I did for a living. I felt confident, relaxed, prosperous, and successful. I think my profession had something to do with life coaching, success skills, or something. That was sort of vague. But here's the cool part: I was saying to someone that I USED to be a dance teacher and that I STILL owned 4 studios which paid me $100k a year even though I never worked in them at all anymore. Then I went off on another daydream in which I went to one of my studios to take a master class for fun, and I asked my (faceless) manager not to tell the staff that it was "the boss" coming. I didn't want them to be nervous. What a fun fantasy!

Also, when I got home, my family was happily looking at new houses on line. There are several "reasons" why it is not particularly practical for us to move right now, but we had a good ole time anyway. We even found a house we loved that is theoretically within our price range!

I think the universe is trying to tell me something.

Love and blessings,
Rachel

I forgot that I actually had a revelation regarding this fantasy. The thing that I was most proud of in my daydream was the accomplishment of having successfully built up a network of studios that could now function efficiently without me. Of course the sense of having plenty of money was important, too. But I don't think I want to be handed a lot of money just to sit around. I want to DO something worth bragging about.

Apparently, that's what I really want.
Rachel

That's cool, Tom!

Sometimes I actually think that my staff would be happier if I weren't there all the time. Maybe it's time to start looking for a location for a second studio. I could certainly duplicate what I've done here, right?

Thanks for the ideas!

Love and blessings,
Rachel

I know that this is an old thread, but it's a good one for me now. I just completed lab 10. Actually, this might be one lab (like many of them) that is on-going...

I am seeing how great it is to develop my CMI. I've read SOGR a number of times over the years, but I have never felt as strong or as good about it as I do now. My "Faith" is getting stronger all the time.

I have had one particular CMI that I have had for years and now I see the conversations I have had around that - that clearly have stopped it from happening. I have joked about it, like it's funny and who in their right mind would want this? I have told myself how unrealistic it is. I have said to myself "that would be way too much work so I don't really want it".

Not only do I now see those conversations, I honestly see how silly they were. I didn't have to do anything "hard" to let go of them. It just feels like I am ready.

It has helped SO much to just do the life labs one at a time - and completely enjoy them as I go. This feels so right...

Thank you everyone for all your great posts. Leslie