The Breathing Prosperity blog

Yesterday I missed an important point and I wanted to turn that into my extra exercise.

Yesterday’s exercise was ‘what do you talk about?’  but I forgot to add ‘How do you talk about money?’ I believe T. Harv Eker said ’Imagine if you treated your husband, wife, spouse, best friend like you do money – How long would they stick around?’: Money is the reason I have to work so hard/Brian is the reason I have to work so hard; Money is the root of all evil/Brian is the root of all evil; Money can’t make you happy/Brian can’t make you happy; Money corrupts people/Brian corrupts people. Would Brian stick around? –  probably not! So money goes where it is appreciated and loved, just like people…So if you treat and talk about it badly no wonder it’s never around. Be honest, would you stick around if someone blamed you for making people work too hard, for making people act stupid, for making people act stuck up, for people not having enough, for people dying or starving to death, called you evil, etc etc.?

So exercise no 3 is get a piece of paper and write down all the things you say or think about money and imagine if someone were saying it about you!

Okay now on to today’s exercise. Aaron at Todayisthatday.com has a post that describes exactly what I want to talk about today and that is Action. A lot of people listen to the words that are being said but very few are actually doing anything. A lot of people major in minor things – they get up every day and they work 9-5, come home to kids and spouse, dinner and you wake up and do it all over again – year in and out. A friend of mine when I let her read my book went oh I’m so inspired that you wrote a book, I’ve always wanted to write a book, my mom’s life was so interesting and could write a book about it. Has she written a book yet? – Nooooooooooo…Will she ever write a book? – probably not.

Many people are so afraid that if they make a decision they will make a mistake that they can never make a decision to take action on anything. They spend the entire time thinking about it, talking themselves out of it, telling themselves why it won’t work. As I write this I think about myself – I’ve always been one of those fly by the seat of my pants kinds that learn how to fly on the way down and/or swim – whichever! If I get a good idea I pounce on it before my mind has a chance to think, and by the time my mind realizes, I’ve already gone off the cliff but at the end of the day I come out thinking wow I discovered something new about myself today…So the question is if you continue along this path where will you end up in 5 years? Same job, same house, same life – nothing will change except you will be 5 years older.

What could you do today that will change the course of your life in 5 years? What could you do today that will put you one step closer to the life of your dreams? So it’s an easy exercise today:

Exercise 4 – Look at your life – Look at your life 5 years in the future. What could you do today that will make a difference in 5 years? What can you do today that could change the course of your life? WELL DO IT ALREADY!