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I’ve read a lot of posts – some for my stance on the taxi cab driver, and others against it and I’ve decided to ask the question ”What’s the diffrence between $20 and 31 diamonds?”

So first let’s talk about the Laws of the Universe. There is the law of gravity: this law does not make judgement of whether a person is good, bad, rich or poor. It works always and without fail. The rain falls on the everyone regardless of who you are. Same with the Law of Attraction. It doesn’t judge a person or their request and brings the wishes of those it likes or chooses over others. It works for everyone – always and without fail.

There are 3 parts to Law of Attraction – ASK, ANSWER, RECEIVE. It is a fact that most people don’t have a problem with the ask and answer, but when it comes to the receiving part they attach judgement – judgement based on human standards, not Universal standards. If it were up to a lot of us, only a select few could ask the Universe for wishes and ever expect to get it. Now that I’ve said that,what is the difference between $20 and 31 diamonds?

A lot of people coming into Law of Attraction hear that you are supposed to see a penny on the ground and pick it up and say ‘THANK YOU UNIVERSE - WHOOOO – YES SEND ME MORE MONEY!!!!’ I’m curious why when it’s 31 diamonds it now changes to ‘Wow Universe, I’m not supposed to have it.’ Let’s look at the reality of this: this honest cabbie does not likely trot off to the police station every time he finds coins in his cab, every time he finds a $20 bill in his cab…Shouldn’t the guy be compiling a jar and filling it up and then saying ‘Hey cops! I found this in my car and I’m honest so I think the owners should have it back.’ Nope! Why not? Because he feels it’s SMALL and no one including the owner will care too much about it. But 31 diamonds – now that’s just plain HUGE. Someone is gonna hurt because of this – so the issue is SIZE. Yes I get the issue of the owner lost the diamonds and didn’t mean to give it to him, but what about the person who lost the $20? They didn’t mean to give it to him either. Isn’t it all money? Why is one right but one wrong? Where is all this judgement coming from? Had this lady dropped 20 bucks, we would have never heard of this HONEST cabbie. A lot of people have no judgement over the penny on the street, or the unexpected 20 bucks, but loads of judgement over a suitcase of money…and are sitting there waiting for their $1.5 mill to be delivered and wondering why it’s taking so long…

I read a post on Lyman Reed’s blog called You Can’t Break the Law of Attraction. It says:

And another thing in reference to my previous post… you can’t break the law of attraction.  If the cabbie had really attracted those diamonds into his life to keep, he would not have been able to return them.  The universe wouldn’t have let him.  And if the jeweler had attracted a permanent loss of the diamonds, they would not have been returned to her.  They would have ended up in someone’s hands who would’ve said “Look!  Free Stuff!”

Now I can’t say what I really want to say about this post so I’ll say the politically correct version – DUDE WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?! Don’t confuse Karma or the myth of Karma with Law of Attraction. The Universe can give you a castle – there is no law written that says you have to accept it – it’s called FREE WILL. That’s a myth – that you cannot turn away opportunities.

This taxi driver followed the 3 steps of Law of Attraction:

ASK – He works 12 hours a day. He asked for more money. He was in line with free money in his cab because we’ve already proven he doesn’t trot off to the police when he finds $20 bucks or a dime…so he is in line with receiving money left in his cab, or the storyline would have read ‘Taxi driver known for returning everything found in his cab finds and returns 31 diamonds.’ Nope – it sounded like this was the first the police had seen this guy in relation to returning money.

ANSWER – The Universe said ’Hey cabbie, since you are open to free money and free money left in your cab, here’s some more free money!’ The Universe just recognizes energy, it doesn’t recognize that 20 bucks is small and 31 diamonds is HUGE. It’s just responding to energy, and if you have received other money left in your cab, it just sends you some more money: ‘Cool, this dude asks and is open to getting it in his cab – there ya go…delivered!’

RECEIVE – He was not open to receiving, because he had judgements that him taking this money would put someone else in a bad situation. That was his judgement, not a Universe judgement. The Universe was just granting wishes. Now free will comes in where you can choose to say ‘I don’t want this because it goes against what I believe’, but again that’s human judgement. Remember, the Universe doesn’t judge things as bad or good – Just IS…and there is no law saying if you ask for a red car and you get a red pinto with 4 unmatching tires that you can’t say ‘Hey Universe – That’s not what I want – not gonna accept that – I wanted a red Honda!’ The taxi driver said the same thing: ‘Hey Universe – I wanted money but I didn’t expect you to send $30K worth of money – That’s too much – I couldn’t possibly accept it…I wanted something more like 20 bucks.’

The Jeweller apparently holds a thought about ‘I cannot lose money.’ How do I know? She gives him a 30 cent tip and then a 100 buck reward…So she is just saying real loud, ‘I can’t afford to lose money’ and the Universe just gave more of that - LOSING MONEY.

You and I would have been so grateful this guy returned our money. Would you have only given him $100 when he returned $30K to you?…Nope…Shoot this cabbie would be my best friend! SHAUNA would have to move over! I’d only ride around town when he could take me.

When I first began my Law of Attraction journey, I figured out really quickly that I had a problem with lots of 000′s. It seems a lot of people still haven’t figured that out with themselves. I was fine when the 00′s were one or two, but as the 00′s piled on I could feel anxiety rise up and my money programming surface…It was cool for $20 bucks…It was cool for $200…It was cool for $2000…But you start to get up to 4 zeros and all of a sudden I could barely write it on paper, much less expect to accept it…To me at that point 0000′s was what someone made in a year…How did we expect the cab driver to be able to accept money he usually takes a year to make, all in one day?

As an avid trader, I can tell you the fact is that 99% of trading is mental and 1% is clicking the buy and sell button. A lot of people lose money trading because they hold judgements over how money can be received. In an environment where only you can control how much you make, there are thoughts of ‘I can’t make $50K in a day’, ‘Money is not supposed to come so fast’, ‘I’m supposed to work harder than this for it’, ‘I’m not supposed to take 3 minutes to make the same money I make in 1year’, ‘I didn’t do anything to deserve this’…

So what’s the diffrence between $20 and 31 diamonds? YOU, OF COURSE!

I think something we have not yet learned is how to get out of our own way and let the Universe work. We spend so much time telling the Universe how we expect it to act, and how we expect it to fulfill our wishes.

When I originally wrote the blog post, I assumed that I was sending a message to everyone about being open to receiving, but as the days have passed and I’ve thought more about this, I’ve come to realize that I asked the Universe for $1 billion to make it to the Forbes 400 Richest Americans list, and to get there you need no resistance to money and a lot of acceptance about the avenues the Universe may use to bring it to you…And so I realize that a huge part of this message is not for just for everyone but it’s also for me – to release any judgements I hold and any resistance to the Universe delivering what I truly want – Me getting in line with the thing I’ve requested. And I have to say I’m more open now to accepting a suitcase full of money at the phone booth than I was before – SO BRING IT ON UNIVERSE!