What is Your Idea of True Prosperity?
| on June 16, 2008 at 12:55 pm | filed under Empowered Awareness, Featured Posts |
These days there’s lots of talk about abundance and prosperity. People are told to put their “order” into the Universe.
I recently began reading Shakti Gawain’s book “Creating True Prosperity” and find her perspective so refreshing. More than 10 years ago she had a clear perspective about what it takes to think, feel and live prosperous. Hint: it’s more than just thinking positive. I highly recommend this book to anyone trying to use the law of attraction or positive thinking to achieve your financial goals.
Right before I began reading Shakti Gawain’s “Creating True Prosperity” I decided to write down my ideas of prosperity. How did I define it for my life? That way I would know how much the book influenced my ideas of prosperity. So here’s what I wrote down (in no particular order).
- True Prosperity is freedom from money worries.
- True Prosperity is freedom to explore life adventures through travel and other experiential avenues.
- True Prosperity is a feeling of abundance. It’s feeling that I’m able to manifest financial flow.
- True Prosperity is seeing the value in life — and experiencing all the riches of the world through all my senses and awareness.
- True Prosperity is true appreciation for the value of what I do and what I offer others.
- True Prosperity is rich relationships: friends, family, work associates, pets, etc.
- True Prosperity is open-hearted love!
So what is your idea of True Prosperity? How will you know when you are prosperous? How do you live like a person of abundance?
Hmmm. I don’t think I have an “idea of true prosperity.” I spend more time concentrating on process than I do on results.
To me it’s all about the process. If I love that, if that gives me satisfaction and joy, then I’m happy. Some of your points seem to focus on process, now that I look at them again.
But, oh, as to number one on your list: We are never free from money worries! When you don’t have enough money, you worry about not having enough money. When you have enough, you worry about taking care of it. My mother told me this a long time ago and I never believed it, but it’s true……
I say don’t worry about prosperity. Just do your work, save your money, keep the dishes done, enjoy your cup of tea in the morning, and don’t forget to take out the garbage.
June 17th, 2008 at 1:01 amWell it seems that loving your life process is your idea of true prosperity. That’s a great one. I would never think to list doing the dishes and taking out the garbage as important happy life elements, but I can see how that certainly makes a much nicer environment in which to enjoy one’s life process.
June 17th, 2008 at 12:49 pmTrue prosperity for me lies in living this moment and all it presents to me for living. In this moment prosperity is endless because this moment is endless. I make it finite only by trying to preserve this moment in my own perception of what I believe this moment and its inherent prosperity is. Prosperity lies in my belief and the health and fullness of my relationship to the Power of the universe and to another. Another, because all of us incorporate the power of the universe as lived within ourselves.
July 5th, 2008 at 2:36 pm