Angels of Abundance

I had an interesting realisation with Money the other day.

I was reading a book called “Creating Money” by Sonaya Roman, which is an excellent book and highly recommended.

She was talking about “Ebb and Flow” of money and it really hit me as to how true this is.

She said there are 4 cycles to money:
1) Calm- when money is coming in and going out in equal amounts
2) Flow- when more money is coming in than going out
3) Ebb- when more money is going out than coming in
4) Flat- when no money is coming in or going out.

She went on to explain that there are days in the month when more money has come in. This may be when you have received your pay check or salary on a Friday, for example, and your bills don’t go out until the Monday. I love those because I feel really wealthy for a whole THREE days!!

I began thinking about this and noticed how often I get stressed because money is not coming in, yet there is not actually any needed for that day. Or I worry about how I am going to pay bills at the end of the month, when I am still in the first week of the month.

As I reviewed the days in the month, I saw there were really only a few days where I really juggling money.

I started to look at my bank account each morning, once the daily transactions had gone in and out, and ask myself whether I had enough there for my needs for that day.

More often than not the answer was “YES”, so I could relax and enjoy the day. Now, this does not mean that there was mega-bucks there. What it means is that I could what what I needed to do, whether that was to buy food or put gas/petrol in the car or whatever I needed to do that day.

I started to notice the days when money came in that I did not need to spend on that very same day. That also helped to create more of a feeling of abundance and move me out of a “poor” state of mind.

Ideas and Business.
These same cycles can be applied to our business and I think it is very important just to observe which cycle you are in from day-to-day. If there are things you can do to move to a more preferred cycle, then by all means do them. If there aren’t, then my suggestion would be to observe the mood of the day and how you are feeling and go with the flow.

Relationships and Money.
Another interesting point that came up for me was money and my marriage. In our rather traditional marriage vows (in 1993), my husband Greg pledged “all his worldly goods” to me and I, in return, vowed to “love, honour and cherish” him (I could not get my head around “obey”, so we dropped that one).

Money goes in cycles as well. There have been times when he has earnt more money than me, times when I have earnt more than him, times when we have earnt about the same and times when neither of us have earnt anything.

For me, the lesson was sometimes to allow him to provide for the family and to take care of us and not to put myself under so much pressure to achieve and to earn.

I have always considered myself quite independent, so the thought of allowing myself to be looked after was quite alien to me.

However, having done that for a few weeks, it has enabled me to evaluate which parts of my business I really don’t enjoy and those I have kept going just to generate an income.

I have been able to let those go and to allow new creativity and opportunities to come to me, without feeling the pressure of “got to, must, should, have to, ought to”.

An opportunity has come to me which is absolutely perfect for me, which I probably would not have even looked at before.

HEALTHY CHOCOLATE!
I am so excited about this because I adore chocolate and this product can also help me lose weight. Even better! And I can earn from earn well from eating and sharing healthy chocolate.

That period of ebb and flow and allowing myself to be nurtured has been wonderful for me.
I highly recommend it.
With abundant blessings.
Amanda Goldston