7-Point Plan To Make Money Your Friend: #5

by Clyo Beck

5) APPRECIATE AND ENJOY MONEY

A Young Brooke Astor

Most people who are on a strict budget, or who are in debt and feel they need more money than they have, spend whatever money they do have with fear and misgiving.

In other words, they do not enjoy handling money, looking at money, or spending money because they feel the lack of what they don’t have and that fills them with pain and fear.

Since they do not feel appreciation or enjoy money as they handle and use it, but feel fear and lack, they give God the message that money makes them miserable, and they do not want more. God, therefore, complies.

The antidote to this is to give thanks for every penny you have, and to rejoice as you spend and pay your bills. No matter what it takes, find a way to feel immense gratitude and joy as you handle and spend money, no matter the amount, or how it is spent.

While this may seen difficult at first, this is the surest way to get more money. So ”fake it until you make it.” Cultivate an attitude of gratitude and feel real joy and appreciation when you use money, and God will send you more.

DO NOT JUSTIFY LACK AS NOBLE

Given that our Creator has provided an earth of lavish abundance for us, and will give us anything and everything so long as we believe we deserve it, it is false nobility to say “I’m spiritual, and not like those awful rich people who are parasites on the rest of us.”

Yet, we should not blame ourselves if we have uttered these words. There is a long tradition of coupling money with evil, and of teaching people that poverty is noble.

The fact that we have all seen evidence of wealthy people who really are criminals hasn’t helped. Yet, the majority of wealthy people are beautiful jewels.

No one demonstrated this more than Brooke Astor, who spent her life as a joyful philanthropist. She gave away the extra she did not need, was extraordinarily kind to everyone she met, and supported people’s dreams while still enjoying sumptuous luxury and wealth within her own life.

A LESSON FROM MRS. ASTOR

Fearless, Brooke had no problem with money. Her life motto was: “Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around.”

When a robber came up to her on the street and demanded her purse, she wasn’t worried about protecting her money when she looked him straight in the eye, put out her hand to shake his and said, “I don’t believe we’ve met. I’m Mrs. Astor.”

Yet, floored by her confidence, he ran away without her purse.

Brooke loved money and enjoyed what she could do with it. People, however, interested her more. She said her life changed when she stopped worrying about what people thought of her, and started to be concerned with what she thought of them, “but in a good way.”

She found she was happier when she looked for the good in people, listened to them, was interested in them, and appreciated who they were. People with dreams and ideas became foremost in her life, and money was a fantastic tool to help them make things happen.

VISUALIZE MONEY AS A FRIEND

So how do you feel about money? Do you love it for the good it can do? If not, learn how to appreciate and enjoy it, no matter how little you may have at present.

Visualize money as an accessible friend, willing to come around and hang out with you. Talk to it. Find out why it’s left and what it will take for it to come back.

Remember: money is energy and there is so much energy in the universe it’s mind-boggling.

Money is neutral. It is we who behave badly or well in the way we use it.

Realize that it is you who controls what money does, and not vice-versa, and you too can be free to love and enjoy money in the same way that Brooke Astor did, with fearless and innocent joy.

And won’t that be splendid?

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