Those of you who have started the Prosperity Challenge will remember that I asked you to consider that Prosperity means to you. Several of you submitted your responses to me (thank you!), and it’s interesting how many of us look at Prosperity in similar ways.
For most of us, it doesn’t involve money so much as satisfaction. There is, however, that element of moving from lack to choice. That’s a good thing because focusing on lack just keeps it in place.
Choice is a recognition that anything is possible. It’s a way of looking at things with an open mind and an open expectation. Rather than “buying in” to someone else’s defiinition or limitation, choice is ultimately a very personal matter – it’s about what makes us happy. That’s why it’s so important.
A high school friend of my husband’s is visiting from Lake Tahoe tonight. He is funny, gracious and easy to be around. At dinner we discussed how he had closed his business – the one he started 30 years ago – because he decided he didn’t want to be a 55 year old doing what he had always done. He’s very comfortable with his choice and right now his focus is on how he’s doing exactly what he said he would do…not be a 55 year old doing what he had always done.
How cool is that? Declaring yourself, following through with your word, and recognizing the value of simply “being”. He knows that 5 months from now is soon enough to figure out what he wants to do next. No pressure, no urgency, no emergency.
Most of us never give ourselves the opportunity to discover what we’re capable of being and doing, because we’re so locked into being and doing the same old thing – what’s expected of us.
True Prosperity consciousness recognizes that when we allow ourselves the moments of freedom, we allow ourselves to discover what will give us that next sense of satisfaction.
Oh, and right now he’s in my kitchen doing my dishes – what a great guy!!