An Ah-Ha Moment

      For the past few days I’ve been wondering how something that happened in the first ten years of one’s life can have more impact than everything that happened in the next thirty. Childhood experiences have impact and they have lasting effects. Everyone has their story.

      Most of us have obstacles that may have been caused by misguided childhood conceptions. We adopt an image of the world, viewed through our experience. We see that image as reality. And we set up our lives to perpetuate and prove the reality we see. That may sound harsh, but it’s not, really.
      We are complex creatures with many ideas on life. As a child, if you received any love at all, chances are, you believe in love and are able to somehow, perpetuate it. The ability to succeed, overcome challenges and be happy may be a bit further from your grasp. We figure out the world the best we can and get by. Some seem to glide right through and others hit every bump. But if it were not just a matter of chance, if we had created a bumpy world through our own expectations, could we change it?
      Yesterday I stumbled onto some new insights about my life. Maybe my own misconceptions have been holding back my prosperity all these years. Do we really have to work so hard - to the neglect of every other aspect of our lives - in order to attain financial security? Some do, some don’t. Have I been singled out as one who has to? No, I don’t believe I have. I may have unknowingly believed it before, but now that the question has come up, I shall make a clear and definitive statement. I don’t have to sacrifice any of my life for money. Money comes to me, easily and frequently, supporting a life that remains true to the values of love and friendship, creative productivity, altruism and fun.
      WOW! You have just witnessed an ah-ha moment! One knows they are having an ah-ha moment by the quickened pounding of the heart and the feeling of exhilaration, accompanied by slight dizziness. I think I’m onto something here. Yes, I believe I am. In the composition of one sentence I have created the declaration of my freedom. This sentence is now my motto and I am going to tattoo it onto my brain. From now on, I'll be saying these words upon the first moment I wake and the last, before sleep. Not only that, I now know that the emergence of each and every penny that comes my way is a result of the concept held within the words. For example, a friend just hired me to install some light fixtures for her and I found eleven cents. There you have it - forty dollars for friendship and creative productivity and eleven cents just for fun.
       So although I may have had many years of practice, unintentionally undermining my own success, I believe that one inspired moment of clarity has just changed the course of my life. Yes, childhood events affect us but the way we view the world is always a choice. The world I grew up in of obligatory sacrifice and disregard for one’s spirit and soul was someone else's illusion. I no longer live there. For me, money comes easily and frequently, supporting a life that remains true to the values of love and friendship, creative productivity, altruism and fun. We can change our lives and we can change the world we live in. Wanna see proof? Just watch me! I’ll have that $5000.00 before I leave for Costa Rica.

Running total:  $1311.91 closer to my goal of $5000.00