Hope your booty has been shakin' all over in a good way. This first week was all about picking your intention, and getting a clear picture of what that looks like - hot pants, sailor pants with Fred Astaire buns, and a sexy little dress.
Next you've got to connect with the 'why' of your new booty. In other words, how do you want to feel with the new booty? Fun, free, sexy, strong, excited, confident? This is your real focus. Connect with the feeling of shaking that little butt, and then connect with that feeling over and over each day - in moments unrelated to your booty shaking and shaping. Got it? Good.
'Looty' bits - stuff about 'loot', money, cashola
Just in from the mailbag:
"Hey Zoe,
Hope your wonderfully well. Can I ask a minute of your time please on how you would have handled this situation?
I entered a competition to win an Audi TT one of my cars on my vision board. I had a call from the department today that set this competition up. They were trying to get me to enroll onto their euro millions lotto syndicate. £11 per month. Currently I only work 6 to 8 hours each week as a music lecturer, although a damn fine wage, its not enough to cover all my monthly expenses. I told them this, that I have to balance things carefully.
I was trying so so hard not to put out that feeling of lack, but sometimes it just cannot be helped. I am now beating myself up about the conversation.
I was trying so so hard not to put out that feeling of lack, but sometimes it just cannot be helped. I am now beating myself up about the conversation.
Just such a difficult one, I try not to focus on the money all the time, and stay in the current moment, not looking ahead and worrying like usual.
Can you help? I know your words of wisdom are amazing." - Darren
From the coach:
"Hi Darren
Cool email! This is what I see in it:
To shift your vibe on this situation, always ask yourself, 'what's great about this? what's perfect about this?' and you can shift from there.
And by the way, it's not the money or lack of money that is causing you grief - it is only the stories that you tell around it. Money is just energy - it flows and ebbs like all other energy forms. It's the stories we attach to money that cause the suffering. Stories like, "If I don't earn enough money I am not a good person, I am failure."
The emotional stories we create around money get in our way of managing money properly and create a lot of unnecessary angst.
If we drop the stories around money and treat it like something without any emotional charge, then we will go a long way to dropping the fear and worry around money (and therefore clearing the way to attracting more of it).
Take for example this story: "I need money to live." Is this true? When you look at the nuts and bolts of this statement, you can say 'no - it's not true - I can live without money - there are ways of getting your needs met without having money."It feels true to us because of the emotional attachment to the concept of 'money'.
Let's try this statement again with something else (which is just energy - just like money) - something like 'underpants'.
Try again: "I need underpants to live." Clearly this is ridiculous! You do not need underpants to live. Underpants make living more comfortable, but are not required. Just like money.
Substitute 'underpants' some more for money and you'll see how ridiculous your stories really are. For example, "I have to balance my underpants carefully - there are not enough underpants to cover my monthly underpants." And you can see how funny this is!
There may not be enough underpants to cover the underpants going out the door, so you just need to adjust your underpant usage.
When you de-personalise money (there is so much emotional junk attached to money - it is all tied up to our sense of worth as human beings) - then it makes it so much easier to make pragmatic decisions around the management of your wealth - and to feel a sense of fun and practicality about it.
So if you an detach and depersonalise the meanings around money, it is easy to make decisions without the angst (such as saying 'no' to the monthly subscription - the underpants are currently allocated elsewhere) - and this lessens the resistance to bringing in more underpants.
cheers
Zoe"
Later, from Darren...
"Aww Zoe,
Thats amazing!! Thank you so much. Really really mean that. Made me laugh and smile so much.
I was also a little skeptical towards the lotto, because I asked for some information to be sent to me, and they said we can't send you anything until you give us your sort code etc. Also made me question the situation a little. But hey, gotta stay open minded.
But thanks once again. Made me look at it so much differently now in such an amazing way.
All the best for the weekend ahead. Here's to you!! I do shout your praises a lot to many people I meet.
Regards, Darren"
My pleasure Darren!
From the coach:
"Hi Darren
Cool email! This is what I see in it:
- The universe is responding - it sent you the contest with your car in it.
- Your conflicted vibe about money put some obstacles in there to challenge your beliefs around money - this is an opportunity to reaffirm your intentions and desires.
To shift your vibe on this situation, always ask yourself, 'what's great about this? what's perfect about this?' and you can shift from there.
And by the way, it's not the money or lack of money that is causing you grief - it is only the stories that you tell around it. Money is just energy - it flows and ebbs like all other energy forms. It's the stories we attach to money that cause the suffering. Stories like, "If I don't earn enough money I am not a good person, I am failure."
The emotional stories we create around money get in our way of managing money properly and create a lot of unnecessary angst.
If we drop the stories around money and treat it like something without any emotional charge, then we will go a long way to dropping the fear and worry around money (and therefore clearing the way to attracting more of it).
Take for example this story: "I need money to live." Is this true? When you look at the nuts and bolts of this statement, you can say 'no - it's not true - I can live without money - there are ways of getting your needs met without having money."It feels true to us because of the emotional attachment to the concept of 'money'.
Let's try this statement again with something else (which is just energy - just like money) - something like 'underpants'.
Try again: "I need underpants to live." Clearly this is ridiculous! You do not need underpants to live. Underpants make living more comfortable, but are not required. Just like money.
Substitute 'underpants' some more for money and you'll see how ridiculous your stories really are. For example, "I have to balance my underpants carefully - there are not enough underpants to cover my monthly underpants." And you can see how funny this is!
There may not be enough underpants to cover the underpants going out the door, so you just need to adjust your underpant usage.
When you de-personalise money (there is so much emotional junk attached to money - it is all tied up to our sense of worth as human beings) - then it makes it so much easier to make pragmatic decisions around the management of your wealth - and to feel a sense of fun and practicality about it.
So if you an detach and depersonalise the meanings around money, it is easy to make decisions without the angst (such as saying 'no' to the monthly subscription - the underpants are currently allocated elsewhere) - and this lessens the resistance to bringing in more underpants.
cheers
Zoe"
Later, from Darren...
"Aww Zoe,
Thats amazing!! Thank you so much. Really really mean that. Made me laugh and smile so much.
I was also a little skeptical towards the lotto, because I asked for some information to be sent to me, and they said we can't send you anything until you give us your sort code etc. Also made me question the situation a little. But hey, gotta stay open minded.
But thanks once again. Made me look at it so much differently now in such an amazing way.
All the best for the weekend ahead. Here's to you!! I do shout your praises a lot to many people I meet.
Regards, Darren"
My pleasure Darren!
This is very inspiring.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
Mike
www.ChangeYourLifeCoaching.com