Money-rexia

"When is enough enough? You seem to be always striving for MORE and MORE." Excellent question asked me by Kim Falconer.

Dang - thought I'd kicked the 'when...then...' habit! I realised if that I am always looking forward, I'm not ever savouring present tense. And we don't live in 'tomorrow' - we live in NOW.

I think it's a common problem - chronic dissatisfaction with what you manifest and a continued craving for more and more, always unfulfilled.

Like someone obsessed with their weight - always striving to lose more - until their perspective of 'reality' is skewed. There is no appreciation left - just dissatisfaction and dis-ease.

This happens with MONEY too - always wanting more, never being happy with what is. And 'what is' is often fabulous!

Money-rexia.

So how do you get your perspective back?

For me, it was looking backwards.

I thought about how little money I've had previously - earning $400 per month working at Outward Bound. A big deal was having over $100 in my bank account.

And yet I was so prosperous! I travelled globally, did the Canada-Australia trip every one to two years, always had plenty of food, plenty of clothing, plenty of adventures, including a mountaineering trip to New Zealand.

And now I earn many multiples of what I did then, live in a glorious house, have a stunning wardrobe, and a lifestyle full of travel, lovely wines and restaurants, and I can have anything I want.

I've manifested tremendous wealth and yet there is a craving for more...

So what's the problem?

Not appreciating it fully. That's how you develop money-rexia. When you don't pause and soak it all up, revel in it, appreciate it, feel grateful for it, then you're on to the next thing, and then the next.

If you don't feel like a Queen now, 

then there is nothing that you can manifest  

that will ever make you feel like a Queen. 

Unless you can be satisfied and appreciative right here right now, then you've got money-rexia.

I'm not knocking a keen anticipation for more good stuff - that helps us to grow - what I do want for us - for me - is to enjoy the good stuff now AND the good stuff to come.

That's called 'bliss-ipline' and it trumps money-rexia any day.