Take a Skill - Monetize It and Create a Better Life

It's not easy to make the mind shift to the "profit motive" especially when being seen as nice, kind and generous is your currency of choice.

But monetizing something that you know how to do is not going to make people not like you. On the contrary - no one likes a door mat.

It will, however, help you to put a roof over your hear, enjoy affordable housing and enjoy work that you love doing.

Exchange value - my services for your money. That's commerce and it's a great way to make a living and many more of us can become entrepreneurs if we are willing to get over the money bit.

Where were you conditioned to believe that money was bad? What's stopping you from charging what you're worth? A first step is to acknowledge that you've got issues. It's amazing what happens when you just admit that.

Don't wait for the knight in shining armour to rescue you, get out there and be your own knight.

You've always been manifesting - but how do you manifest the good stuff?

I've had a lot of experience with "manifesting" but I don't spend a ton of time breaking down why that is. Let's get something straight here -- all of us are great at manifesting.

But not all of us can manifest the good stuff or have really given it much thought.

It's life altering when you realize that you actually have control over getting what you want in life. I kid you not. I've developed a fondness for studying and teaching the Law of Attraction and I am particularly interested in teaching it to folks like me.

Folk who have never really enjoyed the really good life. Oh we may splurge now and again on an all inclusive when we get our tax return but I am not talking about that.

I'm talking about having what you want in life - even the stuff you can't really afford right now. Even the statement freaks you out doesn't it? It used to freak me out as well.

I watched a video by Kathy Eckhardt Your Genius Zone Guru yesterday and she breaks it down nicely.

What we need to do to bring about what we think about is get really good at attaching the RIGHT EMOTION to our thoughts and words. This message resonated with me when I watched her video.

When I went bankrupt in 2010, I spent a full year worrying that I might go bankrupt. It consumed my thinking and my griping and I didn't spend much time dragging my thoughts away from the anxiety around that prospect. And....the proof is in the pudding as they say. I went bankrupt.

When I manifest good things in my life like when I opened my business in 2015, I spent a ton of time dreaming and thinking about that before it ever happened. I would get so excited about it that when I showed up at that place, it was like deja-vu.

Get this - when I went bankrupt, it was like deja-vu as well.

I want to chew on this for a while. Where do you spend your mental energy? Are you building up or tearing down. Are you filled with joy or filled with worry? Is there synchronicity between your thoughts and your real world? I bet there is.

Let's start the dialogue. What are your thoughts on this topic? We all manifest a life but are we manifesting the life we want?