From Jenna:
Since Christina and I took this jump together, I’m really starting to look at money differently. Obviously, one of the most important things you can do when you take a leap of faith, is to keep a positive outlook. That’s such a big part of this journey for us, as you can see. And so, if you are always coming from a place of lack, you will continue to find and receive lack. But what I am talking about here is even more than just keeping positive and attracting abundance. I’m starting to see many more opportunities for financial security than I have ever before when I was making a steady, decent salary.
Take a look in your mail. In the past two months, I’ve taken advantage of offers to do things like switch banks, or pharmacies, open a new account, or even skip a loan payment. These offers have saved me almost $400 in the past two months since I started paying attention. Now normally, I would have gotten those offers and trashed them, thinking that they were too much trouble, or not worth it. But coming from a different place now, I consider the amount of time they would take me to set up, or participate in, and when you break it down like that, I’m making more than $50 per hour. Wow. I stayed home, did nothing except for get my mail, and when I looked closely, I changed offers in the mail to an hourly “pay rate” which is higher than anything I’ve ever made. Ok, skipping a loan payment isn’t exactly a “deal” because I will still pay it on the backend, and of course, I’m still accruing interest. But what it did, was buy me another month of time. It freed up that money for me for another month. If time is money, I’m using it in the opposite way to my advantage as well as I continue to work the many avenues I’m finding. I’m “buying time” with things like this, allowing the universe the time it needs to even it all out for me as well.
In just this past week, of paying attention to the ebb and flow of different amounts of money, I was amazed at how things lined up. We had an expense of $47. Ten minutes later, (literally), we were able to use a coupon we didn’t expect to be able to use, and it saved us $42 on a car repair that we couldn’t avoid. Then I went to the store and had to spend $35 to buy baby things. My mom got in line behind me and bought $25 worth of things for the baby that I would have needed in the near future. I withdrew $20 from the ATM for other unexpected expenses. But later that night, I received a $20 gift for no reason.
Money is the one thing in constant ebb and flow in most of our lives. Part of my past fears about money have to do with trying to stop the ebb and flow and strictly control the stream to flow in the direction I want it to go in. From one of my favorite Abraham Hicks analogies, this is like holding your oar in the water. If you start letting go of the oar, things appear. They start to even out, and usually more often, end up in the positive. Start thinking about money differently, and don’t be afraid to move things around to buy yourself more time. Everything else in our life is in this constant motion as well. The only thing unproductive, it seems like,… is fighting it.
