Gas and Prosperity: My Mom vs. Me (article + greetings)

Hi All,

I'm just finishing the Simpleology 101 Day 18 checklist, which nudges us to come on by and say "HI"

Wow, all through the course so far, I've been amazed at how the course effects you, and then when I got to the Daily Praxis, I was very impressed.

Now today, once again, I was amazed, yet this time it was when I went and compared my "now" levels with what they were just about three weeks ago:

Energy : Was 6 ... IS 9.6
Happiness: Was 4 ... IS 9.875
Efficiency: Was 3 ... IS 9.2
Health : Was 5 ... IS 9.9
Wealth : was 6 ... IS 9.8

Obviously the course has had profound impact on me, and I'm so grateful to Mark for all the time, energy and creativity he infused it with!

To give people a better idea of who I am, I thought I'd share with you an article I just finished, which I haven't promoted to my subscribers yet or shared with anyone else.

May you achieve...and exceed...your dreams!

Abundantly,

Dan Klatt
Author, Speaker, WealthSensei
http://www.think-wealthy.com/book.html

P.S. The article does have my resource box at the end, because I wrote it to send out to article directories and announcement lists. According to my take on the rules of this forum, that sounds kosher.


Article: “Gas and Prosperity: My Mom vs. Me”

By Daniel E. Klatt


News in the U.S. plays up the spiraling cost of gas, even drawing upon people’s fears of hoarding, long lines and shortages.

This focus is what “fuels” peoples fears, and in fact causes the hoarding, long lines, possibly the shortages, and definitely further spiraling gas prices.

We’ve seen this happen throughout the ages, where someone panics about something, stirs up others, and then pretty soon everyone’s talking about how much they don’t want something to happen and the momentum keeps building up… until it happens.

Look at any recession, for example, where people complain about the state of the economy and declining wages, lost jobs, higher cost of living, and being afraid “it’ll only get worse”… until it gets worse.

And the media “informs” people on what’s happening so they stayed glued to their TV sets and the networks can jack up their advertising costs, by giving Madison Avenue more eyeballs for each commercial “programming”.

That’s a quick overview of how pandemonium develops in society.

Let’s bring it back to gas and expand our conversation to lack vs. prosperity thinking.

First, my mom is one of these people who sit glued to their network news shows and willingly absorb all the negativity they spoon feed her.

Then, when she’s particularly afraid or worried about something, she’ll call me and try to release this lethal negativity to me, so she can stop worrying about it.

(I don’t mean to sound dramatic, because that’s how I perceive it, that she’s passing something radioactive to me, so it’s no longer affecting her—and it has as much harmful effects as radioactive waste, except this junk affects my mind first, and body second.)

It’s the same thing that happens to you, except if you’re like most people, the radioactive garbage is transferred to you directly over the TV.

So she called me a few days ago to tell me I need to fill up my car, because people were panicking and gas stations were running out of gas. And she wanted me to stock up on non-perishable groceries, so she wouldn’t have to worry I might be stranded somewhere unable to find somewhere to fill my tank.

I didn’t rush out to buy gas, as I’m sure she did. When I went out anyway for some errands, I planned to get gas, and as I was almost home (I live out in the country) I realized I had forgotten all about the gas!

She called me last night to make sure I filled up my tank, which is really to say “I don’t want to have to worry about you anymore” and when I told her I forgot, she urged me to go out and fill up the tank.

Let’s look at this dynamic from a lack vs. prosperity consciousness, because there are key distinctions playing out here where the gas is just an example of how people come from lack.

And it’s another ramification of living their lives in fear and not owning their power and instead letting situations determine what their lives look like.

My mom’s a great example of this.

She cooks and cleans and watches TV and reads and sometimes goes out grocery shopping or shopping, yet she rarely does the things that give her joy, and she’s not in tune with what she’s passionate about.

Although she likes making designs with stamps, and she’s interested in painting, she rarely does anything with the stamps and I think she didn’t want to invest the time to learn to paint well.

That was probably because my dad thought the deer she painted looked like a wolf, so the less than encouraging feedback caused her to stop dead in her tracks doing what she otherwise probably would have loved.

After all, when you spend so much time worrying, you’re focused on what you don’t want—how can you have time to think about and focus on the things you do?

Kind of logical, if you think about it.

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