How to Start Creating Financial Abundance Now!

Trying to create more financial abundance in your life? Life coach Meghan Gilroy offers up some woo-woo – and practical nitty-gritty tips with examples from her own life on how to go from no/zero/low to making the money you dream.

What was the first action that you took to begin your time of abundance?

This great question was recently submitted… Thanks BL!

Quite a few people have asked me recently how we “got started” on creating financial abundance in our lives. I wish I had one pat and easy answer, but life and abundance aren’t so clean cut and neat. That’s actually good news since abundance can start to flow from many different sources and in many different ways when you align yourself with source.

Align with source? I know, that sounds like such a woo-woo answer. So humor me for a few minutes and I’ll also get around to some more, practical nitty-gritty steps.

The biggest, best-est action my husband Jamie and I took was wallowing in the abundant feeling. I know this can be tough when you’re looking at a bank account that is near empty or bouncing your debit card (as we were doing years ago). But we did our best to bring all the expansiveness that we had created in our spiritual practice into our everyday life.

Lots of us take time off or otherwise “drop out” of the mainstream making money for a period of time to pursue spiritual/personal growth studies. At some point, we start to feel the need or simply decide we’d like dollars to be a part of our lives as well. Well, all this spiritual work isn’t for nothing.

Tap into god/source/universal energy in some way every day. Meditate, do yoga, dance, paint, play. Keep doing whatever you love while you also pursue making money. Better yet, INCLUDE whatever you love in making money.

You can actively look for ways abundance already IS in your life. An abundance of friends, food, air, even too much junk in your home. See the abundance around you. Give thanks. Know that it can grow into $$ abundance too.

These two fundamentals should cover the feeling quality of abundance and that is what ultimately attracts more abundance into your life. As many of you practicing the Law of Attraction already know, what you create within you will appear around you in the outer physical world.

Next pay attention to your thinking. Our thoughts are what can stop the flow. And that’s what money is – a form of energy that is exchanged and flows.

How do you think of money? As something static? To be hoarded? Limited? Or not?

Initially when I started paying attention to money flowing, I mostly saw (and pictured) it flowing into my wallet and right back out again. Then I changed my mental picture to one that included a reservoir in it. Now my relationship to money is one that it flows in, some stays in my bank account and grows, and some flows out and back around too me. Much better for the bank account balance at the end of every month.

Jamie and I also paid close attention to our “I can’ts” or “We will never’s.” When we first started – and then grew – his carpentry business, he said to me, “I can’t charge $40/hour… I can’t hire an assistant… I can’t stop swinging a hammer and just work in the office… we can’t afford to hire an office manager.” Each time, I asked, “Really?” and we’d bust loose those limiting thoughts.

Jamie wasn’t the only one who had limitations. I’d often look at our credit card debt* and think “We will never pay all this off” and I’d feel myself contract. Then the next time we’d have a conversation about doing something we both loved or buying something we both wanted, I’d be snappy and negative. He’d gently remind me to breathe and allow conscious spending to bring pleasure in our life while still saving and paying off debt.

(*If you do have credit card debt and want suggestions on how to pay this off less painfully and effectively, email me and I’ll share more ideas with you.)

In the midst of all these changes and paying off debt and saving, we also made it a practice to give back. We each picked charities that we believed in, and even if it was just a few dollars, we sent them donations. Each year we challenged ourselves to give a little more, even to the point of feeling uncomfortable and bumping up against the “I can’t do this!”

Well, I am happy to report that I’ve never regretted sending some money to a good cause and it always reminds me that no matter how much more I might dream of, I am still in the abundant position of being able to give back/pay it forward to someone or some cause that has a need.

Sending off those dollars became easy… and that has been a theme for us too. When Jamie and I were first married, I asked him to financially support us while I went inside to do some deep spiritual work. He agreed, but with the (smart) condition that we move cross-country so he could re-start his construction business in an area where he had a lot of contacts. I was reluctant to leave the life I loved in sunny California, but felt the wisdom in this choice. Going within was more important to me than where we lived. So off we went to the land of (relatively) easy money.

I believe it’s important to make choices that make it easy for you to achieve what you dream. Where does it make the most sense to live? What lifestyle is important to you? If you are in a partnership, can you live in a way that one partner has the freedom to take time off for a period of time? Making conscious choices, especially ones that support ease, will eliminate some of the stress in your life and that allows the abundance to flow too.

The final tip I’ll add is that our lives and businesses didn’t manifest overnight. We took not just one action, but lots of actions daily over years to get to where we are now. Along the way, we made adjustments based on what felt right, constantly attuning our life to what worked given the economy, who we are now, and what new factors have been added (for us having a baby and having college aged-children also living with us).

Abundance is a feeling, supported by thoughts, actions, and choices. There’s no one way to create abundance. Hopefully I’ve offered a few ideas that will spark some action and flow. I’d love to hear what works for you so please email me at meghan@meghangilroy.com.

 Happy creating!

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