Lynn GrasbergClowns Of Prosperity

Clowns of Prosperity

By Lynn Grasberg

A few years ago, I jokingly told a friend that the sure fire way to make a lot of money would be to write a book about how to make a lot of money, even if you didn't know how. (Talk about teaching what you need to learn!)

This was way before "The Secret" came out and everybody started talking about the Law of Attraction.

I figured out at a recent program I did called Laughing all the Way to the Bank, that my expertise was The Law of Distraction - the one that causes me to bounce checks if I start playing video games and don't balance my checkbook.

So, here's the opening to my upcoming mega-hit bestseller. Let me know if you think I should publish it as

a) an ebook

b) a postcard

c) a super duper sales letter that goes on for 21 pages and offers you numerous opportunities to buy a training worth thousands of dollars but is available today to a select group of spam customers for only $249.

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Hey! Is your cash flow still a little constipated or erratic even though you're doing your affirmations every day? Still dealing with stuff like overdue notices and collection agencies (while bravely proclaiming, "My bills are completely paid! I am financially independent! I love this million dollar estate I live in!")?

Guess what! You’re human. And you're in the middle of changing the way you think and live. Call it what you like - shifting your reality, changing your core beliefs, transforming your thought patterns, busting your bad habits, trading in old paradigms for new. Did you think this would be a straight line procedure?

Did anybody warn you that consciously changing your belief system is:

A process, not an end result?
Full of surprises?
Sometimes extremely messy?

Maybe they did, but you probably weren't listening. We're the children of desire and instant gratification and we want that lollipop now!

Like me, you probably look a little goofy while you're in the middle of changing how you think and act so you can create what you want in this world.

See, there you go again, getting a little urgent, running around dumping buckets of water on your own head to put out the fire of your old belief systems. Then slipping on the water and knocking over the clown next to you. Oops!

"Gimme that money!" you howl as you slide down the runway. "Sure thing!" says the Abundant Universe. "But first you gotta lighten up."

"I don't know how!" you cry.

"Are you having fun splashing around on your belly?"

"No!" you yell.

"That's okay," says the Abundant Universe. "You will."

Letting Go of Control

I know, you're really trying to be cool and "go with the flow" but sometimes it feels like you're going to drown in "flow". So you try to grab a fistful of water (good luck!) and control all your circumstances.

It usually turns out, though, that the only actual control you have in the situation is choosing your attitude towards what's going on and what you want to do about it. Are you going to move with it or resist it? That's a loaded question, of course. Squinching your eyes tight and screaming, "I hate this! I wish it wasn't happening!" rarely works. You need to keep your eyes open and steer. Oh yeah, and breathe.

Once is Not Enough

Remember breathing? It's easy to forget while you're skidding along on the floor. Luckily, you have endless opportunities to start over on this one. Breathe in. Breathe out. Aahhhh.

Of course, you don't just breathe once. You do it over and over and over, sometimes consciously, most of the time, automatically.

You may say your new affirmation and reset your intention a thousand times before it becomes automatic, like breathing. And, like breathing, you may want to continue to do it consciously from time to time.

Finding Balance: Beyond Urgency

Here's the kicker: you're changing the big picture of your life. But you have to do it one breath at a time, one little step after another. So feelings that everything has to change RIGHT NOW are bound to come up. And they’re bound to get in your way . . . unless you have some context for understanding them and some way to release them.

Prosperity isn't just about highs and higher highs. It's about balance: balancing your cosmic checkbook and your life. Expect a few showers, snow flurries and sudden gusts of wind.

And lots and lots and lots of money.