{"id":2625,"date":"2010-06-02T20:50:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T04:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pickthebrain.com\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2013-08-22T12:53:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T20:53:03","slug":"making-money-creating-abundnace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pickthebrain.com\/blog\/making-money-creating-abundnace\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Money vs. Creating Abundance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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To make money or to create Abundance, what\u2019s the difference? Seems like a minor distinction, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

On the surface it is. However, after exploring the subject of abundance in depth, I woke up this morning with an epiphany.<\/p>\n

Trying to deliberately make money, doesn\u2019t work.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Correction. It works enough to fool us into thinking we can deliberately make money, but as it turns out; we are only chasing it. It teases us into thinking that \u201cmaking money\u201d is an actual skill. On a certain level that\u2019s true, but only if you have the printing press to print it!<\/em><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the problem. Once we start chasing money, it runs away, doesn\u2019t it? We get into a cycle of thinking we need money, we want money, money will make us rich, we deserve money, money rescues us from poverty, jail, and debt, money will scare the wolves and the vultures away.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s all true. But that is not the mindset we need to \u201cattract true wealth to us.\u201d That is not using \u201cThe Law of Attraction<\/em>, but instead is the very mindset that chases the money away! Yet I find myself so instantly there. Often. And then I remember.<\/p>\n

If we truly desire to be wealthy, and that is a noble desire, and yet it still seems \u201cout of range,\u201d let\u2019s recall the distinction between \u201cmaking money,\u201d and Creating Abundance.<\/p>\n

I admire the writing of Wallace D Wattles, author of The Science of Getting Rich<\/em>. He teaches the difference between the competitive mindset<\/em> and the creative mindset<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The competitive mindset makes the assumption that there is not enough, ever.
\nThe creative mindset makes the assumption there is an infinite amount of whatever is needed when it\u2019s needed, forever. Wattles calls it \u201cthe thinking stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

This explains the unhappy millionaire because he\u2019s not yet a billionaire\u2014he is in the competitive mindset. This explains all of us chasing the money that runs away from us.<\/p>\n

Do we fail to spot our true wealth, for chasing the money that laughs and chides us? Do we race ourselves exhausted right past our riches? Definitely.<\/p>\n

We need only click the remote from the \u201ccompetitive station\u201d where plots and programs are all about chasing money, fighting wolves and beating off pecking vultures stealing it from you; to the creative network of inspirational thinking stuff<\/em> where true and lasting, infinite abundance abounds forever.<\/p>\n

Stop competing and stop chasing. Change from the competitive station to the creative network\u2014and leave it on the channel where lasting wealth and true abundance abound!<\/p>\n

Deborah S Nelson is a guest blogger for PickTheBrain and the founder ofAuthor Your Dreams<\/a> Publishing<\/em><\/p>\n

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To make money or to create Abundance, what\u2019s the difference? Seems like a minor distinction, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

On the surface it is. However, after exploring the subject of abundance in depth, I woke up this morning with an epiphany.<\/p>\n

Trying to deliberately make money, doesn\u2019t work. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12163,"featured_media":12922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[45,6],"tags":[4650,123,90,4631,70,66,4629],"yoast_head":"\nMake Money or Create Abundance. Which would you Rather?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"To make money or to create Abundance, what\u2019s the difference? Seems like a minor distinction, doesn\u2019t it? On the surface it is. However, after exploring the subject of abundance in depth, I woke up this morning with an epiphany. 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