DO WHAT YOU LOVE & THE MONEY WILL FOLLOW… BUT WHEN?

by Cary Bayer

Dear Coach:
Recently, I read the book Do What You Love, the Money will Follow, by Marsha Sinetar. It was a sign: I was fed up with my job and needed to quit, and pursue my passion for painting. But I have a fear that if I do what I love, the money won't follow to maintain my lifestyle. What advice could you give?
—Nervous in New Paltz

Dear Nervous:
I, too, believe that if you do what you love, the money will follow. But-and this is very important-the time it takes for each person's money to follow is radically different.

Some 200 moons ago I quit the last job I ever had-or ever will have-to pursue what I loved. At that time it was writing comedy. Making people laugh made me feel so good. Within the two-week period between giving notice and leaving, an amazing thing happened: I received an offer from a producer to write a screenplay for his comedy movie. It was my first screenplay, and within the year, it was in movie theaters. This is doing what you love and watching the money quickly follow. I might have been a lame duck, but I was a fertile one.

One can't always expect such rapid manifestation time. Christ said if we had faith and asked a mountain to move, it would move. When New York state wants a mountain to move, it hires a corps of engineers and rents a bunch of bulldozers. We're living in a pragmatic age. If you're going to do what you love so the money can follow, I recommend some pragmatic preparation; take care of three main pieces of business.

1. Have a minimum of six months of banked living expenses.
These savings provide a cushion in case the money follows slower than you think. When I coach someone privately, I can see after a couple of sessions how fertile their consciousness is. But without access to that inside information, I advise people to think safe now, rather than to feel sorry later.

2. Keep your heart pure.
After 14 years of helping people create money miracles, I've noticed that financial breakthroughs happen most frequently to those whose hearts are pure. To paraphrase Jesus' sermon on the mount: "Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God's money miracles."
If there are people you're angry with, forgive them. Release the toxicity you hold in your body so unexpected income can replace it. Feng shui your center from your worrying ego to your loving heart.

3) Do an inner overhaul on your mind.
A study was done in Canada among people who struck it rich in provincial lotteries. Here's their astonishing discovery: Within five years, the vast majority had lost everything. The governments dumped sudden fortunes into their laps, but never taught the winners how to handle them.

It's time to spring clean your consciousness. You may consciously believe 'If you do what you love the money will follow,' but unconsciously believe 'If you do what you love the bankruptcy will follow.' A powerful way to remove unconscious resistance is through affirmations. Here's one I highly recommend: When I do the work I love, the world is enriched and so am I, as large sums of money flow to me quickly, easily, and abundantly.

The best way to use affirmations is through writing; and the best way to do that is to include the negative response that comes up from the unconscious. I suggest dividing the page in three-at the left margin, write the affirmation, and in the middle of the page write the response that arises in your mind after you write it. Suppose it's "If I do what I love nobody will care." Simply write the response without judging it. Then in the right column create a new affirmation that specifically treats this response. A good one for this resistance would be, "God supports me when I do the work I love."

This process honors the material that rises from the unconscious, the negativity that prevents the affirmation from being your current reality. If this material weren't there, you wouldn't need to be working with the affirmation that brought it up in the first place. Writing the response is like releasing the resistance from your being.

I recommend writing this affirmation 10 times a day for at least a week, and then speaking it 10 times a day with feeling until its truth has become manifest in your daily life. It would have been wonderful had our parents taught us thoughts like these on a daily basis.

Unfortunately, that wasn't the usual topic of conversation at the dining room table where we spent some 20,000 meals with our family. For many of us that meant 20,000 sessions with bad financial advisors. And these advisors were even more potent than the ones we meet at brokerage houses because they created, reared, and loved us, and we did our best to be loving and loyal to their teachings.

When you do what you love and get paid for it, you discover, to your astonishment, that the United States government is more enlightened than you ever dreamed possible. The Internal Revenue Service pays you to do what you love. As a painter you know that the IRS supports you to visit art museums and buy art books by letting you write off such expenses. Those in the healing arts get tax breaks for taking personal development workshops.

When you consider these facts, you recognize that there's something to this "In God We Trust" business written on American currency. Because doing what you love involves doing what's on purpose for you and utilizing the gifts your Creator bestowed upon you. That's when the world is enriched. And so are you…as large sums of money flow to you quickly, easily, and abundantly.

Cary Bayer is a Life Coach, meditation teacher, author of The Prosperity Aerobics, and workshop leader who teaches classes on prosperity, relationships, breakthroughs, and laughter. He resides in Woodstock from May through September (845) 679-5526, and on the ocean in south Florida from October through May (954) 788-3380. To reach him about his private Breakthrough Coaching or Breakthrough Meditations classes, e-mail him. Look in the calendar section for details of classes Cary is leading this month in our area.

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