Money and Social Flows

Money is a social construct, but we so often treat it like it’s a form of individual accomplishment. This mindset gets a lot of people stuck. I think it’s a lot easier for many people to generate abundant income when they think about the social flows. I know it’s challenging to do that though, especially when we get caught up in focusing on our own needs and desires. In the past I used to think about how to align doing what I enjoyed with income generation. It was often tricky to connect the dots, but that framing got me into the ballpark. The key there was to keep making two types of mistakes and learning from them: Generating income in ways that didn’t feel heart-aligned.Doing heart-aligned work that didn’t pay well. I made both mistakes multiple times. When I earned money in ways that didn’t feel good, so it was hard to motivate myself to do more of that, other than earning the bare minimum to get by. So I could see that this path would be a dead-end. It wasn’t going to motivate me to do my best. And the lifestyle aspect wasn’t very good. I didn’t see the point of making money doing something that didn’t inspire me. I also did some nice creative projects that didn’t pay well at all. I think this was the better mistake to make though. It helped me discover what I liked, and when I invested in this type of work, I got better at it, which made it even more enjoyable and rewarding. And sometime...
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