During this month, I’ve played an abundance game with the ladies at the Inner Goddess Circle. You start off on day one with virtual £100 (or whatever your currency – USD, AUD, CAD, EUR etc) to spend. This amount doubles every day for a set amount of time (we did it for 21-days). The rules are that you have to spend the money and you can’t save it for another day. The idea is that it gets you used to larger amounts of money and you can notice blocks or resistance to abundance as they come up. Obviously, as you’re not spending your own money, it’s a safe way to explore what life would look like with financial abundance. As you would expect, it starts off with pretty normal stuff. I wanted to fix the garden fences, get a new laptop, go on holiday and hire a tree surgeon. Then you get into amounts where you can pay off mortgages and debts, leaving the ever-increasing sum of money for more frivolous pursuits. Luxury travel around the world anyone? All of a sudden it gets serious. You have everything you need to live very comfortably. You’ve got your house (or perhaps two), a car and a financially care free life so what do you do with the money? At first, I thought it would be fun to play around with the stock exchange. But that didn’t sit right with me. I realised that I don’t believe in large, faceless corporations that put shareholder’s profits before people. I had no idea I felt so strongly about this until I went to virtually invest my millions. These feelings surfaced again when I read about ‘supermarket x’ – a supermarket, rumoured to be Tesco, that sold sausages and ham contaminated with Hepatitis E. People have become infected and the common factor is store brand sausages and cooked ham from the same supermarket chain. The government has decided it is not in the public’s best interest to know who sold the infected meat. This screams to me that the UK government is in allegiance with profit hungry corporations and not with the people it is there to serve and protect. #rantover I have spent the last decade in self-employment; before that, I was employed in public and private sector. I went to college to study business, information technology and finance (makes me yawn just thinking about it) for four years. I know commerce is necessary but change is long overdue. Micro businesses, small businesses, solopreneurs, organisations with heart and soul – that’s what I believe in. I believe when business is a heart-soul expression, greatness can flow and change the world (and oneself). The marketplace and its spirits have been calling louder for me to be part of the change: to work with individuals to soulfully & spiritually create a business and to help melt away the resistance or fears that so many of us on a soulpreneur journey face. My heart-soul is invested in this. I want to see the marketplace flourish. I want to see business women feel good about their heart-soul expression. Which takes me back to the abundance game. I couldn’t invest in the stock exchange and I know that once my own financial levels increase, I will not frequent supermarkets unless absolutely necessary (I have also vowed never to set foot in McDonald’s again after watching The Founder – haven’t eaten there in many years but did occasionally buy a drink.). I also refuse to donate to large charities not because I don’t believe in the cause but because too much money is spent on administration and director’s generous salaries. So, my virtual £106+ million got put into a random act of kindness fund. I can happily go around and give money to people who are doing good things and I can help fund start-ups that have a vision of making the world a better place. It would give me enormous pleasure to give away a vast fortune. What would you do with £106 million (or dollars or euros or whatever your currency might be)?
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