The number of questions I am asked by people directly relating to their financial prospects is quite astounding. And one of the consistent questions I am asked is ‘will personal or intuitive/psychic development assist me or refine my capacity to become more financially abundant in life?’ The answer depends on four key elements.
For years now courses have sprung up everywhere to help people create wealth and financial abundance. People are running around doing courses in financial visualisation, financial clarity and “smashing value and belief structures that are restricting your financial capacity” and I find it very scary.
In my opinion, what is happening is that the course conductors are making a smart financial decision by drawing on people’s fears and insecurities for their profit margins, and the participants are walking out after many hours of gruelling dialogue, or harsh value reset drills and are not at all able to sustain, let alone understand, what else needs to occur in their mindset and soul-set to achieve this so called “financial freedom”.
Am I sounding cynical? You bet.
Every week I see people around me, people on my database and people I meet and work with joining these sorts of programs – and then I hear how these so called “investments” fall over and cause the participants pain.
The most successful people I know (and I am fortunate to know many from all walks of life) share the common denominator of knowing who they are and what purpose their finances serve in their lives.
From my Catholic nun friend in Ethiopia who runs a medical outreach centre for thousands of orphaned children, to my buddy in Sydney who runs a needle exchange program in the Cross to my slap-happy soul brother who runs one of the world’s most successful multinationals - they all know the value of a dollar and the way the environment it is spent in must be set up.
So what does this mean to you?
I believe that financial growth and development is the direct result of a mixture of these elements:
- Knowing who you are;
- Knowing what you want out of life;
- Knowing what you are prepared to do to achieve the above; and
- Knowing when you turn your own financial security (whatever your perception of security is) to the benefit of others.
1. Know Who You Are
No course will ever tell you who you are - you must sit in silence and ask this question of yourself. I know I have asked this before in other newsletters and articles, but so many people work on the concept of who they think they should be – not who they are. Who do you wish to be in this world? What is important about this?
For example, I am Julianna. I know that despite choices in life that I wish I may have otherwise made (as we have all experienced – I may be psychic but I’m also human and also have learned my fair share of lessons), that I am strong, independent and clear on my mission to bring the capacity of communication between Guides and Humans to the world at large. I wish to be a leader and creator in life. This is important because I refuse to believe that people are not innately capable of experiencing what I do when I communicate with my Guides. I am not unusual or weird, I’m just not the same as you.
2. Know What You Want Out of Life
Knowing what you want your life to deliver to you means that you have to set a benchmark for yourself that you want your life to represent - and never compromise on it.
Whenever people make comments to me asking me how long I am going to persist in the madness of my mission to bring what I do into the mainstream, I simply smile in the knowledge that I am already doing that as full-time mothers sit alongside general managers, nurses, office workers, naturopaths, accountants, designers and more in our courses!
3. Know What You are Prepared to Do
It is critical to know that through all of your travels to achieve understanding of yourself that you will be honest and deliver to yourself and of yourself, even when you feel that all others around you are not in accord with or supportive of you and what you wish to do or choose to be. You see you can lie to everyone else, but never to your Guides or yourself. You know this to be the truth.
Knowing what time, energy, focus and resources you will bring to the table or still need to learn, research, discipline and harness, and being able to recognise when you are or are not comfortable with them, is also critical. This is how we grow.
Recently, I have been asked to do more PR for the brand Julianna by the other partners in the business. As an introvert I find this intensely uncomfortable. So I trusted and have been guided by my partners and the result is that we have met some wonderful people who are absolutely part of my belief of only doing business with those I respect and would choose to do business with.
4. Know When to Benefit Others
Knowing when you are financially stable enough to invest in the humanitarian sector so that you can really make a difference, and not just for the novelty or expectation of it, is important to Spirit. I know so many wealthy people who will pay thousands to attend a high-profile event for their own promotion, yet haggle with the milk man! Mmmmm.
If you give, do so freely knowing that you can do this without reservation and ego. If financial giving is a struggle then do not give financial assistance, but give of your time.
You see by doing the above you are, in essence, aligning who you are with what you want and using the strategy of persistence to achieve your goal. Therefore financial growth and development will result as an outcome of your personal growth and development.
I do believe that financial security (and by this I really mean what security means to you – not necessarily excessive wealth) is second in importance to breathing. It is what gives us options for a healthy lifestyle. However, knowing who you are and why this wealth is important allows your lifestyle to have meaning and purpose. And this advice from my Guide Elizabeth and I....is given to you for free!
