6 Ways to Let Money Flow!

I want to share with you the key activities I do on a regular basis that I feel have most contributed to (finally!) creating the wealth I so long desired. Something I’ve learned recently about money — and how to make a lot of it — is you get whatever you choose.

Truth be told, this lesson has been many years in the works, perhaps even a lifetime! But it’s not until the past few months that it’s really hit me.

Damn. I could have had this all along. This, or something better!

I just didn’t ask.

Or to put it more specifically, I didn’t ask, fully believe, and then also do the (real) work to make it happen and allow it to flow.

What’s your wealth situation right now?

Are you exactly where you want to be, better off than you ever imagined, so damn blessed and grateful to have created an easy and alignment based flow of money and perhaps just reading this out of curiosity, to get someone else’s take? Or are you like the vast majority of people in that – infuriating as it is to admit it – you just haven’t yet managed to figure the money thing out yet?

You never quite have as much as you need (or want!)…

Your dominant thoughts around money tend more towards fear and scarcity rather than joy and plenty…

You’ve actively tried to improve your money mindset and deal with your money “sh*t” as well as do the practical work to grow your wealth and reduce any debt, but yet for every step forward you feel almost instantly pulled back again — and sometimes it seems as though even any money that you DO create just doesn’t want to stick around and hang out with you; it’s instantly gone and you can’t even necessarily put a finger on where or how this just “happens” all the time!

It’s ridiculous!

But — and this is important for you to really think about, and understand — it’s also your fault, and your choice. Don’t worry — I made crazy choices around money for years as well, so you’re not alone!

Now — I choose wealth. I’m only at the early stages of wealth creation — I don’t have millions in the bank or even hundreds of thousands yet! But I’m on my way and for the first time in my life money feels fun, light, and easy. I know that as much as I choose is on its way to me. For the first time in my life when I think about money I feel free. Excited, even. And certain.

And I have to say — after years of feeling constricted, scared, anxious, even terrified and just so damned ashamed about my financial status and seemingly non-existent ability to claw my way out of it (and why couldn’t I? I’m a winner damnit!) — it feels every bit as incredible as you might imagine. Sometimes I still have to pinch myself. Mostly I am just so very, very grateful, and also so very in awe of all that is possible to us if only we will ask, and willingly receive.

So today I want to share with you the key activities, belief patterns, and mental exercises I’ve made part of my life that I believe are at the core of allowing money to flow to me. I hope it can help you too to break free of the awful bondage that is money fear, and know that you are WORTHY and also allowed to create true wealth – in whatever form that means to you – and that you’re allowed it now.

This is the stuff gorgeous. There’s no point slaving your ass off any longer if it’s not working for you.

Here’s how:

6. Money Cannot Be the Focus

I know, right? How can you not think about money when ALL YOU CAN THINK ABOUT IS MONEY! How to get it… how to hold on to it … why the hell it’s not coming … and how on earth you’re going to stay afloat … never mind how much longer you can keep this juggle going without dropping ALL the balls in a big. dirty. mess.

I know it’s hard and seems near impossible but if you want to create serious wealth and be free financially? You gotta take your mind off your money worries (in particular) but even off the whole concept of “I Must Make Money” in general. You see, money, it’s like that crush you used to have in school … and it wants you to be cool. You get all stalker-like with it and try to insist it hangs out with you? It’s going to run and hide. Plus, let’s be serious – are you really doing your best work, from a place of passion and purpose, when your focus is money, money, money, I just need some money?! No. Uh-uh. You’re not. I can tell you that as soon as I took my focus off money and put it deliberately onto having fun, onto doing what I really wanted to do in my business, and on making a big difference, money breathed a huge sigh of relief and just started SURROUNDING me within literally weeks.

Wealth tip: Focus on how you can make a difference not a dollar, and money will flow. For me it took a conscious choice to say “fuck this” to trying so hard to make money. I pretty much deliberately ‘gave up’, and decided to just do what I do best and TRUST.

5. Train Your Money Muscle Every Day

Let me ask you something.

Would you expect to workout until you get the body you want, and then just stop working out except maybe once a week if you remember and expect to keep that body?

I don’t think so.

Nor would you expect to turn around years of crappy eating and no exercise in a matter of weeks … even though it might be nice! If you’ve spent years abusing your body and now you want to get fit, you’re going to have to pay the piper. Same thing when it comes to money. Wealth is a muscle and you need to train that sucker daily. It is not SUPPOSED to be comfortable either, by the way! It should feel grossly UNcomfortable, confrontational, and downright messy at times. But you want the result? You put in the work baby! And not just the physical work, like tracking where your money is coming from, and saving even a small amount, and launching that new program before you’re ready but also the EMOTIONAL and INTERNAL work to create the money mindset and beliefs you need to have in order to create true wealth.

Wealth tip: Allow 30 minutes a day to train your money muscles.

4. You Can’t Create Wealth from a Place of the Wrong Service

I’ll say this until I’m blue in the face as I think it is the most powerful thing I’ve ever been taught about wealth creation. Actually I heard this line as part of a church sermon I attended while living on Australia’s Gold Coast. Funny how the one time in months I made it to church and the message was all about making money! This just jumped right out at me as at the time I was battling to make money love me, and I was hustling my butt off trying to get things to work and it just was getting worse. When the preacher made this point I literally felt my jaw drop open, and it just seemed so deep and also obvious. This comes down to the truth which is that you ARE here on this earth for a reason, and you do have a purpose; a calling. You ignore that purpose, that calling, you act knowingly out of alignment in your business or life? Ain’t gonna work sister. You cannot create wealth from a place of the wrong service.

Wealth tip: Stop pussy-footing around and not doing what you’re really meant to do with your life. You think you’ve got all the time in the world to wait for ‘one day’? You don’t. You have no more time left to live the wrong life and you have no freaking hope of getting rich by avoiding your calling. You know what it is. Now figure out how to bring it to the world.

3. Deliberately Ignoring Debt and Lack

This fits into the Three Wise Monkeys approach, but it deserves its own point.

It might sound crazy or irresponsible but one of the things that most helped me to break free financially was deliberately ignoring my debts and lack. I don’t mean I didn’t pay bills (although let’s be honest, I usually did so late) but I actively refused to pay attention to the awfulness that was, for so long, my money situation. I noted when bills were due, and paid them quickly as and when I could (which was not always when they were due), but aside from that I truly actively AVOIDED thinking about ‘negative’ money stuff. This resulted in some fights with my husband as on occasion he wanted to have a big worry/OMG conversation as he genuinely feared our lives falling apart… as did I, but I sure as heck wasn’t going to talk about it! I admit this behaviour on my part was completely SELFISH, as he felt he ‘needed’ to talk about it. But I felt DEEPLY that I NEEDED to not talk about it if I was going to keep my head above water, and to be honest I don’t think it would have been a smart thing to entertain or allow his fears to be brought out in a bigger way either.

Wealth tip: Do what you have to do to take care of your finances but do NOT obsess over bills, debt, lack or ANYTHING that takes your focus away from creating abundance and wealth. Be SOLUTION and POSITIVE focused not worry and fear and ‘what if’ focused.

2. Money Needs a Focus: Give it One

Phew! This is heavy stuff, right? I feel like I’m having some kind of emotional release writing it all out. I trust if you’re still with me that this is important for YOU as well.

So. Speaking of focus. MONEY needs a focus. It needs somewhere to go. If your dominant thought pattern is around fear and lack and not having ENOUGH then the money will go AWAY from you as fast as its little green legs can carry it. The other thing about money, is it abhors a vacuum.

So create SPACE for money in your life and it will GO there.

Wealth tip : Some of the ways I have very effectively built up wealth even in a SMALL way at first and then eventually in a BIG way, simply by making space, are:

Open up fee-free online savings accounts and give them titles for what I want the money for. I.e. “Tithe,” “Tax,” “Giving,” “Designer Handbag,” “Fun Spending for Kat,” “Traveling to Munich,” “First Class Business Coach.”

These are all real accounts of mine! In most cases I started with only $10 per week going into a new account, and for some of them I still only send $10 per week, or $20! But it is AMAZING what you create when you simply start sending even $1 in the direction of something you desire! In fact, when we were ready to book our flights for the first leg of our current 1-2 year ‘laptop life’ travels, which was to Munich, I checked that account I’d been adding to for a while without thinking about it.

1. Ask, Believe AND Receive: You Must Do All 3

There is so much more I could say about wealth creation and ALLOWING yourself to receive money. It’s a topic big enough for an entire book…
Here are some top wealth creation lessons my tribe of women shared with me on Facebook that really stood out to me:

• That I, too, deserve to MAKE money with my gifts.
• That by charging more I am actually helping my clients more.
• It is NOT rude to talk about money, (my biggest old belief) it is essential.
• That your mindset is more important than you realize.
• Smashing money blocks is the foundation of creating a profitable business.
• It’s easy to feel confidence when you have money, but it’s easy to lose that confidence when there isn’t enough money and yet your skills, offerings, passions, worth hasn’t changed.
• Being wealthy is having (creating) options and choices. The more choices we can make the wealthier we are. Converting cash into real cash flow assets is AWESOME.
• It’s never really about the money.
• Finally I want to tell you…
• You can do this.
• You really can.

Kat Loterzo

Author Bio

Kat Loterzo is an author, speaker and entrepreneur and would love to KICK YOUR ASS INTO ALIGNMENT and help you truly press PLAY on the business and life you were born for. Kat works with DRIVEN women who want it all, now, and are willing to go out and GET it all.

Kat writes a weekly column for The Huffington Post, runs events and retreats for women entrepreneurs all around the world, currently lives a ‘laptop life’ traveling endlessly with her husband and two young children, LOVES to write (and drink copious amounts of coffee or wine while doing so, either is fine!) and she has self-published over 15 Amazon best-selling books since early 2013.

Kat’s dream is to create a REVOLUTION of women willing to step into true PURPOSE, passion and FLOW and live a life COMPLETELY on their terms as they also empower others to do the same. Ready to join the revolution …

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