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Well, I took a huge bite of fear and swallowed it whole. I arrived and survived.

My greatest surprises so far in Living the Law of Attraction (see previous post) are the difficulty I’ve had in making myself take time off to enjoy my new home and the realization of how effortless it is to slip back into a scarcity mindset.

About the time off … I told myself before I began this adventure that I would take a real vacation, something I found hard to do at my former employment. Suddenly, not working on anything meant I was being lazy. An American upbringing can put some strange ideas into your head, like if you’re not hard at work or thinking hard about work you must be worthless.

I can’t wait to get rid of that thought pattern. It runs completely counter to the concept that time is not money, time is our lives. Money should come from living and the amount we make needs to be less tied to the minutes that tick by.

Developing some passive income streams will help dispel that mindset. Rich people realize that putting time and resources into a project initially should lead to an income stream that will keep paying long after the hard work is done. I’m definitely ready to explore real-life options - not the kind that has me investing my life savings in a “hot” stock - but the kind we who are not-yet-rich can put into place. I’ll let you in on my ideas and progress as I work through it and I welcome any input from you.

About the scarcity mindset … knowing I have a fixed amount of money to make this experiment work is really messing with my head. Out of the blue, I’m finding myself resentful at needing to buy appliances and furniture and the usual new house stuff. This is despite the knowledge I would need to do this - even looked forward to doing this - and set aside some money for the purpose.

Instead of taking joy in buying all new things for the first time in my life, I’m finding myself clutching my checkbook and growling like a pit bull. I’m not pleased at that picture.

Thankfully the Universe is helping me out regardless of how I fight it. While spending way too much time agonizing over what type of refrigerator to buy and spending money ordering pizza or going out every night, my neighbors across the street showed up on my doorstep with a dorm-sized fridge they wanted to lend me until mine came. Wow. I hadn’t even met the couple. My partner had talked to one of them and mentioned we hadn’t gotten a refrigerator yet. Their attitude of abundance and giving allowed them to trust complete strangers with their property without a second thought.

I’m encouraged and reminded of the fact that giving paves the road to receiving. I’m grateful the Universe has picked such a great place for me to live. I’m opening my pocketbook and allowing cool things to come into my home. I’m getting rid of guilt.

But the best thing is - now I’m looking forward to getting back to work, simply because this is the work I dreamed of doing. Not because I think I need to stop “being lazy.” This is the life I dreamed of creating and now excitement is spurring me on instead of guilt.

Will I relapse? Knowing myself as well as I do, of course I will. At least until I’ve replaced my well-worn mental grooves of scarcity with new, even deeper grooves of abundance. I hope you’ll find my successes and failures helpful and even hopeful, because I want you to believe this can be done.

I’m still thinking rich. I hope you are, too.