Abundance

TO REVEAL ABUNDANCE

 

Abundance came to me

                                    Soft in a dream

                                                And I rejected it as fantasy, fantasy.

  Abundance came to me

                                    As ideas in my head

                                                And I rejected it as foolishness, foolishness.

 Abundance came to me

                                    Whispered on the breeze

                                                And I dismissed it needlessly, needlessly.

 Abundance came to me

                              As a warm smile on someone’s face

                                          And I rejected it – couldn’t possibly be meant for me!

 

Abundance came to me

                   Tapping, tapping at my window

                              And I rejected it as tricks of the mind.

 

 Abundance came to me

                                    Knocking loudly at my door

                                                And I chased it away – I’m too busy for callers!

 

 Abundance came to me

                               As light in my home

                                                And I berated it for having left me

                                                                                            in the darkness.

 

 Abundance came to me

                                    As warmth in my heart……

 

                                                And I took a breath.

                                    

                                                            In reverence.

 

                                                                        And recognition.

 

 

And realised that all I had to do

                                                                        Was to just BE……….

 

 

…….and   ALLOW   the Abundance in me.

  

 ”From Abundance, I took Abundance and still Abundance remains”

 

By Niki Duffy

 Welcome to my blog.  I will be chatting about work, life and love in abundance.  Join me on my journey.

Ask a Better Question for 5* Outcomes!

Are you getting the Outcomes that you want?

If not, why not?

Reading James Caan’s book “The Real Deal – My Story from Brick Lane to Dragon’s Den” he often looks at the questions he’s asking if they’re not producing the results he wants.

So, inspired by his book, I’ve come up with the Five  “A”s for 5* Outcomes:

1. Ask:  Ask a better question for a better outcome.
2. Attention to Answers:  Pay attention to the answers you get – what are they really telling you?
3. Apply:  Apply the learnings that you gained when re-constructing your quesitons
4. Address:  Address whatever issues came up through your earlier answers.  If they responded they don’t have time, demonstrate through your question the value to them.
5. Ask Again:  Ask your new, enlightened questions for the 5* Outcomes that you desire.

A* bonus question

Are you happy with the deal?

Assuming you’ve presented a deal that you’re happy with, if they’re happy too, it’s a genuine win-win situation.

If they’re not happy, then addressing the issues that they’re not happy with is much better done earlier rather than later when time, energy and money have been invested.  Early problem resolution leads to a smoother ride for 5* Outcomes!

RT @dhollings: BLOG POSTING TIP: Make a post that solves a problem

Why is it that paperwork seems to mulitiply furiously whenever it’s not kept an eye on…..?!

“Life will pay what ever price you ask of it.” Tony Robbins

I bargained with life for a penny
And life would pay no more
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store

For life is just an employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.

I worked for a menials hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have willingly paid.

What are you asking for?

Tony Robbins interesting 8min video on this subject, suggesting the importance of being clear about what you’re asking for.

Clarity is Power.

Enjoy!

Week by Week Overview of Financial Fun Clubs

Week 1

 Play by the Rules:

 Just like in life, the Cashflow game has a few rules.  The first week we’ll be learning about the game and there’s a lot to take in at first, so we’ll stick to playing the game in the way that it’s been set up and intended for play.  However you feel about rules, whether you think that rules were made to be broken, that rules are necessary for clarity and order, or a mixture of the two, it’s important to know and understand the rules of the game, before we decide whether or not to follow them

Week 2

Play for Collaboration:

In week two, we’re going to take a different, more flexible approach to certain game rules.  We’re going to play for collaboration, working together to be successful in the game.  This will be a way to practically explore the question “Is it possible to succeed personally and help others succeed at the same time?”

Week 3

 Play for yourself:

This week, the focus will be on each player concentrating purely on what’s personally beneficial.  As usual, we’ll review and discuss the different playing styles and strategies that we’ve been experimenting with in the safe, fun environment of the club.  We’ll compare how each style feels, how realistic the styles are and suggest real life situations where we’ve seen them used and the effect they had.

Week 4

Play against Type:

It can be really interesting in the supportive club environment to play at least one game in a manner that’s completely opposite to how you normally are in real life. By week four, you’ll have noticed how the game can reflect real life circumstances.  Playing against type will feel really strange at first, but how useful could this experience be when communicating in life situations that are unfamiliar to you?

Week 5

Surprise element:

 Introducing something different to the “mix” to spice up the game!

Week 6

Players Choice:

Club members can decide what angle they want to give to their game today, on the last Financial Fun week. 

Next Step

What’s next:

• Individually?

After playing, learning and building connections with fellow players, what’s the next step for you personally.

• For the club? 

Looking at sustainability options for those who just don’t want the fun to end!

Club Community Project

As a club it would be great to choose a little project for the wider community.

Something simple that we’ll decide as a group.  The club project could be anything that impacts positively outside of our group.

Club Projects Ideas include (but are not limited to):

• “Smile at a stranger” – where every member commits to smiling at a stranger at least 7 times (once for each day of the week) between club meetings.  Then reporting back on what happens.
• “Blooming Lovely” – choosing a local community group ie  Children’s Nursery, Elderly Day Centre etc.  In communication with them and local businesses, aquiring and planting plants to brighten up their outside area.
• “Charity Charm” – choosing a local charity and raising money / donating time / donating stuff in a way that suits the ethos of the group.

 

 These are just ideas, each group can be as creative as they like and the choice is up to the group.

If you’d like to join us for weeks of fun, either at a club in Kent or by joining an online club here are your best options:

• Become a fan on our facebook page for all the latest updates
• Sign up to one of our free events
• Email abundance@uwclub.net for further information

It’s all good at the Financial Fun Clubs

Want to “try on” different levels of financial success?

One of the great things about Cashflow 101 board game is that you get to “try on” different levels of financial success.

Now this may seem a strange thing to want to do, but stay with me on this one.

Have you ever wondered how great it would feel if you had hundreds of thousands of £$£ to “play” with after all the bills were paid?

What about the other extreme?  Is there a “good” side to being downsized?

One of the most interesting things about playing Cashflow 101 is that money doesn’t always feel the way you thought it would.

Money can have a surprising effect on our emotions.  You’d think winning millions on the lottery would make you happy, but time and again we hear of lottery winners being miserable because of their millions.

Playing the game and building up sizeable wealth can be a very satisfying experience.  How much do your feelings about your money change in relation to those around you?  What if your fellow players are floundering while you’re rolling in it?  How would that affect your enjoyment of your success?

What if it were you who was struggling round the board, not seeming to get a break when your team mates are flying high with fabulous finances at every turn.  How would their success affect your enjoyment of the game?

This “trying on” of what it’s like to be in different financial situations is a wonderfully useful tool.

When you’d always thought it would be fabulous to be rich and then, through playing the game had the experience that you didn’t enjoy the wads of cash in your pocket, it can be really useful to look at why.  What was it about having all that dosh that got you down?

Was it the way you got the money that didn’t feel “right”?

Was it that others were struggling and you felt bad for them?

Was it that now you had all this wealth and were out of the rat race, there was no-one out there with you to enjoy it with?

Or perhaps you found yourself landing on “downsize” in the game, and were surprised to feel a certain safety there,  or a virtuosity at being one of the players in the game with very little money.

Recognising these unexpected feelings about certain financial positions is useful in real life, so that you can identify what it is about the situation that makes you feel that way and adjust to suit.

If it’s a good feeling, you’re on to a winner if you replicate the circumstances in your life.

If it’s a bad feeling, you can take measures to change certain aspects of the situation so you can still have what you want and feel good about it!

Financial Fun Clubs Radical Rules

Every Club has got to have rules……haven’t they?

Here’s our top 11 Radical Rules:

1. Be prepared to have fun
2. Bring an inquisitive mind
3. Be open to connecting with great people
4. Be open to different ways we can learn from each other
5. Be open to different ways we can help each other
6. Everyone starts with the same chances. Different circumstances, but the same chances
7. A deal is only a “good” deal if it is right for you
8. Decide on your main focus for the game
9. Notice how you feel in the game choices you make
10. Notice how others are responding and reacting to elements of the game
11. Notice how much fun you’re having!

Become a fan on our facebook page to join in the Financial Fun!

What can playing Cashflow 101 board game do for you?

When you hear people talking about Cashflow 101 – you may be wondering what all the fuss is about.

If you’ve been thinking “how can playing a board game change my life?” then this may answer some of your questions:

• It teaches you about life, relevant to your finances
• There are 2 tracks on the game board, 1 is the rat race track, and 2 is the track for those who have escaped from the rat race.
• Everyone starts in the rat race, going pay check to pay check – how familiar does that sound?!
• Your first goal is to build your passive income which starts at zero for everybody and build it until it exceeds your monthly expenses.  Then you are financially free and move to the fast track where the big money flows – sounds like a great “real life” plan too
• There are many occupations within the game, designed to mirror real life.  Each player has a profession which comes with a specific set of finances, income and expenses to suit that profession.
• Surprisingly, a lower income profession like truck driver may be able to escape from the rat race much quicker than a higher income profession like the airline pilot.
• This is because the airline pilot has massive expenses –big house, expensive schools, credit card debt etc.
• The truck driver has lower income, but fewer expenses and with a few good deals can quickly build a good passive income that’s enough to cover those expenses….in that way creating personal financial freedom!
• Being armed with the right financial knowledge is a great way to avoid winding up entrenched in debt
• If debt’s where you are right now, gaining the right financial knowledge is your best ticket out!

Come and play at one of our Financial Fun Clubs in Kent, or online – sign up to our facebook page for all the latest info and events or email Niki at abundance@uwclub.net with Financial Fun Clubs in the subject heading to register your interest.

What is Cashflow 101?

Real World Investing in the Fun and Safety of a Game

I’ve been asking people for their definition of Cashflow 101 and this one’s from Yvonne at http://bit.ly/champers2 – thanks Yvonne!

“Cashflow is a fun board game that teaches us the things about money and investing that we weren’t taught at school or by our parents.

It addresses our psychology around money and allows us to breakthrough the sometimes limiting beliefs that we can’t be wealthy.

It shows us how working 9-5 will never make us wealthy, or even financially secure unless we have a wealth creation strategy running along side.

It highlights how saving isn’t enough – you’ve got to be investing.

All this in a fun, friendly and easy to understand way.”

All good points – and good reasons to get involved and join our club!

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Choosing to allow today to be filled with Income and Enjoyment

I’ve been thinking about doing my Income & Expenses updates and realised how uncomfortable I am with the word Expenses.  As words have vibrational power, I had a think for a while about a word I’d prefer to use.   The word I came up with was “Enjoyment” which may seem odd at first as how can we “enjoy” our expenses?!…..but I do enjoy the warmth that paying my gas bill gives me…………

To be honest, the words “Income and Expenses” just don’t fill me with joy.

Income’s OK, but Expenses? It brings up thoughts of pain and lack and not enough.

We all know that the words we use and the emotions they evoke can have great power and when used consciously, can create all kinds of wonderful realities in our lives.

So when thinking about updating my Income and Expenses records this morning, I felt the *YuK* feeling as soon as I thought about the Expenses bit.

My Mental Word Radar leapt into action and after some deliberation, I thought it would be fun to call it “Income and Enjoyment” updates.

“Don’t be daft!”

Scoffed the “rotter” voice in my head

“How can you ‘enjoy’ expenses?  Expenses are expensive, they’re bullying bills & pain and a burden that you’ve got to shut up and shoulder like the rest of us – it’s called living in the real world!”

(told you the voice was a rotter

So, now way ahead of myself with this idea of transforming Expenses into Enjoyment, I thought of all the ways that I get enjoyment out of paying my expensise and here’s a short examples list:

• I may not “enjoy” paying my mortgage, but I love the shelter and comfort that my home gives me

• I may not “enjoy” paying my gas bill, but I love the warmth & cosiness from my central heating

• I may not “enjoy” paying my car insurance, but I love the sense of security having that kind of back up gives me – and that I can rest easy knowing I’m fulfilling my legal car driver obligation – and I love the freedom and independence that driving my car gives me!

Thinking like this also made me feel incredibly grateful and blessed to have all these wonderful things in my life.

Of course the energy we give out and connect with things, attracts more of that same energy to us.  So instead of dragging myself kicking and screaming to sort out Income and Expenses – which instantly tightens in my throught and makes it feel (whether it’s true or not) as if the income’s never enough to cover the gaping greed of the expenses…

By changing the words,I’m changing the thoughts and changin the energy.  Creating a more powerful sense of abundance, allowing prosperity doors thoughout the Universe to swing open and welcome me in!

The more I’m feeling truly grateful for the goods and services that I’m blessed with as I update my enjoyment and get excited about the wonderful flow and expansion of my income…..the more I’m becoming a Magnet for all the good that I want to attract in my life J

So if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to have fun doing my Income and Enjoyment updates.

What are you choosing for today?

Imported from Niki Duffy’s Choices Coaching Blog http://bit.ly/NDBlog