Are You ‘Broke’ Before You Start Your Day?
Comments(15) Good Morning…
I have been talking with my clients about focus. Personally, I have become extremely conscientious about the quality of my focus… the quality of my energy… the quality of my life.
The following is a condensed version of a tongue and cheek article I wrote about energy. I hope you enjoy it…
Here’s a thought to wake you up….
Think of the universe giving you a large sum, say…. $500.00 ‘Energy Bucks’ each morning to do with whatever you want… yippee!
But… just like interest payments on money you owe… it costs you ‘Energy Bucks Interest’ to carry forward old ‘energy debt’
Let’s pretend that the Energy Buck Interest payments are:
- old resentments or grudges – $75 a day
- negative thinking/focus $100 a day
- unfinished business $75.00 a day
- criticism or cynicism $50.00 a day
- worry, fear, doubt $150 a day…
You could be almost broke before you even get out of bed… sobering isn’t it?
Here’s the thing… the energy bucks you spend by focusing on old and limiting thoughts, are energy bucks that you don’t have access to for other more enjoyable experiences. You can’t have a negative focus and expect a positive outcome… it just doesn’t work that way…
If you only have a portion of your potential energy available to you… it stands to reason that your:
- spouse is getting short changed
- children get short changed
- work
- self care
- friends etc…
You get the picture… consider the old saying… “You can’t give what you don’t have”
The only way to have complete access to all your potential energy bucks is to do what it takes to free yourself from bad energy debt… do your inner work, be intentional…
I would love to hear your thoughts… leave a comment for the benefit of others…
Peace and abundance
Joyce
Your the best.I’m so thankful for you.Your a true blessing.Thank you for putting your positive enrgy into what you do,Helping others.
Spiritual food at the perfect time. Thank you.
I love your spin on this topic… its been done to death but you really put it into a new perspective which ’speaks to’ me… I’m just off to bed carrying this last thought with me as I hit the hay, so I’ll make sure I really pay attention to my energy bucks interest when I wake tomorrow and everyday from now on. Thanks so much x
Oh yes! I knew immediately what you were referring to and you are so right when you say that friends, family, work….all get short changed and then before you know it you are in a negative cycle. So a big thanks you Joyce for helping me (and others) to get things back in perspective and keep going on days like today when I have been very low. x
Well said, Joyce. Besides, life’s just too short to have to carry around all that old baggage. Run free – that’s my motto!
Great analogy, Joyce. I can really identify with this example. I definitely need to be more aware of how I “spend my energy bucks.” Too often I am indeed broke before 8:00 A.M. and ready for a nap by ten, and I have nothing at all left by the time the kids come home from school. Mental exhaustion, not physical at all, and that is something I need to work on. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
I like this Joyce and from this day forward, no ones taking my energy bucks. GOD Bless.
Wow. That was a very insightful visual of how our negative energy can sap us before we even get started, and how you specifically broke it down into negative frames of thinking, truly pinpointing areas that need work, really helps.
Great way to start my morning.
Thanks, Joyce.
Dawn Herring
What you give you receive, so I am not sure how we come up with these numbers. Energy always flows to balance like water in a cup, so I just picture myself as the cup and the water is overflowing…My Cup Runneth Over
Thank you! I echo what others have said — well put, in a way that makes sense. I’m thankful that I’m becoming more and more conscious of when I am spending these bucks — of ‘negative’ thought patterns etc., and this allows me to consciously look for the joy and beauty, to find relief in that moment, to remind myself of what it is that I truly want.
Hugs!
I just finished a great book on this subject titled:”Broken for You” by Stepanie Kallos.
One wonderful statement in the book reads…”we’re worth more broken”.
After reading the story I was reminded that the human spirit is extremely fragile and yet we have the uncanny ability to mend.
Lovely!
Thank you Joyce ~ Nothing happens by coincidence !
I read your “Energy Bucks” and it was if a light bulb went on. I have had very sever medical problems since 2004, and can find myself using those “Energy Bucks” up almost before my eyes open. I was aware that there are people that can zap your positive energy but to realize that I am my own worse enemy made so much since.
Becoming aware, I feel is half the battle the quest now is to find the right path to free yourself and what works to turn your spending around.
Thank you so much for the ‘light swithch’.
Comfort and Peace!
Thank you Joyce for this welcome tonic and perspective on how easy it is to slip into unfavourable thought patterns. Now with renewed impetus I am going to act on the promise I made a few months ago and start each day smiling, joyous and grateful!
Love and hugs
Arabella
It took me 54yrs to get it and I got it. More and more everyday my needs are met in abundance and it’s comforting to know that they will always be met even if the circumstances look dim.—- For me it’s Love. I give it, I get it ,and everything manifests through it. Love to all.