Overview:
ACTIVELY USE THIS POST
LEARN FROM YOUR PAST
MAP YOUR PROGRESS: Explore Routes You Bypassed
WRITE A GUIDEPOST
RESCRIPT ATTITUDES ADOPTED FROM PARENTS: Recall Three Critical Events, Remember Your Ambition Training. Relive a Key Event
LEARN FROM A PAST LIFE
APPRECIATE THE PRESENT
RECOGNIZE, ACCEPT, COORDINATE, INTEGRATE & SYNTHESIZE YOUR SUBSELVES
DISCARD EXCESS BAGGAGE
COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS
SEE YOUR SUCCESSES
ASSESS & ACCESS YOUR STRENGTH
GIVE
BE INSPIRED
COMMIT
ENJOY WORK
AFFIRM THE FUTURE
GET HELP FROM A PARAGON
FIND YOUR PURPOSE
SEQUENCE YOUR GOALS
ENJOY THE TOP
ACTIVELY USE THIS POST
Complete the exercises and mental fill-ins in this post, and you’ll increase your willingness and ability to prosper.
The fill-ins teach you, step-by-step, how to find and fix poor attitudes toward wealth, prosperity, and well-being. The exercises teach you how to replace the poor programs with more fulfilling ones.
The exercises and fill-ins give you enjoyable and practical ways to explore your past, present, and future so you can benefit most from your experience, opportunities, and challenges.
Think of the way you’ve developed your potential for prosperity as a journey to a peak, Mt. Prospero. Imagine you’re halfway up.
Fantasize that you sit now on a ledge and look back over the path you’ve trodden toward outer and inner treasure.
TO LEARN FROM YOUR PAST, MAP YOUR PROGRESS
From your viewpoint, halfway up the mountain, see your past prosperity programming. Use colored pencils to map your progress. Draw on the next page or use a larger page.
On your map, let space stand for time.
Draw personal events, jobs, people, and inner changes that affected your feelings toward work, wealth, well-being, and self-worth.
Show the events as though they were geographical features on the map.
Represent people as signs posted along the route.
Change colors to show your changing feelings along your path.
Show major choice points in your life-direction as alternate routes.
Label each area and feature on your map. Write a legend of the symbols you used.
Show a friend your map. Using the map, point out how you developed your attitudes toward prosperity.
Look at your map and think about it for a few minutes each day for a week. Draw more on your map, if so moved.
MAP YOUR JOURNEY TOWARD PROSPERITY: EXPLORE ROUTES YOU BYPASSED
Consider the forks and intersections you drew when you mapped your changing attitudes toward work, wealth, and well-being. The alternate routes, the paths you didn’t take, hold information for your success and happiness. Explore roads you bypassed and discover moves you can now profitably make or moves that will be wise in the future.
Focus on one of your crossroads. Identify with it. Review the decision to be made.
Fantasize about taking the road bypassed; create an alternate fate.
What elements from the track not taken do you wish to add to your life?
Take imaginary journeys down each untaken path. Realize the clues each holds for your potential.
Then complete this sentence: Here’s what I learned from this mapping exercise …
WRITE A GUIDEPOST
Look again at your map; use it as a basis for a Guidepost you’ll write to focus the wisdom of your earlier experiences to help you the rest of the way up Mt. Prospero.
Write a Table of Contents of your attitudes to work, wealth, and self-worth. List 8-12 chapters below.
Make each chapter a stage in which you developed your beliefs about yourself, about what you could achieve, about work, about your attitudes toward economic security, and about your sense of abundance or lack.
Give each chapter a concise, descriptive label.
For each chapter, jot your age through the period (eg, age 13-16).
Chapter Descriptive Title Years Ages Means of Support
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Starting with this page, write your chapters, complete the sentences, and make the indicated lists.
CHAPTER 1 (Write in the title and years of the first chapter of your life)
Describe the sequence of events affecting your attitudes about wealth, work, and self-worth in this chapter of your life.
Complete: The forks in the path, where my life and feelings of abundance or lack could’ve gone different ways, were ….
Write metaphors, analogies, and adjectives that describe this period.
List people with whom you were involved and how you related with each other….
After the name of each person you’ve listed, jot down ways he or she affected–by example, discussion or advice–your attitudes toward work, money, material possessions, and feelings of abundance or deprivation.
_______________, the person who was my main guide in this first chapter–evoking my attitudes toward wealth, life, labor and self-regard–taught me ….
People–living, dead, imaginary, or mythical–with whom I wasn’t personally involved but who at the time stood for how I related to riches and work were … [write their names and traits].
Note what you learned, this period–about work, spending, gifting, saving, and investing ….
The social and religious groups influencing my attitudes toward myself and prosperity were ….
After each group you listed, note how it contributed to your attitudes toward yourself and prosperity.
List the tales, shows, artworks, books, and philosophies that affected your financial outlook.
Specify the main activities you engaged in during this time of your life. Note which activities involved exchange of labor, money, wealth, resources, or services. Include chores and allowance.
Summarize your attitudes toward promptness, reliability, respect for material possessions, and honesty in your first chapter.
The management models I dealt with were … (describe them).
My unresolved financial situations from this period were ….
My health and attitudes toward my body were ….
I remember these dreams ….
My hopes and plans for personal and economic growth were ….
My beliefs about my destiny were ….
What I learned about life, work, wealth, and myself was ….
Re-read all you wrote about this first chapter. Then close your eyes and let images–pictures, sounds, words, feelings, and intuitions–come to you. Record the images here ….
CHAPTER 2 (Write in the title and years of the second chapter of your life)
Describe the sequence of events affecting your attitudes about wealth, work, and self-worth in this chapter of your life.
Complete: The forks in the path, where my life could’ve gone different ways were ….
Write metaphors, analogies, and adjectives that describe this period.
List people with whom you were involved and how you related with each other….
After the name of each person you’ve listed, jot down ways he or she affected–by example, discussion or advice–your attitudes toward money, material possessions, and feelings of abundance or deprivation.
_______________, the person who was my main guide in this chapter — evoking my attitudes toward wealth, work, life, and self-regard — taught me ….
People–living, dead, imaginary or mythical–with whom I wasn’t personally involved but who at the time stood for how I related to riches were … [write their names and traits].
Note what you learned, this period–about work, spending, gifting, saving, and investing ….
The social and religious groups influencing my attitudes toward myself and prosperity were ….
After each group you listed, note how it contributed to your attitudes toward yourself and prosperity.
List the tales, shows, artworks, books, and philosophies that affected your financial outlook in this second chapter.
Specify the main activities you engaged in during this time of your life. Note which activities involved exchange of labor, money, wealth, resources, or services.
Summarize your attitudes toward promptness, reliability, respect for material possessions, and honesty in this chapter.
The management models I dealt with were … (describe them).
List any unresolved financial situations from your second chapter.
My health and attitudes toward my body were ….
I remember these dreams ….
My hopes and plans for personal and economic growth were ….
My beliefs about my destiny were ….
What I learned about life, wealth, and myself was ….
Re-read all you wrote about this second chapter. Then close your eyes and let images–pictures, sounds, words, feelings, and intuitions–come to you. Record the images here ….
CHAPTER 3 (Write the title and years of this chapter)
Describe the sequence of events affecting your attitudes about wealth, work, and self-worth in this chapter of your life.
Complete: The forks in the path, where my life could’ve gone different ways were ….
Write metaphors, analogies, and adjectives that describe this period.
List people with whom you were involved and how you related with each other….
After the name of each person you’ve listed, jot down ways he or she affected–by example, discussion or advice–your attitudes toward money, material possessions, and feelings of abundance or deprivation.
_______________, the person who was my main guide in this chapter — evoking my attitudes toward wealth, life, and self-regard — taught me ….
People–living, dead, imaginary or mythical–with whom I wasn’t personally involved but who at the time stood for how I related to riches were … [write their names and traits].
Note what you learned, this period–about work, spending, gifting, saving, and investing ….
The social and religious groups influencing my attitudes toward myself and prosperity were ….
After each group you listed, note how it contributed to your attitudes toward yourself and prosperity.
List the tales, shows, artworks, books, and philosophies that affected your financial outlook in this third chapter.
Specify the main activities you engaged in during this time of your life. Note which activities involved the exchange of labor, money, wealth, resources, or services.
Summarize your attitudes toward promptness, reliability, respect for material possessions, and honesty this period.
The management models I dealt with were … (describe them).
List any financial situations unresolved from this chapter.
My health and attitudes toward my body were ….
I remember these dreams …
My hopes and plans for personal and economic growth were ….
My beliefs about my destiny were ….
What I learned about life, wealth, and myself was ….
Re-read all you wrote about this third chapter. Then close your eyes and let images–pictures, sounds, words, feelings and intuitions–come to you. Record the images here ….
CHAPTER 4 (title, years)
Describe the sequence of events affecting your attitudes about wealth, work, and self-worth in this chapter of your life.
Complete: The forks in the path, where I could’ve chosen different paths were ….
Write metaphors, analogies, and adjectives that describe this chapter.
List people with whom you were involved and how you related with each other….
After the name of each person you’ve listed, jot down ways he or she affected–by example, discussion or advice–your attitudes toward money, material possessions, and feelings of abundance or deprivation.
_______________, my main guide this chapter, taught me ….
People–living, dead, imaginary, or mythical–with whom I wasn’t personally involved but who at the time stood for how I related to riches were ... [write their names and traits].
Note what you learned, this period–about work, spending, gifting, saving, and investing ….
The social and religious groups influencing my attitudes toward myself and prosperity were ….
After each group you listed, note how it contributed to your attitudes toward yourself and prosperity.
List the tales, shows, artworks, books, and philosophies that affected your financial outlook in chapter four.
Specify the main activities you engaged in during this time of your life. Note which activities involved the exchange of labor, money, wealth, resources, or services.
Summarize your attitudes toward promptness, reliability, respect for material possessions, and honesty this period.
The management models I dealt with were … (describe them).
List any financial situations that were unresolved during this period.
My health and attitudes toward my body were ….
I remember these dreams ….
My hopes and plans for personal and economic growth were ….
My beliefs about my destiny were ….
What I learned about life, wealth, and myself was ….
Re-read all you wrote about this fourth chapter. Then close your eyes and let images–pictures, sounds, words, feelings, and intuitions–come to you. Record the images here ….
CHAPTER 5 (title, years)
Describe the sequence of events affecting your attitudes about wealth, work, and self-worth in this chapter of your life.
Complete: The forks in the path, where my life could’ve gone different ways were ….
Write metaphors, analogies, and adjectives that describe this period.
List people with whom you were involved and how you related to each.
After the name of each person you’ve listed, jot down ways he or she affected–by example, discussion or advice–your attitudes toward money, material possessions, and feelings of abundance or deprivation.
_______________, the person who was my main guide in this chapter — evoking my attitudes toward wealth, life, and self-regard — taught me ….
People–living, dead, imaginary, or mythical–with whom I wasn’t personally involved but who at the time stood for how I related to riches were ... [write their names and traits].
Note what you learned, this period–about work, spending, gifting, saving, and investing ….
The social and religious groups influencing my attitudes toward myself and prosperity were ….
After each group you listed, note how it contributed to your attitudes toward yourself and prosperity.
List the tales, shows, artworks, books, and philosophies that affected your financial outlook this chapter.
Specify the main activities you engaged in during this time of your life. Note which activities involved exchange of labor, money, wealth, resources or services.
Summarize your attitudes toward promptness, reliability, respect for material possessions, and honesty this period.
The management models I dealt with were … (describe them).
List any financial situations that were unresolved in this chapter.
My health and attitudes toward my body were ….
I remember these dreams ….
My hopes and plans for personal and economic growth were ….
My beliefs about my destiny were ….
What I learned about life, wealth, and myself was ….
Re-read all you wrote about this fifth chapter. Then close your eyes and let images–pictures, sounds, words, feelings, and intuitions–come to you. Record the images here ….
CHAPTER 6 (title, years)
Describe the sequence of events affecting your attitudes about wealth, work, and self-worth in this chapter of your life.
Complete: The forks in the path, where I could’ve chosen different paths were ….
Write metaphors, analogies and adjectives that describe this chapter.
List people with whom you were involved and how you related with each other….
After the name of each person you’ve listed, jot down ways he or she affected–by example, discussion or advice–your attitudes toward money, material possessions, and feelings of abundance or deprivation.
_______________, my main guide this chapter, taught me ….
People–living, dead, imaginary or mythical–with whom I wasn’t personally involved but who at the time stood for how I related to riches were … [write their names and traits].
Note what you learned, this period–about work, spending, gifting, saving, and investing ….
The social and religious groups influencing my attitudes toward myself and prosperity were ….
After each group you listed, note how it affected your attitudes toward yourself and prosperity.
List the tales, shows, artworks, books, and philosophies that affected your financial outlook during this period.
Specify the main activities you engaged in during this time of your life. Note which activities involved the exchange of labor, money, wealth, resources, or services.
Summarize your attitudes toward promptness, reliability, respect for material possessions, and honesty this period.
The management models I dealt with were … (describe them).
List any financial situations that were unresolved in this chapter.
My health and attitudes toward my body were ….
I remember these dreams ….
My hopes and plans for personal and economic growth were ….
My beliefs about my destiny were ….
What I learned about life, wealth, and myself was ….
Re-read all you wrote about this sixth chapter. Then close your eyes and let images–pictures, sounds, words, feelings and intuitions–come to you. Record the images here ….
CHAPTER 7 (title, years)
Describe the sequence of events affecting your attitudes about wealth, work, and self-worth in this chapter of your life.
Complete: The forks in the path, where I could’ve chosen different paths were ….
Write metaphors, analogies, and adjectives that describe this chapter.
List people with whom you were involved and how you related with each other…
After the name of each person you’ve listed, jot down ways he or she affected–by example, discussion or advice–your attitudes toward money, material possessions, and feelings of abundance or deprivation.
_______________, my main guide this chapter, taught me ….
People–living, dead, imaginary or mythical–with whom I wasn’t personally involved but who at the time stood for how I related to riches were … [write their names and traits].
Note what you learned, this period–about work, spending, gifting, saving, and investing ….
The social and religious groups influencing my attitudes toward myself and prosperity were ….
After each group you listed, note how it contributed to your attitudes toward yourself and prosperity.
List the tales, shows, artworks, books, and philosophies that affected your financial outlook in this chapter.
Specify the main activities you engaged in during this time of your life. Note which activities involved exchange of labor, money, wealth, resources or services.
Summarize your attitudes toward promptness, reliability, respect for material possessions, and honesty this period.
The management models I dealt with were … (describe them).
List any financial situations that were unresolved in this chapter.
My health and attitudes toward my body were ….
I remember these dreams ….
My hopes and plans for personal and economic growth were ….
My beliefs about my destiny were ….
What I learned about life, wealth, and myself was ….
Re-read all you wrote about this seventh chapter. Then close your eyes and let images–pictures, sounds, words, feelings, and intuitions–come to you. Record the images here ….
CHAPTER 8 (title, years)
Describe the sequence of events affecting your attitudes about wealth, work, and self-worth in this chapter of your life.
Complete: The forks in the path, where my life could’ve gone different ways were ….
Write metaphors, analogies, and adjectives that describe this period.
List people with whom you were involved and how you related with each other….
After the name of each person you’ve listed, jot down ways he or she affected–by example, discussion or advice–your attitudes toward money, material possessions, and feelings of abundance or deprivation.
_______________, the person who was my main guide in this chapter — evoking my attitudes toward wealth, life, and self-regard — taught me ….
People–living, dead, imaginary or mythical–with whom I wasn’t personally involved but who at the time stood for how I related to riches were … [write their names and traits].
Note what you learned, this period–about work, spending, gifting, saving, and investing ….
The social and religious groups influencing my attitudes toward myself and prosperity were ….
After each group you listed, note how it contributed to your attitudes toward yourself and prosperity.
List the tales, shows, artworks, books, and philosophies that affected your financial outlook this chapter.
Specify the main activities you engaged in during this time of your life. Note which activities involved exchange of labor, money, wealth, resources or services.
Summarize your attitudes toward promptness, reliability, respect for material possessions, and honesty this period.
The management models I dealt with were … (describe them).
List any financial situations that were unresolved in this chapter.
My health and attitudes toward my body were ….
I remember these dreams ….
My hopes and plans for personal and economic growth were ….
My beliefs about my destiny were ….
What I learned about life, wealth, and myself was ….
Re-read all you wrote about this eighth chapter. Then close your eyes and let images–pictures, sounds, words, feelings and intuitions–come to you. Record the images here ….
CHAPTER 9 (title, years)
Describe the sequence of events affecting your attitudes about wealth, work and self-worth in this chapter of your life.
Complete: The forks in the path, where I could’ve chose different paths were ….
Write metaphors, analogies and adjectives that describe this chapter.
List people with whom you were involved and how you related with each ….
_______________, my main guide this chapter, taught me ….
After the name of each person you’ve listed, jot down ways he or she affected–by example, discussion or advice–your attitudes toward money, material possessions and feelings of abundance or deprivation.
People–living, dead, imaginary or mythical–with whom I wasn’t personally involved but who at the time stood for how I related to riches were … [write their names and traits].
Note what you learned, this period–about work, spending, gifting, saving and investing ….
The social and religious groups influencing my attitudes toward myself and prosperity were ….
After each group you listed, note how it contributed to your attitudes toward yourself and prosperity.
List the tales, shows, artworks, books and philosophies that affected your financial outlook in chapter six.
Specify the main activities you engaged in during this time of your life. Note which activities involved exchange of labor, money, wealth, resources or services.
Summarize your attitudes toward promptness, reliability, respect for material possessions and honesty this period.
The management models I dealt with were … (describe them).
List any financial situations that were unresolved from this chapter.
My health and attitudes toward my body were ….
I remember these dreams ….
My hopes and plans for personal and economic growth were ….
My beliefs about my destiny were ….
What I learned about life, wealth and myself was ….
Re-read all you wrote about this chapter. Then close your eyes and let images–pictures, sounds, words, feelings and intuitions–come to you. Record the images here ….
CHAPTER 10 (title, years)
Describe the sequence of events affecting your attitudes about wealth, work, and self-worth in this chapter of your life.
Complete: The forks in the path, where I could’ve selected different paths were ….
Write metaphors, analogies, and adjectives that describe this chapter.
List people with whom you were involved and how you related with each other….
After the name of each person you’ve listed, jot down ways he or she affected–by example, discussion or advice–your attitudes toward money, material possessions, and feelings of abundance or deprivation.
_______________, my main guide this chapter, taught me ….
People–living, dead, imaginary or mythical–with whom I wasn’t personally involved but who at the time stood for how I related to riches were ... [write their names and traits].
Note what you learned, this period–about work, spending, gifting, saving, and investing ….
The social and religious groups influencing my attitudes toward myself and prosperity were ….
After each group you listed, note how it contributed to your attitudes toward yourself and prosperity.
List the tales, shows, artworks, books, and philosophies that affected your financial outlook in this chapter.
Specify the main activities you engaged in during this time of your life. Note which activities involved exchange of labor, money, wealth, resources or services.
Summarize your attitudes toward promptness, reliability, respect for material possessions, and honesty this period.
The management models I dealt with were … (describe them).
List any financial situations that were unresolved in this chapter.
My health and attitudes toward my body were ….
I remember these dreams ….
My hopes and plans for personal and economic growth were ….
My beliefs about my destiny were ….
What I learned about life, wealth, and myself was ….
Re-read all you wrote about this tenth chapter. Then close your eyes and let images–pictures, sounds, words, feelings, and intuitions–come to you. Record the images here …
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CHAPTER 11 (title, years)
Describe the sequence of events affecting your attitudes about wealth, work and self-worth in this chapter of your life.
Complete: The forks in the path, where my life could’ve gone different ways were ….
Write metaphors, analogies, and adjectives that describe this period.
List people with whom you were involved and how you related with each other….
After the name of each person you’ve listed, jot down ways he or she affected–by example, discussion or advice–your attitudes toward money, material possessions, and feelings of abundance or deprivation.
_______________, the person who was my main guide in this chapter–evoking my attitudes toward wealth, life and self-regard–taught me ….
People–living, dead, imaginary or mythical–with whom I wasn’t personally involved but who at the time stood for how I related to riches were ... [write their names and traits].
Note what you learned, this period–about work, spending, gifting, saving, and investing ….
The social and religious groups influencing my attitudes toward myself and prosperity were ….
After each group you listed, note how it contributed to your attitudes toward yourself and prosperity.
List the tales, shows, artworks, books, and philosophies that affected your financial outlook this chapter.
Specify the main activities you engaged in during this time of your life. Note which activities involved exchange of labor, money, wealth, resources or services.
Summarize your attitudes toward promptness, reliability, respect for material possessions, and honesty this period.
The management models I dealt with were … (describe them).
List any financial situations that were unresolved in this chapter.
My health and attitudes toward my body were ….
I remember these dreams ….
My hopes and plans for personal and economic growth were ….
My beliefs about my destiny were ….
What I learned about life, wealth, and myself was ….
Re-read all you wrote about this eleventh chapter. Then close your eyes and let images–pictures, sounds, words, feelings, and intuitions–come to you. Record the images here ….
CHAPTER 12 (title, years)
Describe the sequence of events affecting your attitudes about wealth, work, and self-worth in this chapter of your life.
Complete: The forks in the path, where I could’ve chosen different paths were ….
Write metaphors, analogies, and adjectives that describe this chapter.
List people with whom you were involved and how you related with each other….
After the name of each person you’ve listed, jot down ways he or she affected–by example, discussion or advice–your attitudes toward money, material possessions, and feelings of abundance or deprivation.
_______________, my main guide this chapter, taught me ….
People–living, dead, imaginary or mythical–with whom I wasn’t personally involved but who at the time stood for how I related to riches were … [write their names and traits].
Note what you learned, this period–about work, spending, gifting, saving, and investing ….
The social and religious groups influencing my attitudes toward myself and prosperity were ….
After each group you listed, note how it contributed to your attitudes toward yourself and prosperity.
List the tales, shows, artworks, books, and philosophies that affected your financial outlook in this chapter.
Specify the main activities you engaged in during this time of your life. Note which activities involved exchange of labor, money, wealth, resources or services.
Summarize your attitudes toward promptness, reliability, respect for material possessions, and honesty this period.
The management models I dealt with were … (describe them).
List any financial situations that were unresolved from this chapter.
My health and attitudes toward my body were ….
I remember these dreams ….
My hopes and plans for personal and economic growth were ….
My beliefs about my destiny were ….
What I learned about life, wealth, and myself was ….
Re-read all you wrote about this final chapter. Then close your eyes and let images–pictures, sounds, words, feelings and intuitions–come to you. Record the images here ….
GUIDEPOST MEDITATIONS
Re-read all the chapters of the guidepost you’ve written. What PATTERNS do you notice when you review the whole post?
How would you like to change these patterns?
Pretend you are a GUIDE–one of the people who told and showed you how to be relative to wealth. Say what you’re like, Guide.
Change roles; be you again. Tell your guide what you learned from him or her and what you learned later, built on his or her teaching.
Become the guide again and reply. Add further advice from your perspective as the guide.
Imagine completing each unfinished financial situation from your earlier years.
Choose one incomplete transaction, such as paying an old debt, and finish it now.
What larger messages do you get comparing factual material and subsequent images for each chapter in your guidepost?
Write an essay entitled How My Parents Told and Showed Me to Regard Myself and Relate to Wealth.
RESCRIPT ATTITUDES YOU ADOPTED FROM PARENTS; RECALL THREE CRITICAL TIMES
Map and guidepost in your pack, continue your mental journey.
Sit again on the ledge on Mt. Prospero. Behind you on the ledge beckons a place to go to release these parental ideas that limit you. The place — the Cave of Remembrance — promises images to help you improve and reprogram your limits.
Mentally enter the cave. Torch in hand, go into the cavern.
See, through flamelight, wall-drawings.
Spellbound, contemplate three scenes on the cave wall. Each shows parent-figures teaching you limiting attitudes.
Hold the torch near these drawings and see how your guardians molded your attitudes toward wealth and you worth.
Write or sketch the three scenes you conjure.
For each scene, note your age and your family’s COMFORT, HEALTH AND SHARING patterns.
REMEMBER YOUR AMBITION TRAINING
Imagine, on a stalagmite in the cave of memory you’ve been conjuring, there’s a magic mushroom. Eat it. It takes you back to old conversations, emotions and thoughts, to times your mentors showed you ways to relate to
work,
scheduling,
ambition,
cooperation,
legality,
money management,
entrepreneurial initiative,
financial decision-making.
How did your parents BALANCE economic and other activities?
What did they HOPE for you?
How did each expect you to turn out? Did they EXPECT you to do as well as, better than or worse than they?
How did each parent INFLUENCE what you wanted to be when you grew up?
What did your parents convey about money by the way they handled your allowance and MATERIAL NEEDS?
How did they teach you to treat your own and others’ POSSESSIONS?
What were their reactions to your MONEY-MAKING?
Did Mom and Dad teach you to SAVE?
To what extent did they provide technical TRAINING, extra-curricular lessons, and opportunities for higher education?
LIST ATTITUDES YOU WANT TO KEEP, attitudes you got from your parents.
What new attitudes do you wish to add to those of your parents you choose to keep?
RECALL A KEY EVENT
Relive a time you adopted a parent’s program you want to replace.
TELL MOM OR DAD what you think; show her or him what you feel. Complete what you need to say. Express your feelings.
Remember the LIMITING DECISIONS you made as a result of that time.
WHAT DID YOU GAIN or avoid when you lived from the decisions you made then?
REDO the incident the way you would like it. Fantasize about your mother and father behaving as you would have liked.
Imagine, as a consequence, you make NEW DECISIONS. Generate better ideas about yourself. See yourself improving your attitude toward prosperity.
FORGIVE yourself, your parents, and others toward whom you held resentment.
Create an AFFIRMATION–a positive statement of your new attitudes.
FUTUREPACE: Imagine living from it instead of the earlier, limiting decisions.
Rescript other past incidents that limited your self-love and abundance-thinking. For each, imagine alternative consequences; generate new, affirmative guidelines.
LEARN FROM A PASTLIFE
Return to your metaphorical mountain. See yourself camping, sleeping near the trail. You dream you’re living an earlier lifetime, a life that shaped how you relate to wealth in this life.
Talk with a force or PERSON OPPOSING YOU there. Alternate playing yourself and your opponent until you resolve the conflict. How does this relate to your present life?
If you were hurt, upset, guilty, or angry, FORGIVE yourself and the others. Receive their forgiveness.
THANK them for the lessons that will now allow you to prosper.
EXPERIENCE RESOLUTION of any psychic debts from that past life. You’re free from unwanted bonds in life. You can immediately and appropriately apply life’s lessons in this life. You waited lifetimes for this experience. Enjoy satisfaction.
Repeat the past life regression exercise for SEVERAL PRIOR EXISTENCES. What THEMES run through these? How have the successive experiences contributed to your consciousness through the centuries?
Suppose you selected your current life, including your parents, to complete unfinished lessons from your previous lives. Relate those lessons and HOW YOU INTEND TO COMPLETE them.
Imagine a FUTURE INCARNATION where you complete any lessons about abundance you learned in this one. Which elements of this future life could be brought more fully into this one?
APPRECIATE THE PRESENT
At dawn arise refreshed, resolved, renewed. You feel open, peaceful, clear. You are ready to orchestrate all the aspects of your personality to achieve prosperity.
RECOGNIZE, ACCEPT, COORDINATE, INTEGRATE & SYNTHESIZE YOUR SUBSELVES[2]
Imagine your subs–short for subselves, or personifications of your various aspects–gather to discuss YOUR CURRENT STATE OF SELF-REGARD AND WEALTH.
Greet the FIRST SUB as it approaches where you sit. It expresses part of you.
Identify with it, be it. Say your name as it is. Say what you’re like, WHAT YOU WANT, and what you like to do about wealth.
Tell why you want what you do, what you really NEED to feel good.
See ANOTHER SUB as it joins you. Become it, stating your name, existence, feelings, wants, and attitudes toward riches. Reveal what you really need–what motivates your demands.
One by one, BE EACH of your subs as they arrive at the meeting. As each, say your name, describe yourself, and say what you want. Tell your money goals. Affirm your actual needs.
Imagine all your subs assembled. Role-play sub in turn. As each, say WHAT YOU WANT OF ONE ANOTHER.
Have three subs, THE ECONOMICS COMMITTEE, report your resources, responsibilities, and prospects.
Play one over another of these three subs, as you discuss, as each of your situations and possibilities.
As each, say how you can HELP THE OTHERS.
Imagine your subs sharing a group hug and merging into a single, integrated person.
DISCARD EXCESS BAGGAGE
Don’t make yourself fail, frustrate yourself, or over-criticize yourself. Don’t resent and blame others. Instead, enumerate your negative impulses so you can psychosynthetically purge them.
List your
RESENTMENTS
WAYS YOU MAKE YOURSELF FAIL
NEGATIVE ATTITUDES, HABITS
UNREASONABLE DEMANDS
THINGS YOU BLAME ON OTHERS
UNREASONABLE GUILTS
Tear out this page and rip it to shreds. Burn the shreds and the negativities they contain from your life.
COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS
What are your TREASURES?
How are you FORTUNATE?
What do you APPRECIATE?
What do you ENJOY?
Think of five safe, easy, and appropriate WAYS money and RESOURCES CAN COME TO YOU. Think of ways wealth comes to you as you work, play, and rest.
Internally experience what you like about your natural and human-made ENVIRONMENT.
Jot down 10 WAYS YOU USE MONEY WELL.
SEE YOUR SUCCESSES
Acknowledge your successes and feel your self-confidence grow.
Record your successes and accomplishments THIS YEAR.
List your successes so far IN LIFE.
Read your list to a friend and find out your friend’s successes.
ASSESS AND ACCESS YOUR STRENGTHS
The more you like yourself, the more you prosper, the more you contribute to humanity.
Assess your GOOD POINTS and STRENGTHS.
What’s the best WAY THINGS MIGHT TURN OUT if you made the most of one of your strong points?
Imagine and describe your life A YEAR from now if you were to let one or more of your good points guide you.
What do you imagine 5 YEARS from now, when the strength develops further?
GIVE
When you give, you express and enjoy more. You feel more fortunate. When you help someone in certain way, you grow in that way too.
List PEOPLE, PROJECTS AND CHARITIES YOU SUPPORT. After each, note what you’ll give.
BE INSPIRED
Review, then write your inspirations.
COMMIT
My MISSIONS and callings are …
I commit myself to understand and live by these PRINCIPLES …
I commit myself these PEOPLE and animals …
List the names of each. After each name, specify how you commit yourself.
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4.
5.
etc.
ENJOY WORK
Picture each person who gives you money and resources. Appreciate what you do for them. Experience your heartfelt gratitude for the employer, client, and customer. Resolve to show and tell each this week how much you value them.
Reflect on ways folks at work encourage and support you. Feel how each loves you and wants you to prosper. Identify specific ways to promote them.
Recognize ways your work is fulfilling.
Sense the pleasurable motions and postures you employ when you work.
Imagine ways to increase comfort and health while you earn.
Consider the mental activities you enjoy as you work.
Devise three ways to make your job more interesting.
Laugh at the opportunities you have to feel playful while you work.
Appreciate the chances you have, as you earn your living, to share talk and touch with people.
Speculate on how your work contributes to society and the Earth.
Ponder the most satisfying ways riches come to you. Conceive of ways to increase the best part of your work.
AFFIRM THE FUTURE & GET HELP FROM A PARAGON3
See a cloud moving toward you. Perceive a kindly, wise being, full of love for you, behind it. It slowly dissolves, revealing a person–from myth, book, tarot, movie, or imagination–representing how you would like to relate to wealth.
Ask this apparition its name; let it reply. Then question it. Get its answers.
Hear the instructions and advice for you. Listen to it telling you what it wants you to do to express the qualities it represents.
Have a dialogue with it about realistic limits to following its suggestions.
Choose a way to use what you learned from it this week.
Arrange to encounter it at least three times this month.
FIND YOUR PURPOSE3
Before leaving, your exemplar explains how all you experienced has prepared you to climb Prospero and fulfill your life’s purpose, meaning, mission, and destiny. From the center of your being, realize your purpose in life.
Pointing to the trail, your paragon floats up to the sun.
A sign bearing your name marks the beginning of your ascent. Along your route are a dozen or more great things that only you, with your unique learning, can accomplish. You are the only one who can make it up this path and achieve these creations. Fantasize about each of these creations waiting for you.
What are your life’s purposes?
SEQUENCE YOUR GOALS
BEFORE I DIE, I intend to …
By this day, 20 YEARS from now, I aim to …
10 years from now, I’ll …
Over the next 5 years, I reckon I’ll …
Over the next 2 years, my goals are …
THIS YEAR, I’ll …
I aim to… in the NEXT 6 MONTHS.
My goals, NEXT TWO MONTHS: …
THIS MONTH, I’ll …
I intend to accomplish … THIS WEEK.
projects TOMORROW are …
TODAY I’ll …
Read your goals and purposes to a friend. Sign the commitment contract and have your friend sign as witness.
I FULLY COMMIT MYSELF TO ACHIEVE THE GOALS AND PURPOSES I WROTE ON THESE PAGES IN SATISFYING, HARMONIOUS AND ETHICAL WAYS.
Signed .
Witnessed before me on this, the day of (month), 19 .
(Witness signature)
ENJOY THE TOP
Fantasize yourself at last atop Mt. Prospero. You are fabulously wealthy. Describe your life. Write your will. Compose your epitaph.
NOTES
[i]. Stimulated by Irving Katz’s Critical Incident Hypnodrama (in Lessin, A., The House with One-Way Mirror Floors: A Manual for Counseling at Various Levels of Consciousness, Maui: School of Counseling, 1985, pages 34‑36).
[ii]. Vargiu, J., Psychosynthesis Workbook, Synthesis, Volume I, 1974.
