Stop Trying to Fit an Ocean in a Teacup

You’re smart. You work hard. So why does your bank account so often look like the leftovers from a Marvel post-credits scene?

Here is the truth, and as the writer Howard Hill put it, it's a "horse-sized pill to swallow": You are precisely as rich as you think.

Not as you wish you were. Not as you hope to be. But as you, in your bones, believe you are. Your financial statement is just a lagging indicator of your mental real estate.

Think of money like water. It seeks its own level. The cosmic joke is that you are the one who sets the level.

Most of us are walking around with a mental reservoir the size of a thimble, praying for a Niagara Falls-sized deposit. The Law of Mind is a mirror, not a miracle-worker. It can only reflect what you hold in consciousness. You cannot build a skyscraper on the foundation of a shed, and you cannot build an empire on a consciousness of "just enough."

Now, your dear old relatives probably told you to "save for a rainy day." This is wonderful, practical advice... if you want to manifest a monsoon.

Thrift is a fine trait, but it is a consciousness of limitation. A true Money Consciousness is not about saving pennies; it's about expanding your mental container so profoundly that pennies become irrelevant. You don't attract wealth by preparing for lack. You attract wealth by building an ark of expectancy and inviting the flood of plenty.

Here is your master key, straight from Hill: "I now have all the money I want."

I can hear you now. "But that's a lie! My wallet is full of cobwebs and an expired coupon." You are not lying. You are declaring a new truth. You are issuing a directive to the Universal Law, which is the most obedient (and literal) employee you will ever have. It has no choice but to bring you the physical equivalent of your new, dominant thought.

But this isn't just about chanting words. You must act. You must develop what Hill calls an "insatiable curiosity." Start a scrapbook. I'm serious. This is not a craft project; it is an architectural blueprint for your new reality. You are the director storyboarding the film of your life. Get the specs for the car. Find the floor plan for the house. Research the vacation. Make the "unseen" so detailed, so vibrant, and so real that the "seen" has no choice but to conform.

This is the work. It’s the reason you'll find that the more you read my emails, the more success you will have—we are, together, re-calibrating your consciousness from lack to abundance.

Let this sink in. You are not a victim of circumstance. You are the architect of circumstance. Feel the shift in your thinking, that sense of expansion in your chest. That, right there, is the impression of increase, and it is the most valuable currency you possess. The old you thought in terms of getting. The new you, the real you, thinks in terms of having.

The money is just the receipt.

So, I have to know: What is the very first, specific, tangible thing you are putting in your new "scrapbook" of abundance?

Hit reply and tell me.

Bradley Woods