Increase Income – Money, Power, and Women
As women entrepreneurs, it is naturally in our hearts to want to help others. That is why many of us start businesses, so we can help others be successful by offering the knowledge, skills and experience we’ve gained.
Unfortunately, as women, we may also have been told while growing up that money isn’t something women or “good girls” talk about, and it is a masculine trait to desire money. This upbringing is part of the money story that many women grew up with, and then subconsciously women push money away, by not allowing it to flow into their life. Examples of how this may show up in our life are by:
- Not charging enough for our services (or giving away too many of our services away for free)
- Harboring feelings of lack of self worth
- Having a fear of alienating someone by earning more money or facing disapproval
By brushing money away, you diminish your power and your ability to help others. An important point to note is you can keep pushing money away, be less successful (or poor) and help a few people. Or, be more successful, richer, and have the power to serve many more people. Which would you like to choose? Helping a few people, or helping many?
Remember, money only amplifies who you are. It doesn’t take anything away.
Another way to think about how money helps you, help others, is to imagine four concentric circles; one small circle nestled in the middle of three larger circles:
- In the very center circle, or the core, is YOU
- The next largest circle is your FAMILY (whether it bY ’blood’ Or another group of people you consider family)
- The next largest circle is COMMUNITY
- The next largest circle is the WORLD
You have to earn enough money to take care of yourself, before you can have enough money to begin helping your family, then your community, and then the world. This goes back to my earlier comment that you can either help a few, or help many people. The only way you can help many people is by making sure you are taking care of you, first. Money helps build your power and strength so you may help others with your special gifts and talents.
Having money isn’t being selfish, greedy, or masculine. It is the medium women will use to leverage their feminine power to infuse a loving and graceful spirit into the universe, and help others.
My challenge for you this week is to draw those four concentric circles, which include you, family, community, and the world, and write down how you will help each of those groups when you step into your power of bringing more money into your life.
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Another wonderful post Bonita! It seems that I have to start paying more attention to your posts. I love what you said about being wealthy to help others. I’ve been reading some Bahai writings about wealth and there’s two things that I’ve learned from their teachings:
1. It’s okay to be poor because it’s the essence of spiritual wealth and the desire to serve humanity, and
2. It’s okay to be rich because the essence of material wealth is the capacity to be of service
Thanks for this post
P.S. The font size for the comments is really small… I mean really small. hehehe
Hi Raymond, your comments are a wonderful addition to the value of this article post. I agree, we have a choice to be either “rich” or “poor.” This is the beauty—it is a personal choice.
My personal preference is to be “rich” (and that meaning and value is different for each individual person; what is rich to one eprson is poor to another) so I may be of more service. (I also agree the font size is small. I’ll see if i can fix that!)
Thanks Raymond, have a wonderful weekend.