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The more aware we are of how we're earning and spending our money, the more likely we'll thrive.

The goal is not to die as rich as possible. The goal is to use money as a tool to maximize our experience of love, joy and peace. That means there are times to spend and times to save.

I find it challenging to spend on myself. Knowing that helps me evaluate more closely ways that spending money will enrich and improve my life. Knowing that is an issue for me helps me spend extra time and attention in deciding when and how to best spend money.

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Featured book is "Negativity, what we deny controls us"

The experience of love, joy, peace, laughter, enthusiasm and other positive emotions make our life worth living. I refer to these positive emotions as "Devine" emotions. When we're in the flow state we experience the best of what is available in life.

When I'm playing my best tennis, I'm in the "zone". When I'm coaching people inspiration and wisdom and effective communication flow effortlessly, spontaneously. When I'm inspired talking with my wife or friends, the wisdom and insights are both profound and exciting. All these experiences are experiences of being "vitally alive", and that is what makes life worth living.

Every thought has an emotion tied to it. When we're aware of our thoughts we can choose which thoughts to act on and which to allow to drift out of our mind just as they drifted into our mind. Whatever emotion that is attached to a thought becomes more of our reality if we act on it.

That's why I choose not to kill my first wife when I walked in on her in bed with one of her coworkers over 45 years ago. I had the thought, "I could kill them, and I want to". I was aware of the thought and decided being incarcerated for killing them wasn't worth the price, so I left.

Conversely, when I was contacted with the opportunity to run for office, I was wildly excited. I jumped at the opportunity. Each step of the process has been filled with inspiration and joy. I don't know if I'll win or not, and what matters to me is that I'm having the time of my life participating in the process of running for office. It's. that enthusiasm that makes life worth living.

Different thoughts and actions inspire different people. Take stock of what inspires you and do that. Allow yourself to be "vitally alive".

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Our value and worth are astronomical. The challenge is being honest enough witgh ourself to be aware of that and accept that. A great place to start is accepting the value and power of our mind.

Look at your life and you can trace back to the thoughts you had that created that life.

Here's an example from my life.

I was very conscious of my desire to meet someone who I loved who wanted to marry me. More than that, I wanted to marry someone who would challenge me and open up new vistas for me. I wanted someone I respected and valued in addition to loved. As I approach our 40th anniversary, I can say I created all that and more.

Another example.

For decades I've wanted to make a meaningful contribution to the world. I know that being an inspiring example of experiencing the joy and upliftment of creating win/win solutions to problems would create a better world. I know that the value I have to share is immense. Acting on that understanding has resulted in me publishing 14 books as of this writing. When we act on thoughts we deem as valuable, we find ourselves accepting more of the worth and value we already are. The more we accept and value ourself, the more that is reflected back to us by the outer world.

Every one of us has the capacity to change the world for the better by accepting our innate value and worth. When we experience and express joy and aliveness we are inspiring the acceptance of love, joy and peace in others. Nothing could be more valuable than that.

I offer coaching to support your efforts to be aware of your thoughts and the power and creative effectiveness of those thoughts. To schedule a free introductory coaching session, reserve your time at https://calendly.com/scottfriedman40/30min

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Today's featured book is "Peace, the ultimate power". Using money to increase our sense of peace is a proper and beneficial use of money. You can find links to this and other books at www.thoughtcoachingbyscot.com

Money is a tool to be used to enrich and uplift our life. As frightening as it may be, using our savings to act in ways that enrich our life is an act of self love and respect.

Here's a real time example from my own life.

For decades I've had the inspiration that the optimal way to lead my life is to act on thoughts that have emotions tied to them that I want more of in my life. Those emotions include peace, joy, love, enthusiasm, humor etc. When my thoughts are not supportive of experiencing more of what I want, let them go. Choose not to act on them. This is a challenge for me as I keep having the thought that if I'm not taking action I'm wasting my life. Surprisingly, when I let go of the thought I need to be in nearly constant action, I experience greter peace. I find myself remembering inspired action I've taken and have the thought that everything good in my life has been created through inspired action or being at peace. The inspired action comes out of being at peace In fact, I wrote a book entitiled "Peace, the utilmate power". We create from a state of peace much more effectively than by repeatedly throwing ourselves against a brick wall.

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We grow in our respect for ourselves and the respect others give us by being as honest with ourselves and others with all the kindness we can muster. Sometimes, it's hard to be honest. In those times, one thing that has worked for me is to say, I want to be honest with you and I'm having a hard time. Once I say that, I'm committed to following through in sharing the truth with all the kindness, to my self and others, that I can.

The respect others give us is a reflection of the respect we give ourselves. As usual, I'll do my best to be an inspiring example of growing in self respect.

I know the truth is that the persent moment is all that exists. Any time I'm thinking of the past or the future, I'm having those thoughts in the present moment. For most of my life I've thought that the past and future existed in "real life". Through meditation I've discovered that "real life" are the thoughts in my mind.

Understanding the past and the future only exist as thoughts in my mind gives me a level of freedom I've never before experienced. I don't have to wait for things to change, all I need to is to change my thinking right now. This is a radically different way of thinking for me. I am convinced it is a more honest and beneficial way of thinking. Changing to this way of thinking is a challenge, and it's necessary for me to continue to grow in being more honest and accepting of myself.

When we increase our self respect by being more honest with ourself, we are amazed at the positive impact that has on ourselves and others. Try focusing on being more honest with all the kindness you can muster and see for yourself how your self respect grows and the respect others give you grows.

I offer thought coaching to support you and your efforts to be more honest and accepting of yourself and others. To schedule your free introductory session, reserve your time at https:/calendly.com/scottfriedman40/30min

My books are availabler on Amazon, including the most recent book, "Creation, the how and the why". You can find links to the books on my website, www.thoughtcoacingbyscott.com

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My newest book, "Creation, the how and the why" is available on Amazon with links to it on my website, www.thoughtcoachingbyscott.com

For me, forgiving myself means acknowledging what I did that I regret, understanding why I did that, and getting clear how I'll handle that situation better if and when it arises again. I find that once I've extracted the learning from a situation, I'm able to let it go.

Sometimes forgiving a habitual pattern takes time and repetitions.

Here's an example. I know that my thoughts create my emotions. I know to maximize what is good in my life I need to be aware of the emotions connected my thoughts and only act on the emotions and thoughts I want more of in my life. Despite knowing this, some of the negative thoughts are so familiar they escape detection. When left undetected, they create negative feelings and more negative thoughts. I know how to minimize the strength and impact of the negative thoughts once I become aware of them. I just need to be more aware of. them. I need to forgive myself for not catching the negative thoughts earlier. I am in the process of doing just that.

I offer thought coaching to help recognize our thoughts and the power we have to choose which thoughts to act on. This gives us power over our life, the freedom to create the life we want. To schedule a free introductory session, reserve your time at https://calendly.com/scottfriedman40/30min

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We can choose to act on exciting and exhilerating thoughts, or peaceful calm thoughts. As always, the thoughts we act on have an emotion as part of them. That emotion grows or shrinks depending on our choice of which thoughts to act on.

My life is challenging because I've chosen to make it so. I can reflect back and see the decisions I've made that are responsible for the challenges and stresses in my life. I could have stayed in the secure corporate job I had in the 1980. The job wasn't challenging or fulfilling, but it was easy and secure. Yet, I choose to leave that job to be self employed and devote my life to spiritual growth and spiritual leadership (pretty much one in the same). That decision has led to great stress and exhileration.

There are times when I want a break from the challenging life I've created. Then I resolve to watch my thoughts drift through my mind and refuse to pick them up and act on them or engage with them in any manner. Often during those times I experience the deep peace and sense of well being that is part of being conscious of Being ONE (another one of my books). For me, I recharge pretty fast. Once recharged, I'm ready to reingage with the world I've created to bring more of my talents to expression. That could be arranging to give another speech, play a competitve tennis match, work on relating more fully to what my wife is experiencing or any number of other challenging things I can engage in and more fully accept and use my talents for my and other's benefits.

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If we're having a problem with another person, it's because we're having trouble with ourself. That other person could be an employee, family member, neighbor or anyone else.

Once we are clear about our internal problem and how we choose to respond to that, it becomes clear on how to deal with the external problem.

To make this more relatable, here's an example.

I have a family member who is having health problems that have persisted and grown for more than a decade. I am conflicted about this situation. Part of me thinks the right action is to be loving, acceptive and supportive. Part of me is angry that they haven't found and implemented a solution to their problems. My goal is to resolve this conflict and be at peace with the situation.

To gain a more effective perspective of this situation, I need to see where I am having a similiar problem to my family member. As I look at the situation, I see that I have a conflict between what I know to be true and what I believe society says is true. I see that same conflict in my family member. I see in my life where the problems I create by not trusting myself create crisis that require I take ownership and act on what I know to be true even if I believe society disagrees. That's how I healed my back with meditation and acceptance.

Understanding my conflict results in me understanding my family member's conflict. We are both, to some degree, creating problems in our life that require us to more fully accept our power and what is true in order to address those problems. I know the more I am conscious of my internal conflict and self doubt, the less conflict and self doubt I experience. I feel stronger and more confident.

I know as I heal this conflict within myself, I will be healing it in others. Once again, the fact that the best thing I can do for others is to work on myself, is evident. My first book, "Healing Ourself, Healing the World", is based on this understanding. Links to that book and the others appear on my website, www.thoughtcoachingbyscott.com

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Begin with clarity of what we think money will do for us. Money is one of many tools we have. It can be exchanged for food, shelter, transportation and communication. We can use it to fuel acts of kindness and experiences of love and joy.

The positive emotions we want to experience such as peace, confidence, love, enthusiasm can all be experienced with or without money. In fact, in my experience, most, if not all the emotions I want to experience are available to me right now without costing anything.

In short, people tend to overestimate the benefits of having money. Money doesn't buy happiness, love, joy or any of the things we deeply want. There are rich people who are miserable and there are rich people who are happy. There are poor people who are miserable and poor people who are happy.

The more we create the love, joy and peace in our life we desire, the less money is an issue. Money has value and as everyone who is dying of cancer knows, it isn't everything.

We create money and everything else in our life with our thoughts. The more we're aware of our thoughts, the more effective we are in creating the life we want. That's why I offer thought coaching, to help become aware of our thoughts and the freedom we have to choose which thoughts to act on. To schedule a free introductory coaching session, reserve your time at https://calendly.com/scottfriedman40/30min

My newest book, "Creation, the how and the why" is now available on Amazon. The books offers insights in how to create what we want in our life including money.

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To experience peace we need to disengage from thinking. What works for me is to be aware of the thoughts as they arise in my mind and choose not to engage them. I let them drift out of my mind much as the clouds drift through the sky. My experience is that when I do this, the space between the thoughts gets larger and larger. That space is peace.

Paradoxically, we create most powerfully from the peaceful state. Peace is the deepest form of acceptance. When we're conscious of peace, we are experiencing all of existence. In that state we are all that exists. We are all that has, is and ever could be created. It can be hard to relate to because it is wisdom beyond thought.

I offer a free introductory coaching session. In that session we can stop all thoughts that obscure the experience of peace. We can choose which thoughts to engage with. It's a great experience. To schedule your time go to https://calendly.com/scottfriedman40/30min