The Easiest Way I Know to Make $10,021.00

This story is going to require a bit of setup and background. It is an account of the events in my life over the past 2 weeks that increased my net worth by a little over $10,000 with almost no effort on my part.

My Wife

You need to first know a bit about my wife.

In my experience there are two basic types of people. A venture capitalist once called them propeller heads (or dreamers) and anchors (practical, down to earth types).

My wife is the former and I am the latter. She is the only person I’ve ever met who managed to maintain a major portion of her childhood innocence into adulthood. As a result she gets to live in a world where magic is common and accepted as the norm.

When she wants a new kitchen table, and there is no money in her budget for it, she just informs God of her request and in a day or two someone will offer her one or she’ll find a $500 maple table in a back alley that just needs a bit of TLC to look like an amazing antique.

There’s more to her than these thin slices of course, but this is the knowledge of her that you’ll need to understand the rest of my story.

God

The two types of people mentioned above, more specifically my wife and I, also seem to have different ways of relating to God. To me, although real, God is a vague and distant life-force; the breath and blood of existence.

To my wife, God is very much personified. To the point that she can get him on her internal phone at any time she wants.

She will routinely announce to me that God has given her direction for some important decision she was struggling with. Most of the time, the advice seems sound and often is not something that she would have ever come up with based on her own thoughts.

How To Make Money

A confession. I struggle with money. It’s not that I don’t make enough, but money comes to me primarily through hard work and struggle, which is fine. That’s the way virtually everyone I’ve ever met makes money too.

The problem is that I know it doesn’t have to be like that.

I feel like I am addicted to struggle and the hard way of doing things. Seriously, it is an addiction. A form of self sabotage, keeping me from the full enjoyment and participation in life.

How I Made $10,021.00 In 3 Days

About 10 days ago, I was sitting on the couch in my office, feeling messed up and depressed. It happens every so often and the experience is a bit like suddenly realizing I have been hitting my head against a brick wall for a few hours for no reason and without even being aware of the pain I was self inflicting.

Seeing me in this state, my wife says,

“Have you asked God for help?”

“Huh?” The last thing I want to hear right at this moment…the voice of a 5 year old’s wisdom.

“Every time I see you like this, all I see is God, standing like the Christmas Man (English is not her first language, she means Santa Claus) holding a huge pile of gifts that he wants to give you, but you have to ask and be willing to accept them.”

She has struck a cord with me now. I’m aware that I sometime have difficulties asking for help or even for things that I know I deserve, let alone things that I just would like or want.

“He wants to help you, he wants you to know that you can make money and even get rich, magically and without any struggle.”

I don’t know how it happened but I began to open to what she was saying. Slowly I became aware that of the possibility that money could come without struggle and without hurting myself and even “magically” as she put it.

What a concept. Wouldn’t that change a lot in my life…to let go of the weight of making money!

The next day I went to my post office box and found that I had received a package. It was a book…

I didn’t have any idea this book was coming. It is likely it was sent to my address posted on this site, it was from a publishing company, usually they would email first and ask if I actually wanted the book, but this one just arrived out of thin air.

A couple days later

Again I found myself locked in a similar space of struggling with my work.

My wife wandered into my office and sat down. It was actually her that pointed out the connection between the conversation we had had and the book I received. Sorry to admit, at first, I had missed it.

“He’s still waiting for you to tell him what you want,” she said.

See is believing as they say, so this time I was feeling it a bit more than the first time. This time, I took a piece of paper from my desk and wrote on it:

The next day, I entered James’ contest, having completely forgotten about my request, and a couple days later I won the $10,000 prize.

When I wrote the note I had actually meant a monthly income of $10,000 but, if you’ve seen The Secret you’ll notice my mistake immediately, apparently God is very literal. He gives exactly what you ask for, not what you mean.

The Rub

I was now beginning to be convinced of the personal nature of her God and the need for me to update my concept of The Source, which I have done. I’m getting better at asking for help and surrendering my need to do things ‘my way’ which is often flawed.

A day or two later, I had a question for my wife.

“If you know all this and it appears to work so well, then why haven’t you just asked for $20 million so you (and I) never have to think about money again?”

I was thinking that if she had access to instantly manifest anything, why not take full advantage, right?

She says, “He can only give you what your heart truly desires. He isn’t interested in just granting your surface wishes. The request can be anything, $50 million or perfect health, but it will be what is right for you.”

That makes sense, somehow I knew that I hadn’t just discovered the great cosmic cash machine.

A Quote From Your Magic Power to Be Rich

It seems fitting that everything that I’ve been expressing in this post is actually covered very well within the book.

There is a difference between wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it. No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, or belief.

Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.

I bargained with Life for a penny,
And Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store.

For Life is just an employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.

I worked for a menial’s hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have willingly paid.

In The End

When I’m really honest with myself, it isn’t just money that I want, although I’m certainly remaining open to having it appear magically.

What I really desire is to connect with and build something of a value that will, in turn, produce a very good income. To meet the challenges that are right for me to overcome and for that path to lead to abundance and prosperity.

Jon

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