I’m often amazed at just how much effort and how many different trades and skills are involved in the building of a home.  From the initial design and planning, to the laying of the foundation, to the structure, then the walls, the windows, the flooring… even the maintenance and upkeep involves thousands, possibly millions, of individuals, each doing their own thing to contribute to the final outcome.

Imagine if, at the very beginning of the process, the designer drew out the plans, and then just stared at them.

And stared.

And stared.

And then worried and fretted that the house he designed wasn’t built yet.

Or if the flooring guys walked in, and instead of starting to bang down the hardwood, spent all of their time looking at their hammers, wondering if they would work properly or break down.

Maybe they know that their hammers are working properly, but they start to try to nail down the flooring with a tape measure.

We’d be looking for a new designer and a new flooring company pretty quickly.

Are you doing this with your money?

Money is a tool.  Nothing more, nothing less.  In and of itself it’s worthless.  It’s not good, it’s not bad.

But it’s so versatile, and so full of energy, that we can often mistake it for the end, rather than simply a means to an end.

In Part One of his free audio program Release the Money Madness and Unleash Your Money Magic: Why This Is the Best Time EVER to Achieve Financial Freedom, Edward Mills talks about us doing exactly this with our money.  We sit and stare at our bank accounts, our stock holdings, our savings… and just tear ourselves up inside at all of the apparent lack out there.

But guess what?  Staring at these things, worrying about these things, trying to find the angle to make it “work”… none of these things is going to help.

Maybe it’s time to use another tool.

Use your creativity, your drive, your love… let the money be for now.  Stressing and worrying about it does nothing but make it worse.  Not only will it drain the current energy you do have - focusing on your current apparent lack will only bring more of the same into your life.

Focus on another box.

Another excellent example of this is given by Seth Godin in his post Do You Have 16 Boxes? Seth makes the point that it’s more than the cash flow that counts when a person is buying or selling something.  There is more to life and business than the bottom line, and continuing to focus on the cash and sales when this is an outstanding  time to focus on all those others things that get neglected during boom times is just silly.

Whatever is happening in your life right now will change.  Focus on what’s in front of you, on what you can do now with what you have now, and everything else will fall into place.

What can you focus on right now to create your better life?

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