I’m often asked how I doubled or tripled what I made from one year to the next. My answer is so simple that it often doesn’t make a lasting impression.
They go back into their business and sift through the other strategies they’ve heard that will grow businesses and then move into massive overdrive… again.
Or they procrastinate and complain instead.
And not much changes.
The strategies that make the biggest change to your bottom line are often the least complicated, but take the most amount of faith. Faith that the inner work you do will change your outer circumstances. Faith that you can have prosperity regardless of the people, strategies, and resources available in this moment.
I named my secret weapon for rapid prosperity The Double A Strategy: Appreciation and Eager Anticipation.
Back in the day, Oprah made gratitude a buzzword. But that just makes you appreciate the good things in your current life. While that is a great way to lift your mood and relax you, often it’s not enough to change your life.
That’s because most people see it as a list they rattle off about what they are grateful for and then move right back into the same mindset about their life and financial situation.
Again, not much changes. You have a moment of “feel good”, then it’s back to reality.
But I use appreciation with a bit of a twist. I appreciate all that I have now and all that’s coming.
I used this technique to get out from under a pile of debt and double my income in nine months. I began appreciating what little money I had to pay some of my bills and appreciated the few coaching clients I had.
I also appreciated the money that I envisioned coming to me in the future.
I was eagerly anticipating my debt decreasing and my income increasing, even though I had no idea how that was going to happen. My focus skipped over my current reality of being broke and unsuccessful.
I focused on what was coming, and I thanked God every day that I was going to be back to my old self: inspired, empowered, and making six figures.
I let go of the shame, frustration, and bewilderment of my journey to rock bottom. Instead, I was eagerly anticipating my rise to financial freedom. I looked forward to telling people how I’d been able to overcome a rough patch in my business so I could inspire them to do the same.
And while in the process of paying down debt, I appreciated every single dollar I could pay above the minimum payment due on my credit cards.
I appreciated every dollar of income and did not complain that it wasn’t enough.
I also began to focus in a way that made me feel in control. I chose not to worry about growing my business but being the best I could be with what I had at the moment.
It worked.
It worked better than any other strategy I’d previously tried. And it worked fast.
What I thought might be a five-year recovery took only nine months. It was a powerful life lesson on the power of appreciation and eager anticipation.
Appreciate and be in eager anticipation for what is coming. It will help you enjoy your “right now” moment and act as a magnet for the very thing you want. Money will begin to show up in ways you had never dreamed of.
And you’ll appreciate that!