Practice makes perfect

If you are going to be rich, part of getting in the feeling of your new world is to get used to handling money - lots of it. Some ideas:

a. Work your life backwards from this new income. Part of your planning has to be what you are going to now enjoy with that new income. Jack Canfield has some great ideas on "The Secret" DVD with what he's done in his life.

b. Remember your charities. A great place to get some tax breaks on this new income is to give it away to charity. Get the picture and feelings of being able to write out a huge check to some organization or individual that you think really needs it.

c. Practice writing budgets. How much will you be putting in savings, how much will be operating expenses, how much to investments. Even if you just scratch out some simple ball park figures, these will help. If you are going to start a business, or take one to new levels, figure how much you are going to be paying your new staff and what is going to benefits, your buildings, your fleet of vehicles, how much you are spending on catering. Get the great feeling of having an accountant come in and tell you that you need to find some more places to invest your money. Get the feeling of hiring an investment counselor and some CPA's to take care of all your accounts and keep them balanced.

d. Make a vision board for you new business. Start working it all out - start with a great office suite for yourself (if that is part of your vision) and all the phones and well-groomed, efficient assistants who are helping you manage your empire. Go through some catalogs and magazines and cut out pictures of the executive life you want to lead. Put these on your board, then sit for some time each day and visualize that new, big business you have. If you later revise your dream upwards, you can replace these pictures with new ones you find. But get something up right now, even if the first one is taped on some posterboard.

e. Write or draw everything out. Hill states this from the beginning of his Think and Grow Rich. Other authors also have found the power of getting something written or sketched in the physical universe. You don't have to show this to anyone, what you are interested in here is getting the details worked out of your vision, your new life to lead. I recently found out the truck I drive is exactly like the one I drew years ago, before finding out about the Law of Attraction.

The thing is to do something today, right now, to get yourself in the feeling of your new, rich lifestyle. Get the vision, get the feeling, watch it happen around you.