In the article before last, I was sharing the other places you can find me online and how I use those sites to spread the word of this site. A while back, through my attempt of getting the word out, I discovered a popular social community site. I thought I would give the site a test drive, to see what kind of response I get out of linking the profile to Conscious Flex.
Overall I did not get a serious response, since this particular social site is designed for entertainment and most people give personal development a serious tone. Yet, this entertaining site give me a profound valuable insight on how to perceive money in order to generate a mind-set of abundance. This is very sound advice and I am sure you will agree, but first let me explain the basics of the site.
My First Introduction Experience of the Site
When you login, you get a bonus of what they call 'lunch money'. The more times you login within a roll each day, you get more lunch money. You need lunch money to navigate around the site.Just like reality, you have to login to a field that gives money in order to receive it. The more you work within the field (day to day), the more you make. You need money to navigate around in life.
Almost everything you do on the site, costs lunch money. You can send a gift/food, send a flirt, upload a picture for others to buy, buy one of their pictures, over bid someone else, etc...Just like life, almost everything you do will cost you money.
As soon as I discovered this site, I got hooked because it is very entertaining. My first initial thought was to gain as much lunch money as I could, to buy a slot for a new picture, and sell that picture for a profit. I slowly learned that it took a lot of energy to gain lunch money. I was still bringing in lunch money, but it was a very gradual process. The site became boring, exhausting, and lost its entertainment value. Consequentially I gave up on it. A brief time later, I received an email from the site saying: "You were given a Gold Star".
My Profound Experience of the Site
I went back to the site, looked at the profile that gave me a gold star, and gave them a gold star back. What I did not realize before, is that the things on the site that do not cost lunch money, give lunch money to the person you are interacting with. You could give a star, give a high-five, sign their profile page, become their secret admirer, become a fan, etc.. and the lunch money does not come out of your pocket, however it gives them lunch money just from you taking action in giving.
The whole system behind the site, is basically about giving. There are very few things you can do to spend the lunch money on yourself. Once I realized the system behind the site, it was surprising by how many people returned the favor of giving back to you, what you gave to them. What was even more surprising, was the amount of generous people. For example, when I returned the gold star to the first person that gave me a gold star, they sent me a gift with a note that said: "Thank you for returning the favor, here is a gift. Don't worry about returning the favor on this one.". As a result, the more I gave, the more I received. Sometimes I did not even have to give, in order to receive (or at least I did not see it as giving). One lady sent me a gift worth $10,000 dollars of lunch money, for just having a positive profile! Perhaps just seeing my positive profile gave her something of value.
I gained the entertainment value back from the site and I began to love the act of giving to the other people on the site. I started to not care about the lunch money and care more about giving, then I notice something interesting: the moment I stopped caring about the lunch money, the more I had to give! Therefore, I started to give more to others than what they gave because it was fun.
At first introduction to the site, I notice everything on the site that costs lunch money, is realistic to the amount it would cost in real life. I realized later that my beliefs about money played into the site. I was concerned about the lunch money and made that my focus, but the whole system behind the site was not about the lunch money. As a result, it was difficult to earn lunch money.
The Valuable Insights of the Whole Experience
I begin to wonder if my beliefs about money in life, were misplaced too. Perhaps the reason it is difficult to earn money for most people, is because the system behind life is not about the money (even though we need it to navigate through life). Maybe the system is about giving value to receive value, just like the system behind the site.
It was extremely rough for me to understand this principal (life is about the system of giving value) until I ran into this site (quite some time ago). As soon as I gave this new 'system of giving' as chance, I noticed a difference right away. I feel the reason way this is such a tough understanding, is because it is not something visible. Yet, this is the invisible energy field of money: Money attracts to value. But than again, value is a perspective. Just like my experience of the lady who found value in my positive profile. I didn't think I was giving anyone value from just a profile. In my experience, there are two golden rules when it comes to value: (1) if it is valuable to you, it is valuable to many others and (2) every positive emotion creates some kind of value. Follow positive emotions. Use those two things as keys to success and you will attract the same energy field of value as your own. In other words, you will attract as much value as you perceive yourself giving. Give as much value as you have to give (which is more than you can possible imagine) and you will receive as much value as you gave (that is what attracts abundance).
As a Review:
- Whatever you belief, is what you will see (if you believe in a system of profit then that's what you'll see).
- Your actions will be the result of your beliefs (if you believe in a system of profit, then that will be your actions).
- Money is a system of giving value (the more value you give, the more you receive).
- If you are not providing value to receive money then you are wasting your time (you will get bored, exhausted, and find no entertainment in money).
- What is valuable to you, is valuable to others (your perspective will always work for you).
- Positive emotions, always lead to value (follow your emotions, if you are feeling negative then you are not being lead to value).
- Stop taking money so seriously (replace your seriousness in money, toward the seriousness of giving value instead).
- As soon as you stop caring about money and focus on giving value, then the money will follow.
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LOL, i really like this point you brought up!
"Stop taking money so seriously (replace your seriousness in money, toward the seriousness of giving value instead)."
So true!
Robert
Great article. I should try this out.
Currently, I work at Wal-Mart as a cashier. Although I am providing value to customers by checking them out and showing them where items are, I feel that this is not what I want to do to generate value.
I want to be a writer. I've been blogging for almost 2 1/2 years. I feel that blogging helps me improve myself as a writer by writing something every day.
I'm working on my debut light novel (think something along the lines of Goosebumps or Animorphs). It will be called Thr33. I plan on releasing it chapter by chapter once it's written out and then releasing it as an actual book once I get a publishing deal.
Keep up the good posts!
TheAndySan
http://www.theandysan.com
What a neat life lesson you learned from this site. Thanks for sharing it! The more you give (whatever that may be) the more you are rewarded (in numerous ways.)
Hello Jennifer,
Your welcome, I love to share, it is my pleasure. I am delighted that you are grateful. I apprecate the comment :)
Have a Consciously Flexing day Jennifer,
~Nicholas Powiull @ Conscious Flex
Hello TheAndySan,
In my next article, I will explain the quickest, most productive, and effective way to provide value to people. I feel you are the right track as a writer, it sounds like something you are passionate about and that is where true value is stored.
Thank you for the comment TheAndySan,
~Nicholas Powiull @ Conscious Flex
Hello Robert A. Henru,
Thank you for the comment indeed! It is splendid to hear you found truth within my quote. I live my life with a 'no dept' consciousness. What I mean, is that if I borrow a person some money, I do not expect to see it back. Nobody owes me anything. Doing this, helps to keep the serious tone to money away. People get caught up in "you owe me" mentality and it really puts a seriousness towards money. Money is a system of value and if you give money too then your giving value, therefore it will come back to you. It does not matter where the source it comes from, it will come.
Thank you for the comment Robert. Have a Conscious Flexing day Robert,
~Nicholas Powiull @ Conscious Flex
Hi Nicholas,
Very nice article!
We look at the reality through our emotional and thought filters creating our own perceptions of the universe.
On a general note: Your writing has the flow of coming from your being. There is very less mental chatter there.
I really like your articles and I have been slowly reading them one by one.
Warm regards and wish you successful blogging,
Desika
Hello Desika,
Thank you for your warm regards, wishes and encouragement indeed. So true, our filters is what makes this infinite potential reality, seem limited.
You are very insightful to realize the mental chatter. Through a very profound experience with Polyphasic Sleep, I managed to release the mental chatter. I wrote an article about it here: the Biggest Problem in the World
Thank you for the compliments and comment. Have a Consciously Flexing day Desika,
~Nicholas Powiull @ Conscious Flex
These are great recommendations Nicholas! I learned a lot through not taking money so seriously. I think you're right on the ball, on this money thing!
Hello Nathalie,
A little over a month ago, I decided to stop taking money so seriously and starting giving value more seriously. I have always tried to do this, but never made it my number one priority.
When you arrange your priorities in the order that makes closest sinse to you and the core of your being, everything seems to line up.
I have never attracted so much abundance in all levels of my life, until I made the commitment and action to do whatever it takes to provide value to people above everything else.
In order to do this, I had to stop caring what others thought about my actions. I had to keep aligned with my highest thought: "Helping as many people possible by applying value is the greatest priceless gift of all, that is the job I choose". Any other job (especially hourly wage jobs), is a waste of time and ability to provide abundance to others.
That is probably the most difficult thing I had ever force myself to overcome, because it brings about much fear. In the past, I would quit those dead-end jobs for a while, then start working again when the fear started becoming too strong. Now that I have gotten over the mountain of that fear, all my beliefs are becoming reality.
I just reached a point where I had enough of the fear. I decided that living in fear was not worth it and not living my passion was not worth living. I gave my thoughts no other choice.
When you can put your passion above your own personal needs, then your personal needs are met by doing your passion. I always knew that, but had a difficult time experiencing it because I never fully applied it.
If you take the money seriously then you will attract and attach the energy of seriousness to money, which gives you the consciousness frame of mind that you will do anything to achieve money. Even being somewhere you do not want to be, doing something you do not want to do, knowing you have better things to do with your life, and doing it all for small sums of money. Trading your time for money. Wasting your time for small amounts of money.
However, if you take giving value and living passion serious then you can passionately give abundance to others. Since your doing exactly what you want to be doing, exactly where you want to be doing it, knowing your giving people everything you have, feeling good about it, and therefore aligning yourself with that which you give! That which you give, is that which you will receive.
Yet, I realize that out of fear, people will defend their way of doing things. They see no other way. They were conditioned, programed, and brainwashed (like we all were and most still are by even by the ones closest to them) to think that getting 'good job' and working hard is the only honest living.
Thank you for the comment Nathalie, hope you like my rant ;)
Have a Consciously Flexing day Nathalie,
~Nicholas Powiull @ Conscious Flex
Hi Nicholas, wonderful article. It reminds me of what Napoleon Hill called the Golden Rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. You get back what you put out.
Hello Carol King,
Indeed, there are things working behind the scenes of this very approach. Most people do not realize the tremendous effect of such a simplistic rule. There is indescribable beauty in the simplistic, since it the centerfold of all profound insights and experiences.
The only complex part about it, is the scenes in the background that form everything together, in order to provide this golden rule its simplistic outcome.
Yet, nobody has to worry about that part of it because it is automatically applied naturally by default of the golden rule itself.
Thank you for the comment!
Have a Consciously Flexing day,
~Nicholas Powiull @ Conscious Flex
It's amazing how much of success is to giving and being authentic to yourself. Every time I "try" to make money it flops, but when I just want to teach people something amazing (that I may charge for, or charge for the upsell), then it works. Even better, when I share instead of promote, it's easier, more fun, and converts much better! :)
~ ElizabethPW
Hello Elizabeth,
Indeed it is amazing, in fact in most cases amazing is an understatement :)
It is easier, fun, and works much better because you are following something very precise: the universe. The universe is setup in a way that leads you to joy, if you follow joy. There is nothing more enjoyable than giving value! Follow your joy and it will always lead you to the easiest, quickest, and most productive way of living life.
Thank you for the comment Elizabeth. Have a Consciously Flexing day,
~Nicholas Powiull @ Conscious Flex