Welcome 2024!
Happy Friday Greetings!
It is my custom at the beginning of each New Year to provide a summary of the vibrational bank account or checkbook game that we play. “Would you like a million dollars?” That was the question friend; facilitator and International Bestselling author Peter J Hughes asked me as I walked into his workshop seventeen years ago. I said “YES!” and to my delight, he handed me a million-dollar bill. I joyfully thought about all the things that I could do with the money. It was free, fun, and energizing to imagine. My body was buzzing with excitement. It felt good. That first million was spent in less than five minutes. Peter went on that day to share an exercise created by Abraham Hicks called the checkbook game. You play by depositing a vibrational $1000.00 in your game checkbook or bank account spreadsheet and spend it all. Day two you deposit and spend $2000.00. Day three $3000.00 and on it goes day after day. Imagine depositing $365,000 dollars on the last day of the year and spending it all before midnight. It is an opportunity to practice the art of Asking and Receiving as well as expanding gratitude, learning to give and receive with non-attachment and expanding your creations with heart. This exercise is also an invitation to be consciously accountable for creating the life you want to live. Since everything is made up of energy, I believe that it is the energy sources and frequencies that we most often plug ourselves into that generate our perception of reality. In other words, what we focus on is what we experience. What is your focus for 2024?
On January 1st each year I start a new account in the “vibrational checkbook.” I found over the years that my ego gets out of the way when I put 10% into savings and pay the taxes daily. Although tax laws may change, I am choosing to continue the practice of paying 40% of each daily deposit. I feel good about taxes because I decide where these dollars will be spent. It is so liberating to fund programs that matter to me with conscious choice. Next, I spend $100.00 on self-care to ensure that I am making a priority of living my own life. Self-care is a practice that invites me to feel good. What I know for sure is that when people are feeling good, they make better choices. Yes, I play the game every day. However, I only share my Friday spending with the rest of the world. Additionally, each year I add another category or twist to expand my experience and to keep the game fresh. My self-imposed challenge for 2024 is to contribute to a better world for all by expanding the visibility of my heart messages on a website and share other people’s stories of hope through the Connection Project 360 podcast. The website is under construction; however, you can listen to the podcast on Apple or Spotify podcasting apps. Apple Link is here.
How does it get even better than that? Onward we go into the adventures of 2024.
Inspiration: Happy Friday!
Today is the 5th day of 2024.
We have $5,000.00 today.
10% savings = $500.00
40% taxes = $2,000.00: This year my tax dollar contributions continue to focus on National Forests. There are 154 National Forests in the United States. This week I am expressing gratitude for these tax dollars being spent to support the Rio Grande National Forest located in the state of Colorado. This National Forest was established in 1908. You will find among other wonders the San Juan Mountain Range, Sangre de Cristo Mountain Range and 236 miles of the Continental Divide to explore. Learn more here.
How will you be spending the remaining $2,500.00 today?
HERE IS MY PLAN: Be the Best Version of Myself
How are you showing up in the world?
This is the first Friday of 2024. It is my custom at the beginning of each New Year to start a fresh account in the vibrational checkbook game that we play. I am living the life I dare to create. As we play the checkbook game together, self-awareness is likely to expand in unexpected ways. Prepare for expansion, fun, wonder, learning adventures and thought-provoking points sprinkled here and there as the year meanders forward. I am delighted to be sharing my experiences with you. Try it; be amazed at how practicing conscious choice reveals your authentic self. What action can you take today to respond with love and be a better human? Humanity is a choice. How are you showing up in the world?
$100.00: for self-care. This daily practice reminds me that I am responsible to put myself on the priority list of life. Choosing to care for myself is a key factor in expanding contributions for Earth and others. It is a gratitude practice grounded in the accountability of choice. Today I am spending this self-care money to buy fresh fruits and vegetables. I am fueling my body with healthy foods. And I love that!
$0.00 Priceless: Something about life that does not cost money, but intrinsically makes the quality of life richer. For example, today I am setting intentions for living life with more heart moments in 2024. Feel good. Be you. Expand joy. Practice gratitude. Amplify kindness to self and others. Find your inner peace and calm. Embrace wellbeing. Contribute towards a better planet. Consciously connect with friends and support their living intentions. Respond with love. Repeat. What would it take?
$1,400.00: These dollars are being donated to an underground neighborhood pop-up food bank located in the Smith family garage. I know about this food bank because it was created in response to COVID mandates for isolation in 2020 and continues to support local people with a little extra kindness. Neighbors helping neighbors is something we can do. How open are you to living in a better world in 2024?
$1000.00: for a date with my husband. Each week on Friday I dedicate a thousand dollars to our relationship. This practice has heightened my awareness of choosing to spend quality time together. We are on each other’s priority lists. And I love that! This week’s date includes cooking dinner together as we define our couple’s “Happiness Project” categories for 2024. Learn more about happiness here.
We focus together on a playful, supportive, loving marriage! How much love can you stand?
FLOW FIVE FRIDAY: Current “real” life expressions of gratitude, love, and contribution to wellbeing.
This practice began in 2015. I wanted to experience giving, sending actual dollars infused with love out into the world. Do you know the intrinsic value of a five-dollar bill? A teacher once told me that every time you receive a five-dollar bill in change, it is a message of abundance from the Universe. She suggested that we keep those five-dollar bills. In the keeping of these five dollars bills you activate conscious choice in receiving and spending money. I can afford to buy things or experiences because I have a stash of fives. The “I cannot afford it” statement is replaced with conscious choice. Now, I am choosing to spend or not to spend. The five-dollar bill is a money magnet that can multiply. Long story short, I decided to put an actual five-dollar bill into the world each Friday. The practice of giving money weekly with no attachment to the outcome has ironically generated an overflowing connection to hope in my daily awareness. And I love that! Sometimes the five-dollar bill goes to a stranger, sometimes to an organization and other times to a specific person.
I am choosing to be the energy of what works in life.
$5.00: this week’s five dollars were sent to the United Nations to support World Peace. The mailing address is 405 East 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10017. I am choosing to be the energy of what works in life.
Five Increments of Time: In addition to putting a five-dollar bill into circulation, I also plan to acknowledge at least 5 increments of time spent with or for someone else each week. These deeds can be in person, on the phone, in writing communications or acts of service. I found that this practice is usually a random opportunity that presents itself for me to amplify kindness. There are 1440 minutes in each day or 10080 in each week. Whether it is money or time I am choosing to be a conscious, active philanthropist this year. Today, on this first Friday of 2024, I write and send out this message to you. I am grateful for each of you that showed up to read my heart musing. Namaste. How are you “Flowing Five” this week?
Well-Being: Something that I am doing or not doing for self-care in real time.
I start each New Year by reading a favorite childhood book. It is called “The Little Engine That Could” by Watty Piper. This story reminds me to “think that I can!” How does it get even better than that? What are you doing or not doing for self-care?
Planet Awareness: Contributing to the health of Earth.
Each week I pay attention to how my choices impact the environment. Sometimes I share best practices, sometimes new research findings on the state of our planet, and sometimes I share random ideas. This week’s inspiring idea comes from Danielle La Porte who invites us to: “Remember to put the planet on your vision board in 2024.” What are you doing for the health of our planet?
Hold Space or Contribute to a Friends Life Intention:
In this section, I write about holding space or contributing toward the well-being of one of my friends’ life intentions each week. This conscious practice contributes to a better world for all by supporting another’s desire to manifest one of their personal living intentions. This week I am supporting my friend, bestselling author Peter J Hughes whose intention is to “manifest a New Year’s Evolution” by inviting us all to reclaim our humanity. His book as well as the companion card deck shows us the way. Learn more here.
Choose joy. Be kind. Love others and strive to be a better human. What would it take?
Be the Best Version of Myself
What if everything you ask for is possible?
What actions would you take?
I am kicking off the New Year with a personal tradition. I started by listening to the song “What the World Needs Now is Love” lyrics by Hal David and melody by Burt Bacharach. It sparks my imagination. I wonder what I can contribute to make a difference in the world this year. Time will tell as I learn new things, grow in unexpected ways, and climb new heights responding to life with love.
I invite you to play the vibrational checkbook game with me this year.
How are you showing up in the world?
How are you spending the remaining $2,500.00 today?
I am grateful to have each of you in my life.
I am supporting your work and life intentions.
Love to you.
Mare
Choose to feel good. Be Joy.
Practice gratitude. Amplify Kindness. Expand Generosity.
Ask, Receive, and Give with More Ease.
Respond to life with Love.
PS: If you have been playing with me for several years, below are the current daily deposits in other years Vibrational Accounts:
2014 today is the 3645th day giving us $3,645,000.00 to spend
2015 today is the 3298th day giving us $3,298,000.00 to spend
2016 today is the 2916th day giving us $2,916,000.00 to spend
2017 today is the 2555th day giving us $2,555,000.00 to spend
2018 today is the 2191stday giving us $2,191,000.00 to spend
2019 today is the 1826thday giving us $1,826,000.00 to spend
2020 today is the 1462nd day giving us $1,462,000.00 to spend
2021 today is the 1196th day giving us $1,196,000.00 to spend
2022 today is the 729th day giving us $729,000.00 to spend
2023 today is the 366th day giving us $366,000.00 to spend
