Lottery Winner Syndrome | Do you know what you’d do?
As part of the ‘Putting Money in Coaches’ Pockets’ mini-ecourse, and thanks to the power of the internet, we’ve now reached thousands upon thousands of coaches with this single question:
Ask, ‘What could I do in my life, if money was absolutely no longer an issue?’
(To sign up for this five-part mini-ecourse yourself, go to www.MoneyforCoaches.com. The above question comes from Part 1 which you’ll receive immediately.)
You might be surprised at how many people reply to this question, as I suggest they do, via email, even knowing I may not reply. Great big lists of things are unleashed – there are SO many things people would do, *if* money were no longer an issue. It’s great to read them all.
And usually, after reading the lists, I reply back with a very brief: So, which one of these will you do NOW, today, THIS MINUTE?
I know, it’s a mite sneaky, but it works. Keep reading. 
So many of us ‘futurize’ our prosperity, and in doing so, push it away. Our dreamy Shangri-La of ‘When I Have Enough Money’ is always in the distance.
I don’t get as many replies to my second question, but enough to know it’s working, a bit. People will say, “You know, now that you ask, I actually CAN do more of this or that, right now, why am I waiting???”
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Put it another way…
Everyone’s heard the phenomenon of lottery ticket winners: where sooner or later (usually sooner) the winners have blown their money and are worse off than before. There are a lot of financial gurus, teachers, trainers and coaches who work on the psychology of this with aware folk, to break the paradigm that’s at work here. But what I’d like to add is this:
If you don’t know what you’d do, there would be no point to you having an abundance of money.
And so, you don’t have an abundance of money.
If you’d like to have an abundance of money, figure out what you’d do with it if you had it.
Simple, right? 
Actually, sometimes it can take burning life right down to the wick to step back and realize you’d like things to be different. It can take a serious health setback.
And… it can take lots of practice to switch from ‘struggle’ to ‘ease.’ This is what I call an ‘identity-level’ shift and it usually doesn’t quantum-flip overnight.
But everyone has dreams, right? So for starters, tap deeply into those. (Do it even if you feel quite a way along the path to being emotionally healthy and prosperous…)
Our dreams are doorways into our future. So I say again…ask yourself, regularly: ‘What would I do in my life, if money was absolutely no longer an issue?’ And then, for bonus points, ask…’Which one(s) can I start doing now?’
I don’t know about you, but… I don’t want the universe to think I wouldn’t know what to do with a lottery ticket, do you?
[photo credit: Mike enjoying a fresh coconut in the car on our way from Lahaina (whaling town and historical capital city of Hawaii) back to Kihei, Maui where we were last week. Betcha didn't know a coconut would fit in those drink holders, did you? Me either!]
