In the last couple of days the world has gone a little crazy. Things that we know and count on have shifted and reshaped with lightning speed.

We want to take action to protect ourselves and our family.
We want to stockpile enough toilet paper to last until summer.
We want to know our jobs will still provide for us.
We want to know our retirement accounts will allow us to be old and forgetful and yet still safe.

Stop.
Take a breath.

It is okay to not know what to do.

We don’t know what is going to happen.
And that’s okay.

Yes, the market may be spectacularly down.
But money is still just an exchange of value.

There is nothing of greater value than the ones you love.

A pandemic has a hidden gift inside of all the misery and fear:
This is the time when we gather our loved ones close.
We stop the daily grind.
And we love.

We hug necks and remember to be thankful they are here.

I was at the grocery store this morning and noticed this:
The people who were upset and cut in line and were arguing with people were the ones who are living in two worlds.

They are living with one foot in their normal life and one foot in the new topsy turvy pandemic life.

That’s what was causing their internal conflict.

They are thinking that things should be one way and they aren’t.

It’s like they are living in a world where things are black and white. And today the things they think should be black are not black OR white.

They are without color at all.

The people at the grocery store who smiled at each other and talked with strangers in line were the people who are surrendering to the moment.

We don’t know what this is all about and where it will end up and who will be alive and who will die.

And that’s okay because that’s where we are right in this moment.

Wait a few days or a few weeks to make any major changes in your life…
Money or otherwise.

This is the time to cocoon as much as you can.

Draw your people close.

Personally, I am not even checking the stock market. Those are my long term savings.

Personally, I am so thankful I have the money to buy some shelf stable milk and gluten-free crackers to be prepared for quarantine.

Surf the changing tides.
Feel all the feelings.

And when we get more information, then decide what big steps to take.
If any.

Sure… buy your Charmin now. 
But this time is about gratitude first.

Take another breath.

And surrender to the moment.

I’ll tell you who. People who spend like you do.

If you hang with people who eat out every night, you will eat out a lot.

If your friends are into potluck dinners, your spending will skew more towards the supermarket.

If you hear the person in the cubicle next to you renegotiating their car insurance, you might ask them about it.

If your neighbor just put in an outdoor fireplace, you might want to have the same fun they are having.

The same is true for making money.

If you know a lot of sales people, you will probably hear about more sales jobs.

If your friends hate their job and tell you about it all the time, you can’t unhear that.

Friends are not by accident.

Who do you want to hang with?

I started getting calls after my video the other week about inheriting money.

People were congratulating me on my inheritance.

What the wha?!? Congratulations surprised me.

Maybe they didn’t watch the entire video.

The whole reason I recorded the video was not to announce that I was getting money, but to use it as an example that being rich or getting a lot of money was all an illusion. That I was happy and/or sad about it all depending on what I thought about it.

Because we haven’t even seen the will yet. 
I am merely working under the assumption or illusion that I will be inheriting money.

It feels pretty exciting to think I am inheriting money.  Any amount of money.

And yet I have not even received a cent.

So it’s obviously not the money that is making me excited.
It’s the thought of receiving money that feels good.

So here’s what I want to offer you:

Why don’t we all try living in the space of thinking we are about to inherit money, we just don’t have it yet.

I know you may think this is crazy talk.

You may be thinking that I am different. I have reason to think I am inheriting money.

And you would be right.

 But it wouldn’t have to be inheritance.

A lot of people get this feeling by playing the lottery.
They could have bought the winning ticket and just not know it yet.

And it wouldn’t even have to be winning something or inheriting money.

It could be living in anticipation of making more money by working.

I had a business coach suggest that I think that my money was on It’s way to me, I just don’t know who is going to bring It to me yet.

I love that thought.

My money is coming, I just don’t know who is bringing it.

It’s like the Wells Fargo Wagon. (It’s-a comin’ down the street, oh please let it be for me!)

I have kept that thought.

Who is going to be bringing me my money? It’s going to be a big, delicious surprise!

That means the money isn’t someone else’s and then becomes mine.

Someone else doesn’t have less money because they pay me.

We both have MORE VALUE because I am being paid, and they are bringing in lots of money because of the tools I am teaching them.

My clients bringing me money creates more money for them.

And each day I wake up and look forward to finding out who it will be.

That though gives me a feeling of excitement!

That’s the space where I like to live.
That’s the thought I choose to think.

This time it just happens to be inheritance.

It’s my choice to live in delightful anticipation from whatever source.

How do you choose to think about life?