Do What Makes Your Heart Sing

My heart jumped at the news. A good friend could hardly contain her excitement about a workshop she wanted to attend and had asked me if I wanted to go, too. Then my chest registered the familiar heavy weight of anxiety. I didn't have the money for it and felt the conflict between wanting to go and my bank account. How many of us have felt the same way?

The thing about money is we know how much of it we need to be able to live in our homes, buy food, wear clothing, drive a car, and pay our water, heat and telephone bills. Those are the basics for most of us. I can pay for those but there's not much left over.

When we work hard and the only thing we can afford are those basics, we start to feel discontented. We want to have fun, read books, go to a movie, and do things with our friends. When we have fun, we like to eat and drink, and play with our toys. If we think we can't afford to do some of those fun things we start to feel hard done by for having to work so hard to just exist. We start thinking we deserve more.

I used to think that way, but not anymore. READ MORE...