Making Money

We frequently find really excellent books and articles that relate directly to building and managing a business. We hope you enjoy our observation and these excerpts.
Work and money seem inextricably bound together. When you’re first starting a business, money issues can consume most of your thinking—if you let them. It’s reasonable to expect that—at least until you have a consistent cash flow going. If you can mentally (and emotionally) separate money associations from your work, and focus on making your work speak for you—represent you—you will find that the issues you encounter with yourself over money begin to dissipate, and you can focus more of your attention on your actual business. At least we’ve seen that happen ourselves. Consider these passages from Creating Money:
Are you putting the wants of the people you serve first? Are you following your inner messages? As you do, you will shine. You will have all the business and abundance you want.

Refusal to pay debts is often a withholding of love, turning the relationship into a power struggle.
Take a moment to reflect on some of your agreements with yourself about what it is all right to spend money on. You will be surprised at how many internal guidelines you have set for yourself about money (and other areas of your life as well). You usually know when you have violated one of your agreements, for when you have, you feel guilty about spending money.

If you want money to flow, be clear and truthful with yourself about what you want in exchange for your efforts and time. This means having clear agreements with other people about what you want from them and what you are willing to give them. If you are seeking smoothness and harmony in your personal and business financial dealings, you will want to be clear about your expectations and assumptions.

Often the process of coming to agreement generates the clarity between people that promotes love and harmony rather than conflict or struggle. Once you have a good working agreement there is rarely a problem. Think of a contract as an opportunity to create clarity between you and another person. Read it carefully and reflect on the terms. Are the terms agreeable to you? Do they reflect your intent?

…are there any areas where you are not clear about your agreements? Take a moment now to bring clarity to those areas, deciding what you are willing to give and how you would like your agreements to be.

Quoted from Creating Money: Keys to Abundance, by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer, 1988, H.J. Kramer, Inc., Tiburon, CA

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