You Have To Spend Money To Make Money

“You Have To Spend Money To Make Money: The Law of Recycling”

Excerpted from "The Money Manual"

That’s right! You have to spend money to make money. It’s the Law of Recycling! All energy is cyclical, so what goes out must and will come back around.

You have to give in order to receive. You have to have open palms to receive. If your hands are closed because you’re holding on to what little money you have at present, you’ll miss the major amounts of money waiting to come to you.

To always give and never receive creates an imbalance. To always receive and never give also creates an imbalance. These create drains on one’s energy. They burn you out. They violate the Law of Reciprocity!

Never save money out of fear! Save with an intention in mind – a specific intention in mind, like what was stated supra in the chapter “Never Save For a Rainy Day!”

All you really need to save is 10% of your earnings. Your saving should be 10% and you total monthly living expenses should be 30% minimum or 50% maximum. With 10% of your money in saving and another 30% going on daily living expenses, i.e. rent and utility bills, you have 60% leftover to invest and to purchase things or do things with. I suggest folks invest 25% and keep 35% for themselves to finance their lives – the fun things: traveling, shopping, dining out, health purposes (colonics, massage therapy, etc.) and spiritual gadgets to foster spiritual growth and well-being. Always spend more on yourself and in the moment! The more you spend on yourself to make your self feel good the more abundant you will be and the more abundance you will receive.

The problem with most Americans is that they spend more money on living expenses (or survival expenses) than anything else – foolishly living beyond their means which is unwise.

If you are spending more than 50% on monthly living expenses you are setting yourself up for doom. If you are spending 70-80% on living expenses, you can forget about it.

Here is my ideal breakdown of where money should go or how it should be allocated:

Savings = 10%
Monthly living expenses = 30%
Investments = 25%
Self/Pleasure = 35% (live in the Moment!)

You see, when you give more to yourself, you get more in return! The secret is to live good, joyously, and abundantly and most importantly: IN THE NOW! This moment is all you ever have! Enjoy it!

Don’t be afraid to spend money on yourself. SPEND on yourself! Reward yourself! Pamper yourself! You will get it back, especially if you direct all that you spend to return to you.

Now is the time to start believing in magic! You will not experience magic if you do not believe in magic! You’ll just be a wishful thinker and a hoper – one who hopes!

Here’s a little exercise I used to do in my early days: when I would make a small size purchase, a purchase around $40-$100, I would invoke that the amount times three would come to me. If I spent $40, I expected to make or receive $120. If I spent $100 I expected $300 to come back to me.

When the amounts (price times three) would just show up unexpectedly, I would go back to my intentioning and remind myself that this was energy at work, the Law of Recycling at work. What goes out must come back in according to law.

I started directing all that I spent to come back threefold, sevenfold, and tenfold and it worked! I used to have so much fun performing this exercise. I will admit when the money flows in consistently and money no longer becomes an issue in your life, your exercises tend to change, or you don’t perform them as much as you used to.

Belief enhances energy. I remember about 4 years ago putting some money oil that I purchased from a New Age store in West Hollywood on my palms and within an hour receiving $500. My friend Odis and I had just come from eating at Real Foods Daily vegan restaurant and decided to go to Objet D’Arts New Age store where we bought various magical oils.

After buying our oils, we went to the car where we put on some of our new oils. I put on money oil.

Within ten minutes we were at the Bodhi Tree metaphysical bookstore on La Cienega. I was in the Osho books section and I decided to check my messages left on my cell phone and had got a mesage from one Roger Reyna who had informed me that he left $500 behind my door (for some legal work I had done for him many months ago). I was like “WOW!” “This is awesome!” ‘I never knew life could be like this!”

The more I began spending money to purchase the things I required in my life on my spiritual journey, the more money I made and seemingly without effort. It just flowed my way. It literally knocked on my door! Literally! (as back then, I used to work from my apartment and my clients had to knock on my front door to notify me of their presence for their appointment which I got paid for – so most knocks on the door were from people coming to spend money for my services).

The more money I spent, the more money that I made and/or came back to me. I learned from firsthand experience that you really do have to spend money to make money.

If you hold on to money and too tightly, you choke the energy. Because you are holding on to money, you can’t receive new or more money.

So spend some money! On yourself! DO YOU! Reward your self and your self will reward you! Just give it a try and see!

Coming January 1, 2009