How Does Money Circulate in Your Life?

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Have you ever wondered how money circulates in your life?

In my book, The Lavish Cheapskate, one of the foundational steps is taking the SLAP—which is an acronym for:

S-tep in
L-ook
A-nd
P-rosper

At first, this can seem like a fearful leap—but in my experience, including my coaching, we only live in the fear until we step in and look. Once we take a look, we can see that money coming in and going out is a universal principle. It’s a circulation system—just like blood flowing in certain parts of the body and completely blocked in other parts. It is at this point we are able to see the connection to money and life.

Before we step in and look, money seems to have a power of its own. It can seem to be an outside entity fighting against us constantly. We work harder and harder trying to figure it out. We do until we realize that money, in itself, is a part of our life and not a separate entity. It does not have a power of its own.

The message most of us are given throughout life is that money is hard to get. You have to work hard for it; you have to follow certain rules to keep it; and outside entities are trying to take it away. Yet, when I looked at my own circulation system of money flowing in and flowing out, a mindset shift happened—money finally became a part of my life—it was no longer a separate entity. It is a wonderful tool in hand to live a liberated life.

And what is liberation? Liberation is being able to do the things you want to do rather than have circumstances dictate what you have to do. It is also abandoning all the old conditional beliefs that are passed on from one another. It is up to each of us to realize these conditions are only taught and reveal what liberation is in our own lives. When we come to the end of this short trip called “life,” we don’t worry about another workday, or the conditions that got in the way, we ask if our life had purpose.

That’s why is it crucial to realize that money is not separate from us. It is a part of the wholeness of life. This is the moment when we can fully embrace life and use money to help fulfill our purpose.

Abandon the silly notion that money isn’t important. That notion comes from the place that money is a separate entity and has its own power. It doesn’t. It is, once again, that tool in hand to give you the liberation to fulfill your life and its purpose.


In my book I show simple demonstrations of how compounding interest works—and today I clearly see its universal meaning. Yet, there was a time when if you mentioned “compounding interest” to me, I wanted to cover my ears and sing the “me-me-me” chant to shut it out. I didn’t want to look at it because I feared it—and because of that fear I blocked out many other possibilities.

Recently I had a conversation with my good friend, Christopher Dorris, and we were talking about making a difference in people’s lives and how these relationships have exponential growth as well. As we shared, we took the same concept of compounding interest and related it to life. One action can quite literally exponentially expand and change many lives. The story “It’s a Wonderful Life” is one great example.

Today, I look at compounding interest in complete fascination and how this is connected with EVERYTHING we experience in life. I also realize that my relationship with money is interconnected with my relationship with life.

Recently, I did a SLAP for a client. This work entails going through the flow in and flow out of personal finances. There is no judgment in this process—there is merely stepping in looking and opening to prosperity.

When we looked through it, I showed her how money circulated through her life—not from just the literal numbers, but from a universal principle. We were able to see the blockage and the clogged arteries that she was experiencing—and it was directly connected with her own limiting beliefs. The money flow revealed a deeper meaning of the undercurrent in her life.

I turned to her and said, “You no longer have to prove anything to anyone in your life—you have no more apologies to make—and you are wonderful just the way you are.”

Tears filled her eyes, because her own truth was revealed as to how money flowed in her personal finances. But most importantly she nodded, knowing she no longer had to fight.

Her circulation system revealed that she saw money as being an outside force. She worked hard to make it and she fought hard to keep it. When we looked at the circulation system of her money, we found $2,000.00 a month she could free up—and her life would be open to allow more money to flow in.

We have been taught that money is something outside of us—and we’ve been taught this fallacy well. When we look at it as separate from us, it brings on euphoria or despair. There seems to be no middle ground. It’s quite interesting, isn’t it?

On the other hand, when we see money as a part of us—just like the blood that circulates through our own veins—we can look at its flow and see the wounds come from the idea that it isn’t a part of the wholeness of life.

There is no hindrance in looking—it is where the healing lies. It is where liberation begins.

Remember that the “Lavish Cheapskate” isn’t about saving a buck; it is about how we see money and what we do with money. It is allowing the abundance of money to flow.