The purpose of these five new fantasy money games is simple: To get your creative imagination used to the idea and prepared for the reality of having larger sums of money flowing into your life. If any of these suggested actions stretch your comfort zone, so much the better. This should be a lifelong process of expanding your boundaries. If your comfort zone remains largely intact from ten or twenty or even thirty years ago, you have been limiting your thinking, your acting, and your living.
1. If $100 suddenly and unexpectedly showed up in your life, what is the most fun feel-good thing you could exchange it for?
2. If you had an extra $10,000 show up, imagine something you could do with one or more of your good friends that would give you all a memorable experience. So memorable and enjoyable and impactful that each of you would be inspired to create more money in your lives so you could have additional similar adventures.
3. Have your own “Oprah Moment.” It caused quite a stir back in 1999 when Oprah Winfrey surprised her entire audience by giving them each a brand new car. Get into a relaxed and comfortable position and imagine you are in the financial position to buy whatever car they would most enjoy for a group of your friends. Picture which car you would get each of them, and what kind of event you might plan to tell them about this surprise gift.
4. Imagine you have had enough of a windfall to take the next year off, to have whatever kind of sabbatical you would most enjoy. You may take one other person on this fantasy trip. Take as much time as you like for this one. Begin it today, getting a sense of how you could spend the next year, money no object, doing something that would excite and delight you, perhaps with someone special.
5. Imagine you have $10 million to spend on people in your life who have done something or given you something you are grateful for. Picture giving them a special gift, or cash, to express your gratitude, and what you would write on each of the cards accompanying those gifts.
A vividly imagined windfall not only can be an uplifting, fun experience by itself, but can smooth the emotional way for you to get more out of actual windfalls when they come to you. Try these fantasy money games today and see what comes up in terms of your own prosperity consciousness.
