I am a big fan of using the principles of The Law of Attraction (see The Secret book recommendation in my list). So when one of my Money Gym pals, ace website builder Marion Ryan, told us all about Give Away A Dollar A Day I just had to go out and start doing it....
The idea behind it is that in order to attract more money in to our lives, we have to feel comfortable giving it away. There are many millionaires who will say that one of the secrets of their success is that they are not afraid to give money to others (known as tithing, or charity giving) as they know that this money will always come back to them ten-fold.
Give Away a Dollar a Day is slightly different. You leave the money in places where people will find it at some point. So we don't know who's getting it. It's about imagining how a person will feel when they find it and it's about letting go of feeling scarcity around money. The attitude 'I have more than enough...' will make you feel good about money and not cause feelings of lack.
So far I've dropped various pounds around - in the pocket of a skirt in a clothes shop, on a little display picnic table in M&S, I left my pound in the trolley after shopping at Sainsbury's. The interesting thing about this is it makes us think about the act of giving away the money. With charity donations, a direct debit coming out of our account every month doesn't make us think nearly so much about what we're giving and doesn't give us the opportunity to feel so abundant...
Great blog post and really interesting concept. I've just discreetly left 50p on the street outside........ quite excited to think of someone picking it up & perhaps putting a smile on their face - there's one on mine just thinking about it!
Posted by: Niki Duffy | September 05, 2009 at 06:17 PM