When I complained to my husband that only half of the grocery receipt I was reviewing was for groceries and the other half consisted of treats only he enjoyed, he asked me a question I couldn’t answer.
We are very different. I am an aware shopper. I often buy what I use regularly when it’s “on special,” meaning its low price point. I rarely run out of things or need to buy them at the often artificially higher price points. He puts things into the cart whenever they appeal to him.
I can afford the higher prices, but I learned to do this over 60 years ago, and I see no reason to change this habit. Besides, I hate the manipulative tactics of most grocery chains.
I also tend to space out my own edible treats because I enjoy them more that way.
When my complaint tried to impose my values on my husband, he asked me, “Why shouldn’t I have exactly what I want whenever I want it? We can easily afford it.” I couldn’t answer with anything but old rules that I thought I had long since discarded.
When I used the 3 sentences of the procedure we teach in “Embrace Prosperity” I realized that I had been so busy managing “important stuff” that I had been forgetting about doing things I really enjoy.
When I started remembering and enjoying my own special treats, my critical thoughts disappeared.
Use this process to learn what’s behind your own critical thoughts.
This article is a comment I wrote about a passage on Page 62 of Embrace Prosperity: Resolve Blocks to Experiencing Abundance (Rapid Relief With Logosynthesis®) You can see the passage in the book. You can also see the excerpt here. This link will take you to Bublish.com, where I regularly publish comments on parts of several of my books. This is a site where authors share of their work. You can subscribe to my musings, there, as well as to the musings of many other authors. It’s a great place to learn about new books and I recommend that you visit.