"I’m a classroom teacher and am limited to whatever the school system pays."

"I’m a therapist and must only charge so much an hour."

"If I make a lot of money my family/church/friends/God will think poorly of me."

"I’m in a wheelchair or physically handicapped and so have limited opportunities."

Pshaw to all of this. It is nothing more than the writing on someone’s walls.

Who says the teacher has to teach in a classroom or, for that matter, be a teacher at all?

Why does the therapist limit her/himself to so much an hour in individual sessions?

Why not do the work with whole audiences or do it through books, radio or television?

Is it really true that others will think less of you if you make a lot of money? How do you know that?

What would they think of you if you made less money? What is the exact amount of earnings necessary to please all your friends and God?

Is a wheelchair or a physical handicap really a financial handicap? Look at Steven Hawking!

You may never make the Baseball Hall of Fame, or be a physicist but where is it written

that one must have legs in order to run a company, be a speaker, entrepreneur or Internet guru?

I know these "limitations" seem real.

It seems as though external circumstances are forever impinging upon our lives and creating limit after limit.

 It is easy to buy into this kind of thinking even though it is all an "inside job."

Sure, the circumstances are there but as long as our consistent thoughts perpetuate these "stuck" circumstances, they will continue to be our reality.

Rosa poses a dilemma something like the ones above and it applies to almost every working mother. It goes like this�?/P>

"In order to be successful, I must sacrifice time with my children."

Sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? How can a mother truly be a business Titan without ignoring her children to an unacceptable degree?

When we learn that we are far more than the bogus writings on our walls, we can take up residence in the Palace Penthouse. From there, all else becomes possible

The challenge involves turning her dream into a lucrative paying business while allowing quality time with her children.

As long as she has written on her walls that earning money must be done at the sacrifice of quality parenting,

she will surely see evidence of this. And, as long as this belief is part of her "truth," she will be limited.

 Like all of us, her consistent thoughts become her reality. Until this limiting thought changes, she is likely to walk right by the many "hows" that await her.

Our Antennae are among our greatest attributes.

If we will but make purposeful use of them, they will find for us many creative "hows" to do just about anything we want.

Most of us try to figure out the "how" before we venture into new and exciting territory. That’s doing it backwards.

Why limit ourselves to whatever "hows" occur to us in the present moment when, if we will only use it, our antennae will give us a long list

of rich alternatives to choose from? Limiting ourselves to the skimpy list that our left brains create is like confining ourselves to only one aisle in a supermarket.

Rosa’s current affirmation is "Money is abundant in my life."

That’s good as far as it goes but it doesn’t specifically address the money vs. children "limit" she faces.

If she will expand her affirmation to include this challenge, her antenna will go to work on this specific issue.

For starters, I suggest the following affirmation�?/P>

"I earn, easily and consistently, $____________ within a loving and nurturing family environment."

Please note that I put a specific dollar amount in there to make the affirmation more tangible. I would augment this by daydreaming consistently

Maybe Rosa will notice an intriguing newspaper article she never saw before or overhear an exciting idea in someone’s conversation.

Thoughts will occur to Rosa. Help will appear.

Some avenues may be dead ends. She may well stub her toe a time or two.

Remember, dreams don’t necessarily come true, but they DO take us in directions.

Entirely new avenues will open up to Rosa that she had never dreamed of before.

I emphasize our antennae here because it is so under-used.

We have been conditioned to solve our problems with our left brains—to figure out the "hows" first and then proceed toward our achievements.

But it’s our right brains that find the creative solutions. These are the solutions that count.

They are the ones that sing to our souls and take us from mundane meanderings to the Magic of a Mission.