How you can Live a lavish Life on a Not-So-Luxury Budget
I even developed a luxury mastermind program where I've the consideration of mentoring an amazing number of women while we visit probably the most luxurious places in the world, such as Aspen and Monaco. I believe it's important that ladies learn to infuse their businesses, lives and souls with luxury. (By the way, that pic is of us at our slumber party having a private chef in the Ritz.)
Call me vain, materialistic or whatever word you've for individuals like me. I don't care. In fact, I realize. I personally use to have the same about people living "the good life," and also you understand what? It wasn't because I thought these were bad people. Deep down, I was just jealous, because I wanted it too.
This is what might not learn about me. I've not always lived such a luxurious lifestyle. In fact, I've been dead broke. I'm talking eating Ramen noodles, residing in a double-wide, chasing after the K-mart blue light special and putting 25 cents price of gas in my car broke.
I'm also not really a money coach, meaning I do not educate you on steps to make more income. I educate you on how to tap into your desires, create health, follow your passions and exist full out. Money just seems to follow such a gal.
What I have discovered is that you must first learn to be considered a luxurious person to draw in a luxurious life, that is what "French Kissing Life" is all about - filling every day with joie de vivre, passion and desire - all of which can be achieved with little money in the bank. In fact, this process, not some cash management system, is exactly how I attracted a most luxurious life.
I want to demonstrate how you can do the same, because I know deep-down, you would enjoy a nice wine bottle or a night in the Ritz Carlton. And, there is nothing whatsoever wrong along with you for wanting it. Actually, I only say, "Go for this sista!"
Which makes it Obtainable
Very few individuals are lucky enough to become overnight millionaires, but if you need to live a lavish life, you have to align your energy with luxury. So, exactly what is a girl to do?
Well, you may need to redefine luxury to really make it obtainable now, if your current definition is okay yachts and also you drive a Pinto, guess what? You're screwed.
So, let's think of luxury because this: quality people, experiences and things.
When I decided many years ago which i was fed up with the crap during my life, I started seeking quality. I had been completed with the junk foods, whining people and plastics produced in China. I needed more personally, but I couldn't afford Chanel at the time (and although I write about her like we're best friends now, I still don't own a piece.) I had to start showing gratitude for that luxuries I'd to draw in more of it into my life, and believe me, if you're looking over this, you have a computer. This is a luxury.
Luxury is about quality and sometimes probably the most quality experiences have the freedom. I can not think of anything more luxurious than hanging out with my daughter on the sofa watching a really good movie or my morning mug of coffee on my small back deck.
Rather than me providing you with some woo-woo law of attraction guide on energy alignment to draw in more money, I am going to share my real-life examples of how I started to experience luxury long before my first Ritz-Carlton stay (BTW, j'adore the Ritz). After i started doing the following things, the world of luxury opened its big arms and embraced me:
1. I stopped hanging out with complaining people who were always talking about how broke they were. Major luxury repellent.
2. I searched for quality relationships with people who were no strangers to luxury. I needed to understand how to think like them.
3. I spent additional time anyway. There's nothing as luxurious as walking barefoot within the grass on a summer evening or perhaps a good hike within the woods.
4. Luxury abhors haste, so I slowed down and enjoyed cups of coffees and conversations with friends.
5. I stopped spending my cash on the crap 2 for $20 shirts and in the bank to buy the nice $100 one. Luxury isn't about quantity; it's the quality that means something.
6. I hung out in the lobbies of fine hotels and merely experienced the field of luxury. They do not charge you for lobby space.
7. I drove a junk car so I could splurge on good food. I still drive a less than luxurious car, but my entire life has not suffered one bit.
8. I followed my passion and attended sommelier school. The $500 initial investment opened me up to and including whole different level of luxury where I had been in a position to taste a $1000 wine bottle and say something fancy like, "Hhhmm....It must breath for some time." Major luxury moment. (Incidentally, by following my need to learn more about the world of wine, I was inspired to write restaurant reviews for any regional magazine and make up a wine program in a country club, which led to more luxurious experiences that paid me. How cool is that?)
9. I dressed and walked like a woman of luxury, meaning I did not go out of the house in baggy jeans and a T-shirt with my shoulders slumped.
10. I came to be students of luxury, reading quality literature, watching classic films and reading Town and Country and Vogue.
11. I ended listening to my head having said that such things as, "Girl, you grew up inside a trailer. Who do you think you're?" It's just needless chatter.
12. I began fully engaging with my world and the folks it, asking questions, seeking answers and constantly putting myself available.
13. I put flowers during my home.
14. I visited my parents more. They always cause me to feel seem like a Princess, even when we lived inside a double wide.
15. I sought out quality conversations that discussed the important stuff, like death, life, religion, fashion and food and wine. Well, at least those things are essential in my experience.
16. I attended luxurious events, such as an orientation for women at Duke's School of Business. Bear in mind, I had been working as a full-time nurse and had never experienced business. These events also didn't cost me a dime other than the gas to get there.
17. I began walking through Saks as if I belonged there, not like some freak whose eyes were going to pop out of my sockets after i saw the buying price of a Louis bag. Nope, only a shoulder shrug like it wasn't the bag for me personally.
18. I came to be conscious of what I put into my body system and how I moved with the world. Yes, what this means is eating healthy and exercising.
19. I cleaned (and then clean) my realm of low-quality people, things and experiences. Luxury does not co-exist with chaos, drama and clutter.
20. I assumed I deserved a lavish life. This is the most important of. Many women are travelling feeling guilty when they invest $20 dollars in themselves. If that's you, pay attention to me. You are not doing yourself or the world of favor by denying yourself of the luxurious life. Probably the most giving people I know live the great life, which is the way they are capable of helping a lot of others. You need to clean this thought as much as let luxury in.
