Creative Ways to Improve Your Finances and Enhance Your Lifestyle

This article is an excerpt from the new audio book entitled The Warrior Spirit, by author and consultant Mary Rivas.

What does wealth mean to you? 

Is it having a certain amount of money in the bank or is it having a certain lifestyle that makes you feel rich?  Do you fantasize about having the freedom to spend your days doing what you love and getting paid for it?  Does wealth mean exotic traveling and living in a beautiful home?   

Whatever wealth means to you, know that there is usually more than one way to get what you want!  Yes, once you open your mind and heart to infinite possibilities, you’ll discover that you can greatly improve your financial situation and enhance your lifestyle in multiple ways.  When it comes to financial goals, most people think of only creating more money.  Yes, you can make more money, and you can do much more than that too! 

Three Money Stories -Getting What You Desire Without Spending Money

How a Friend Got His Bentley by Bartering

A friend of mine once offered a business owner his ideas on how to resolve a serious issue the company owner was having. My friend offered his business advice as a personal favor. He didn't realize that he was engaging in a barter.  The company owner was so impressed with my friend's astute business insights that he asked my friend what he would like to receive in return.  My friend told him that he wanted his Bentley. 

Yes, he got the Bentley.  My friend enjoyed telling me this story as we drove around in his shiny new car.  (The average price of a Bentley is around $150,000.)

How a Free and Fully-Furnished Apartment Materialized  

Years ago, when I lived on an island near Long Beach, California, I really wanted to have a second home in Los Angeles so I could spend time with my daughter in Los Angeles.  Long story short, I got a fully furnished, very elegant home that exceeded what I had imagined was possible.

It was a unique situation.  I offered part-time consulting services in exchange for high consulting fees and a beautiful home.  My daughter lived with me in this second home for the time that we needed to take care of important matters.  For about two years, I divided my time between Catalina Island and Los Angeles.  It was great for a while.  But once we took care of what we needed to do together, we moved on to new paths. 

One Month No Laptop In Sight, Next Month Brand New Laptop

My sister confided to a friend one day over lunch that she deeply wanted to learn how to use a computer.  The problem was that she couldn't afford a computer.  My sister had dedicated her life to bringing up her children, and now she wanted to start doing things for herself.  Being able to use a computer was on the top of her dream list. 

Weeks later, the surprise came.  Her friend delivered her a shiny new laptop.  My sister was shocked and beyond grateful.  She never thought that she could get a computer.  This amazing gift came her way because she opened up her heart, confiding to a trusted friend about her dream (which she didn't normally do), and had faith her prayers would be answered.  You never know how a friend can help you out.

Build a Business With No Capital

If you have a leaning towards business, refer to the Resources section in The Warrior Spirit for a free e-book  on how to shift your business thinking forever.  Learn  how to expand your sense of limitless possibilities in the  area of business.  In this e-book, you'll learn about making tidy sums of money using creative, unorthodox thinking. It's a great read to open your mind to financial possibilities. 

Click here to listen to a chapter sample from The Warrior Spirit.

Click on this video link to discover how you can use hidden mind powers and ancient wisdom to get what you deeply desire. 

New Audio Helps You Relieve Stress and Achieve Goals Faster

Los Angeles, CA – October 18, 2011 – WarriorSpiritAudio.com (“WSA”) has released a self help audio that does far more than help people relieve stress and achieve deeply desired goals.  Its ultimate purpose is to help people connect with their inner power and strengthen the faith in the power of themselves.  Entitled ‘The Warrior Spirit—How To Use Hidden Mind Powers and Ancient Wisdom To Create Wealth and More’ it helps people feel more optimistic and relaxed.

“The Warrior Spirit audio gives step-by-step help to achieve personal goals with greater ease using higher mind states and shamanic wisdom.  If the mind is filled to capacity with non-stop mind chatter, you make it difficult to create the results you want in your life.  Stress prevents you from having insights, creative ideas and confidence that can help you achieve your goals; it weakens your ability to solve issues that trigger anxiety and stress,” says Mary Rivas, founder of WSA.

The audio and companion e-book are ideal for today’s environment where people experience a lot of anxiety over stressful events such as losing their jobs and homes.  Latest statistics indicate that 75% of people experience stress regularly; more than half say they find stress debilitating and want to relieve stress.  Stress is a key contributor to high blood pressure and heart disease.

The Warrior Spirit is different from common self-help books; it empowers people at a deeper level.  It teaches people how to connect with a higher force and increase their personal power to relieve stress and overcome challenges in daily life.

Visit http://warriorspiritaudio.com to watch a video that shares wisdom and reveals how people can tap into their mind powers to change their life for the better.  Also, visitors  can sign up to receive a deep relaxation download to relieve stress and more.

October 2011 – The Point of No Return

The image is that of facing a well-known view, in fact a view you have become so accustomed to you hardly notice it anymore. And now you have just realized that you are turning away from this view 90 degrees to the right and leaving it completely behind in order to face a new view. Suddenly it dawns on you that the old view will be gone forever, never to be seen again in the same way. There is nostalgia around the permanence of the loss of this old view. It is familiar to you and it has served to inspire, entertain, give you feedback and be a placeholder in your life. You realize that once you turn towards the new view the old one is gone forever. And despite the inadequacies of the old view in matching a new time, there is a resistance to giving it up and turning towards the unknown. What if the new view isn’t as good as the old one? What if you won’t be able to see the new view? What if it is not a clear view, or an inspiring one? What if there is no new view?

The Turning Point can also be called the Point of No Return. When one season ends and another begins, as in moving from Summer to Fall, there is no going back. You have passed the point of no return. And as you move clockwise around the medicine wheel from one direction to the next, you are at a point of no return as you arrive at the new position or direction. The natural progression in moving forward is always clockwise or to your right. That is the way the clock works, the seasons roll, and wheels move forward. So we are at the point of turning clockwise into a new landscape providing us with a new view.

We have been creating this new view for a while now. We just have not turned our sights on it as yet. The new view has been waiting for our much-needed focus on it to come into being and we are just now at that point but some of us still unwilling to make the final turn. What we do not realize in our resistance is that the new view is fabulous, inspiring, supportive and perfect for where we need to go. However in order to see the new view we must turn away from the old one and turn towards the new one. This is happening whether you are choosing to or not. We are truly at the Turning Point right now.

Another image to work with is the idea of the Turning Point as the point at which there is enough energy moving in a certain direction to insure a result. If you have been ill and are recovering, there is turning point in your illness where you are insured a recovery. The same thing applies to an ending or a death. There is a certain turning point at which there is a certainty about the outcome. When a lot of energy is being put into building a business or starting a project, or cultivating a relationship, there is always a turning point at which it either takes off or you see that it won’t work. This month you have the opportunity to experience turning points in many aspects of your life. Perhaps you have set certain intentions, and worked with them over time. This month you may get to experience a turning point in manifesting those intentions.

Other themes of the month are Transition/Transformation and Death/Rebirth.

Transition/Transformation and Death/Rebirth are similar in that they both use the turning point to move from one point to another. The main characteristic of this change as a turning point is that there is finality to the ending of one experience that automatically turns you towards another one. What is the experience of the Turning Point trying to teach us this month?

What we need to learn is to be more present so we can fully embrace what is in front of us and then let it go with gratitude for the experience it provided. We need to learn to be less attached so that we can turn away from the old view and toward the new one with less resistance. We also need to learn to be more trusting and confident that the view we are creating that we are turning toward is exactly what we want and need. We need to face this view with confidence, enthusiasm and excitement instead of with fear.

Many of you know that there is a marker at the end of this month that marks the official end of the Mayan Calendar, namely the date of October 28, 2011. There are many predictions about what may happen at this time. Some predict 3 days of darkness, some predict major earth changes, some predict that nothing significant will happen, and other predict that the changes will be mostly personal, emotional and psychological

October 28, 2011 is simply a marker as it is impossible to predict what the Turning Point will manifest. What we can predict is change and transition that brings us all beyond the point of no return.


Click here to access the full monthly commentary packed with tips to help you strengthen your relationships, health and more.   Print out the full forecast and reference it throughout the month. (The above is an excerpt from the commentary).

The author of the monthly forecast, Lena Stevens, is an author and co-founder of an international school and consulting firm dedicated to the study and application of shamanism and wisdom.  Lena Stevens has co-authored books with Jose Stevens, Ph.D., such as Secrets of Shamanism:Tapping the Spirit Power Within You and The Power Path: The Shaman’s Way To Success in Business and Life.

A Special Webinar Invitation and Announcement

For most of this year, I've been on a mission to finish a special project that I started over a year ago. As many of you know, I left California in early 2011 to live in Central America.  While I lived in Panama, (I returned to U.S. this week) I put all of my energy and dedication into finishing this special mission.  

Though I have worked non-stop on this creation and have loved the process, I am thrilled that at last it is completed and that I can now tell you about it!  This week I will be launching The Warrior Spirit:  How To Use Hidden Mind Powers and Ancient Wisdom To Create Wealth & Much More.

To celebrate the launch of The Warrior Spirit, I am doing a special webinar where I will share awesome knowledge about
mind powers and self-empowerment.   

To sign up for the Warrior Spirit Webinar (no charge), please see my fan page I Love Law of Attraction

My intention is that it will find its way to everyone who can be helped by it and for it to be wildly succeed in creating transformational results for people.

To a path filled with personal power and wisdom,

Mary Rivas