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Should you kick your adult children out of your house? The number of adult children who’ve returned home or never left has risen over the last decade, leaving some parents with a dilemma.   If this describes you, how do you make a soulful decision about whether or not to allow your adult children to live with you? The key is to recognize whether or not you’re enabling or empowering your child by allowing them to live with you.   Enabling encourages active addiction, free loading or constant conflict. Enabling won’t help your child become a responsible adult and starves everyone’s souls.   On the other hand, empowerment inspires your child to pursue their soul’s purpose, contribute to the household and live harmoniously, feeding everyone’s souls. Once fully empowered, your adult child will leave on their own when the time is right.   If you’re nervous that will never happen, set a date in your mind that you’d ask your child to start preparing to leave. Make the date far enough away for your child to be able to move out successfully and close enough to give you some comfort.   Eric and I did this but never had to have “the conversation” because the child was long gone by our date. But having the date in our minds made our time with our child much more enjoyable.   If you’re enabling your child, letting them go with love may be what’s most soulful for everyone. But that’s a tough pill to swallow though and not easy to carry out alone. Ask your soul if it’s the most soulful option and for guidance in finding the right people to help.   For help unraveling this, check out the link below to the Soul’s Home® Alignment DIY. Once you do the meditations and exercises, you’ll have a clearer picture of your soul’s calling in relationship to your child.  I hope that you’ll be able to live in harmony and empowerment with everyone in your house. Next week, we’ll talk about the decision to move to start over. Until next week, I wish you well on your journey.  

Is it time to move out of your parent’s house?  There’s no magic answer to when it’s time to leave your parent’s house. It depends on you, your family and the house. In general, when you feel that you’re being held back or holding others back it’s time to move on.  During the adulting phase, the spiritual purpose of your life is about becoming independent and “finding yourself.” While leaving your parents home can help, it may not be time for you now.    How do you know when it’s time to go? Ask yourself these questions to get clarity: – Are you your best self at home?  – Do you feel like you can’t be you?   – Do you need to move out to find yourself?  – Are you clear about what you want to do and your parent’s home is providing the support and stability you need as you seek the right opportunity?   – Is there conflict at home that’s better left behind?   – Is staying helping to heal childhood wounds? – Are you selling yourself short by free loading?   – Are you contributing to the household?   – Are you stuck because you’re afraid to venture out on your own?  – Are you actively preparing to become independent?   – Does your soul call you to stay to help take care of others in the house?  – Are you cleared for take–off?    – Can you support yourself financially?  – Does staying give you breathing room until you have the income and savings to move?   Sit with your answers then ask your soul what it’s calling you to do. If it’s time to go, take a moment to feel gratitude for your parents who’ve allowed you to live there until it was time to go. If it’s not time to go, be clear about why you are staying and how you can use this time to find yourself and prepare for independence.  Next week, we’ll look at this from your parent’s angle. Until next week, I wish you well on your journey. 

Should you buy a house with a partner you’re not married to?   Buying a house together as a married couple is complicated enough. If you’re not married, there’s even more to iron out. On top of agreeing on the house, location, sharing expenses and merging stuff, an unmarried couple faces more complex property ownership laws, judgments by others on moral and religious grounds and possibly their own commitment issues. These complexities may cloud your soul’s voice causing your ego to decide to buy together when it’s not soulful or NOT buy when it would be soulful.   So, how can you be sure you’re acting soulfully?    – First, check out last week’s episode to see if you have a “soul marriage”. If you don’t, buying together isn’t likely to feed anyone’s soul.   – Second, tune into your own soul’s purpose and spiritual purpose as a couple and agree on what you need most in a house to feed your souls.  – Third, consult a lawyer about how you’ll address the legal gap for unmarried couples taking title to a house together. Married couples may take title so that the other gets the whole house if one of you dies and agreement is necessary to sell. In most states, there isn’t a title for unmarried couples that has both survivorship rights and requires agreement before selling so additional legal documents may be necessary.  – Fourth, whenever you’re in disagreement or are faced with moral or commitment issues, tune into your soul to ask for the spiritual purpose of the trouble. Allow it to either strengthen your resolve to buy together or lead to marriage or simply living together or going your separate ways.   No matter which direction you choose, I hope you’ll be able to have a home and housemates that feed your soul. If you need help on the Journey to Your Soul’s Home®, I’d love to speak with you. Just click Contact Me to schedule a free 30-minute call.   Next time, we’ll ask whether it’s better to buy a house you love or be in a place you love. Until next week, I wish you well on your journey.   

Is shacking up soulful?   While some consider cohabitation before marriage living in sin, it’s important to tune into YOUR soul to know if living together is right for you. First, ask if your souls are already “married”. That may seem like an odd question but my husband and I felt “married” long before our wedding day.  On the other hand, there are legal marriages between people whose souls aren’t married. When your souls are married, the spiritual purpose of living together is to feed each other’s souls so you may more fully live your purpose. Living together, however, is the hardest part of marriage so you may not want to do it without the benefit of legal marriage.  I sometimes joked that if my husband and I didn’t have to live together we’d have the perfect marriage – to which he agrees. That’s because we weren’t always on the same page about money, which way the toilet paper should be hung or the children. It can take years to get in sync.  If you’re thinking of shacking up and have neither a soul marriage nor a legal marriage, then what would be the purpose of living together? Saving money? Sharing household chores? Convenient sex? Avoiding commitment? Chasing after commitment?  Without a “soul marriage”, living together is likely to feed your ego rather than your soul keeping both of you from living your soul’s purpose. I hope that whether you’re legally married or not, you’ll be able to live with people that feed your soul so you can fully live your soul’s purpose.  Next week, we’ll explore the complications of buying a house together without being married. Until next time, I wish you well on your journey.    

Should you move into your spouse’s house when you get married?  Now that you’ve found your soul mate, it’s time to find your Soul’s Home®. But can your Soul’s Home® be a house your spouse already owns? That depends.  Presumably, you’re getting married because you feed each other’s souls. Since that’s the case, start with the premise that your relationship is more important than where you live. You could live in the most perfect house but if you’re not in harmony with your spouse, that perfect house will not be your Soul’s Home®. On the other hand, you could live in a terrible house but if you are in harmony with your spouse you will feel like your Soul is Home®.  When you marry, you’re both going from “me” to “we”. Generally, it’s better to approach finding your marital home as a “we” rather than adapting a home that was found as a “me” or worse yet a previous “we.” But sometimes, finances, a unique house or location, children or other life circumstances may make a home that one of you owns your Soul’s Home® too.    There are three steps to hearing whether your souls are calling you to find a new house together or use one of your existing homes: – First, tune into your soul’s purposes as individuals and as a couple.  – Second, prioritize each of the Soul’s Home® ingredients by what you need most to feed your souls.  – Third, determine if the existing house can meet those priorities for now.  If it can, agree on what changes you’ll make to transform it from a “me” house to your “we” house, how you’ll share expenses, if you’ll both be on the title and when it might be time to consider moving. If an existing house can’t meet your “we” priorities, it’s time to let go and find a new house together. I hope you two soul mates find your Soul’s Home®.  If you need help, I’d love to speak with you. Just click Contact Me to schedule a free 30-minute call. Next week, we’ll talk about moving in together when you’re not married by asking, “Is shacking up soulful?”.  Until next time, I wish you well on your journey.

Is moving to the “best” school district bad for your kids?   As parents, part of our soul’s purpose is to empower our children to live their soul’s purpose. And school plays a big part in this. Likely, you’ll consider school safety, test scores, class sizes, teacher attitudes, classroom behavior, extra-curricular activities, college attendance and affordability. While these factors are all important, to make the most soulful choice for your child, the location, community AND home must feed YOUR soul too.   When I do Soul’s Home® Alignment Plans and workshops, parents often express despair over sacrificing feeding their own souls to live in a “better” school district. This can be bad for your kids in a few ways.  – First, the example you provide will impact your child more than their school. It’s easier for your children to grow up living their soul’s purposes, if they see you living yours.   – Second, when your soul isn’t fed, you have less loving energy for your children.  – Third, you risk harming your relationship if you accuse your kids of being ungrateful after ALL you’ve done for them. And when you live in a neighborhood where you don’t feel like you fit in, your kids will likely feel that way too, breeding insecurities.  To avoid these pitfalls, ask your ego to investigate all your options then ask your soul to choose the one that will best feed everyone’s souls. If the school, community, location and house aren’t ALL ideal, ask your soul for the spiritual purpose of the “deficiency”.  For example, if your soul leads you to a better school in the suburbs while you prefer the city, maybe you take regular trips to the city to feed your soul. If your soul calls you to the city and you’re not happy with the school, maybe you’re called to volunteer to make it a better place for everyone’s kids. I hope you’ll be able to find a home in a school district that will nourish everyone’s souls.  If you need help finding your Soul’s Home®, I’d love to speak with you. Just click Contact Me to schedule a free 30-minute call.  Next month, we’ll ask if it’s better to renovate or sell? Until next time, I wish you well on your journey. 

Does Thanksgiving make your home a Soul’s Home®?   Thanksgiving is about giving thanks. While giving thanks can be done anywhere, giving thanks in our Soul’s Home® or that of family or friends can be more meaningful. That’s because some of the ingredients for your Thanksgiving feast are Soul’s Home® ingredients.   Thanksgiving can be an important part of the Soul’s Home® ingredient – Culture and Religion. If you host Thanksgiving, you’ll use the Soul’s Home® ingredients – Form and Function too by making your home look welcoming and arranging things so it work well for all those who gather at your table.   But it’s the Soul’s Home® ingredient – Household Member Harmony that may nourish your souls the most at Thanksgiving. So, if there’s harmony in your house, give thanks and feel your soul shine. But if you don’t have household member harmony, it may be hard to give thanks.   So, what can you do about this? First, recognize that lack of gratitude comes from the ego and starves the soul. So, especially when you’re feeling ungrateful, whether it’s Thanksgiving or not, take time to identify a few things you can be grateful for.   Feeling gratitude for all that you do have nourishes your soul and this is what Thanksgiving is all about. It’s this nourishment that allows you to hear the call of your soul.  I hope that you’ll be able to give thanks on Thanksgiving and every day so you may find your way to your Soul’s Home® and live your soul’s purpose.  Next time, we’ll talk about the Soul’s Home® ingredient – Building Type to learn how to find one that feeds your soul.  Until next week, I wish you well on your journey. 

Could redecorating strengthen your marriage? The last time we decorated, the spiritual purpose of our home was to help Eric’s children as they transitioned to adulthood, re-align our marriage in an empty nest, and develop Journey to Your Soul’s Home®. But now that the kids are independent, our marriage is stronger than ever and I’m confident in my Soul’s Home® approach, our décor didn’t reflect that.  I wanted décor that aligned with our new spiritual purpose: to enjoy our strong marital union and use it to support each other in our work. Eric agreed and was on board with me taking time off and using $800 we’d been gifted to redecorate.   He was thrilled to return from work to see empty spaces where cluttered family photos and art from my single years once hung. We decided where to move the décor we were keeping, and I went shopping to fill in the gaps. But as I shopped, it felt wrong to choose decor myself. I was called to choose with Eric. But I was nervous. I thought I’d have to compromise for the sake of the marriage. But when we liked the same things, I realized that I’d done our marriage a disservice.   When I decorated my last bachelorette pad, I felt grief in anticipation that it would be the last time I’d have décor I liked. I believed my future husband and I wouldn’t agree. So, I kept art from my single years and shied away from including Eric in decorating. This was my way of hanging on to the freedom and simplicity of my single life.   As our relationship strengthened, I was called to let go of the symbols of my bachelorette life. Redecorating together has allowed Eric and I to embrace our marriage on a deeper level. In a tender moment, Eric told me that we now have the home he always pictured with me. And ironically, my life feels simpler and freer than it did when I was single.   Whether you’re married or single, I hope you have home décor that feeds your soul. Next week, we’ll talk about: Transforming our Feng Shui Money Corner.  In the meantime, if you need my help hearing if your soul is calling you to re-decorate or move, I’d love to talk with you. Just click Contact Me to get in touch. Until next week, I wish you well on your journey. 

Should you be neat and tidy?   The Soul’s Home® ingredient – Neatness is often misunderstood so let’s take a soulful approach. There’s a common assumption that neat is good and messy is bad. But to the soul, this isn’t necessarily true.  Many brilliant people thrive on messiness. Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein and Mark Twain all had chaotic workplaces. For many geniuses, what looks like a tangled mess is actually fuel for their creativity. For others, that same mess is a creative block.   To approach the Soul’s Home® ingredient – Neatness soulfully ask, “Do I need order, or creative chaos to nourish my soul?” Make sure your answer comes from your soul not, your ego. If you’re messy your ego wants you to stay messy because it’s afraid of what will happen if you tidy up. If you’re neat, your ego wants you to stay neat because it’s afraid of what will happen if you loosen up. Allow your soul to decide if neat or creative chaos will set you free.   For me, what feeds my soul depends on what phase of my soul’s work I’m in. When I create, I make a mess by surrounding myself with everything that could help me. And, I might not shower, make my bed or put away the dishes for days while I focus all my energy on birthing my idea. But when I’m done creating and ready to show the world, I clean up and organize so I’m effective in carrying out my vision. What about you? What do you need for your soul to fly high? If your soul needs organization but you have chaos or you need a mess but have organization, your spiritual work is cut out for you. We’ll address what happens if you live with others who are opposite from you another time. But for now, the soulful key is to be respectful of your differences and agree on what areas of the house will be messy or neat.   I hope you’ll be able to find a soulful balance between neat and messy because I want your home to feed your soul. If you want my help finding your Soul’s Home®, I’d love to talk with you. Just click Contact Me to get in touch. Next time, we’ll address fears about moving. Until next week, I wish you well on your journey.  

How important are pets to your soul’s purpose? I love the movie, “A Street Cat Named Bob” because it shows what I mean about the Soul’s Home® ingredient – Household Member Harmony. In your Soul’s Home®, household members including pets support you in living your soul’s purpose. The movie is based on the true story of James Bowen – a street musician and recovering heroin addict whose family has rejected him. James finds a wounded cat outside his London flat. After trying to find the owner, James nurses the cat back to health, adopts him and names him – Bob. Bob follows James on to the bus as he rides to Covent Garden to play guitar. People are so enamored by Bob that James makes more money than he ever has. From then on, James and Bob are inseparable. Bob the cat gives James the support and inspiration he needs to make it through the drug addiction withdrawal and lead a sober life. Without Bob, James likely would have died from drug addiction. It’s now 10 years later and Bob & James live in a London home where James writes books about his miracle. For James, the household member in his Soul’s Home® was a matter of life and death. Bob literally saved his life. While your life situation may not be as dire, if you do have a pet, give her or him a hug right now and say, “Thank you for feeding my soul.”   If you feel moved, write about this below because sharing is good for your soul. Next time, we’ll explore the: Do’s and Don’ts in the Bedroom.  Until next week, I wish you well on your journey.     

What do you do in the heat of the moment? About 30 years ago, I set out to change how I felt and what I did in the heat of the moment. You know what I mean – someone’s trying to pick a fight with you or says something totally off base or is in distress and your ego provides a knee jerk reaction that makes things worse!    I hated those situations because I’d be left with a lingering feeling of inadequacy. So, I devised a plan. Whenever I’m in the heat of the moment, I say to myself, “May my soul’s expression easily flow through my thoughts, feelings, words and actions.” I repeat it over and over until the response just naturally flows. It’s an odd experience because the right words will just come out of my mouth without me even thinking them first.    To do this, let go of your ego and allow your soul to take over. Allow yourself to be a puppet controlled by your soul. Saying, “May my soul’s expression easily flow through my thoughts, feelings, words and actions,” puts your ego on notice that it’s time to step back and let your soul take over. This has never failed me. Whenever I remember to repeat that phrase, I always move forward in a way that feels aligned with my soul. The hardest part is remembering to say the phrase in the heat of the moment. But when I do, I always feel relieved and the best of outcomes result for both me and the other person.  I’d love for you to try this at home and if you feel so moved, write about your experience below because sharing is good for your soul. Next time, we’ll talk about what to do when you have the “I’ve got too much to do” blues. Until next week, I wish you well on your journey. 

Got pesky household members?   Last week, we applied the three choices you always have to things you don’t like about your house. But what if the thing you don’t like is a pesky household member? Let’s face it. It’s hard to live with other people! Heck, sometimes I find it hard to live with myself! So, let’s use the three choices to turn pesky household members into pleasures. Should you: 1. Live with it 2. Lobby for change  3. Leave First, think about your soul’s purpose for the short term – what I call the little p. If you need help figuring out your little p, check out Episode 05. Once you know your little p, ask if “living with it” makes sense. For example, is your soul is calling you to focus on something outside of the pesky relationship for now, say, a project at work or finishing school or caring for someone else? If it is, unless the pesky person is stopping you from focusing on this, your soul may be calling you to live with the pesky person, as is, until your other calling is complete. But if your soul is calling you to address this pesky relationship, you are left with two choices: lobby for change or leave. Today, leave is often the go-to choice. And leave makes sense if there’s physical abuse for example. But for your garden variety pests, your soul will likely call you to try lobbying for change first. “Oh, darn you, soul! It would be so much easier to leave or ask them to leave!” And maybe you will be called to leave eventually. But for now, if your soul is calling you to lobby for change there is spiritual purpose in your home and your relationship so lobbying for change will feed your soul. “Good!” You say, “Now, I can tell that pesky person what they should do.” Not so fast. The choice to lobby for change in a relationship has two components. First, look within yourself to clarify the outcome you want and acknowledge how you need to change. Only then can you lovingly explain to your pesky person what you need from them and why it’s important to you.  As difficult as it may be, you’ll have the most success if you avoid blaming, listen fully and expect to repeat this process several times. This is all easy to say but I know from experience, very difficult to do. If you ever meet my husband, he’ll confirm that I’m not always great at this. My wish for you is that the two of you grow spiritually through this process. If you feel moved, write about this below because sharing is good for your soul. Next time we’ll talk about: A Cat That Saved A Life.  Until next week, I wish you well on your journey.

Thinking of buying a foreclosure? When people talk about buying a foreclosure, I see a gleam in their eyes in anticipation of getting a great deal. Ahh the lure of a deal – fuels the ego but is it right for your soul? Not if that “deal” turns out to be a financial and life burden.   Buying a foreclosure is only a good deal FOR YOU if it’s also what your SOUL wants. The money and time to find the right house, renovate, resolve issues and carry the property can easily cost more than the house is worth and divert you from your soul’s purpose. I know HGTV makes this look easy and fun! But I’ve lived the other side from my own renovations, clients who flip and meeting investors going into foreclosure themselves after putting more money in than they could get out.   So how do you avoid these foreclosure pitfalls? First, get clear on your soul’s purpose for this time in your life and determine if buying a foreclosure fits in. If it doesn’t, ask your soul to release you from the lure of the deal. But if it does, task your ego with finding homes and the due diligence work and your soul with making the decisions.   Ask your soul:  1. Will I be able to make this my Soul’s Home® or a Soul’s Home® for someone else?   2. Is this project worth the financial risks?  3. Is this how you want me to spend my time?  If you still feel called to proceed, each time you run into an issue ask your soul how to approach it. For help hearing your soul, check out Episode 3. I hope your home purchase is guided by your soul so you may have a home that feeds your soul. If you need my help hearing what your soul wants you to buy, I’d love to speak with you. Just click Contact Me to schedule a free 30-minute call. Next week, I’ll share my foreclosure purchase experience with you. Until next time, I wish you well on your journey.  

What happened when my soul called me to buy a foreclosure?  Last week, we talked about how to hear your soul when your ego is tempted to get a deal on a foreclosure. I’ve had visions of transforming dilapidated neighborhoods since I was twelve and worked for a construction company, so taking on a foreclosure fits into my spiritual purpose. For me, the physical transformation that goes into turning a foreclosure into a home, leads to a spiritual transformation – a feeling that I can do anything! In October of 2000, I bought a one–bedroom condo in Arlington, Virginia from HUD for $47,000.  The walls and ceilings were stained with cigarette smoke, bad DIY paint and graffiti. The kitchen was unusable, and the bathroom had a peep hole from the closet, red and green lights and a sink clogged with 161 pennies!  I lived in the house during the renovations eating take out, showering at the gym and brushing my teeth at the kitchen sink. My life felt upside-down because my stuff was in disarray and all I did in my “free” time was work on the house. I had no social life and forget about dating! I didn’t have the money to hire a contractor, so I did most of the work myself with the help of my parents, friends and co-workers. Having so many people helping fed my soul but it was a long and exhausting process!   Even though I made about $100,000 when I sold it, it’s one of those things I’m glad I did but never want to do that way again. In the end, I got my Soul’s Home® and the satisfaction that I had transformed a mess into something beautiful. But I’ll never live in a house while I’m renovating again or do it myself. It’s too disruptive and can suck the life out of  you. It wouldn’t have been worth it if it wasn’t part of my spiritual purpose.   I moved into my husband’s house from there so next week we’ll talk about how to approach the decision to move into a spouse’s house. In the meantime, if you need help finding your Soul’s Home®, I’d love to speak with you. Just click Contact Me to schedule a free 30-minute call.  Until next week, I wish you well on your journey. 

How’s your Feng Shui money corner working for you?   An area of our house that’s been the most problematic for me is what’s known as the Feng Shui money corner. Here, it’s important to have décor that encourages money flow such as wood elements, water themes, wealth symbols or money plants. I’m not a Feng Shui expert but was curious to see what would happen if we changed ours.   In the Western Feng Shui Tradition, your money corner is the back, left corner in relationship to your front door. In our home, it’s the only logical place for our TV. Our money corner was uninspiring. It felt suffocating to look at the black TV screen and the clutter. Ironically, I felt the same way about money in my business – suffocated by more going out than coming in. I wanted Eric and I to feel good about our money corner and our money.     We started by mounting the T.V. on the wall. Just that felt better because it alleviated the cluttered look. Eric and I picked out a sailboat picture to cover the TV. Then I hid the cords and added water themed family photos and nick-knacks. Eric and I both feel much better about our money corner now. But the big question is whether it’s increased our money flow.   Right after we made the changes, I got a new client and Eric was promoted. I can’t say for sure that we wouldn’t have gotten them anyway, but now I feel better about our money corner AND better about money – so I’ll call this whole exercise a success!   I hope you can feel good about your money corner and your money. Next time, I’ll show you how I covered the TV with the picture. In the meantime, if you need my help buying or selling a home click Contact Me to get in touch.  Until next week, I wish you well on your journey.      

Do you have enough money to get what your soul wants?  Last week, we talked about the ego’s tendency to tell us we can’t have what our soul wants and how that gets in the way of even knowing what you want. The ego will often use money as the logical evidence that you can’t have. But on the Journey to Your Soul’s Home®, money rarely keeps you from getting what your soul really wants.  I’ve seen this as I’ve helped clients find their Soul’s Home®. I’ll typically start the process thinking that I’ll never be able to find a house that meets all their requirements and budget. But as we tune in to hear what their soul is calling them to have in a home and define the spiritual purpose for their new home, the perfect home appears within their budget.   If you have the resources to be watching this video, it’s likely you have enough money for the home and things your soul wants you to have now. When you think you don’t, your soul may call you to take action to attract more abundance in your life so you may have those things in the future but for now, your soul is calling you to embrace all that you do have and engage in using it to live your soul’s purpose.   Whenever you feel you don’t have enough, sit quietly with your soul and tune into what it really wants. Then become alert to the opportunities you have to get it. I hope you can use this process to get what your soul wants.  If you feel moved, write about this below because sharing is good for your soul. Next time, we’ll talk about: How much you can afford to spend on a house. Until next week, I wish you well on your journey. 

How much can you afford to spend on a house? Let’s take a soulful look at how much to spend on a house. Whether you’re getting a quick estimate online or working with a mortgage professional for a more thorough approach, beware – the number you get may be higher than what your soul is calling you to spend. You see, the bank’s approval is based on the statistical likelihood you won’t default on the loan. Because most people will stop paying other bills before they stop paying the mortgage, the amount the bank says you can spend may be higher than your soul’s limit. But in order for your home to be in Financial Balance, what it costs must leave you enough to feed your soul in other ways.   To approach the mortgage limits soulfully, consider what your soul is calling you to do now and in the future. Then ask your ego to investigate how much you’ll need for these soul callings and crunch the numbers going in and out each month. Once your ego has looked at all possibilities, sit down with your soul and ask what amount your soul is calling you to spend on a house. It will likely be significantly lower than what the bank says you can spend. But that’s ok, the bank is not your soul. The soul overrules.   If you need a mortgage professional who gets this click here. I hope you can reach financial balance so you can have housing expenses that leave you enough to feed your soul in other ways. If you feel moved, write about this below because sharing is good for your soul. Next time, we’ll talk about: Tidying up! Until next week, I wish you well on your journey.  

Should you think of your home as an investment? Let’s start by defining Investment. Financially, an investment is spending money in order to gain income or profit. Certainly, if you’re in the rental or flipping business, you’re purchasing to generate income or profits so, it wouldn’t make sense to buy unless the house was a good financial investment.   But if buying a house to live in, your primary purpose is not income or profit so, should you be concerned with making a profit when you sell? Your ego will scream “Yes”! But I challenge you to pose this question to your soul before you buy. It’s interesting that we expect to make money from our homes when we typically don’t expect to profit from other things we buy rather, we know they’ll go down in value. But because a home is expensive AND we hear of others who “made a lot of money” when they sold, we may anticipate feeling shame if we don’t. Let’s transcend this dilemma by considering another definition of investment: devoting time, talent, or energy for a purpose.   Your Soul’s Home® is where you’re best able to use your talents and energies towards your soul’s purpose. Your Soul’s Home® is an investment in YOU. Don’t short-change yourself by prioritizing speculative profits over investing in you and your family.   To be soulful, first understand the spiritual purpose for your new home. Is it to raise a happy and healthy family? Have space that allows and inspires you to create? Recharges you when you come home from work? Whatever that purpose is, your soul will want you to know your home will fulfill it before considering profits. This isn’t to say that you shouldn’t be mindful of money. On the contrary, your Soul’s Home® will be in financial balance by leaving you enough to feed your soul in other ways and when you’re ready to sell if you bought soulfully and sell soulfully, you’ll have the best chance of profiting.   Next week, we’ll talk about Selling High Soulfully. In the meantime, if you’d like more about the Journey to Your Soul’s Home®, click the link to my website because I’d love to see you there! Until next time, I wish you well on your journey.       Click Here to Rate and Review   Subscribe to my Youtube Channel: Soul's Home® TV  

Funny thing about money – It’s not necessarily the key to having your Soul’s Home®. No matter what your financial means are, you may have challenges when it comes to having a home that feeds your soul. Let’s look at the pitfalls around money and Soul’s Home® both for people who are lacking in funds and those with plenty. Subscribe to my Youtube Channel: Soul's Home® TV Continue your Journey to Your Soul's Home®: Website: https://soulshome.realtor/ Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Journey-to-Your-Souls-Home/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SoulsHomes/

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