Financial Feng Shui: The Art of Keeping Your Wealth in Motion
Money is always compared to water. In feng shui, water is a crucial element, serving as an ancient symbol of prosperity and abundance. Flowing water symbolizes a healthy income, which is why peacefully moving bodies of water are such great symbols of prosperity. On the other hand, stagnant water symbolizes negative energy that can harm both body and mind. This serves as a fitting analogy for the vital importance of giving back.
Giving back generally takes two forms. One is giving back to your Creator, often referred to as tithing by religious groups. The other one is giving back to society, which involves helping others—even those well outside your immediate circle of responsibility.
When it comes to tithing, it helps to view it as giving back to the ultimate Source. You acknowledge that your wealth is not just because you’re such a great dude earning so well and exercising High FQ habits. Consequently, you become more grateful, developing a healthy attachment and detachment to your money.
When it comes to giving back to society, helping those who cannot repay you can be a liberating experience. It makes you feel useful and allows you to experience sharing in a profound way. However, we must always ensure that our help aims for true empowerment. The ultimate goal of giving is to support the improvement of the people you are helping, especially those who are actively helping themselves. This way, your generosity lifts them up rather than keeping them dependent on a cycle of bad habits. It will be good to be guided by this giving litmus test:
Generosity is giving to improve someone’s life.
Enabling is giving to sustain irrational behavior.
Your Generosity Compass
Instead of prescribing a rigid percentage for your give-back fund, I suggest you look back at your core values, as discussed in Step 2 of FQ Book 3 (Build your foundation: Use your core values as your compass). This eliminates the resentment often associated with required giving. If you view giving back as a forced tax, it breeds negative feelings—which goes completely against the powerful symbol of giving back—an act meant to prevent us from becoming like stagnant water that brings negative energy.
Nonetheless, we should all remember that we don’t just give back because we feel like it. It is, to a certain extent, our moral responsibility, especially if we are enjoying abundance. As social beings, improving the lot of the people in our society is not just good for them but also good for us. We are all better off when everyone is better off.
The Ultimate FQ Give-Back Hack
To eliminate the friction associated with donor fatigue, you need to deploy a highly effective FQ Hack: Automate your giving fund! Just like you use automation as a powerful tool for your saving and investing, do the exact same thing with a separate give-back account.
By setting up an automatic recurring transfer, this becomes the designated fund you dip into when opportunities for helping others come about. Because the money is already earmarked, the flow of your wealth remains completely frictionless. This FQ tool removes the emotional fatigue of deciding how much to give each time, leaving you free to focus on where to give, ensuring your contributions go to impactful causes that truly fulfill your core values.
Set up that account today, keep your financial waters moving, and turn your hard-earned success into a powerful force for good.
ANNOUNCEMENT
- Is your financial water flowing freely with healthy habits, or is stagnant energy blocking your path to true abundance and generosity? Take the FQ Test today to see how your core values align with your wealth and discover if you are truly mastering the ultimate flow of prosperity!
- Are you ready to unlock the secrets of alignment, clear away stagnant financial energy, and use your core values as a compass for true prosperity? Why not grab your copy of the FQ Trilogy today to master the ultimate high FQ habits and turn your hard-earned success into a powerful, flowing force for good? Click here.
This article is also published in Philstar.com
