The burden of the path to abundance

Brad thought he finally had everything just right. Nothing was missing; all the deep spiritual work was over, and now it was paying off. He had a happy marriage to the pretty and devoted Elly, who was a final answer to his old problem of finding a soulmate. They enjoyed a view across the Bay where they could see Oakland and the San Mateo bridge from the balcony of their penthouse condo on the peninsula.

The clinic patients were under control, and he had started doing Independent Medical Examinations for industrial injury insurance companies. A typical work week was 60-65 hours, some of it at home where he could write reports in the evenings and on weekends. It was a cake-walk, not getting called in the middle of the night. The money didn’t match the $50,000 – $100,000 a month that busy surgeons made, but $30,000 per month met their needs with plenty left to finally start that retirement account.

“I’m lucky!” he said to Elly one day. I’m making as much as I was 20 years ago when I was doing surgery and working in the hospital nights and weekends.”

Opening to abundance creates its problem, as rags-to-riches millionaire real estate investor Robert Kiyosaki says: “There are only 2 money problems. Not having enough money, and having too much money. Which one do you want?”

The problem of having enough money not to worry about living paycheck-to-paycheck quickly becomes apparent. The game of finding a competent accountant, and an honest financial advisor, is on. The Rosedales dream was that someday, they could stop working and not have to eat cat food and live in a trailer.  The bigger dream was that they could live in a nice house and travel. The American Dream. But it was still a long way off…