Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Cycle #12 - $20.48

Almost half way there… with $20 bucks. So far I’ve doubled $.01 12 times to $20.48. When I do that for 13 more cycles I’ll have more than $100K. By proportional measures, I’m almost halfway home. Once I reached $10.24 all I had to do was reach that one more time – doubling the total.

Yesterday success happened easily, and again somewhat surprisingly. I’m praying for each step and asking God to create the increase of the seeds I’ve planted. Then I’m looking and watching for how it will come.

‘What I look for I see. Right now I’m sitting in a coffee shop. If I look now for the color red in the room, I can see it. I see it because I’m consciously sorting my perceptions with that assignment. When I look for another $10.24 to “appear” in my life, I find it. Yesterday I found it again in an unexpected honorarium for a teaching I did over the weekend. I spoke for a group of college students in a group sponsored by Lutheran Renewal. I was not expecting to be paid, but the leader delivered me a check for $200. It’s a lot more than the additional $10.24 I need, but that’s the rules… The balance goes to pay for books for my daughter in college… Cycle #12 complete…

Oh… Oversight! On Sunday I forgot to give – “tithe” – from my increase from last week, $5.12. 10% would be $.52. So this morning when I ordered my coffee I dropped that into the change jar for Gayle, the woman who works behind the counter. She’s been struggling with health issues and is a single mom raising a child. No better tithe than taking care of single moms…

The “Double Up” adventure is my effort to double $.01 as many times as I can in the year 2010. I hope to run as many as 25 “cycles” which would produce more than $100,000 – about what I need this year over and above my salary to meet additional living expenses. Follow my progress…

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