We had a wonderful week last week. Zandria and I ended up all over the South of England. We went to a wonderful midsummer party, got back to working with a great friend and had a couple of days storming up a new vision with another, very dear, friend. It was social, work was easy, everything flowed and magic was happening.

At the end of the week, I had a call with a friend in the States. We were doing some work for his website. After a while, he stopped and asked me how life my life is. I replied, “Well finances are awful right now, but the rest is just wonderful. What a lovely week I’ve had!”

His reply was a laugh. When I asked him why, he couldn’t understand how life could be just great when finances are so dire. He is a man with a job, I am a woman with a business. That might explain some of it. I don’t have a steady guaranteed income with which to budget. When things are good, I pay a lump off my mortgage or invest some money. When money isn’t flowing as I’d like, I spend less and make do. That may be hard for some people to understand, but I wouldn’t ever swap it for someone telling me what time to start work or how much holiday I can take in a year.

I thought a lot about his response. For me, the important things in life are love, service or purpose, learning and fun - money comes last of those. Last week I felt surrounded by love - good friends and family and meeting new and worthwhile people. It was all done with a great sense of purpose, increasing our service to others, yet we had great fun and learned heaps while we were doing it. Last week, we LIVED. Life was wonderful even though money was not in great supply. I had to admit to being back in debt and not knowing when or how I would pay it off. I refuse to limit life by getting into fear about it.

At the end of the week, an opportunity came along which answered those questions about how and when - what if I had spent the week being miserable and fearful about debt? At best I would have wasted a week, at worst I would have shut down and missed the oppportunity as it came.

Always remember to live beyond your debt. What are you missing?