How to Live a Luxurious Life on a Not-So-Luxury Budget
I even created a luxury mastermind program where I have the consideration of mentoring an incredible group of women while we visit some of the most luxurious places in the world, for example Aspen and Monaco. I believe it's important that women learn how to infuse their businesses, lives and souls with luxury. (Incidentally, that pic is of us at our slumber party having a private chef at the Ritz.)
Call me vain, materialistic or whatever word you have for people like me. I don't care. In fact, I realize. I use to feel the same about people living "the good life," and you understand what? It wasn't because I figured these were bad people. Deep down, I had been just jealous, because I wanted it too.
This is what might not know about me. I haven't always lived such a luxurious lifestyle. Actually, I have been dead broke. I'm talking eating Ramen noodles, residing in a double-wide, chasing down the K-mart blue light special and putting 25 cents price of gas during my car broke.
I'm also not a money coach, meaning I do not educate you on how to make more money. I teach you how to tap into your desires, create health, follow your passions and live life full out. Money just appears to follow this type of gal.
What I've discovered is that you must first learn how to be a luxurious person to draw in a lavish life, that is what "French Kissing Life" is all about - filling each day with joie de vivre, passion and desire - all of which can be achieved with little money in the bank. In fact, this process, not some cash management system, is exactly the way i attracted a most luxurious life.
I want to demonstrate how you can perform the same, because I understand deep down, you'd probably enjoy a nice bottle of wine or a night in the Ritz Carlton. And, there's nothing at all wrong with you for wanting it. Actually, I only say, "Go for it sista!"
Which makes it Obtainable
Not many individuals are lucky enough to become overnight millionaires, but when you want to live a lavish life, you must align your time with luxury. So, exactly what is a girl to do?
Well, you may need to redefine luxury to really make it obtainable now, if your present definition is okay yachts and you drive a Pinto, guess what? You're screwed.
So, let's think about luxury because this: quality people, experiences and things.
After i decided many years ago that I was sick and tired of the crap in my life, I started seeking quality. I was completed with the fast foods, whining people and plastics produced in China. I needed more for myself, however i couldn't afford Chanel at that time (and although I write about her like we're close friends now, I still don't own an item.) I had to begin showing gratitude for that luxuries I had to attract much more of it into my life, and believe me, if you are reading this, you have a computer. This is a luxury.
Luxury is about quality and sometimes the most quality experiences are free. I can not think of something more luxurious than hanging out with my daughter around the sofa watching a really good movie or my morning mug of coffee on my back deck.
Instead of me giving you some woo-woo law of attraction guide on energy alignment to attract more income, I will share my real-life examples of how I began to experience luxury well before my first Ritz-Carlton stay (BTW, j'adore the Ritz). After i started doing these things, the world of luxury opened its big arms and embraced me:
1. I stopped hanging out with complaining people who were always referring to how broke these were. Major luxury repellent.
2. I searched for quality relationships with people who were no strangers to luxury. I wanted to learn how to think like them.
3. I spent additional time anyway. There's nothing as luxurious as walking barefoot in the grass on the summer evening or perhaps a good hike in the woods.
4. Luxury abhors haste, so I slowed down and enjoyed glasses of coffees and conversations with friends.
5. I stopped spending my cash on the crap 2 for $20 shirts and in the bank to purchase the nice $100 one. Luxury isn't about quantity; it's the quality that matters.
6. I hung out in the lobbies of fine hotels and just experienced the world of luxury. They don't ask you for for lobby space.
7. I drove a junk car and so i could splurge on good food. I still drive a less than luxurious car, but my entire life hasn't suffered one bit.
8. I followed my passion and attended sommelier school. The $500 initial investment opened me up to and including whole different degree of luxury where I was able to taste a $1000 bottle of wine and say something fancy like, "Hhhmm....I think it must breath for a while." Major luxury moment. (By the way, by using my desire to find out more about the field of wine, I had been asked to write restaurant reviews for a regional magazine and create a wine program in a country club, which resulted in more luxurious experiences that paid me. How cool is that?)
9. I dressed and walked just like a woman of luxury, meaning I didn't go out of my house in baggy jeans along with a T-shirt with my shoulders slumped.
10. I came to be a student of luxury, reading quality literature, watching classic films and reading Town and Country and Vogue.
11. I stopped listening to my head having said that such things as, "Girl, you was raised inside a trailer. Who do you think you are?" It's just needless chatter.
12. I began fully engaging with my world and the folks it, asking them questions, seeking answers and constantly putting myself available.
13. I put flowers in my home.
14. I visited my parents more. They always cause me to feel feel like a Princess, even if we lived inside a double wide.
15. I searched for quality conversations that discussed the key stuff, like death, life, religion, fashion and food and wine. Well, a minimum of those activities are essential to me.
16. I attended luxurious events, for example an orientation for ladies at Duke's School of Business. Keep in mind, I had been working as a full-time nurse and had never experienced business. These events also didn't cost me any money other than the gas to get there.
17. I began walking through Saks as though I belonged there, nothing like some freak whose eyes would come out of my sockets after i saw the price of a Louis bag. Nope, only a shoulder shrug like it wasn't the bag for me.
18. I became mindful of things i put in my body and how I moved through the world. Yes, what this means is maintaining a healthy diet and exercising.
19. I cleaned (and continue to clean) my world of low-quality people, things and experiences. Luxury doesn't co-exist with chaos, drama and clutter.
20. I believed I deserved a luxurious life. This is the most important of. A lot of women are travelling feeling guilty when they invest $20 dollars in themselves. In the event that's you, pay attention to me. You aren't doing yourself or the realm of favor by denying yourself of the luxurious life. Probably the most providing people with I know live the great life, which is the way they are able to help so many others. You need to clean this thought as much as let luxury in.
