Small or Sacred.
I notice this everywhere.
At the coffee shop.
At the checkout
counter.
In conversations people think are about money, but aren’t.
Life is about size.
You are either shrinking into your small or stretching into your sacred.
There’s no third option. There’s no neutral gear.
Most people don’t know they’re choosing a direction.
They think they’re being sensible.
Small feels
sensible.
Small checks the bank balance.
Small looks before it leaps.
Often without seeing anything at all.
Small waits for permission,
resisting the urge to play.
Small asks, “Can I?”
And that question sounds innocent.
Responsible. Adult.
But notice what it presupposes.
It assumes the answer lives outside of you.
In the account. In the numbers. In the past.
Small considers what’s possible based on
history.
The angle of argument.
That’s the trap.
Sacred moves silently.
Sacred
explores possibility.
Sacred doesn’t ignore the bank balance. It just doesn’t bow to it.
Sacred asks a different question.
“How can I?”
That question opens space. Movement. Curiosity.
Small closes. Sacred opens.
Small says, “Given what I make, this is what I can do.”
Sacred says, “Given who I am, what
else, what more, is possible now?”
One contracts. One creates.
And here’s the thing most people miss.
Shrinking into your small is what almost everybody, almost
everywhere, has been trained to do.
Parents. Teachers. Financial advice columns. Well-meaning friends.
Spend less than what you make. Stay within your means. Be realistic.
That becomes your
story.
And your story becomes your strategy.
Not just about money.
About life.
You start basing what you do on the size of what you've
made.
Instead of the size of who you are.
You don’t even notice when it happens. It feels like maturity.
But it’s actually a quiet collapse.
Because once the balance decides what’s possible, the future is always smaller than the past.
Sacred doesn’t do that.
Sacred doesn’t pretend it knows how. It just refuses to shrink.
Sacred
stretches.
Not recklessly. Not foolishly.
Honestly.
Sacred knows The Secret.
That money
responds. Life responds. "Reality" responds.
Not to caution. But to the posture of possibility.
This isn’t about being irresponsible. It’s about being honest.
Honest about what you’re living from.
If your first move is always to check, calculate, and constrain, you’re not being wise. You’re being small.
And small has consequences.
Small slows you down. Small starves creativity. Small teaches you
to negotiate with your own desires. Then negate them.
Small argues. Small defends. Small denies.
Sacred does the opposite.
Sacred invites movement. Sacred invites sacred solutions. Sacred invites help
you couldn’t see while you were shrinking.
That’s why this isn’t a money book.
Money just exposes this faster than most things.
Because money doesn’t lie. It mirrors. Money is the mirror.
Money shows you, immediately, whether you live from small or from sacred.
So here’s the noticing for this chapter.
Not homework. Not effort.
Just
noticing.
The next time you’re about to decide something and your instinct is to check the balance first, pause.
Stop and be still.
Ask yourself, "Am I shrinking, or am I
stretching?"
Am I asking, “Can I?”
Or am I willing to explore, “How can I?”
That single shift will tell you more about your relationship with money than any spreadsheet ever could.
And once you see it, you won’t unsee it.
That’s where we begin.
Thank you for reading this lovely little sneak peek into The Money Mirror.
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Mr Twenty Twenty and Victoria
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