Take a moment before you buy something and ask "What am I really supporting?"
Channel: George Kao
Date: 02/11/2015

Everytime you spend money, you are voting.  Remember this.

Everytime someone is selling you something, it's not just about the thing's benefits to you.  The question isn't just "do I want to buy this?" but "do I want to buy the system of values and patterning surrounding how this business operates and its effects on society?"

How we spend our money is more important than we typically realize.  The money you spend isn't just getting you something.  It's not separated from the energy you are channeling toward whatever kind of society that business represents.

If you buy organic food, or fair-trade products, or humanely-produced goods, you are giving more energy, and lending support to their success in the world, along with the strength of whatever values they bring.

If you buy from companies that willingly harm the environment, its workers, or advertise in ways that you disagree with, you are channeling your energy to strengthening that business' way of being in the world.  You are creating the kind of world you don't wish for.

Vote carefully with your money.

Even by simply thinking about this issue, you will spend your money more wisely, and less impulsively.

In my industry of internet marketing / business coaching, so many good-hearted people are sold products & services that they are told they "must" buy because it "will" lead them to success.  They are sold a bunch of hype, exaggerations, and the marketing uses fear or greed to get people to buy.  

Yet the good-hearted think "I need to get this to survive and thrive.  I will use the knowledge responsibly."

Remember: You aren't just buying the product or service.  You are buying a whole collections of patterns — how that business does their marketing.  You are adding to the ripple effect of fear or greed in the world.  

You have alternatives.  Look for the alternatives.  Ask around about what other ways there are to solve the problem you are being sold.  

And if you take an extra day to think about it, and what you are supporting, and what you could instead be supporting with your money, you will spend more wisely.

The practice is simple.  When you are being sold, ask yourself "What values would I be supporting if I spend money on this?  Are there alternatives?"

You are one of the good ones in the world.  Help educate your audience that their money is powerful, and how they spend it will support or detract from values they (and you) believe in.

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