The first self-development workshop I ever attended was led by Simone, a coworker from the steakhouse at which I bartended. A handful of open-minded serving staff and I poured ourselves into her tiny living room in the Hollywood Hills for four hours one Saturday. I had no idea what I was getting myself into, only that someone had recently suggested I watch The Secret, and the idea of manifestation was something I found intriguing.

At one point in the workshop, Simone asked us if we wanted more money, and we answered with a resounding “yeah.” Obviously. Then she asked us to consider what having more money gave us. Brock offered up “mo’problems?”—which got a laugh from the group.

But when Simone suggested that having money gives us security—and that perhaps what we truly want is that—it was an anvil on the head moment.

It was the first time anyone had ever suggested that success could mean something other than “having lots of money.” And from that moment forward, I vowed to investigate what that could look like for me.

Only in the last year or so have I heard people reference “being well resourced,” but the moment I heard it, I knew it was my perfect description of abundance. Here’s what it means, and why, if you adopt it, you can start feeling rich AF—today.

You know that like attracts like, right?

So if you walk around feeling rich AF, you will become rich AF.

​Curious how that works? Come find out.​

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