Program your mind for wealth, and you may begin to notice something rather strange: the world hasn’t necessarily changed yet, but what you expect from it has.

Florence Scovel Shinn believed our repeated words could influence our expectations and ultimately our experiences. Unfortunately, many of us have spent years repeating affirmations without even realizing it.

“Money never stays with me.”

“I can’t afford that.”

“Something always comes along and wipes me out.”

Hardly the vocabulary of a financial titan.

Florence would probably have confiscated those sentences and thrown them into the Hudson River.

Program Your Mind for Wealth

Florence’s prosperity teachings frequently returned to the idea of Divine Supply. We tend to look at the obvious source of our money — salary, business, pension, savings — and assume that’s the entire menu.

But what if it isn’t?

You might receive money through a new customer, a sale, royalties, additional work, a refund, an introduction, an idea, or an opportunity you couldn’t possibly have predicted.

The problem is that we often decide how something must happen before we’ve even allowed ourselves to believe that it can.

So let’s give the mind another possibility.

For the next seven days, use these seven words:

I ALWAYS RECEIVE MONEY FROM UNEXPECTED SOURCES.

Notice what isn’t there.

Hopefully.

Someday.

If I’m lucky.

It’s a present-tense declaration of expectation.

Put the 7 Words in the Comments

Here’s your part in our little Florence experiment.

Write this in the comments:

I ALWAYS RECEIVE MONEY FROM UNEXPECTED SOURCES.

Don’t add “I hope.”

Don’t whisper it apologetically in case the Universe is busy.

And definitely don’t follow it with, “Although knowing my luck…” 😂

Say the words when you wake up and again before going to sleep for seven days.

Then get on with your life.

Because there’s another part to this experiment that’s every bit as important.

Don’t Tell Money Which Door to Use

Suppose you need an extra $1,000.

Your conscious mind immediately examines everything it already knows and announces:

“Can’t see where that’s coming from.”

But that’s precisely the point.

You’re looking for something unexpected using only the sources you already expect.

Florence encouraged people not only to speak their word but also to watch for Divine Guidance and act upon the leads that appeared.

So pay attention.

An idea occurs to you? Explore it.

Someone mentions an opportunity? Listen.

Have you been meaning to send an email? Send it.

There’s something you could create, sell, offer, or improve? Investigate it.

Manifestation doesn’t require you to sit motionless on the sofa waiting for a sack of money to fall down the chimney.

Expectation and action can work together.

Expect the Surprise

There’s a subtle but powerful difference between saying:

“Where on earth is the money going to come from?”

and:

“I wonder where it’s going to come from?”

One expects a problem.

The other leaves room for a surprise.

That’s what we’re changing during these seven days.

Not pretending.

Not spending money you don’t have.

Not expecting banknotes to materialize underneath the pillow.

We’re simply refusing to insist that prosperity can only reach us through the one door we’ve been staring at.

So use the seven words. Keep your eyes open. Follow sensible opportunities.

And remember:

Don’t tell prosperity which door it has to use.

Just make sure you haven’t locked all the others.

For more on manifestation, abundance, the spoken word, expectation, and creating a different relationship with possibility, read Keith Everett’s new book, The Manifestation Code.

And for more Florence Scovel Shinn wisdom, prosperity experiments, Divine Guidance, and a little Victorian mischief, visit the Florence Scovel Shinn Legacy YouTube channel.