How you can Live a Luxurious Life on a Not-So-Luxury Budget Like Coco Chanel, I love luxury. My heart does palpitations when I walk by the boutiques in Paris. A three-star Michelin restaurant evokes moans and groans. And, a fabulous handbag and a hotel staff that is constantly saying "My pleasure" inside my every request makes me smile.
I even developed a luxury mastermind program where I have the honor of mentoring an amazing group of women while we visit some of the most luxurious places on the planet, for example Aspen and Monaco. I believe it's important that ladies learn to infuse their businesses, lives and souls with luxury. (By the way, that pic is people at our slumber party having a private chef at the Ritz.)
Call me vain, materialistic or whatever word you have for people much like me. I don't care. Actually, I understand. I use to feel the same about people living "the good life," and you know what? It wasn't because I figured they were bad people. Deep down, I was just jealous, because I needed it too.
This is what may not know about me. I've not always lived such a luxurious lifestyle. Actually, I've been dead broke. I'm talking eating Ramen noodles, living in a double-wide, chasing after 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 don't teach you steps to make more money. I teach you how you can tap into your desires, create health, follow your passions and live life full out. Money just appears to follow this type of gal.
jordan 10What I have discovered is that you must first learn to be a luxurious person to attract a luxurious life, that is what "French Kissing Life" is about - filling every day with joie de vivre, passion and desire - which can be achieved with little money in the bank. In fact, this process, not some cash management system, is precisely how I attracted a most luxurious life.
I wish to demonstrate how you can do the same, because I understand deep-down, you would enjoy a nice wine bottle or a night at the Ritz Carlton. And, there is nothing at all wrong along with you for wanting it. In fact, 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 energy with luxury. So, what is a girl to do?
Well, you may want to redefine luxury to really make it obtainable now, because if your current definition is fine yachts and also you drive a Pinto, you know what? You're screwed.
So, let's think of luxury as this: quality people, experiences and things.
carsWhen I decided many years ago which i was fed up with the crap in my life, I started seeking quality. I was completed with the fast foods, whining people and plastics produced in China. I wanted more personally, however i couldn't afford Chanel at that time (and although I write about her like we're best friends now, I still don't own an item.) I had to begin showing gratitude for that luxuries I had to draw in 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 often probably the most quality experiences are free. I can't think about anything more luxurious than hanging out with my daughter on the sofa watching an excellent movie or my morning mug of coffee on my back deck.
Rather than me giving you some woo-woo loa guide on energy alignment to attract more income, I am going to share my real-life examples of how I began to experience luxury long 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 individuals who were always referring to how broke these were. Major luxury repellent.
2. I sought out quality relationships with people who were no strangers to luxury. I wanted to understand how you can think like them.
3. I spent additional time in nature. There's nothing as luxurious as walking barefoot in the grass on a summer evening or a good hike within the woods.
4. Luxury abhors haste, so I slowed down and enjoyed cups of coffees and conversations with friends.
5. I ended spending my cash on the crap 2 for $20 shirts and saved up to buy the nice $100 one. Luxury isn't about quantity; it's the quality that matters.
6. I hung in the lobbies of proper hotels and just experienced the field of luxury. They don't charge you for lobby space.
7. I drove a junk car so I could splurge on good food. I still drive a less than luxurious car, but my life has not suffered one bit.
8. I followed my passion and attended sommelier school. The $500 initial investment opened me up to and including entirely unique level of luxury where I had been in a position to taste a $1000 bottle of wine and say something fancy like, "Hhhmm....It needs to breath for some time." Major luxury moment. (By the way, by following my desire to learn more about the field of wine, I was asked to write restaurant reviews for any regional magazine and create a wine program in a country club, which resulted in more luxurious experiences that paid me. How cool is the fact that?)
9. I dressed and walked just like a woman of luxury, meaning I didn't walk out of the 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 ended hearing my head that said such things as, "Girl, you was raised in a trailer. That do you think you are?" It's just needless chatter.
12. I started fully engaging with my world and the people in it, asking questions, seeking answers and constantly putting myself out there.
13. I put flowers in my home.
14. I visited my parents more. They always make me feel like a Princess, even when we lived in a double wide.
15. I sought out quality conversations that discussed the key stuff, like death, life, religion, fashion and food and wine. Well, at least those activities are essential in my experience.
16. I attended luxurious events, such as an orientation for ladies at Duke's School of economic. Keep in mind, I had been being employed as a full-time nurse and had never been in business. These events also didn't cost me any money other than the gas to obtain there.
17. I started walking through Saks as if I belonged there, not like some freak whose eyes were going to pop out of my sockets when I saw the buying price of a Louis bag. Nope, just a shoulder shrug like it wasn't the bag for me.
18. I came to be conscious of what I put into my body system and how I moved with the world. Yes, this means eating healthy and exercising.
19. I cleaned (and then clean) my realm 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 significant of all. Many women are travelling feeling guilty if they invest $20 dollars in themselves. In the event that's you, pay attention to me. You aren't doing yourself or even the realm of favor by denying yourself of the luxurious life. Probably the most giving people I understand live the good life, which is how they are capable of helping a lot of others. You need to clean this thought as much as let luxury in.