Barbara Stanny - Sacred Success: A Course in Financial Miracles

Praise for Sacred Success

With Sacred Success, youll learn that not only can money and spirituality uplift each other; the health of our world depends on it. Barbara Stanny teaches women how to achieve financial freedomwith heart, soul, love, and a commitment to leaving the world better than we found it. What a blessing!

Lissa Rankin, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Mind Over Medicine

Financial success doesnt require giving up your dreams or personal values. In Sacred Success, Barbara Stanny shows that genuine success starts with staying true to yourself and embracing your passions. This is a fabulous read and an indispensable guide.

Marci Shimoff, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Happy for No Reason, Love for No Reason, and Chicken Soup for the Womans Soul

Sacred Success is nothing less than inspired writing and reading. Only Barbara Stanny could write on the topic with this much insight and passion. If this book doesnt enable you to take a fresh look at your relationship with success, money, and wealth, nothing ever will.

Lois P. Frankel, PhD, author of Nice Girls Dont Get the Corner Office and Nice Girls Dont Get Rich

If youre ready to take charge of your finances and realize your full potential, this is your book. Barbara Stannys expertise is, well, right on the money.

Gabrielle Bernstein, New York Times bestselling author of Miracles Now

Barbara Stanny is a genius at articulating the steps a woman needs to take to step into a deeper level of power that has everything to do with higher service and nothing to do with power over. Sacred Success is a leading force in the paradigm shift the whole world is experiencing as we begin to embrace, celebrate, and benefit from the feminine. Read this book and be transformed.

Kate Northrup, bestselling author of Money: A Love Story

Ive been recommending Barbaras books to my readers for years and thought I knew her story, but this dramatic retelling has so many arresting details shes never shared beforeincluding how central her burgeoning spirituality was to her financial recovery. Her journey has been fascinating and her book is well worth reading for anyone who wants to make a life, rather than just a living.

Liz Pulliam Weston, personal finance columnist and author of Deal with Your Debt

Sacred Success is absolutely phenomenal! I couldnt stop reading. It is a tour de force and EXACTLY what every woman needs to know. This book is a winner on so many levels. And it is written with passion, clarity, joy, and love.

Christiane Northrup, MD, author of the New York Times bestseller Womens Bodies, Womens Wisdom

This groundbreaking book is about far more than money. Its a primer on creating wealth and wielding power as a woman.

Marie Forleo, MarieForleo.com, founder of award-winning MarieTV

Sacred Success is like hot yoga for your money beliefs. Barbara Stannys revelations will have you bending your limitations, and reaching for deeper meaningwhere the gold is.

Danielle LaPorte, author of The Desire Map and The Fire Starter Sessions

Sacred Success is for any woman who hungers for more. Not just to make more money, but to live a more meaningful life.

Farnoosh Torabi, financial expert and author of When She Makes More: 10 Rules for Breadwinning Women

Ready to experience financial miracles? In Sacred Success, Barbara Stanny shows how taking control of your finances starts with honoringand liberatingthe authentic you. From that priceless well of self-rejuvenating power, Barbara guides you on the luminous path to achieving financial success on your own terms. A truly transformational read!

Manisha Thakor, CEO of MoneyZen Wealth Management

Its time for women to redefine power and success on our own terms. Let Barbara show you the way!

Amanda Steinberg, founder of DailyWorth.com

SACRED
SUCCESS

Copyright 2014 by Barbara Stanny

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First e-book edition: October 2014

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Stanny, Barbara.

Sacred success : a course in financial miracles / Barbara Stanny.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-940363-53-0 (electronic) 1. WomenFinance, Personal. 2. Finance, Personal. 3. Success in business. I. Title.

HG179.S796 2014

332.0240082dc23

2014011136

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To my loving husband, Lee Huson,
and the wonderful memories of our
Suncadia writing retreats.

There can be no political revolution, no social revolution, no economic revolution. The only revolution is that of the spirit; it is individual. And if millions of individuals change, then society will change as a consequence, not vice versa. You cannot change the society first and hope that individuals will change later on.

Osho
(with deep appreciation to Rha Goddess)

Contents

Financial Documents

Net Worth Calculation

Vital Financial Information

Gratitude goes hand in hand with love, and where one is the other must be found.

A Course in Miracles

I want to acknowledge my sincere gratitude and say a heartfelt thank-you to:

Athena Burke, for the day I shared my dream of doing a seminar with gospel singing and you replied, I sing gospel. Then you wrote Jump. And Sacred Success slowly started taking shape. Every retreat is so much richer because of your soulful singing and your inspiring insights.

Lissa Rankin, for introducing me to my amazing agent. And to Michele Martin, for accepting me as client, expertly reshaping my proposal, and then, with the indispensable help of Steven and Gabriel Harris, finding the perfect publisher for this book.

Doris Ober, for bringing my earliest drafts to life, like a skilled doula, making sure they were presentable and ready to greet the world. This, our fourth go-around, was as delightful as always!

Jill Rogers, my closest confidante, for always being there, 24/7, whenever I needed your profound insights, unconditional love, overwhelming support, or sidesplitting giggles. Also to Richard Rogers for putting up with the countless times I called Jill to spring-clean my book (plus everything else!).

Donna Otmani, for your brilliant coaching and loving friendship as I struggled mightily with my resistance to writing this book.

Regina Thomashauer and Mama Genas School of Womanly Arts, for introducing me to more power and joy than I could ever have anticipated, giving me a safe platform to test out my ideas, and providing a glorious community that has supported me and my work from the outset.