This is the 4th in a series of articles on changing our relationship with money.

When we select a channel of activity that doesn't return the financial rewards we want or need, we' don't have to keep on going the same old way.

We can make another choice. And to review quickly, how do we choose?

By listening to our inner voice when examining the possibilities that arise for us to consider.

Considering the Possibilities
Be careful, though, because the possibilities we see may be served up by a mind that says, "What if we try this?" or "We should do that." In such a case, it may be best to set those aside to be examined another day, for they may be false promises to lead us astray or simply possibilities whose time has not yet come.

The inner voice will be very happy to sit back silently and let us to go down such a path if that's what we want. But if we're astute enough to look at it a second time before deciding, we might just find it speaks up enough for us to understand that isn't the way meant for us.

Much of our "training," so to speak (for that is indeed what we are undergoing in this school of life) is directed to teach us to recognize the many possibilities that are presented for our consideration, to discriminate among them and discern which is right for us.

Frustration of our efforts to get money is just one of the many tools used to create the opportunity for us to develop this skill. Our "success" at doing so reflects an inner expansion that is in the long run far more important than any "service" we may feel called to provide to others.

Nevertheless, when we do isolate the possibilities identified by they inner voice, it may call us to take us off in a new direction, or it may simply ask us to blow the dust out of our intent and shift how we're going about what we're already doing.

Of course, it's hard to follow such a lead when the inner voice cannot be heard or clearly understood. Assuming that we are at a point of awakening where our ability to hear it is no longer a factor, then most probably such silence results when we're being left to march in place while it waits for us to get clear on what's going on inside us, and to give us another chance to receive the value offered by what we're already getting now.

What is Life Offering Us?
How can we know?

Our reality serves up clue after clue if we're only able to receive the messages that it offers. For in our daily affairs other people do things and situations arise that push our emotional triggers and elicit responses.

It really doesn't matter whether that clue is to take our first halting steps at knowing what's going on inside us or if it is designed to reveal the final hurdle to be overcome before total enlightenment is ours.

What matters most is that we realize that the events of our life happen for a reason and accept the responsibility to try to figure out what that reason is. But we can't be too quick to jump to conclusions.

For the same event may offer something different for different people or even us at different times in our lives, so there's no hard and fast rule to apply to know which is which.

Our job is to examine each in turn to see what they offer and find the value they bring. It probably will take considerable self-examination, especially at first, because those inner conflicts and hidden conditions may not want to be found.

After all, we set their energy in motion to create these frustrations in our creativity. Until we receive their message and show that we've not only learned it but put it to use, they'll keep coming back over and over again to drive home their point.

Once we do, though, their energies can be released from their agreement with us and we can move on wherever it is we next need to go.

That doesn't sound much like listening to the inner voice, does it? But then, that voice is what offers us the benefit of those experiences and where we might look to address their cause.

And it will suggest ways to deal with what we find, and let us know whether we're ready to move beyond them to something new.

So Where's the Money?
Money is always out there, just waiting for us to create the conditions by which it can flow to us and remove the obstacles that block its way.

So when our chosen field of activity isn't generating the money we want in our lives, perhaps the answer isn't to just work harder and struggle more.

Rather, it's to step back and carefully examine exactly what it is that we've been receiving.

When we do and learn to allow, accept and appreciate all that we find (even when it reveals that which we've been avoiding), then we will be empowered to take the next step in our own development -- a step that hopefully will allow money to manifest much more rapidly and our activity to become more fruitful in every way.

Read next article in series: Separating Money from Conflict