$10 Million Dollars - What would you trade for it?

Hello, welcome to Susie Unshaped. I'm Susie, and this is where we unshape all of the belief systems and programs that are keeping you from living your most amazing, joy-filled life. So I— it's taken me a long time to get on here and talk about this, and I don't know why, because when I heard it, it was like, aha, like light bulb moment. Okay, so there's a video going around Instagram, maybe other platforms that I know, And in it, a guy says to another guy, hey, what would you say if I'm gonna give you $10 million? And the other guy says, like, great, yeah, thanks, thank you, I would love $10 million. And then the other guy says, but there's a condition, and the condition is that you don't wake up tomorrow. And the guy's like, well, okay, no thanks, no, I don't want the $10 million. And then the guy was like, so waking up tomorrow for you is worth more than $10 million? Yes. The guy's like, yeah, yeah, I don't want it. I'd rather wake up tomorrow than have $10 million today. And I was just like, ah, like light bulb, aha. Like, how good is that? Like, it clearly defines how much you value waking up tomorrow. And so then I started playing around with the concept. It's like, okay, well, what would be enough time? Like, would I accept $10 million to, if I knew my life was gonna end in 5 years? Nope. Nope. And then I thought 10 years. Nope. 20 years? No, that's when I might be having grandchildren and things like that. Like, do you see the point? It's— we don't want money. We want to live. We want to live and experience our children graduating, like going to college or choosing whatever life path they do. Do they get married? Do they not? Like, do we have grandchildren to experience? Like, The joy of our friend. Like, we wanna experience all of that. Like, $10 million for me, if I knew I was gonna die in 10 years, it's not enough. I'm like, that's just not enough. Life to me is worth more than that. So, and then I also thought, thought about, like, I've been thinking about this a lot lately because I just thought it is such a good wake-up call. Wake-up call. To what we actually came here to do. And if you haven't done my 31-day challenge, I highly recommend it. It's free. I'll link it below and I'll link it in at the end of this video. But like, we— I understand, like, we, we talk through that. We talk about the concept of we came here, we incarnated as this human body to experience life as a human and all the joys and the sorrows and the pain and the Anguish. You can't have one without the other. If you only felt joy, you wouldn't even know you were feeling joy. You have to feel despair and anguish to be able to fully feel the joy. You have to see both sides of the coin. And so looking at both sides of the coin of I could have $10 million, but I don't wake up tomorrow. Think about someone that gets a terminal diagnosis. Like, So many of them would pay absolutely every single thing that they had to not have that terminal diagnosis anymore. Like they would give it all up. And people do, they spend a fortune on treatments and, and, um, medications and lifestyle changes. Like they pour everything into the hope that they can live. And so Like, I think what the practical side of all this is, is like, just take that away and just have a think about it. Because I think it's such an easy concept. Like, how much money— like, what, what would 10 million— what would you settle 10 for? I can't speak. How much life would you settle for 10 million? Is 5 years enough for you? Like, live a really good 5 years, but everyone knows deep down they'd get to the end of the 5 years and not be ready to go. Oh God, that just reminded me of the movie— sorry, my strap is really annoying me. I'm just gonna fix it. Okay, there we go. Um, Meet Joe Black, um, where Death comes into Joe Black's body so that he can experience life. And I think even Death at the end doesn't really want to go back over. But he knows he has to. But Death is like, this life business is pretty good. Like, I'm liking this. Um, and so like, okay, so what does all this mean? Now we've defined we don't want money, we want to live and experience all the amazing things that we came here to experience. And so I think from a practical perspective, like, how do you put this into your 3D world? And I know everyone bangs on about this, but I'm going to, I'm going to bang on about it too. But it's gratitude. And like, I think we get so caught up in the busyness of the 3D and the stresses and the monotony of life that we forget to appreciate what we have. And you know, I was just thinking about this because I have We are living in this beautiful cottage now. Um, and I absolutely love it so much. And it was such a traumatic lead up into finding this beautiful college. College. It's not a college, it's a cottage. It was such a traumatic lead up. And I can see in hindsight why it had to play out that way, because I don't think we would've found this place, which was literally waiting for us. Um, if we hadn't had the trauma to start with. And I hadn't been put in different directions and on different pathways, which then allowed me to find this cottage. So because of that trauma, every morning I wake up and you're going to think I'm crazy, but I pat the walls of my cottage. I pat them and just say thank you. Like, thank you for being here for me. Like, thank you. I'm so grateful. Like, so grateful for this cottage because of the trauma. It was like we had a couple of weeks where it was Seriously bad, and the stress levels were through the roof. And and so now I appreciate this cottage so so much. Like everything about it just, and even the bits, the little quirks and stuff that it has that aren't great, I'm still they don't bother me because I'm just so thankful for all the amazing parts of it. And so I think that's the point I'm trying to make is. Where have you stopped being grateful for things in your life which, if the circumstances around them were different, might remind you that in actual fact the basic things that you have, like, should make you feel so happy and so grateful? And it's only upon the removal of those things, such as stable housing, that Stable housing then becomes like, oh my God, I'm so thankful and so grateful to have a stable home. Like, have a look at your life and just— where are the areas that you might be taking for granted? And if you had them ripped away from you, all of a sudden their presence would make you feel so appreciative and so full of joy and gratitude and Like even for example my car, which the car I have at the moment, it's a bit of a— it's old, so it's like a— anyway, it's old, but it works until it stopped working the other days. Like it was like I went to turn it on, I'm— you're going about your day and oh my God, the car, like it wouldn't start. It sort of thought about it, no, and then I was like, oh my God, I can't not have a car that works. So like that thought of like, oh my God, what if my car doesn't work? Then what, like, what's the next steps from that? It ended up being a battery problem. It ended up being able to be fixed. It was fine. But it's the— I was like, if I don't have this car, and there was a lot of logistics involved because where I got it from is not near here. So, but the car wasn't— I couldn't drive it to where it was to get it fixed. So actually even having them allow me to get it fixed where I am. Like the gratitude in that, because like, I know I'm rambling, but do you see my point? Like the gratitude that your car works, the gratitude that it does start. It's these little things that, um, we're not noticing because we, we've sort of pushed them to the side as unimportant. But if you don't have basic needs met, like That is everything. And we all just take for granted that we have a house and a car that works. Might not be the car that we ultimately desire, like our absolute, like, dream car, but does it work? Does it get you there? Does it get you where you need to go without not starting? So I think it's like bringing back in the appreciation for what we have right now. And they say that's the key to manifestation. And so the key is not, I don't want to manifest $10 million because what if that comes with the clause I don't wake up tomorrow? No, I don't want to manifest that. You don't want to manifest money. You want to manifest experiences. And in order to do that, you have to be in joy and in appreciation and gratitude of what you have right now. And I love this task that Maureen used to have us do. She's my fabulous mentor. I love her so much. Big kisses to you, Maureen. It was, okay, imagine you've got 24 hours to live, and yes, you're allowed to try— not time travel, but teleport. You can be anywhere in the world. You can be doing anything. You've got 24 hours to live. I actually even want you to pause this video and just write down what would you do if you had 24 hours to live. And yeah, you can bring people that you want to see. You can bring the people that you want around you. Write that list. It's not having $10 million. It would be like things for me. I would like— I would love all my family around me. I would probably go and sit down on the beach and watch the sunset with all my family, laughing and telling stories, and probably having a beautiful pink champagne and maybe even some delicious seafood, and, and just enjoying their company. There'd be music playing, watching the sunset, like all hanging out together. That's what I would want. So write your list. Like, if you had 24 hours to live, what would you want? And then incorporate more of that into your day. Like, if you, if you love, like, loved ones around you, call them and have a long chat. Have a conversation about funny stories and times that you remember when you had beautiful times together. And, and, and then fast forward it out. Like, what would you do if you had a year left to live? Like, you're go— I know that that seems a bit morbid, but the point is, if we would pay $10 million— if we would give up $10 million to live for a year longer, then like start living the way that makes it worth giving up the $10 million. I don't know if I'm being very succinct here, but I hope you're understanding my point. It's like our lives are worth so much more than $10 million. Like waking up tomorrow is worth more than $10 million for me. And do you know what? I did play the game out a bit and I said maybe if I was 80, I would take $10 million to live for another 5 years. But do you know what I mean? That's like, but then when you're 80, you might be like, but, but my daughter's just about to have another, or my granddaughter is about to have a baby. I don't want to miss That for $10 million or for any million dollars. Like, I want to experience that joy of the new baby being brought into this world and see— oh my God, I'm gonna cry— seeing my granddaughter, becoming a mother. And like, that is the point. That's why we're here. So even at that age, I don't think I would because there would be things that I would be missing that wouldn't be worth the money. God, I don't know why I got so emotional. So that's my point to you is like, these experiences are worth more than money to us. So you don't want money. You want experiences that will lift your life up with joy. And like, even the negative experiences, like, as I said, we were without stable housing for a chunk of time and it was really stressful. And it was like a, it was a result of we had it booked, someone canceled on us, and we just couldn't find anything in peak summer period. Um, and so we went like through, um, well, I mostly went through the trauma. I shielded most other people away from it, but through a serious trauma. But it led me to this cottage. So I appreciate the trauma, because I would never have found this if I hadn't had it. And so I appreciate all of the hard times in my life so that I can fully love the, the high times, like, and the joyous times, and feel the appreciation and the gratitude for finding our cottage. Or like, I'm using my cottage as like a metaphor, you know what, you know what I mean? Like not getting a job that you really thought you wanted And being feeling really disappointed about it, and maybe you went through five interviews and you thought you had it in the bag, but you don't know that that's not because it was the wrong thing for you. There could have been a horrible like boss above the boss that you interviewed with that was going to make your life hell. You don't know, but the universe knows, and we just have to trust that everything that happens in our life is happening for us. And I know another cliché, but it's. So true. Like, it's helping us to get to the place where we're going to be filled with joy and like happiness and appreciation and gratitude. Like, okay, I know I've really rambled on, but I hope— anyway, I'm going to be talking about this topic a lot over the next while, and I haven't spoken on YouTube a lot lately. And I think that I am worse for it because when I speak to you guys on YouTube, it grounds me. Like, I get so excited by the messages I'm sharing with you, and all I share is exactly what I've just realized. Like, I'm only sharing— and I love to share, I love to share the thoughts when they pop into my head and I connect something. Like, I didn't know the Joe Black, um, reference was going to come into this, and it's Because I saw the other day, I saw a scene in Joe Black, um, on YouTube. I love YouTube so much. Um, and it was like, oh, was it Lightning Might Strike or something? And it was just, it was the scene where they're sort of, they first met and they're back and forth and back and forth looking at each other. And then obviously he goes and gets killed and Death comes in. But, uh, I think that the point was that I was supposed to remember that Death actually loved living so much that Death didn't really want to go back. And death has all the powers in the world. He was like, "I like this life business. Like I want me a little bit more of that." So I want you to write a list. Yeah, let's do this exercise. Write a list of all the poor me things you're feeling like right now. Poor me. Like I'm so poor me because I whatever. Poor me because I don't have da da da da. Poor me because I'm not da da da. Poor me because whatever. I want you to write all of that down. Poor me because, poor me because. I want you to get it all out and then I want you to put yourself into a position of someone that doesn't have the opportunity to be poor me in any of those things. So maybe it's poor me I'm not fit. Um, what about a person that might have severe health challenges that can't even get out of bed? Like, is it poor you, or are you just ladling these things on you to make yourself not feel good about yourself? And if you then add on to that the exercise of, I've only got a day or a week to live, would all those poor mes become irrelevant? And would you start like grasping for— I think that they'd be irrelevant, all the poor me. It'd be like, no, okay, I've got a week to live. Poor me, shut up, poor me. Go away, poor me. This is what I want to do. I'm going to choose this and this and this, and I want to see that person, and I want to go there and see one last sunset, and I want to go and feel the ocean on my body one more time. I want to Have a bath one more time. I want to cuddle my loved ones one more time. I want to spend as much time with my pet or or talking to my friends and laughing and and just remembering how amazing my life has been. You're not going to spend the week in the in the list of the poor me's. You are going to tear that list up so quickly, like it never existed because you're going to be grasping. For okay, I've got a week left. What am I going to do? What am I going to do? And that's the list now I want you to write. You've got a week left to live. Write down everything that you would do in the week. Yes, you can travel. You can instantly travel anywhere. You can bring anyone to you. Write it all down. I've got a week left to live. What would I do? And then after you've written that list, this is what I would do. This is who I would see. This is what we'd talk about. This is what we'd. Like, I'd hug them. And then I want you to just pick a couple of things off that list and play this game all the time. And then pick some things off the list. Some might be like, you can't do them right now. Like, it might be go to Paris and see the paintings at the Louvre or something like that, or go to the French countryside and have a long lunch in a winery. So they might not be able to— you might not be able to do them right now, but if they're on your 1-week list Put them on for future goals and start working towards them. Like, start— I suppose it's a bucket list, isn't it? That was a long way to get there, wasn't it? But, but it's a bucket list of big things. But there's also, I'm sure, lots of small things that you can do right now that you would do in your last week of living. Consciously choose to do that. And I know I listen to a lot of people on YouTube and they're always talking about how choose you and choose how to be— choose your happiest life and choose this. And I think they're absolutely fantastic. And I suppose I'm just trying to bring my lens to how I interpret that. And I think this is a really good way to interpret that. It's like, what would you do if you knew you had a finite amount of time? Because in actual fact, that's the one guaranteed thing is that we are all going to die. We all actually do have a finite amount of time. But if we're giving up 10 millions to live for an extra day or an extra week or an extra year, extra 5 years, 10 years, like, why are we? If we don't want to choose to live it how we want to, let's take the 10 million and be out in a year. Like, I'd see— my brain's— I'm still processing the question. Would I take 10— there's no way I would take $10 million and only live for a year. And you would— yeah, ask any person that's given a terminal diagnosis and ask them how much money they would pay and how long they would work that if they could borrow any amount of money and it meant they got to live and they would work that off for the rest of their life. I think you'd be pretty hard to find someone that wouldn't say, I would work off that money for the rest of my life if it meant I got to live. Oh my God, I'm gonna cry again. Anyway, oh my God, this is emotional. I think because I've finally hit the nail on the head is you don't want money, you want life, you want to live. We all want to live. Choose life. Oh my God, I'm getting delirious now. But anyway, I hope you understand what I've been babbling on about, and I'm going to keep talking about this and talking about this because I think it's So important. Anyway, I'm trying to turn my phone off with my mouse. Love you, bye. The mouse won't click the phone off.