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The Fortune Number

Today is an 8, and money has its ears open

The money number has landed on the money morning. Whatever you say about it today lands harder than usual.

Wednesday, 16 September

9 + 1 + 6 + 2 + 0 + 2 + 6 = 26, then 2 + 6 = 8

Dear Reader,

The date adds up to an 8, and it has landed on the one morning a week this letter turns to what comes in. That doesn't line up often, and when it does I take the hint rather than explain it away.

Eight is the number of return. Money, standing, results, the harvest of things planted long enough ago that you've stopped watching for them.

Eight days often carry news about work or money. A payment, an offer, a decision made somewhere above your head.

Eight is also the number of what you privately believe you're allowed to have. Whatever you say about money today lands harder than usual, including the things you only say to yourself.

Nothing has to be earned twice. If something arrives easily, that's not suspicious.

You are allowed to receive it.

Which one is tugging at you?

Tap it and an email opens, written for you. Naming it is enough.

✉  The money conversation I've been avoiding
✉  The thing I'd ask for if I knew the answer was yes
✉  What turned up that I never chased

✦  Today's money number  ✦

8

There is a version of this that people find slightly embarrassing to mention, so I'll go first.

A price keeps showing up. 55 on a coffee receipt, then 5.55 at the garage, then a quote that comes in at 5,550 and you laugh out loud in the car park.

The money angle on a repeating number has very little to do with what you will be paid. These numbers tend to cluster around the sums you have been privately negotiating with yourself about. The fee you haven't raised. The thing you decided was too expensive without opening the page.

Whatever number has been following your prices around lately, it's usually sitting near a figure you haven't said out loud. Most people have one. A fee, a salary, an asking price, a number in a conversation that has been waiting months.

Eight days make that figure easier to say plainly. Nothing bad happens when a number is simply stated and left sitting in the room.

✦   ✦   ✦

Sit with one of these

Tap whichever one lands. The reply comes with the question in it.

✉  What figure have I not said out loud?
✉  What did I decide was too expensive without looking?
✉  What am I waiting to be told I can have?
✉  Which number keeps turning up on my prices?

Nothing has to be earned twice today. What arrives easily still counts.

A big hug,
The Fortune Number

P.S. If a figure turns up today, in a quote, an offer, or your own head at traffic lights, I'd like to know what it was.

You are allowed to receive it

✉  Have a win to share? Tell me about it.

Yours might be the sign somebody else is waiting for.

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