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In my last blog, I asked you to pay attention to your thoughts and especially your feelings as you interact with money and money matters. How you react emotionally has a huge impact on your ability to deal with money positively and create the type of calm, confident interaction with money and financial matters that
I didn’t start my career as a financial planner, so I bumbled and stumbled my way along my financial journey making LOTS of money mistakes. The worst one was a mindset of “it’s only 5 bucksy; it’s only 10 bucks; it’s only 3 bucks.” It only adds up and up and up, though, and that’s
A few weeks ago, I wrote about taking action to overcome fear, uncertainty, anxiety, or guilt around money and your financial situation. This week, I want to expand on that and give you a step-by-step guide to getting into action. Martha Beck, an author, speaker and life coach, talks about our aversion to tasks we perceive as
In my post, Are Your Words Tearing Up Your Profits? I talked about the power of the words that we use to create our perceptions. This is especially true when we think and talk about money. We are creating our own money stories every day and the stories that we tell ourselves are part of
Last week I talked about your money story and gave you some things to think about in terms of how your own money story is impacting you today. Last week, I left you thinking – thinking about past money experiences, about the emotion that was attached to those experiences, and about the underlying beliefs that
Maggie Wray, of Creating Positive Futures, hosted an amazing event called Creating Unstoppable Kids. This is my interview with Maggie about helping kids and young adults create positive money futures. I hope you enjoy it.
The phrase “it’s only 5 bucks” is the financial equivalent of a leaky faucet in your bathroom; it doesn’t seem like that little drip can add up to much until you plug the sink and see how fast it fills! You can build up to a $1,000 credit card balance, 5 bucks at time. The
There is no stress like money stress. The anxiety, fear, or dread that you feel when your money world is out-of-whack is the most uncomfortable and frightening feeling! It connects deeply to our survival instinct and our need to feel safe. But it also taps into our social fears: what would others think? To keep
We often don’t make the connection between our feelings and our finances but emotion is what is driving most of our actions around money. “I want” and “I need” drive spending and those desires come from our feelings. To read more, please visit Working on Your Now where I was the guest blogger. Financial Feelings
An excerpt from The Graduate’s Guide to Money You began learning about your world subconsciously as a child. A lot of your money experiences and feelings came from childhood experiences, but your money story is shaped every time you have an experience with money. When you delve into your gut reaction—that feeling in your belly—you access the