How is Your Money Mindset?

Here’s one of those rare, random opportunities to be decisively honest with yourself:

Do you have money problems?

Do you know why you have money problems?

Are you aware of the extent to which the roots of your money problems are mental?

Are you aware of when, exactly, your mental activity is contributing to your money problems?

When it comes to your finances, there are basically three decisive areas…

One of which you have relatively little control over…

And two of which you have (or could have) a great deal of control over.

You can’t control “the economy,” “inflation,” how much money your parents left you, how many children you are already responsible for, etc.

What you can (learn to) control, however, is how you think about money, the feelings you create when the subject of money comes up, and how financially literate you are.

In our work with people, we have found that most people already have (or could easily gain) access to the resources needed to develop their financial literacy…

After all, who doesn’t have at least one book on making money, managing money, etc. languishing somewhere in their house, whether it’s on the back of a toilet, at the bottom of a stack of mostly unread self-improvement books, or hidden in the dark corner of a decorative bookshelf?

The thing that stops most people isn’t a lack of desire or access to the information they need in order to know what to do…

It’s the stuff that goes on in their head and the feelings they create whenever you subject of money or something related to it (like cracking open the book or implementing something they have learned in it) that keeps them from making resourceful engagement with their finances an emotionally sustainable and even enjoyable aspect of their daily life.

If, every time you think about money, how you don’t have as much of it as you need or want, how you don’t know what everyone else seems to know or what you think you should know already, etc, you end up feeling worse than you did before the subject of money came up…

You have a major psychological incentive to not be aware of, to not think about, and to not acknowledge what is going on in an area of your life that may be in serious need of attention.

So, the first step to changing your financial situation is to change your relationship with money…

And the only way to change your relationship with money is to become aware of what your current relationship with and experience of money reveals about your relationship with yourself.

This is exactly what Melissa and I are going to be showing you how to fix in our surprise (it surprised us when we decided to host this class just yesterday afternoon!) Money Mindset Class.

You have what it takes to become someone who enjoys doing what they need to do in order to create the financial reality you want to experience in your life.

You don’t have to feel anxious, behind, stressed out, guilty, ashamed, inadequate, depressed, unsafe, hopeless or physically sick every time the subject of money or of financial awareness or education comes up…

And the subject of money doesn’t have to cause you to feel like you’re in danger or about to get into some kind of awful trouble.

In order to discover that you’re really capable of when it comes to impressively productive financial stewardship…

And in order to experience how wonderful life can be for you (and we really do mean YOU) once you master this skill…

You have to learn how to make it so that success behaviors are associated with powerfully positive emotions that cause you to be drawn towards engaging in those behaviors again and again.

If this sounds like something you would benefit from, You will love this Money Mindset Class.

We want to help you make the subject of money and money management a source of good feelings and positive experiences for you…

So that your life can be about feeling great while doing things that will be rewarding to have done.

Do You Have a Secret Desire to Stay the Same?

Your belief that your problems are “E-Special”…

Especially bad…

Especially complex…

Especially tragic…

Especially stupid…

Especially ridiculous.. 

Especially unsolvable… 

Especially shameful…

Is the same as your desire to live with those problems forever.

If you think that there is any chance that this might apply to you, please:  take a moment to read that once more and then ponder it for a moment before continuing. 

People who try to change often fail to do so because they fail to realize that there exists within them a desire to stay the same…

And they fail to recognize this fact because they don’t recognize the desire to stay the same when they see it.

Many people naively imagine that the desire to stay the same manifests in a statement like:

“Oh boy, I sure do love being an anxious, unhappy, miserable wreck who goes around feeling unworthy and inadequate always on the verge of getting into trouble and of being rejected and abandoned forever.”

Of course, that’s not how it actually works...

That would be a little bit like a conman wearing a name tag that listed his profession as a conman, a bank robber posting his name and occupation and past accomplishments on LinkedIn, etc. 

Your hidden desires to remain exactly as you are… 

Including when your surface mind is absolutely convinced that you are 100% committed to change and adamantly innocent of any desire to remain the same…

Are often cleverly disguised as objective assessments, realistic appraisals, honest self-evaluation, etc.

It is your credulous acceptance of these parts…

Which acceptance is due to your failure to recognize them for what they are…

That allows them to keep you imprisoned in a dungeon of unwanted, dreary sameness when you might otherwise be living in a verdant pasture of happy change.

Sign up to discover how you can learn to recognize these hidden enemies dwelling within your own mental household…

And banish them once and for all.