Do you have a poor relationship to money?

February 2, 2010

I DARE to DECLARE February as The MONEY MONTH!

On February 17, I will have the pleasure of interviewing Belinda Fuchs, CPA, Wealth Coach, President of OwnYourMoney.com and host of Boston’s newest TV talk show “Money on Your Mind.”

The topic: YOUR Emotions, YOUR Money, and YOU - WHO’S in Charge? Changing the Money Game for Today’s Woman

For more information or to register click here: http://www.thedaringwoman.com/teleseminar/belindafuchs.htm

Do you have a poor relationship to money? Here’s an article written by Belinda. (Please note that if you’re a subscriber on our list, you’ll also receive an article titled- Self Worth for Net Worth). Sign up for your Free Daring Success Kit and you’ll gain immediate access to information from experts like: Lorrie Morgan-Ferrero, Nancy Marmolejo, Jill Lublin, Marcia Wieder & many others…

Do you have a poor relationship to money?

People who have a poor relationship to money feel poor-no matter how much money they have in the bank. Even as they make more and more money, their stress increases, they save less, and their problems just have more zeroes on them.

This is the world of scarcity in which people feel owned by their money instead of feeling powerful as the owner of their money.

You don’t have to live like this anymore. Follow these 3 steps today to begin creating a more powerful relationship to your money… to truly own your money:

Step 1- Identify your relationship to money

Understand what money means to you. Is it power, control, joy, happiness, freedom, or is it just a way of keeping score? Here are four questions to focus your responses:

How would you describe your relationship to money and your current money management habits?
When you hear the words money, wealth, or rich, what comes to mind?
What did your parents tell you about money?
How do you currently act with money?

Step 2- Compare your answers to the supportive and non-supportive belief criteria.

Were your thoughts and feelings empowering or disempowering? Here are the definitions of Supportive and Non-supportive beliefs:

Supportive beliefs provide encouragement, empowerment and positive feelings.
Non-supportive beliefs can bring disempowerment, helplessness, hopelessness, and panic.

Your answers to the questions above form your Belief Systems to money-affectionately called your “B.S.”-as it is the made-up scripts created over your lifetime.

Here are some examples of non-supportive beliefs:

If I try and I don’t succeed at making money, I’ll be a failure.
I have to work very hard for money and I won’t be able to make money doing what I love.
Making money will take time away from my family and people won’t like me.
I don’t deserve to have a lot of money.
I’ll never have enough no matter how much I make.

Step 3- Consciously upgrade your beliefs

The good news is that there’s an alternative. Even though you don’t have a direct impact on financial markets, you do have 100% impact on your personal beliefs. You can choose to leave your money past in the past starting today.

Make a decision now to “own your money”. Be willing to go to the core of the non-supportive beliefs and recognize that the opposite is truer than the “B.S.” you’ve been holding onto. Consciously choose the contrary, supportive belief.

You have the power to immediately create the wealthy, abundant and truly “rich” life you deserve. If you’d like to examine your relationship to money at a deeper level today, OwnYourMoney.com has a short, powerful quiz that will help you answer for yourself, “Do I own my money or does it own me?”:

For singles- http://www.ownyourmoney.com/quiz.html

For couples- http://www.ownyourmoney.com/couplesquiz.html

If you’re ready to make more, save more and stress less about your money, discover the three costly habits threatening your financial future, plus get your FREE money success tips, from Belinda now at: www.OwnYourMoney.com/gift.html.

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