One of the fears we work on in the Fall In Love With Your Bank Account Challenge is the fear of running out of money and the shame we feel around our finances.
All in Changing Our Feelings About Money
What if it's Possible to have a Relaxed and Chilled Relationship with Money, no matter How Much you have in your Bank Account?
Instead I kept recreating debt and using all my earnings to donate to charities or buy things I didn't need. And freaking out that my family would find out that I was making money and would ask me for money, when I really didn't have money.
Money has Nothing to do with Discipline even though on the Surface it Appears that Way
This obsession with having fiscal discipline or being positive, used to cause me so much pain and shame, because it used to make me feel weak willed and like there was something wrong with me!
5 Steps to Help You Change Your Attitude Towards Money
When I was US$60,000 in debt, I gave myself 5 years to pay off my debt and gave myself permission to just focus on changing my spending habits and fall in love with my bank account.
I paid off the debt in 4 years, launched my company and started traveling again!
It all started with changing my attitude towards money.
How Embracing Our Prostitute Archetype Can Help Us Heal Our Relationship With Money
"Caroline Myss, bestselling author of Anatomy of the Spirit, asserts that each of us has a financial prostitute; we’re all capable of selling our minds, bodies and/or talents for financial gain.
Most people balk at this idea, but if you’re in a job you hate and you’re only in it for the pay cheque, then you’re selling your mind or talent for money.
If you’re in a loveless marriage or a relationship for financial security, then you have a price.
If you’re an artist doing creative work you hate, you’re selling out your talent, and that pay cheque is your price.
What keeps this financial prostitute alive? Our need to survive or just plain survival instinct."