Whether you realize it or not your money mindset is more important than the money you make.
Hard to believe right?
Well, the fact of the matter is it is — and money mindset is a thing. It is a very real thing that has impacted each of our lives before we even realized its impact. The way we spend, make, and even react and relate to money is engineered by what we think about money. How we think about money and the habits we’ve formed reveals our money mindset.
Money mindset are the unconscious and conscious thoughts we have about money that determine our attitude, choices, behaviors and more importantly our relationship with money. We’ve all had unconscious thoughts and a relationship with money before we were even able to count money or realize money was a thing. Our first relationship with money began at an early age when much of our development was taking place. What we observed we began to model. Same applies to money. What we saw our parents or loved ones do is what we naturally adopted and did too. This is the case whether you grew up in a single parent or two-parent household. We emulated what was modeled before us.
If we’re honest many of us took on the attitudes and behaviors about money that our parents had without even consciously recognizing it. Those thoughts and beliefs driving our subconscious mind were always there, guiding and making money decisions that we somehow found ourselves years later realizing that this is the same way mom, dad, grandma or grandpa talked about and handled money. Their relationship with money became our relationship with money. If they were spenders, we’re spenders, if they were frugal we’re frugal, if they complained about money, we complained about money, if they didn’t discuss money, we don’t discuss money, if they worked hard for it, we work hard for it, if they like to flaunt it, we like to flaunt it and the list goes on.
What is striking is that these behaviors although learned at an early age and etched into our subconscious mind can be changed. There was a time when scientists believed our brains were hardwired and impossible to change. But through the study of neuroscience we have discovered this is untrue. Without getting too deep, neuroscience has proven that our brain has the awesome power through neuroplasticity to create new neural pathways that change how we think and respond by making new connections. Much of what we believe and think is done unconsciously and automatically. This can be changed as we actively work to create new beliefs, thoughts, and attitudes that affect the decisions we make.
Whatever your relationship with money, you can always change it and for the better!
Money is primarily viewed as a medium of exchange for goods and services. It is utilized to meet our most basic human need which for all is survival. The problem for many of us is we fail to move past surviving into thriving. And this has nothing to do with dollars and cents, but a mindset of scarcity and lack vs. abundance and sufficiency. For some a bigger salary is to avoid scarcity and for others a bigger salary is to prove I am not lacking anything. Either way, it’s disempowering, a disservice, and destructive to your financial well-being.
The goal of managing your money mindset is to get to a place of freedom, control, choice, and opportunity with money so you can build it and sustain it not only in the present but also in the future.
My goal is to help you master your money and build your bank account. Until we master your money mindset, you will be in the same place this time next year that you are today. Just making more money isn’t going to cut it. Making more money is like changing the packaging on a product without upgrading the contents. The only way to make permanent and lasting change is to change. Change our beliefs, thoughts, and behaviors around money that changes our attitude, habits, and relationship with money.
We live in a complicated world driven by daily decisions. And it’s in those decisions that we make daily choices with our money that can help or hurt, decrease or increase our bank accounts. Your bank account can only grow to the extent you do!
If you’re ready for a steady and growing relationship with money so you can build your bank account, changing your money mindset is not only a thing, but THE thing.
What are you waiting for?
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