Let’s talk about limiting financial beliefs
First, what beliefs limit money?
Limiting beliefs about money are any beliefs you have about money that are holding you back from achieving your dreams and goals.
Often times, this Limiting beliefs They are subconscious. A message plays in your head when you judge yourself or someone else by money. For example, you see someone who is successful and seems to have a lot of money. Then you think: “I bet they are it’s not happy!”
Or you might think: “I bet they’re selfish.”
These subconscious beliefs about money and the people who have money are holding you back from pursuing and achieving your most important financial goals.
How your thoughts about money affect your spending and saving
Your thoughts drive your actions and therefore directly affect how you save and how you spend.
It affects why you spend and whether you feel guilty after spending. It also affects the message you tell yourself about your self-worth. Money is just the tip of the iceberg.
There’s a lot going on beneath the surface. Your financial thoughts affect who you spend time with, how successful you are, and how happy you allow yourself to be.
How to change your financial mindset to improve your financial habits
To improve your mindset and financial habits, try this practice for two weeks.
1. Meditation
Once daily for two weeks, spend 5-10 minutes in quiet reflection and working on being present.
This could be meditation or sitting quietly in a place where no one will disturb you. Your mind will drift, so keep bringing it back to your breath. You need to quiet your busy mind before you can truly understand your belief patterns.
2. Brain dump
On the first day, after meditation, ask yourself about all your beliefs related to money and write them down in your journal.
Allow yourself to create a brain dump on paper without judgment. This should only take 5 minutes. Then close the book and start your day.
3. Evaluate financial habits
the next day, He follows Same reflection process, and this time, ask yourself about your financial habits and write them in the same journal.
4. Dreams and goals
on The third dayMeditate and then ask yourself what your big dream and goals are. Write this down.
5. Find supporting and defining beliefs
On the fourth day, you will reflect and then look at what you have written as your goal.
Then you will go back to your beliefs and habits and circle what supports your goal. Write down all of these supporting beliefs and habits on a clean page with the goal at the top. On a separate page, write the goal. Then write down all the beliefs and habits that do not support this goal.
6. Evaluate your conditions
On Day 5, you will have two pages to focus on daily after meditation: a goal with beliefs and habits that align and a goal with those that don’t.
These two pages allow you to be accountable, because each morning you will ask yourself how many times a specific limiting belief came up during the previous day and put a check mark next to it. Do the same for your habits and add any new negative beliefs or habits you discovered the day before.
7. Keep working
He continues This pattern of contemplation, reflection and accountability with check marks for the next nine days, which will take two weeks.
8. Be responsible
At the end of the two weeks, look at your goal, belief pattern, and habits with the largest number of check marks.
These are the most powerful influences holding you back. Feel proud of yourself for being honest and responsible for your thoughts and actions because you are now aware and can make changes.
9. Support your biggest goals
Finally, you can continue this practice or write down the big things to work on and ask yourself every night if you are letting go of the power of your limiting beliefs and becoming more honest with your goals.
Circle your financial habits that support your bigger goal and think about the ones that don’t.
Get training to overcome negative beliefs about money
A life coach, wealth coach, or strategy coach can help you overcome limiting financial beliefs.
When looking for help in this area, the most important thing to consider is this You Are ready to make a change and be responsible. Then find someone who has experience dealing with people in similar situations to yours.
For example, if you need help understanding your finances and dealing with money and generational wealth, make sure your coach understands this area.
Final thoughts on financial beliefs
If this sounds like a lot of work or you think you’re going to do it never Change, be responsible for these thoughts.
Remember, it is You Tell yourself it’s a lot of work, it doesn’t have to be a lot of work. Remind yourself that It costs Not doing this is because you will not live freely because your financial beliefs control you whether you want them to.
And when you say I’ll never change…again, it’s all up to you!
In my personal experience, overcoming limiting beliefs around money is worth it! Even with my extensive experience in the financial services industry, I have minimized the impact of financial beliefs that limit my ability and the positive feeling of choosing what to spend or save without feeling guilty!
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