Hi Laura,
I have decided on a goal for this year…’By December 31st 2018 I will be earning $3000 a week’.
I have ideas on how to do this and what I can create and I feel really excited about it but I am struggling with guilt around wanting to earn this much money and my goal being centred around earning.
I have a terrible financial history, irresponsibility combined with limited views on earning. I have been working on changing my thoughts in this area and have done your Money workbook which was really helpful. Would be grateful for your thoughts on this.
Thank you xx
I’m irresponsible
I have a terrible history with money.
Rewrite that past in a way that serves you.
Do it tonight then read it, adopt it and move on.
I really want you to do this. I once believed I was ‘bad with money’, that I ‘spent it before it came in’ that I was ‘as bad as your mother with money’ and that I ‘had no control’.
A lot of this was due to messages I had been told as a teenager and also because I had a lot of evidence (I did spend it, the more I made, the more I spent and despite earning more than 99% of the population I didn’t save).
I didn’t change the facts. But I changed the perspective.
My old story meant I was quick to hand over responsibility and I let myself off the hook constantly – I let myself go totally unconscious about future spending because of my past spending.
The new story was one that made me very aware of the importance of financial responsibility, I became eager to learn, to understand and to better manage money, I decided I was someone who was ‘f***ing brilliant with money’, from that day forward (feel free to decide to adopt thoughts minus the swear words). I didn’t let myself off the hook more.
Re writing this story and committing to 100% responsibility is the first step.
The I really want you to consider.
Why is money bad? Do you believe this thought? Do you have any good reason to keep this belief about why money is bad? Who would you be if you didn’t believe money was bad?
Why is a goal of earning money bad?
Do you intend to make bombs with the money?
Does not earning more money make you more able to do good?
– Employ others
– Give to others
– Create value through your work
– Reach more people
I love money.
Money is fantastic.
It means I can do more, give more, reach more.
It does not make me happy.
But it sure does mean I can have more impact.
What is your reason for wanting to make more money?
Do you like your reason?
If you do like your reason get on with making more of it : )
Next month is going to be so good for you with this goal…it will give you the framework to get moving toward $3000 per week and if you do the work there will be no room for guilt drama xx