Colorado Singles Resource Guide - Fall 2007 - (Page 38) 3 the Rom secreTs of Finan By Jenifer M adson, Fina ncial Succes ance s Coach ce to courting financial success Secret #1 Money is a mystery, just like love, and the fundamental questions for success are the same: how do we find it, keep it, and make it grow? The ultimate goal is financial intimacy, which doesn’t mean rolling around naked in a pile of money; full financial intimacy is having such close, positive association with the subject of money that it magnificently supports who you are and what you love. so how do you develop the financial relationship of your dreams? well, we don’t start a relationship in the intimacy phase�typically. we start in the courting phase, and success in that stage has to do with the mindset you bring to the relationship, how you express yourself within it, and whom you pick as partners. The first secret to courting financial success is to see success as your destiny. Notice I didn’t say to see it as your possibility or hope. Hope is not a strategy. You need to see financial success as something you’re meant for. But how do you see a successful future if your past with money is about confusion and pain? You commit to creating a new identity with money, and to challenging your old one. You commit to creating a new financial identity by consciously choosing new, powerful thoughts, such as, “I am great with money and destined for success.” And as sure as you’re sitting there, while you’re creating new thoughts, your old ones will raise up to challenge you. So challenge them back. Literally turn on the old thoughts when they come up, cross your arms against them and say, “That’s not me!” Then turn to the right, to your new vision of success, hold your hands out and say, “That’s me.” The more you put body language to your mental commitments, the more you will anchor the new beliefs. Secret #2 Secret number two to courting financial success is to speak the language of success. There are many words or phrases that can support you or hold you back, and one is the word “budget.” If you’re like most people, your gut clutches at the mention of the word. But you must track your money to be successful with it, so if the word puts you off from even having one, then change the word or change the meaning of the word, but have the system intended by the word. Call it a spending plan. Or call it a budget, but instead of that word FALL 2007
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