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Financial Success
Financial Excuses: What’s Really Holding You Back?
Oct 24th
What do you think is stopping you from being fully engaged in your finances? Do you start to change your ways with money only to soon find yourself back where you don’t want to be? Have you convinced yourself that you just aren’t good with money? Is it that you fear you won’t succeed?
There are a number of reasons or excuses people use in holding themselves back from being financially successful. Here are a few I’ve heard:
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I’m just crazy busy
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I don’t have the money to get financial help
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I’ve just never been good with money
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It’s just too overwhelming
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I feel alone in managing our finances
Here are my comments and solutions to each reason or excuse:
I’m just crazy busy: We are what we tell ourselves we are! So, if your focus is on being crazy busy and you continue to tell yourself so, you’ll actually never find the time to pay attention to your money. Begin repeating more positive phrases to yourself like, “I have plenty of time to focus on my finances,” then find time each week and schedule a money appointment on your calendar! Doing so will affirm that you do, in fact, have plenty of time to manage your finances. More >
Are You Secretly Sabotaging your Financial Success?
Apr 4th
Are you often frustrated, overwhelmed, or worried about your financial situation? Understanding the why can help you to figure out what might need changing. Might it be that you just need to sit down and look at all the numbers and come up with a plan, or is it something deeper than that?
It could be that you’re actually sabotaging your financial success. Are you easily diverted from new commitments you’ve made to better your financial life as soon as a friend invites you to dinner or out to the mall? Do you tend to revert back to your old ways with money when the slightest bump in the road comes along?
People who sabotage their financial success often have no plan, fear failure, fear risk, procrastinate, give little thought to money, take advice from the wrong people, and have disbelieving thoughts.
To begin eliminating your sabotaging ways and change your financial life for the better, here are some tips to help you get there:
Have a Plan I’ve said if before, and I’ll say it again and again. Planning is the key to your financial success! Put exact numbers on paper-include how much you’ve been spending over the past three months and then look More >
