Mastering Your Money Mindset

Today's Objective

• air out our money stories
• (re)learn a new money paradigm & shift our thinking around it
• create new, empowering wealth building money practices

My Money Story

• Money was never talked about
• Money was synonomous with struggle
• Money creates conflict

History Repeats Itself

• Greatest lessons based on childhood experiences
• What you know creates your reality
• Money story follows you into adulthood

Top Money Beliefs: Money is...

• the root of all evil...
• power...
• isn't everything
• no object

Money Mindset Exercise

• Money is...(write your current $ experiences)
• Write your earliest money memory

Money Mindset Exercise (cont)

• Does money cause you discomfort?
• Are you satisfied with your life?
• What sentence best describes how you feel about wealth?

What is money, really?

• System where we trade value for value
• Energy, perception, beliefs, emotions
• 95% of what we do is controlled by our beliefs & habits

Unconscious Money Habits

• Spending (alignment w. values)
• Language around money (i.e. broke, can't afford, etc)
• Attitude when giving, receiving money (paying bills, getting paid, discounting services, etc)

Lack v. Abundance: What do you see?

• Money
• Time
• Love
• Talent, skills, gifts
• "Not Enough" creates the scarcity mindset

The Cost of Not Enough

• Unhappiness at work
• Problems in relationships
• Health, Stress
• Personal wellbeing suffers
• Shame & embarassment

The Paradigm Shift

• It's never about the money
• It's about what we value
• Value yourself

New Money Practices

• Put your $ towards things that make you feel amazing, abundant, prosperous
• Show up for your money (talk about it, check your accounts, etc)
• Watch your language (I can't afford, broke, etc)
• Ask! Ask! Ask!

I bargained with Life for a penny.
And Life would pay no more.

For Life is just employer.

She gives you what you ask.

I worked for a menials hire.

Only to learn dismayed.

That any wage I asked of Life,
life would have willingly paid.
- Napoleon Hill, Think & Grow Rich

Additional Resources

• Think & Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
• Money: A Love Story - Kate Northrup
• Money & Energy - Bruce Lipton