Fitness Workout for your Financial Muscles
by Mayumi King
Challenge 3. “I’m constantly worried, stressed and frustrated about money.”
Financial Fitness Solution: Develop your Attention muscle.
If I told you that you had a winning lottery ticket and the numbers would be called someday this year, would you be worried or excited? Most would say excited. The financial muscle to exercise here is Attention: where are you focusing yours?
Race car drivers are taught to always look in the direction they want to go. If you look at the wall, you will drive into the wall. Put your Attention on what you want… and you’ll get more of what you want. Stress, worry and frustration come from looking (now) at what you don’t want to happen (in the future), and believing that what you don’t want will actually happen. Get better control of your financial Attention muscles, and start driving your finances to a state of continuous growth.
Challenge 4. “I just can’t get control over my finances and spending.”
Financial Fitness Solution: Develop your Purpose muscle.
Going on a spending “diet” as a measure of “control” over your finances is limiting rather than expansive behavior. The financial muscle to start developing here is best described as Purpose. Your Purpose, for example, might be a long-term plan for financial acumen. If you have a Purpose that’s broader in scope than your day-to-day financial survival, then you won’t need “discipline” or “control” over your spending. Instead of thinking in terms of what you can’t do, you’ll begin to think opportunistically as to what you CAN do, as part of your Purpose. Thus, you’ll choose to spend based on what is most aligned with this Purpose.
Challenge 5. “I just can’t get my finances in order.”
Financial Fitness Solution: Develop your Integrity and Responsibility muscles.
The most underdeveloped financial muscles associated with financial disorder is Integrity and Responsibility. Integrity & Responsibility requires that you be accountable to the promises you make to yourself and others. Borrowing and bill-paying are forms of promises you made. When you break those promises, you will find yourself in disorder or clutter. Develop the financial Integrity and Responsibility muscles to keep these promises and you will find order. From order comes structure, and from this comes a financial fitness plan for building long-term wealth, success and happiness!
You’ve got Step One in a Fitness Workout for your Financial Muscles… Now What?
This Financial Fitness Plan is only a place to start. If this were training for a marathon, you have just learned the warm-up routine for the 26.2 mile run. The real source of your financial challenges or success is your emotional relationship to money.
You just learned some truths about finances, and you may be wondering how to develop these financial muscles and what’s the next step in your personally-tailored financial workout. Contact financial fitness expert and “trainer,” Mayumi King at http://clubfreedomprogram.com
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