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(This is part 2 of a 3 part series around money.)
Let’s first look at our limiting beliefs we are carrying around since childhood around money.
Take out some paper and write down the beliefs you grew up with surrounding money. Be sure to include the worst things you remember hearing, thinking and seeing about money.
Here’s my list:
- Money is dangerous
- Lack of money and gambling causes violence
- It’s better to work in a low paying job that directly helps people than it is to get a good paying job that doesn’t really help others
- Rich people are greedy
- Money is the root of all evil
- Men bring home the bacon
- Women who are successful are bitchy
- Something about a rich man, getting through the eye of a needle and heaven
- Be humble and poor like Jesus
- Jesus liked poor people better than the rich tax collectors
- That person cares more about money than his family
- It’s bad to have debt and bad to have too much money
- We can’t afford to eat there, buy that…
- Rich people are vain
- There is only a limited amount of money to go around
So, do you have your list?
Think of how deep these beliefs run through us. They are formed at such a young age and affect almost every decision and experience we’ve ever had!
They are actually LIMITING beliefs. Beliefs that keep us small. Beliefs that keep us poor. Beliefs that keep us from having our birthright of abundance.
Morgana Rea, the founder of Financial Alchemy, suggests that if we are able to personify these limiting beliefs around money and capture all of them into a Money Monster that we can see and then kill, we will be able to free ourselves of its hold on us.
In the coaching world we call these our saboteurs or our gremlins.
So we’re going to create an image of this Money Monster right now. (Personify it… but as someone you don’t know, since we’re going to do something bad to it soon!)
- What does he/she look like?
- What does it smell like?
- What is it wearing?
- What does it sound like?
- What does it say to you?
Emotions may come up for you in this process. Let them come. Allow them. Feel them. This thing is real in many of our lives and has ruled us for a long time and kept us so small. So by fully experiencing it and shining a light on it, we will be able to free ourselves from it.
What do you want to say to this person?
- Say it now. Yell if you have to.
What do you want to do with it?
- Tucking it away is not enough
- Try stabbing it
- Cutting it into pieces and burning it
- Flush it
- Do WHATEVER it takes to get it the heck out of your life
Is it gone?
You may need to ask yourself, “What do I gain from keeping it around?”
Safety? Does it give you permission to not have to live big?
And now ask yourself, “What will my live look like in 5 years if this Money Monster continues to rule my life?”
Once this is gone you may notice a void.
In the next post we’re going to fill it with your “Money Honey”.
So, until next post I want you to start thinking of an image of what your positive persona to money will look like, smell like, talk like, etc.
Leave a comment below and tell us what your Money Monster says to you. What does it look like, and what you did with it!
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