First we need to ask, What Are Your Thoughts About Money?

Here is an exercise that will make you stop, look, listen and discover your hidden unconscious beliefs about money that may be blocking you from having more of it, or if you already have enough of it, you may not be managing properly or enjoying it. It seems as if there is always never enough. Why?

Go over the list below and check which ones of the following phrases and words represent your thoughts about money. Which ones resonate with you. Choose the first seven that would best describe how you think about money and journal on these further. Ask yourself the question after each phrase.“Why?”. Why do you think this way about money and keep asking ?Why?” until you are able to identify the reason behind your thought(s). The first step in changing a thought pattern is to become aware of it. AWARENESS. The second is to accept that indeed this is how you think about money – whether that may be negative or positive. ACCEPTANCE. Third you now take action to change the way you think about money, affirm what is positive and bring the new thought pattern into your everyday life behavior. ACTION. To sustain and make the change in your thought pattern more permanent you will need to visualize and affirm it daily like a mantra.

So let’s begin the exercise. Select the phrase(s) that resonate with you the most. Then select your top seven (7) in terms of which ones resonated with you the most and journal further asking the question “Why?” as we have outlined above:

Money is …
a basis for exchange
a headache
a means of equality
a means to participate
a measure of net worth
a measure of self worth
a measure of value
a measuring stick
a payment for service
a responsibility
a return for service
a sign of how poor I am
a sin
a source of guilt
a source of joy
a source of my suffering
a source of resentment
a test of my patience
a tool for control
a tool of justice or karma
a vacation
a virtue
a waste
a worry
an indicator of my worthiness
available as needed
dynamic
easy come, easy go
evil
expensive
food on my table
for a rainy day
for buying toys
for fun
for material things
for rich people
for security
for sharing
for speculation
for spending
for the lucky
gain for one and loss for another
give and take
glue to everything
God, spirituality
good
greed
happiness
hard to come by
in abundant supply
indebtedness
is not everything
king, boss
like water, it flows
love
means to an end
meant to flow
my friend
my value from work
necessary
never enough
not grown on trees
not spiritual
not to be wasted
opportunity
party time
plentiful
potential
power
respect
sacrifice
scarce
security
self-worth
sex appeal
shameful
sinful (if you have too much)
social standing
soon parted
spiritual
success
the result of hard work
the root of all evil
the solution to all my problems.
the source of too many problems
time
to be enjoyed while it lasts
to be leveraged
to be managed
to be respected
to be taken advantage of
unhappiness
what I can’t afford
what I deserve
what I do not have
what is saved
what makes more money
what upsets me
what you cannot take with you
worth working for

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