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It’s no secret that when financial life is going well, life feels good.
This can happen in fleeting moments when you know the bills are paid and you have a nice sum left over for whatever you want; it’s a very good feeling.
But is that feeling consistent?
For most people, it’s not consistent at all, and there are too many times when a sense of lack takes over, and that can be an unpleasant time where you feel like your money just isn’t going very far.
It’s not a good feeling, and we tend to feel like all our money is going towards all the things we need to buy rather than what we want to buy.
It’s literally a feeling we never want to have, but it can be a key sign of where we are with our finances.
It’s not that we don’t have enough money, it’s that we feel like we don’t have much money, and that’s totally different.
This is like realizing that your car is perfectly fine, running fine, and giving you no problems, but you have a strange little feeling that it might break down soon.
Does that feeling really help you at all, or does it just worry you unnecessarily when you have a perfectly running car?
That is the difference between feeling prosperous and abundant versus feeling poor and impoverished.
These are literally just feelings, and they can change the way you feel about your finances in an instant, which could help reveal some truths about your situation.
Am I saying that poverty and abundance are just feelings?
Not quite, but the reality of having money vs. having nothing starts with emotions and belief.
That means that changing the way you think is a very good thing, and is actually a way of propelling yourself out of that feeling of lack and into the feeling of abundance that you know you’ve had before, but would like to feel much more consistent. .
It’s not about making you delude yourself into thinking you’re prosperous when you’re not; No, we are not going in that direction.
We are taking your old beliefs and changing them so that you are not so accused of thinking in terms of lack and lack of money.
Sometimes we acquire negative beliefs about money from people and other people around us, and they don’t allow us to have positive money habits in the long term, and that’s a problem.
Other times it can be very frustrating to know that we acquired those negative money habits, we thought they were from us, and we acted on them thinking that we had to live like this forever.
It’s like thinking that you only work to pay the bills, which is a horrible way to think about life.
You can change all of that by adopting positive beliefs about money over time, which will change your financial perspective and your understanding of money in general.
We are moving away from thinking foolishly about our money, having so much unnecessary spending, and moving towards wiser spending habits that allow us to keep more of what we spend and dissolving all tendencies to spend our money on things we don’t need.
This is also not a small thing, so don’t think it will happen overnight.
Adopting stronger long-term financial habits is about consistent behaviors we do over time: the little things we do on a daily basis that keep us from wasting our money on unnecessary junk that ends up eating up all our money.
Once you break those horrible spending habits, you’ll actually have a stronger budget and literally one step closer to stronger finances overall.
Most people don’t really think like that, and it’s that unconscious thought that brings them less and less cash after paying the bills each week, and that’s not a good way to live, or a good way to manage your money.
One of the worst cases is not having a budget at all, and that just leads to major unmanaged expenses that don’t allow you to have a lot of extra money, if any.
If you don’t know what your budget is, chances are your spending is out of control and your bills feel like they are your main expense.
While bills may be a necessity, they don’t have to feel like a chore and something you have to begrudgingly turn in on a routine basis.
When you feel and know that you are in abundance with your financial situation, bills are just a necessary thing that allows you to live, be housed, and use your basic necessities at home and otherwise.
If you didn’t have those things, life would be so much worse, and if there are some things on your bills that you simply don’t need, you should cut them out of your life.
This is still part of the wasteful spending part, and even affects our bills and things we routinely pay for but don’t remotely use.
Removing all of that from your budget literally means you’re spending more efficiently and walking away from financial mismanagement and understanding your financial situation much better.
As noted above: Smaller steps add up to bigger changes over time, and as you change your money clothes and embrace a more robust budget in the future, you’ll literally keep more of your money and spend a lot less on things. things you never needed.
We’re not talking about difficult or outrageously complex changes here, just little things you can do every day that allow you to be much better with your money in the long run while embracing stronger finances through better money management habits.