Rewriting My Financial Story: How I Healed My Relationship with Money

Spend some time talking about your attitudes toward money. How do you treat money? Do you spend more than you make? Why? How did your parents talk about money? How did they manage it?

Every time I thought about my taxes or looked at my receipts piling up, I felt sick, ashamed, and unworthy. It was a huge waste of energy, so I knew that this would be a symbolic upgrade for my finances. And when I finally decided to stop expending all that extra energy on doing something outside of my zone of genius, it was the best investment eve

A lot of people like to imagine what they would do if they won the lottery. I’d like you to imagine instead that you won $10,000. What would you do with it? Would it be gone quickly or would you be able to hold onto some of it? What does it feel like when you imagine that $10,000 being spent? How do you feel about spending the money you have now? D

I’ve since found guidance to reframe how I think about money from Ramit Sethi, an entrepreneur who helps people with personal finances. He asks a great question: “What is your rich life?” The purpose of this question is to stop you from looking at money as an accountant and looking at it as something that might help you live your ideal life. Over t