Money Monday

I thought I'd use Mondays to explore some money related ideas. And I wanted to start by looking at some money beliefs that hold us back. A good one to start with would be:

I don't need to learn about managing money, because I don't have any money to manage.

This is the proverbial cart before the horse. Can you imagine going into a car lot without first knowing how to drive? Every teenager knows they need to learn to drive before they can ever get a car.

Insisting that you have to have money before learning about money, keeps you poor because you will remain stuck in the mindset of "I don’t have any money" and the statement becomes self-fulfilling.

That’s extremely unfortunate because the statement is an exaggeration, after all, you paid rent or a mortgage, have clothes and food – so there is some money and it’s learning to manage small amounts of money that leads to managing larger amounts of money.

Are you holding off learning to manage money? Now's the time to reevaluate beliefs and start making small changes.

Lunch to London
Update 2

And speaking of managing money, $7/day is adding up.

Last week, the first full week, had some challenges but everything has it's learning curve and it felt great at the end of the week to realize I had nearly $50 saved. For those following the math, the $7 after 7 days was now at $49. In fact, when I added the $7 for Friday there were only 2 singles available as change and I was already tempted to add a dollar to make it an even $50..so there we go..now at $50 saved.