Money Mastery - part 2

In part 1 we took a dive into how your money memories created an imprint that you still carry today. The second factor which has a powerful influence on how we feel about money is society. We’re fed a constant diet of money stories by society in many forms – our friends, colleagues, the media.

There are many messages around money as a measure of success, power, happiness and in the other camp the evils of money, how you being a good person and financial wealth are mutually exclusive.

There are many cases of very grounded people struggling with this, that’s because we as humans are wired to conform.

The homework: Identify what money messages you can observe in your interactions:

• In your closest circle of society, what messages about money are you most aware of?

• When you see or hear these messages what thoughts go through your head?

You’re trying to be the observer of your own reactions here.

The 3rd factor contributing to our money beliefs is our genetic make-up – what we mean by this is some people have more of a stomach for risk taking vs a conservative mindset. It’s a spectrum and there are advantages to each approach, no-one is better than the other.

What we don’t mean we it’s in your genes is the attitude: “I am no good with money and I was born this way!” that’s a belief you’ve adopted – it’s not genetic.

Stick with us as we explore reprogramming the software of your money beliefs.