The Feel Rich Project by Michael F. Kay

Author:Michael F. Kay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Career Press
Published: 2016-07-01T16:00:00+00:00

Making Adjustments to Your Money Mindset

I was stunned upon seeing advertising on Facebook for items I had been looking at on another site. “Well, look here. How the heck did they know I was just looking at those running shoes?” Not only are we in a battle with our internal broken mindsets, but external foes are hooked into every Website or search engine inquiry we make, tracking our tastes, wants, and desires.

It is not a helpless battle. In fact, it’s highly winnable if you monitor and adjust your mindset, and apply techniques intentionally structured to help you get through the inevitable tests. Remember: The goal is to match your values with your beliefs and behaviors that become your new and improved mindset. There is no switch to turn or card to activate, it’s your decision, your actions, and your life.

Look around. You know where you are; you’re here. After all the work we’ve done thus far, I think you have a pretty good idea of where there is. There is not a place, but a mindset matched appropriately with positive actions. Here is where you go from—not to. The journey of examining your current money mindset, your habits, and your awareness, and replacing what is working against your self-defined musts, is not a straight line—not one size fits all, not throw the switch on autopilot. It is a weaving, twisting, bumpy, and sometimes-harrowing experience of self-discovery and growth toward a more gratifying life.

If you have lived any reasonable amount of time believing and acting under a specific set of thoughts that have caused dissatisfaction and pain, well, it’s time to consider the pain of change versus the pain of remaining as you are. Building satisfaction comes from awareness of your growing competence. Think of a toddler pulling herself up on shaky legs, only to go crashing down. While caught up in the sheer adorableness of the situation, you might have missed the fact that failure happens, until such time as competency is achieved. The baby stands, falls, stands, falls, stands, takes a step, falls, stands, takes a step or two, falls—you get the picture. Each time the child falls, words of encouragement and support assist her in getting back up and trying again, regardless of the six previous attempts that resulted in face plants. Within a short time this miniature person is flying around the house on two pretty self-assured legs. It’s no different with anything new you seek to master.

Like learning an instrument or any other skill, it takes work, practice, failure, and the decision to keep going because the final goal is that glorious sound that comes out when success is achieved.

To get there you need the following:

1. A rational set of goals. The goals can be big and audacious, but rational, too.

2. The reason why this must happen. Without your reason—your values—it won’t work.

3. Knowledge commensurate with the challenge. You need a commitment to learning that which you don’t currently know.

4. The willingness to fail temporarily. Everyone fails, but resilient people get up and try again.

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