Our money mindset is firmly established during childhood and sets the tone for our patterns of achievement in life. Learn how to identify where your money mindset came from and how to start changing it.
What happened in your childhood, that is determining the limits of how much you earn right now how much money you can make, how much abundance you have in life. I like to talk about this because it was a huge point of transformation for me. For so many years, I struggled. And I didn't realize, you know, always Monday morning quarterback and see things so much more clearly after the fact. But at the time, I had a lot of paradigms around money, that were holding me back and says how it works, your actual beliefs around something, whether it be relationships, or whatever, but today we're talking about money and abundance, are gonna set the bar right for how much you can earn, how much abundance you can bring into your life. And when we don't even realize that we just go around all willy nilly, like we're struggling, we're hustling, we're doing all the things and hitting the same barriers, right again, and again and again, patterns. And really, you got to go back to your childhood, and start examining that. And the cool thing is, it doesn't take a specific structure, or you don't have to hire somebody or do a worksheet you can do, you don't have stuff like that. But really just start thinking about it. And when I started thinking about it, I realized my wonderful family who I cherish and appreciate very much had the paradigm that the good people are the honest, hard working people, right? Not the skeezy slimy people who have lots of money, and are terrible people. So it was really, really a theme in my childhood, when I went back and looked at it. And when I did, I realized that what I was celebrating about me about who I was as a person was all related to this idea of the evidence of what a wonderful person I am, or in the fact that I'm just the little guy, right. And that's just a paradigm. And what I found that I had to really actually debate to myself within my own mind to overcome this. Because it was so ingrained, I literally had to like seek out reasons and ways to understand the idea of being abundant, and how good abundance is, and how it's related to really being an amazing person having an amazing life experience. I had to educate and retrain myself on the idea of abundance. And what that can mean for me as far as my beliefs. So to give you an example, when you're struggling financially, you are constantly in a fate in a state of fear, and stress and a really restricted state, if you think about it, even just from the terms of energy, your energy state, you're always down in the lower vibrating emotions that are associated with just stress and survival. So you're never going to really be your best person bring your best self into the world, as far as relationships, what you do as a vocation, or anything, when you are stuck in those lower vibrating emotions in that lower vibrating energy, simply because of your financial situation. Conversely, when you move higher up the scale, both of abundance, then you move higher up the scale of emotions. And this allows you to really tap into your love to your joy, to the things that help you make a positive difference in the world to be better, both in your day to day relationships, right. But also whatever is your vocation. We can also look at this from the perspective of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. I'm sure you've encountered this in your life, and it's a triangle at the bottom of the triangle, you're really consumed just the basic survival, right. And when you are consumed and concerned and focused on your basic survival, you cannot move up into the upper levels of personal transformation, right? self actualization, the parts of the top of the triangle where you bring your best self into this life experience where you bring your best self out into the world, because you are completely consumed and focused on simple survival. So that's just one example of something that I looked at and discovered in my own upbringing, and how my beliefs were formed around abundance and money paradigms and finances. And I give that to you as an example that you might look at your own life and say, Is there anything like that going on here? And if so, do I want to re approach that? Do I want to rethink it? And again, I've given you an example there, of how I began to look at it with new knowledge, new understanding, seeking out information that helped me to raise my paradigm to a more abundant paradigm. So go ahead and do that. Have fun with that and I'll talk to you in the next episode.