Drawing up a budget no matter how good will never work if your money blueprint isn’t wired for it. The practical side of managing your money, from saving it to making it grow just will not happen if what you put on paper is not in harmony with what is in your psyche. So before we begin with the basics such as how to get rid of debt, how to save, how make your money grow, an exercise of a different sort needs to be done.
The way to build up your money muscles is to make a new money blueprint. You need to understand who you are and what your relationship with money is.
I have a history of wealth being snatched away. My grandparents on both my mom’s and dad’s side were wealthy. They were Russians living in the waning years of the Tsar’s rule. The Tsar lost his country and his life. My grandparents lost their country, all that they owned, but fortunately were spared their life. They fled to China, rebuilt their life and once again enjoyed success. All was lost again as grandfather recognized the signs of advancing communism. Next stop: Japan. Enough time to get a business up and running only to have it all flattened, literally, by World War II and the bombing of Yokohama. Eventually I came to Canada, married, raised a family. We achieved a comfortable life when something zigged when it should have zagged. Now I’m all for family traditions, but as traditions go, this one sucked!
Now, as I said in my previous posting, I am going to assume that you are here because you want to build some strong money muscles, because right now you are not where you want to be when it comes to money.
The first step is to start working on the money muscles is redrawing your blueprint. You have to face the demon dragon that is your relationship with money and you have to slay
that dragon so that you build a better life. It does not happen overnight, but over time you will have designed a different you when it comes to money.
In his book Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, T. Harv Eker addresses this very topic. He talks about the four realms of existence that we live in: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. What escapes most is that the physical is a mere printout of the other three, and how you can’t change what that printout looks like unless you change what drives it, in other words, your mental, emotional and spiritual self.
I picked up the book, read it again, and again. Its quite dog eared now, but I still like to pick it up every so often, not just as a refresher, but its amazing how I somehow pick something up that I may have missed before. I strongly recommend that you get yourself a copy of the book and read it. It will put you on the right path to redrawing your money blueprint. You will start to think differently.
