Your money story is keeping you loyal to lies instead of making money
What’s your money story?
It’s the pattern you adopted after hearing how your parents and environment talked about money. What they said about rich people. Poor people. How money is made.
This story underlies all your interactions with your money.
As a result, you could be holding yourself back in business, sabotaging growth or limiting opportunities.
My money story was two-fold. That you had to have a good education and had to work really hard to eventually make a good wage.
I also believed that I wasn’t good with money like my sister.
What this meant was that I out worked everyone…not a bad thing right? Until I started in business and clients were coming to me easily. They could relate to my message and what I was offering.
Good huh?! Not according to my subconscious. I wasn’t working hard enough. So I started to change the way I was putting out content. I upped quantity rather than putting out what I felt was truth. I hired a business coach that didn’t truly understand my business. I went through 6 months without new clients. I had subconsciously decided to be loyal to my money story that I had to work really hard and progress too easily or too quickly was not good.
Then I sabotaged my finances because my ex was no longer handling the budget. Thinking I wasn’t good at handling money.
I caught the sabotage and challenged the voice that had convinced me to work ‘harder’ but not smarter. And I called bullshit on the voice telling me I wasn’t good with money as I had successfully managed a $17 million budget in corporate and was a key part of the finance committee.
All of my clients reveal their money story and the links to how to plays out in other areas of their lives.
Client example #1: Subconsciously believed she could not make more money than her spouse. She was very successful. When she started dating someone and things got serious, her business started to plummet. She had not changed a thing in her business. But her energy and underlying beliefs had taken over.
Client example #2: He had watched his father grow a business to a multi million dollar business. When his father had made a lot of money but became disillusioned in his business, he went on a spending spree and sabotaged his business. This resulted in him subconsciously taking on that he should not make a certain level of income as it will result in sadness, depression and self sabotage like his father.
Client example #3: This client had tried everything in her business. She had spent thousands on her business training. She was not able to make any money. This was because she was raised believing that sales was something that scam artists did. She was taught that selling was dishonest and harmful. This resulted in her crossing her fingers for sales. Even sabotaging clients who were genuinely interested in working with her. She couldn’t close the sale.
The truth is NOT the patterns you were raised with or even what you’ve done to date. You have to recognize that is underlying your money beliefs so that you can release it and make a genuine choice about what you think about money.
Isolate your money story. Challenge it. Get the truth. Write a new story.
It is one of the two most shamed areas and yet money is the third most important human need after air and water.