Become More Prosperous

Posted On: 2006-08-16Length: 16:36

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Hi this is Joan and this is episode 54 of The Prosperity Show. Thanks for tuning in. Today we're going to talk about a decision you have to make in order to become more prosperous. But before we get to that, our main site is prosperityplace.com, were you can find lots of free information about improving your relationship with money and yourself. You can also find information about my book, "Build your Money Muscles-9 Simple Exercises for Improving your Relationship with Money." As I said, today we're going to talk about a decision that you have to make in order to become prosperous.

Let's take a look at something. First of all, in order to change your financial position, you're going to have to do something different from what you're doing now. If you keep on doing what you're doing, you're going to keep on getting what you're getting. Your money now is congruent with who you are. It's congruent with your thoughts, beliefs, emotions and behaviors. So in order to get a different results, you're definitely going to have to do something differently. And if you look at habits of successful people, there's a couple of things that they do. One is, that they take really good care of their money. That they have a certain amount of discipline that allows them to make plans, make strategies, and set goals, set intentions, and follow through on what they set out to do. Part of the problem of changing your financial position, is that it means changing your habits. Whatever you're doing now, whatever you're getting now, it's all habit. It doesn't matter what your mother and father thought. What your mother and father did to you, or didn't do to you, and how you were abandoned or the shame you feel. That's all part of what went into your making the decisions that you've made that have gotten you where you are. But, if you choose to make a different set of decisions, if you choose to have different outcomes, then it really doesn't matter what all that past stuff was. You can deal with that, you can release some of the old emotions that you're hanging onto. You can choose to feel differently about things. That's a hard one for people to get. That you can actually choose how you're going to feel about things. The tough thing is, that you have a way of responding to the world around you and you identify that as being who you are and how you respond. When in fact, it's just a habit that has developed over time, based on decisions you've made all along the way. And to change your financial position, there's a whole new set of decisions that you have...