Last week Mark Silver, of Heart of Business, tweeted a link to an older post of his. It contains the best explanation for your struggle to even look at your financials that I have ever read (here). I found myself calling out “Yes! Yes!” and nodding approvingly, even though I was alone in my office. Go read the whole article, I’ll wait.
The part that had me out of my seat was this:
Looking at the numbers won’t set you free. Looking at the numbers and allowing the emotions and reactivity to bubble up, though, will set you free when you bring the love from your spiritual practice to them.
Bringing love and acceptance to your numbers, and your discomfort with them, that is a key part of my practice as a Financial Coach. It is the missing ingredient in so many of the rules driven financial gurus out there. They usually assume a brokenness in you or your situation. I can’t get on board with that perspective! If you are here, you are using your skills and abilities the best you can to manage your life and create something amazing for our world. You are courageous, not broken!
Look at what beauty and expression you have already created in your kitchen (or living room, or relationships). Your life and heart skills and practices are transferable to the realm of finances, in fact they are required. I am so thankful to Mark for pointing that simple (yet often overlooked) fact.
In the comments below, I invite you to share practices or mini-rituals that help you let go of worry.
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