The Big Questions
Three simple questions for life-long financial security
Question 1:
If it was available for you to have life long financial security would you want it?
Be honest with yourself, know that it is possible for you to have financial security.
Question 2:
What is it that you think is stopping you right now from enjoying a life of financial security?
There is an old saying that you can’t solve a problem on the level that you meet it. In other words as Albert Einstein said ‘the problems we have facing us need to be solved with different thinking than the thinking that creates the problem” – the way we see the problem is the problem.
What we don't know
that we don't know
What we know
What we know
we don't know
Question 3:
If you could come up with a master plan that you felt comfortable with and you knew that if you took action now that you could not fail to enjoy a life of financial security would you take action now?
(If you don’t believe question three is possible please re-consider question two).
These three questions can be a joyful process.
The not-so-merry money-go-round
Once upon a time "earning a living" was the means to an end. The means was "earning"; the end was "living".
Over time our relationship with money - earning it, spending it, investing it, owning it, protecting it, worrying over it - has taken over the major part of our lives.
Most of us spend much more than 40 hours out of the week's total of 168 hours earning money. We must take time to dress for our jobs, commute to our jobs, think about our jobs at work and at home, "decompress" from our jobs. We must spend our evenings and weekends in mindless "escape entertainment" in order to "escape" from our jobs. We must occasionally "vacate" our jobs, or spend time at the doctor's office to repair our job-stressed health. We need to plan our "careers", attend job seminars or union meetings, lobby or picket for our jobs.
We must spend money to maintain our jobs - job costuming, commuting costs, food bought expensively at the workplace. We must spend so that our neighborhood, house, car, lifestyle and even partner reflect our "position" in the work world.
With all that time and money spent on and around our jobs, is it any wonder that we have come to take identities from them? When asked "What do you do? we don't say, "I do plumbing", we say "I am a plumber".
We are spending so much of our precious time earning in order to spend that we don't have the time to examine our priorities.
Our old financial map, instead of making us more independent, fulfilled individuals, has led us into a web of financial dependencies. From birth to death we have become financially dependent.
The beginning of a new road map for money
Patterns of belief - to begin to understand this, we need to understand a bit about the human mind. Numerous sources, from modern brain researchers to ancient Eastern philosophers, seem to agree on the basic notion that the mind is a pattern-making and pattern-repeating device. Scientists say that we are the only species that doesn't have a fixed behavioral response for every stimulus. We create our patterns of response. Some come from personal experience, primarily in the first five years of life. Some patterns are genetic. Some are cultural. Some seem to be universal. All of them are there, presumably, to increase our chances of survival.
Once a pattern is recorded, once it's been tested and deemed useful for survival, it becomes very hard to change.
We salivate to the smell of sautéing onions, step on the brakes at the sight of a red light and pump adrenaline when someone yells "Fire!" Clearly we couldn't survive if we didn't have these huge libraries of interpretations coupled with behaviours.
But here's the bottom line: not all (or even a majority) of these patterns have anything to do with objective reality - yet they persist, governing our behaviour. They are so tenacious, in fact, that we will often ignore or deny reality itself in favour of one of our interpretations .
The earth has always been round, but it wasn't round in human consciousness until the fifteenth century. To us the notion of a flat earth is quaint.
Which of our beliefs will look quaint to future generations?
What do our actions say? As with the flat earth there are many realities that our financial beliefs and our financial behaviour do not take into account. Although we are largely unconscious of our financial belief, our blindness condemns us to prisons of our own making.
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