Generation 42

Archive for March, 2009

This is one of the reasons why the rich get richer. If you’re respectful of your money, and do what needs to be done with it, you will become like a magnet, attracting more and more money to yourself. For some of us, this goes against the grain. We’ve all heard that “money is the root of all evil,” and it’s easy to have the notion that caring for our money is a task that should be beneath us. We know there are more important things in lifelike people. But that doesn’t mean you should neglect your money. Your financial life, remember, is like a garden. If you tend a garden carefully, nourishing the flowers, pruning, and weeding, it’s going to be a lot more beautiful than if you water it hardheartedly now and then.
Wouldn’t you like your financial garden to be beautiful and bountiful? Don’t you deserve it? If you treat your money with disrespect, you are actually not giving yourself the respect that you deserve. And when you fail to respect yourself and your money, you actually repel wealth from yourself, and you block more wealth from coming your way.
The consequences of not respecting money may show up in your life in any number of ways. You might lose some of what you have just by neglecting to pay attention. As soon as you pay off one credit card, your car breaks down and now you owe even more. Maybe you didn’t get that job you felt certain was yours. A wonderful relationship, or so you thought, just goes out the window over money. However this repulsion takes place in your life, the root cause of it is disrespect of yourself and your money.
When I say this to my clients, some of them get very defensive and say, “But , I am the most respectful person I know when it comes to money.” When we look closely at all their actions relating to their money, however, we eventually see that they are not as respectful as they would like to think.
When you start really respecting yourself, those you love, and your money, the result is that you start having control over your money. What follows from that is control over your life.