In the context of managing your money, I want to tell you the three words that put people into scarcity mode, and derail a money plan faster than my kid can eat ice cream:
They are: โ๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ฏ๐ _____.โ
This thought ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ด so innocuous.
Yet those three words are responsible for about 50
% of my clientsโ spending that is outside of their plan.
Consider that whenever you are telling yourself you deserve something, itโs because you donโt have it at the moment, you desire it, but you kind of sense that it’s not in the plan.
Very often, ๐ธ๐ฆโ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ณ๐บ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ง๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ช๐ต.
The thought โI deserve ___โ often gives us a feeling of ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด.
And that feeling often has us take actions that are not in line with our
grander plans. We do of course deserve many things, like rest and to work in a safe work environment.
But ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ง ๐ฐ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ โ๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ฏ๐ ___โ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฒ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐ , ๐ข๐ญ ๐จ๐๐ญ๐๐ง ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ฌ ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ฌ.
What if we replaced โI deserve this thing that I want nowโ with:
I desire my long-term goal.
I desire to be able to go to bed at night, without worrying about money.
You can choose to tell yourself you deserve this thing in front of you, or you can choose to tell yourself you desire whatโs most important to you.
Whether you get to your goal or not will depend on how you choose to ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ about your life and your money.
Xo
MT
P.S. If youโre not meeting your money goals, there are only two things to change:
1.earn more, or
2.get intentional with spending.
Many of us already know that, but we find it hard to implement.
In coaching, we set up systems that work.
And then we surface the specific ways you think that derail you from your plan, and we break through them.
All of a sudden, youโre doing things you never did before, and creating results youโve never created before.
If youโre ready for that, reach out.
I can help.