Struggling To Achieve Financial Freedom? Why Identifying Your Beliefs About Money Is Crucial

Are you working hard to make a living? Is financial freedom one of your goals? Are you suffering from low self esteem? Does it take hard work to make money?

What is the most important thing that determines whether you succeed financially or not ? I believe that the answer to that question is to do with your beliefs. Your  limiting beliefs restrict and hold you back. Here are a few questions you can ask yourself.

1. Do you believe that money is hard to come by?
2. Do you believe that it takes hard work to make money?
3. Do you believe that you can earn enough money?
4. Do you believe that rich people are dishonest?
5. Do you believe that being prosperous is normal?
6. Do you believe that there’s never enough money?
7. Do you believe that just one really good idea could make you rich?
8. Do you believe that you need to save for a rainy day?
9. Do you believe that some people know how to make money and others don’t?
10. Do you believe that money is out there separate from you?

Whether you answered yes or no to all of them or a mixture, how do you know if they are true for you?

The first way is if you believed what you were told by your parents, teachers and society about finances when you were a child.  So if you were told time and again that money is easy to come by, then you took that as a belief. On the other hand if you were consistently told that it takes hard work to make money then you would take that belief instead. Beliefs are made up from your past experiences.

The most powerful way that you continue to create a belief is what you tell yourself - the internal chatter. Most of the time people are not aware of this mind chatter and here is where the reprograming has to take place.

Your reality is created by your thoughts and what you believe, because they are the basic elements of all creation. Your deepest beliefs drive you to take action or prevent you from doing so. Your thoughts and beliefs determine what you experience.

So the first step is to determine what beliefs need to be changed that aren’t serving you, as these beliefs are producing the life that you now have.

Some people may think that it takes a long time to change a belief. Think of the many things that you were told as a child that you don’t believe now. It didn’t take long to change those beliefs did it?  When you become aware of your limiting beliefs you can change them to work for you instead of against you.

How to Create a New Belief.
1. Start by writing down your new belief/s
2. Create a new story. A new belief is just a new story. Tell your new story with your words, observations, and expectations.
3.  Look for evidences every day to support your new beliefs. Keep a journal on your  evidences.  Celebrate all the times when things work out well for you even if they are small.
4.  Find a personal mentor. You can be mentored also by reading books and articles, listening to audios, watching videos on changing beliefs, wealth, health and abundance.
5.  Work with a coach.
6. Appreciate what you already have.

Recommended reading:

Busting Loose From the Money Game: Mind-Blowing Strategies for Changing the Rules of a Game You Can’t Win