Starting your own side hustle is fun and exciting – you are taking steps towards freedom with doing what you love. But a big aspect that many new business owners ignore until too late..is money! How To Work Through Your Money Mindset Blocks – it’s time to face it!
My Own Issues With Money
If you’re like me, then you’ve spent years feeling uncomfortable about money.
I thought if I just did what I wanted then the money would show up, or I could find money other ways – as long as I did my passion I would be happy. Well it didn’t work out that way..
I used to make bespoke garments for clients. I loved making clothing, I found it exciting to create something with my own hands, and to see the joy it gave women when they wore something I had made for them. It made me feel so proud of my work.
But the passion faded eventually.. because instead of pricing my clothing as their true worth (the time to make each piece by hand, the cost of materials, the training which made me the tailor I became and more!), I priced it lower due to my own fears and insecurities.
I was passionate about my business – but I didn’t acknowledge how uncomfortable I was with money. In the end I was burnt out through the constant effort to over-deliver.
I had become resentful and stressed, and it was all my own doing.
Is money the devil?
I was raised to not talk about money. Things were left unsaid about money, but I knew if I really needed money then I would be helped. To me, money was elusive and hidden, that when I finally was at the age to make my own, I had no idea how to manage it.
So many people find money frightening, that we cling onto it in fear of losing it – or we don’t look at our bank balances to keep track of it! (I definitely have done this!)
How To Work Through Your Money Mindset Blocks
I have been working through my own money blocks and have already noticed the positive effects. Here are some suggestions of how to change your mindset around money:
Get it on paper
Write down why you’re uncomfortable with money – it could be a memory you have of not affording something, your parents telling you ‘money doesn’t grow on trees’, money being scarce when you were younger, anything.
For example:
I have always been anxious about money, so much that I hold onto it – I’m too scared to part with it.
Sit with this
Now acknowledge this memory, really feel it.
Why does it make you feel the way you are feeling?
Are you anxious that as soon as you spend money, no more is coming?
Do you not trust people with money, why?
Clear the negativity
Write down why this shouldn’t be something you live by and let it go.
For example:
Because my parents were brought up after the war and money was scarce and things needed to be made the most of – times are different now. I am working and money comes to me – I don’t need to be scared anymore. I am not scared anymore.
Another tip to help with money mindset blocks:
Listen to subliminal affirmations on making money
These are great, you can find many different styles to suit you. But the beauty of this is you can listen to them anywhere – it sounds like relaxing music, no-one will know you’re listening to subliminal messages about wealth!
Recommendation Read For Money Blocks
I enjoyed this book and it’s a good starting point to work through your money mindset blocks:
Denise Duffield Thomas book – Get Rich, Lucky Bitch
What About You?
Do you have money mindset blocks? Have you worked through these or have any further recommendations to add? Please share below, I’d love to hear from you.
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