Most people think that events cause us to have specific feelings. Very few people understand that events have no inherent meaning and thus cannot cause feelings. They aren’t aware that we automatically and unconsciously give meaning to meaningless events and it is that meaning that causes most of our feelings. As long as you think something outside of you is the source of a problem, your ability to resolve the problem is diminished. As soon as you recognize that you are the source of the problem, your ability to resolve the problem is significantly enhanced.
So what has this have to do with money? What got you in this money mess? Children? Spouse? Peers? No, it was all the choices that you made based in emotion. You use money to satisfy some emotional need like, getting the kids to stop whining. Spending too much money on a night out so friends would not know you are tight for cash, which would be unthinkable. Get your head out of the sand so you can start to solve the problem.
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