It’s a funny thing this money business (sometimes feels like monkey business), how is your money story supporting or destroying you?
Did you even realize you had one? You do! Mine was to hide my money (and sometimes it still is). I would hide it so that I’d have it. Even my close friends knew that I had a secret $20.00 hidden in my wallet. I called it my fail-safe but what it really was (only I didn’t know it then) was my fear of being poor.
See if I had the $20.00 then I wasn’t poor. BUT I couldn’t just have it in my wallet or I’d risk spending it if I saw it (oh the horrors) so I had to hide it. You are probably thinking “isn’t money there to spend” and you would be correct.
Holding 
onto money like I was doing was only perpetuating my fear of not having enough. I was afraid to spend it because I was afraid it wouldn’t come back. I was in a lack mentality, a fear mentality and that mentality is a negative mentality.
This month I’ve been talking a lot about money, I even did a free webinar training series called The 5 Key Money Areas to help others who struggle with money be able to see where their gaps are so that they can let go and prosper.
Once I realized my negative mindset, I was able to free myself from the lack feelings and the fears. You will too. Listen to the free trainings, they are short, 10 minutes each and take one small action toward creating that prosperously positive mindset, you won’t be sorry that you did!
Want to share your story here? I’d love that, or feel free to email me privately at kim@kimravida.com
Great post Kim. After listening to your free podcast on The 5 Key Money Areas I have a better understanding of what was preventing me from going forward as well as to release learned behaviours from my past. I used to do the same save money everywhere like a squirrel burying nuts LOL. Now I keep cash in my wallet to remind me I have it but more importantly to give to the kids selling stuff for activities like Scouts or to purchase a warm soup, drink or meal for someone on the streets. It is very liberating to have a different and healthier perspective on money.
Karen, I love the sound of that “cash in my wallet” – I remember Barbara Corcoran of Shark Tank one time saying she went to the ATM and took out $500 in cash every week because she loved the smell and feel of real money! Being able to give it to the kids selling things is an awesome way to “spend” your money in an expansive way.
I’m so glad that The 5 Key Money Areas series was valuable for you and I love hearing about your different and healthy perspective on money!
–Kim Ravida
Kim money is such a charge commodity, and most of the time all the assumption are not true. Most people do not realize that money need to flow. If we hold on to it it does not flow so we do not get more.
Juan, you are right! In order for it to flow to us we must let it go =) It’s an in/out thing that we often forget!
Thanks for sharing.
–Kim Ravida