Today's gleanings are from Cheryl Richardson's book, Take Time for Your Life. This book was first published in 1998, and is still very relevant today. My personal copy is paperback, from 1999. I picked it up at a second hand store in the early 2000s, and haven't let go of it yet!
Cheryl has a chapter in this book focused just on financial health. The first question she asks is, "Can you afford to live the life you really want?"
She's not talking strictly money here, she is talking about having the freedom to make the choices that MaXIMIze your best life now.
As I've said before, our finances can seemingly be the scariest part of our lives to deal with. Cheryl points out though, that the more trouble we have with this part of our lives, the more energy is drawn away from other parts of our lives to deal with it. And yes, if we are avoiding dealing with something, we are still expending energy with that avoidance.
She also points out that how we deal with our financial life sends a message telling the Universe how worthy - or unworthy - we feel we are to have true abundance in our lives.
In order for others to invest in us, we must first invest in ourselves by ensuring we have a tidy financial house. If our checkbooks are not kept balanced, or we do not know what we owe on our credit cards, or we consistently pay late - or not at all - that sends a message of coming from a place of lack rather than a place of abundance. And like attracts like.
So, is your financial house in order? If not, what is the one thing you can do right now to move toward getting it in order? Now, just do it!
Until next time, Namaste!
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