The world is more financially flexible than you think

When we’re having problems with money most of us will experience high levels of anxiety and feel threatened. This means that your brain’s natural response mechanism to danger is constantly being triggered. This response automatically diverts energy away from non-essential brain functions such as rational or creative thinking: basically away from anything that could interfere with our physical ability to run or fight.

Now this response makes a lot of sense if a truck is heading straight for you on the wrong side of the road. After all, you don’t want to waste valuable seconds contemplating all of the different things you could possibly do; you just need to act. Read more

Suffering and Money

I never cease to be amazed by the amount of suffering that takes place around money. I don’t use the word suffering lightly. We tend to associate suffering with illness, the cruelty of war and deprivation, yet in reality millions of us are experiencing relentless fear around not having enough money. I’m talking about the feeling of being under constant threat, accompanied by the belief that “I can’t survive”. This dark undercurrent of fear is really just suffering dressed in different clothes. Over the years it convinces us that we are not good enough and that the life we really desire is nothing more than a pipe dream.

Many of us seem to have what it takes to be successful and may even be labeled as successful. We’ve got the house, the car – even the right credentials. But under the surface we’re being crushed by debts and the seemingly never-ending costs of just maintaining our day-to-day existence. Again as time goes on and the fear keeps eating away at our core we begin to feel increasingly powerless to change. Read more

You Can’t Solve Financial Problems With Money

This is often one of the most difficult concepts to come to terms with when money is tight. In many ways it is one of the most easily demonstrated facts and yet so few people are able to put it to the test when creditors are chasing for payment.

When we are faced with financial challenges the most common tendency is to get out our chequebook, bank statements, and a calculator and to frantically begin adding up numbers. Here’s why that doesn’t help: it’s impossible to solve financial problems with money.

One of the fundamental differences between people who consistently attract money and opportunities and those who struggle to make ends meet, is that when faced with financial challenges the people who work effectively with money never fix their attention on money. Read more