“The average person sees money as a never-ending necessary evil that must be endured as part of life. The world class sees money as the great liberator, and with enough of it, they are able to purchase financial peace of mind.”

Steve Siebold

Financial Health is more about your relationship, thinking and beliefs about finances than it has do with your net worth or account balance(s).  If you think and believe that rich folks are crooked and corrupt, greedy and insincere, and don’t care about people, then your brain will send you the information needed to keep you from becoming an evil rich person. (Click here for a refresher on the medical science backing this up.)

If you think and believe that money is the root of all evil, won’t make you happy, is always a worry, is the cause of marriage problems and destroys relationships, then your brain will send you the information needed to keep the awful and curse-ridden cash out of your pockets.

If you think and believe that money doesn’t grow on trees, is limited, scarce and hard to come by, then your brain will send you all the information needed to keep you with just enough to barely make it, and maybe squeak out some birthday and Christmas gifts (on a credit card, of course).

I’ve been both, in lack and in abundance.  I can tell you, having money is much better than having none, and more money makes life easier and less stressful than less money.  If you don’t believe me, let’s try an experiment – you give me all your money and go without for the next 2 weeks and see which is better.  You already know more is better than less.  Even the little kids on the AT&T ads know that more is better.

Take an honest inventory of what think and believe about money.  If you catch yourself talking about what you’d do if you won the lottery, you ain’t financially healthy…..just saying.

Boo yah!