Dear Friend, Have you heard the term Money Koan? It’s a phrase I’ve used for a while in the community of my year-long Art of Money program. When I see someone in a hard spot around money, I tell them I see their struggles as being their current money koan. It could be that they’re struggling with a money belief or trying to understand a part of their money relationship that they haven’t been able to work out or maybe they haven’t…
Dear Community, Tax Day is fast approaching here in the United States. It’s probably our least-beloved holiday, poor thing. And we have strong FEELINGS about it! Tax Day means different things to different people. Whether you … It’s time to take a deep breath and listen. You don’t get to decide when Tax Day comes. But you CAN decide how you respond to it. No matter how you relate to our economic system, YOU are the only one who gets…
Hello, my dear colleague, This is just a quick head’s up to let you know that registration for the next round of my Art of Money Mentor Program closes in 2 days, on Thursday, March 14th. Also, to bring some transparency to the table, this will be the last Art of Money Mentor Program that I’ll offer for a while. And by “a while,” that could mean a year or two, which would be 2025 or 2026. The timeline is…
Hello, my dear colleague, What do you do when a difficult money conversation comes up during a session, and your client breaks down, overcome with emotion? What tools or personal practices can you turn to in the moment when your client’s big money emotions trigger your own? How do you learn to work with those difficult emotions and the money stories behind them? What about the stories and money beliefs you bring to your work with clients and professional practice?…
Hello my dear colleague, When we do personal money work, or help clients do theirs, it involves a fair amount of digging into the past. Yes, we’re uncovering things like old stories about money, beliefs passed on to us by friends or family, or ways of interacting with money that no longer serve us. But there are often harder emotions that surface. Emotions connected to traumatic events in our past. The way we relate with money is so often tangled…
Hello, my dear colleague, A couple of days ago I mentioned that a study done by Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman showed that we make financial decisions based 90% on emotion and only 10% on logic. This means that the overwhelming majority of our motivations behind our money decisions are guided by our emotions, with logic contributing just a teensy tiny amount of the impact on these decisions. I’d be willing to bet that most of us would guess that…