Completing the Money Puzzle

If you've been working on learning about finances and improving your financial IQ, there can be times when it feels as if the path is never-ending. While, on the positive side, this can be true and you should always be learning and growing, it can feel frustraing and defeating to think you still have so much to learn.

What if, instead, you looked at this as a puzzle you are working on? 

Perhaps you've never thought of the subject of money as a puzzle before...but it is! The concept can be useful in helping you realize you may be almost all the way to seeing your financial future clearly...it may be just around the bend.

One major section of the financial freedom puzzle is, without a doubt, financial knowledge. Although there are endless subjects you could potentially study when it comes to money, knowing the basics is crucial if you want to get ahead. Learning how investments work and how money is handled and exchanged in the world comes before studying specific types of investments.

Another chunk of the puzzle is changing your spending habits, and this gets easier as you study money and potential investment opportunities. Many people spend their money easily because they haven't seen the 'big picture.' They haven't been shown the potential for turning their money into more money, so they spend what they get in order to avoid feeling deprived, ironically depriving themselves of long-term financial security. Once you begin to see some exciting possibilities for your money, you'll start wanting to keep every bit you can to invest. It's like a fun game, and you're the winner!

One big portion of this puzzle that is rarely talked about is your financial mindset, sometimes referred to as your level of wealth mentality. This is often the missing piece that leaves people frustrated as they try to change things financially and can't seem to get ahead. How you think and feel about money is more important than you may realize, and it has an enormous effect on how much money you attract and keep in your life. Without our awareness, most of us have been raised to think lots of conflicting things about wealth, and some fairly powerful beliefs about poverty as well. We sabotage our efforts and then wonder what's going wrong. We see people with a lot of money and wonder what magic skill they have that we don't. The fact is, all they have is a mental mindset that is entirely congruent with being wealthy - they are aligned with prosperity and abundance. This isn't good or bad and neither are the wealthy people you envy - it just is. You can do this for yourself too! 

TIP: To improve your wealth mentality quickly, try books such as the popular '30 Days to Wealth' ebook - now with special bonuses! This book, and others like it, was written to help you overcome this barrier and transform your relationship with money. Enjoy!