Clearing Clutter from your Money Mindset
I had an interesting experience several years ago at a coaching training that I want to share with you because it blew me away. There were roughly 25 coaches of various sorts in the room and our mentor asked us to do the following: Write a list of 50 ways you can make money now. Take a few minutes to do the same for yourself and then keep reading. This will be far more powerful for you if you participate, too.
Okay, now hopefully you’ve done your homework and listed as close to 50 ways you can make money now as possible. If not, go back and do it! C’mon, I know you can…just take a minute or two and see what comes up for you. Now let’s do a couple of things with the list. First, I want you to look at the list for patterns. Are most of your ways in a circumscribed area? In other words, they’re all related to sales or teaching or whatever you think you do best. Are they all things you’ve done in your past to earn money? For instance, newspaper delivery, babysitting, etc.
Second, look at the quality of the listings. Are the majority of the ways you’ve listed in alignment with who you are right now? For example, are you a highly trained, highly skilled individual who mainly listed tasks that don’t tap your strengths? A seamstress who lists cleaning houses would be an example of this. If so, then ask yourself what’s behind that tendency. Are you not valuing your skillset enough? Are you afraid to stretch beyond your comfort zone? Does that skill come so easily to you that you don’t even see it as a skill?
Third, take a look at how these tendencies may be affecting your ability to create the abundance you want in your life. If you aren’t valuing your skills and what you have to offer others, I’ll guarantee you that you are undercharging for your services. If you discover that this is the case, do some research online to see what others who are doing what you do are charging.
Watch out for beliefs that crop up during that research, such as “Well, they can charge that in New York City, but that would never fly in my little town”. These self-limiting beliefs set you up to be steeped in scarcity rather than abundance. Practice shifting your thinking and notice how it shifts your results. For example, if I tell myself “People are willing to pay for what I have to offer”, I begin to draw to me the people who ARE willing to pay for what I have to offer.
We create our circumstances and if your circumstances are not what you want, then taking the time to examine how your thinking is creating what you don’t want will help you make changes so you can create what you do want. Your money mindset is ripe for change! Doing the list of 50 ways is a great way to help you begin examining how you might be keeping yourself limited. Go!