[Gabriela]

What tools do you use to change your money mindset? Journaling? Books? Podcasts?

About what’s enough and what’s financial security?

Dealing with family that need help and setting financial boundaries.

[Jin]

1. Using a budget has been the most helpful.

2. Books to grow expand my knowledge, I clouding books that helped me advance my career and earn a heck of a lot more than when I started

3. TONS of great info on FB.

The experience-shares from everyone has been extremely valuable.

[Grant]

Podcasts/YT. Setting boundaries is very important.

[Kara]

For me, a money mindset comes from having full information about my money.

Seeing the actual numbers helps me relax (if I have enough money) or buckle down and solve problems (if I don’t have enough).

List (and total) all assets.

Same with debts.

Then list and total income sources and fixed costs payments so I can see the pattern of my typical cash flow.

Just seeing all of this, having it in front of me, makes me feel like I am in a headspace where I can make decisions and control my financial destiny.

[Amy]

I find podcasts help, because sometimes they hit on things I didn’t even realise I thought.

But most helpful of all is journaling, to understand what my current thought is (and the result it is getting me) and then I write a new more helpful thought I can believe and practice instead.

It works every time

[Megan]

If it’s gnarly, it may reflect trauma, deeper anxiety or attachment insecurity.

EFT was a fast modality for me in the early days.

[Waneta]

The books The Millionaire Next Door and You Are A Badass With Money by Jen Sincero were game changers for me for money mindset.

Around the same time I started budgeting with YNAB which created a system to think differently about handling and tracking my money – this helped a lot with impulse control and prioritizing what I wanted my dollars going toward.

About what’s enough I recommend Your Money or Your Life.

The ChooseFI podcast was incredibly eye opening after doing these initial steps and helped me grasp what financial stability and security really mean.

I started from the beginning and listened to every episode.

And maybe just good book on boundaries would help like Set Boundaries Find Peace by Nedra Tawwab.

[Jason]

There’s a quote of ‘If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.’ Getting your goals and progress on paper is paramount, esp if it’s being updated daily.

Your brain works like a guided missile, it goes off course due to random conditions like wind, but keeps correcting during its flight towards its target.

Journalling informed by books/podcasts are best, but books are better since the information is static (you just have to look vs. rewind).

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