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Archive for August, 2009

When someone comes into my office and says, “Oh, I don’t know, I guess I just don’t really care about money,” I always say, “But if you don’t care more about your money than anyone else, who is caring about it on your behalf?” When someone else says, “Well, I just don’t think about money,” I say the same thing: “But if you don’t think about your own money, who will? You must think and care about your money until you’ve taken the necessary steps to know that you have done everything you can to show respect for your money, which is a way to show respect for yourself.” Then your money will think and care about you in return.
That’s what this step has been about: respect.
With this step, the path to financial freedom is coming into view. You’re almost there, you’re on course. Now you can clear out the debt that’s cluttered up your present and weights you down in fear. The future looks clearer, too, now, doesn’t it? Now you can see that you can create enough for tomorrow once you’ve acted today. You have to count every penny to make every penny count. When you have done that, you can begin to create money, more and more money.
Respect for your money and respect for yourself are linked. Building one builds the other. With the next step, you will learn how much you already know deep inside you. We all have a wisdom within us that will tell us, if we listen, how to act, with our money and with every other aspect of our lives. To get in touch with that voice from the core of our being is not only a step toward financial freedom. It’s also a step toward spiritual serenity. That they go hand in hand is not as curious as it may seem at first glance. When you can create money, you are suddenly free to live a life rich in all kinds of ways.