I have never enjoyed financial planning. I would avoid at all cost looking at the bank balance, the amount on the credit card and it was the cause of many a stressful time in my life as well as Glen’s because he could never get me to manage our money well. When I made a conscious effort to change this pattern of behavior, the progress was slow. I started by asking a simply question when I shopped. Was this a need or want? If I bought this into our home did it serve a purpose or was it an impulsive buy? It changed some habits but until I started the journey of weight reducing and came to the conclusion that I was a very visual person, it was then that I was able to make a conscious effort to manage our finance. I bet you are wondering what that looked like.
In my food plan I kept track of my food intake by recording numbers and when the numbers were used up I was done for the day. Therefore it would make sense that I would work well if I knew the numbers on a budget sheet and as I spent I kept track of what I spent by recording it on a spreadsheet that Glen created for me. What I am finding is that I shop from a place of value. When I begin my shopping or goals on how I would like to spend my money, from a place of what I value, I am more likly to consider carefully what I am spending. It is the same as the question I ask myself when I am putting a food in my mouth “is this really going to add value to my life?” In all honesty I really only get this right about 55% of the time, however my goal is to move the bar up to 75% of the time.
Last blog I mentioned how in trying to heal my physical and living in that room more then the others that I was finding the other rooms in my body were unwell. I found a saying that might well be applied as a statement of fact to my life. If there is success in one dimension of my life it can’t justify failure in another dimension of my well-being. I am working at visiting all the rooms of my well-being. I am striving to make this behavior unconsciously competent.
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