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The TwelveStep Program for Financial Stressaholics

The TwelveStep Program for Financial Stressaholics

I was speaking at a 12-step meeting recently, and this Twelve-Step program for Financial Stressaholics suddenly came to me. With a wink and a nod to Alcoholics Anonymous and twelve-step programs everywhere, here are the twelve steps to treat your money disorders – spending bulimia and income anorexia:

1. We admitted we were powerless over money—that our checkbooks had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Budget greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will, insurance, checkbooks, and retirement accounts over to the care of a Financial Advisor that we understood.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of our debits and credits.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our accounting errors.
6. Were entirely ready to have our Financial Advisor remove all these defects of our accounting software.
7. Humbly asked her to adjust our bank reconciliations.
8. Made a list of all persons to whom we owed money and became willing to pay them all.
9. Made direct payments to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would overdraw our bank accounts.
10. Continued to take financial seminars and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with our Financial Advisor, praying only for knowledge of her retirement plan for us and the power to invest enough money in it.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to income anorexics and spending bulimics and to practice these principles in all our finances.

Live long and prosper!

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(Visit Chellie's Website) Chellie Campbell is the creator of the popular Financial Stress Reduction® Workshops, and the author of The Wealthy Spirit and Zero to Zillionaire, both published by Sourcebooks, Inc. She is one of Marci Shimoff's “Happy 100” in her current NYT bestseller Happy for No Reason and contributed stories to Jack Canfield’s recent books You’ve Got to Read This Book! and Life Lessons from Chicken Soup for the Soul. She is prominently quoted as a financial expert in The Los Angeles Times, Pink, Good Housekeeping, Lifetime, Essence, Woman’s World and more than 35 popular books. For more information, visit her web site www.Chellie.com or email her at Chellie@Chellie.com.   Follow Chellie on Twitter http://twitter.com/ChellieCampbell< br />

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