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Here's How To Live Your Life Money Values

Here's How To Live Your Life Money Values

As a financial teacher with a holistic approach, I seek to outfit my students with all the essential tools they will need in order to have a long wealth, healthy, happy, and fulfilled life! One of these tools I teach is ‘values’. When you properly identify and equip yourself with your “values tools”, you are clarifying what is most meaningful to you about money. Pioneering a fantastic financial plan for your life begins with knowing your values and how they are directly linked to your authentic financial and life goals. Getting organized to begin your personnel financial planning means taking the time to really understand what your values are when it comes to your money. Think of it this way; identifying your values with money will act as your compass. Once you align your values with money, you will ignite your personal evolution of becoming more of who you really are. Just like a compass, your values will never steer you wrong when faced with challenges toward achieving your financial and life goals. Creating a prosperous life is not just a hike, but a journey to new ways of thinking, believing, and behaving with your money that effect every area of your life.

After all, money means different things to different people. And the sooner you realize what money specifically means to you, the easier it will be to apply it to living from the abundant lifestyle you desire for your life. In order to put together an inspiring financial plan, you need to identify what you really care about. In essence, what ideas about money ultimately feel good to you! There is no right or wrong here, there is just you and how you feel about money. Knowing your truth is one of your greatest opportunities to set you free to attracting and preparing for all your hearts desire, especially with money!

To help get your creative juices flowing, take a look here at this values list below. Please keep in mind, each person (including you) will have different values tools.
Family
Health
Spiritual fulfillment
Love
Relationships
Generosity
Financial Freedom
Business Success
Generosity
Adventure
Flexibility of Schedule / Time
Achievement
Passion
Leaving A Legacy
Fun / Happiness
Creativity
Purpose
Positive Attitude
Helping Others
Learning
Helping Others
Fame
Respect
Personal Growth

Do you notice that everything listed has one important thing in common? Everything listed is a type of idea. Like - flexibility, positive attitude, generosity – these are your values (and ideas about money). These ideas are the most important things in your life. Why? Because you would do just about anything to achieve them! Simply put, they are who you genuinely are – no matter what is happening or not happening in your life your values remain a constant!

Sometimes it just takes a little exploring to come to some wonderful realizations of what your true values are. The reality is that most of us know who we are and what is most important to us, we just need to take the time to clarify it through identifying our values. When you take the time to do this, you come to understand if the way you currently choose to live your life is compatible with what your personal values are when it comes to money. If your money values are not compatible with the choices you are making in your life, it will not be possible to live a prosperous life.

I truly believe through personal experience that most people unconsciously adopt their thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors about money early on through their childhood experiences. By taking the time to sit down and identify your money values and then set goals for yourself based on them, you will be putting yourself on “automatic ascension” to reach your dreams. Meaning – it will be a heck of a lot easier to succeed in reaching your dreams if your values don’t conflict with them! Identifying your values is probably one of the most effective tools that you can use to help lead you in this lifetime to your fullest financial and life’s potential!

Values Exercise: List seven things you value most in life and then rank them in order of importance to you.

© 2008 Vanessa Summers Companies LLC

Vanessa Summers, “The Financial Guru”
Online and Small Business Expert, Holistic Wealth Teacher





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(Visit Vanessa's Website) Vanessa was named by CNBC as the ‘Financial Guru’ because she teaches a holistic approach to money. She is author of The Girl’s Guide to Money & Investing, Buying Solo – The Single Woman’s Guide to Buying a Home, The Yoga of Money, and creator of the Prosperity NOW Kit. She is also a Registered Investment Advisor. To learn more about making more money, marketing more successfully, building effective wealth and having a happy lifestyle, get your FREE how-to articles and FREE audio classes, visit www.VanessaSummers.com

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