Abundance Of Money

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Findingpersonal fulfillment and creating abundance are abstract concepts. But both can have very practical applications. Consider taking these steps to feel more at peace with your financial situation.

Developing a healthy relationship with your money may be a lifelong process. But while you continue to affirm your money-positive beliefs, you can use money management tools to take control of your finances and put your money-positive mindset into practice.

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Here are 99 money affirmations for stable financial wellbeing in 2024. Share a money affirmation that resonates with you in the comments! And if you want to invite more positivity into your life daily, check out our list of positive morning affirmations to use alongside the phrases below.

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For a lot of us today, making money and creating abundance is the same thing. Chasing money can be as dangerous as a drunken driver losing control and may not always lead to experiencing abundance. "It's actually sad to be rich", quotes the founder of SoftBank, Masayoshi Son.

What if you suffer from this sort of scarcity mentality? Train yourself to be happy for others. Recognize that my success does not diminish you. Life is not a zero-sum game. To that end:

A decade ago, when I still struggled with money, I had nothing saved. No retirement, no nothing. What I ought to have been doing was paying down my debt and building a foundation for the future. Instead, I was spending everything I earned on books, comics, and computer games. It never occurred to me to wait. I wanted things now, so I bought them.

As I mentioned at the start of this article, my therapist helped me to understand that growing up poor had given me a loathing of uncertainty and an inability to delay gratification. My money blueprint was largely constructed around a fear of missing out. During my transition from spendthrift to money boss, I learned to put off potential spending. I learned to wait for the things I wanted.

The same idea applies to other areas of your life in which you experience feelings of lack. When I started giving away and selling my Stuff several years ago, for example, I came to realize just how much I had. Before, when I was constantly in acquisition mode, I felt like I had very little. I was wrong. I had mountains of things!

A Real-Life Example of the Abundance Mindset

While we were wintering in Savannah two years ago, Kim hustled to get her dental hygiene license for the state of Georgia so that she could earn some money. She spent a couple of days driving across the city, dropping off rsums and speaking with doctors. Soon she started getting calls asking her to do fill-in work while other hygienists were sick or on vacation. She also got an offer for a long-term position at a big office in town.

When we returned to Portland, she used the same experience to find permanent dental hygiene positions. She cast her net wide, then waited for the offers to come. And they came. By exercising patience and an abundance mindset, she landed two gigs that she loves. (Plus, she still gets fill-in offers all of the time.)

Kara, I was kicked out of home at 16 and became a mom at 19 and as a result money was always tight. Even when I started earning a good income, I was so used to living with nothing for so many years, I made interesting choices- my last two houses have cost over 50% of our net pay in mortgage payments. Consequently money is still an issue despite us having no other debt and the kids now out of home and independent. Fortunately this is our forever and dream home, but even so it comes at the price of considerable freedom.

Now that I have some net worth, but fewer opportunities to significantly recover money through work, because of our current location and my more advanced age, I find I have more of a scarcity mindset.

Nor is there anything where I make any sort of claims that just changing your thinking is enough to make you a millionaire. Far from it, in fact. In the article, I explicitly scorn this sort of magical thinking.

The key is to give in order to receive. Regardless of your spiritual tradition, start tithing 10% of all financial increase (on the gross) where you are fed spiritually, which could be a church, a ministry, an author, or an individual.

As you continue to tithe, the gnawing fear at the pit of your stomach diminishes as you realize that your job is not your source, your investments are not your source, your pension or Social Security check is not your source. Your Source is God/the Universe, and your job, investments and pension/Social Security check are merely channels of your unlimited prosperity.

As a geek, there was a time when all I thought about was numbers. And in particular, numbers connected with investment and with pensions, because that was my job, and I loved it. But life is about more than numbers, and about more than money.

I have written about retirement planning before and some of that material also relates to topics or issues that are being discussed here. Where relevant I draw on material from three sources: The Retirement Plan Solution (co-authored with Bob Collie and Matt Smith, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009), my foreword to Someday Rich (by Timothy Noonan and Matt Smith, also published by Wiley, 2012), and my occasional column The Art of Investment in the FT Money supplement of The Financial Times, published in the UK. I am grateful to the other authors and to The Financial Times for permission to use the material here.

I have done a money autobiography with my siblings and most would agree that we had no idea we were poor, because in reality when we think of nine children and a father who was a blue-collar worker, we really were poor. I believe my parents gave our family the gift of abundance because when I look back now and realize our lives might have been different if my parents lived out their lives with a feeling of scarcity. I am forever grateful for that gift.

Walter Brueggemann, a renowned biblical scholar, has been instrumental in providing guidance on the concepts of scarcity and abundance. He explains that our God has created an incredibly abundant universe, and that in this universe the world has more than enough of everything we need in order to thrive and survive. He further goes on to explain that the Bible tells us that God delights to see us trusting the God of the universe to take care of us. This abundance mindset gives us the freedom to enjoy and value all we have been given and share it freely with others.

To understand the scarcity mindset, we have to realize how money has become the god of security and provides a false assumption that it provides all we need. We have bought into the false concept that is so prevalent in our society that money will bring us happiness and fulfillment. If we do not truly believe and trust that God will meet our needs, then we will find other ways to give us that sense of security.

Rhoda M. Blough is a Stewardship Consultant for Everence Financial and her office is located in Denver, Colorado. Rhoda is a key resource to congregations and individuals on stewardship issues particularly as it relates to integrating faith values with finances, utilizing the wide variety of stewardship services through Everence. She took the Money, Faith and You study course in January 2021.

Ruth and Jim, dear friends in Hope, NJ, asked that I water their houseplants while they are away. Their magnificent Money Tree reminds me of one I met a decade ago, along with its plant parent, which turned out to be life-changing.

I met Diana Sebzda when I learned that the Karen Ann Quinlan Hospice offered not only group sessions for those who have lost a loved one but also one-on-one counseling services on a sliding scale. I was floundering after my brother Bill passed away, combined with other overlapping losses.

Diana shared the legend that a poor Taiwanese farmer first discovered the unusual yet attractive Money Tree growing in his field. He took it as a sign, dug it up, and brought it home to find it required very little care. The farmer decided to propagate and sell them at the market. They were an enormous success and brought him his longed-for affluence, which is how the Money Tree became associated with wealth and prosperity. But life is much more than about money. Abundance comes from serving others.

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