I wanna be Rich!

Sex. & Money.

If folk ain't talking about sex, then let me tell you that they REALLY ain't talking about money!

When was the last time you asked your obviously affluent church member their net worth?  What about your girl friend? You know, the one you met while you were both in college working at Macy's?  Yet she now manages to freely trot the globe while you're having trouble rubbing two nickels together?
Do you know how much she's worth?
Why not? You two talk about everything else under the sun.
Would you share with her honestly about where you are, or ask for her help, suggestions on how to get to the next financial level?

Why is money off the subject?
Whether we have too much or too little, it is clear we as a society are uncomfortable discussing it.  We are hyper private about it, and only maybe talk about it with those in our income bracket. Some of us treat it like a poisonous anaconda and avoid it altogether.

Privacy and couth  are well good and all.  But if you're currently on the low scale of the money chain and trying to have three savings accounts encompassing a well stocked emergency fund, short and long term savings funds, this can not be you.
You've got to get real comfortable talking and being in the company of money.  You've got to understand how it works.  You can't avoid talking about it like it's an incurable contagious disease.  You've got to like it.  It's got to make you smile.  You can't treat it like it's the used condom that suddenly jumps in your family's path during a Sunday stroll in the park. You have to have a good relationship with it.

As a  friend recently asked me, "If money were a person, would it be your friend?  Would it want to spend time with you?"

In a book called The Science of Getting Rich,  Wallace Wattles says, "There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life; and that desire is praise worthy.  The man who does not desire to live more abundantly is abnormal, and so the man who does not desire to have money enough to buy all he wants is abnormal."

How did reading that make you feel?  If it made you a little uneasy, perhaps a little writing in your journal to honestly examine your ideas about money may be in order.   A really good follow-up to that exercise would be to create a budget if you don't already have one.

It is never too early or too late to get your financial house in order.  Just start!

Make and write down your financial goals. As a well known Coach loves to state: 'If it ain't on paper, it don't make paper.'

Out of financial discipline will come financial freedom.