It's Not (just) About the Money

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Thursday, January 26, 2006

Not Again!

It’s the end of the month. You dread paying bills; but it’s time. Christmas expenses are rolling in and you didn’t realize how much money you spent. Your head starts to spin, you ask yourself, maybe even yell at yourself, “Why did you do this again. I thought this year was going to be different!”. There’s too much month (or year) and the end of your money.

You can start over; it’s only the first month of the New Year. You can do it!! Let me help you as an Interior Financial Coach (IFC). I can help bring more harmony, prosperity, and fulfillment to your everyday life. Interior Financial Coaching helps you have an integrated relationship with money; allowing you to live abundantly and achieve your goals.

Interior Financial Coaching is ideal for the person who needs to make a change and look at the interior or internal reasons behind their behaviors around money. Why you put off paying bills until the very end. Understand why you break your own “rules’ about how you spend your money. Why you fight with loved ones about money or how come there's just never enough.

Looking inward allows you to identify how conscious and unconscious messages about money influence your life. These messages take hold in your life and shape the choices you make regarding money. These beliefs are called different names such as “money scripts” or “life scripts”.

Ask yourself a couple of these questions to identify your scripts about money and what it represents. What do you believe about money and:

Christmas? Budgets? Marriage? Spirituality?

Understanding what generates these responses can free you up to make healthier, conscious and productive decisions around money. If you get your way of thinking about money sorted out, it will help you transform almost every other area of your life. IFC is a detailed, pro-active approach to assist you to take practical steps toward your financial goals and life aspirations.

Let 2006 be your best year ever!! Call Laura at 605.342.0478 or email me at Longville1@aol.com

Next Blog will address the incredible benefits of Financial Integration.
Learn how the combination of you, your financial planner and I, as your Interior Financial Coach, can transform the role of money in your life.

Friday, January 13, 2006

Relationships and Money

It’s not (just) about the money!

It’s about:
  • Your hidden money beliefs,
  • Money style differences in your relationships and
  • Your heart

Money is an uncomfortable subject to talk about, yet money touches every aspect of our lives. Money, not sex is the last taboo subject. People will openly talk about their sex lives; yet avoid honestly talking about money.

  • Want to feel confident about your relationship with money?
  • Are you and your spouse, kids or partner on “different pages” when it comes to discussing money topics?
  • Do you desire open and honest communication on this intimate topic of money?
  • Do you dislike talking about money?

If you answered "yes" to any of these questions and attend this class, you will learn 3 outstanding and effective techniques to talk about money with the important people in your life. Bring your spouse, friends, kids (16 years and older) or partner to this call. The teleclass will launch you into rewarding discussions and move you toward your financial goals.

Move ahead in 2006 with the right financial steps. This free teleclass is an introduction to a 4 week group coaching class that will equip you, and the important people in your life with a proven successful process to help you connect to your heart and change the role of money in your life. This class offers you the freedom and hope you’ve been waiting for!

For more information contact Laura at 605.342.0478, Longville1@aol.com . To register see links below. The class is free, you will only pay for any long distance phone charge you may incur.

For the class on January 19th at 6:00 pm
http://www.courseregistrationsystems.com/tci/catalog_full.html?courseid=7081

For the class on January 26th at 6:00 pmhttp://www.courseregistrationsystems.com/tci/catalog_full.html?courseid=7082

Thursday, January 05, 2006

What should you give up this year?

There are two essential business and life strategies that go hand in hand. The first is "opportunity cost" and the second is "planned obsolescence". They are not often linked together in business texts, and I think they should be. The same concepts can be applied to your successful life strategies.

Opportunity cost refers to being "too busy" to take on a new project or lacking the time, energy, capital or creativity to see an opportunity when it arrives. Does it feel like you can’t fit one more thing into your life right now?

Often, we are so caught up in busy-ness, that we fail to see the "next big thing." We have no time or interest, no energy or capital to engage in research, learn new skills or to welcome opportunity when it knocks. Do you think about your New Years resolutions or goals, but don’t have any idea or plan about how you are going to make the changes?

A solution is to maintain a healthy "margin" of time and energy that are available for innovation, and part of that is to intentionally phase out former, unproductive ideas, unnecessary “stuff” or old ways of doing things. Do you have a plan to create this healthy “margin” for an outstanding 2006?

I'm told that General Electric earns half its income from products and services that are less than five years old, and they achieved this with a two-pronged approach:
1. Intense commitment to Research &Development so they always had new revenue sources coming on-line.
2. A plan to phase-out and close-out obsolescent business components.

What should you phase out this year? How much time and energy will you need to seize the opportunities that come your way this year? The cost of working too hard, of spending all your time making money is extremely high. Leave plenty of time around the "margins" for creativity, and never hesitate to stop doing whatever isn't working anymore. The cost could be too high if you don’t.

The cost of a thing is the amount of life one must exchange for it.
~Walden

Laura can coach you in the “margin” to make 2006 your best year ever. Email me at Longville1@aol.com or call at 605.342.0478. I have great coaching packages available for the first quarter of 2006 to coach from success to significance. See coaching packages in blog.


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We can't live our wildest dreams by remaining who we are.

~John Maxwell