Re-working your financial priorities

This winter season provides holidays and opportunities to give thanks for our many blessings, celebrate our families and friends, and even renew our faith. Regrets and depressions are also present during the "cold months of despair" that leave many searching for new beginnings. Fortunately, January 1 marks a time of resolution to vow to do things differently next year!

And I'd be willing to bet that your personal finances and spending habits are near the top of that list of "how things should/could be" if only....

Let's begin by focusing on the miracle of Abundance, by exposing the falsehoods of lack and unworthiness that permeate our society. We can make simple, conscious choices to re-create our financial pictures and thus reduce the stress and strain on our finances (and ultimately our health). Abundance grows best when tended with persistence and fertilized with nurturing support.

Before real change can happen, you must first bring openness to new possibilities. You then must bring full awareness of your current reality. Easy enough. "My current finances really stink, and I'm fully open to being relieved of this mountain of debt." Those thoughts are actually on the right track, if you'll keep rolling with where they lead instead of digging a hopeless rut. The persistence I talked about will come in your new actions--not in repetitive thoughts--good or bad.

It's actually amazing how much resistance we have to "bringing full awareness to our current reality." After all, it's our reality, not someone else's, and we're smack dab in the middle of it. Yet we often act like six-armed monkeys whenever we're faced with financial dilemmas. We cover our eyes, "I can't see you--you're depressing." We cover our ears, "I can't hear you anymore--it's always the same old thing and I've had enough." We cover our mouths, "I'm not about to reveal my finances to a stranger or ask for help--I just couldn't." And because it only takes one arm to cover our mouths, we still have that sixth arm available to scratch our heads in confusion and wonder, "What in the world am I going to do this time.

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