Ask Yourself These Questions to Solve Your Past Money Problems
Learning to manage money is not easy. This has a lot to do with individual habits and attitudes, and your history of money has a huge impact on this.
Forbes sponsor and certified financial planner Michael Kay calls this your “financial story.” This is your past relationship with money: how your parents treated it, what role it played in your life, and so on. You can’t change history, but when you understand your money story better, you can take the right steps to make sure it doesn’t get in the way of making the right financial decisions now .
Kitses suggests writing down your money history and then asking yourself a series of questions. Some of these include:
What have you learned about money from your parents?
Do your current beliefs support your values?
What would you do differently if you could rewrite your money history?
What would support you in creating a new financial story for you and your family?
It is not easy to change unhealthy attitudes towards money, but understanding it is essential. To find out more on this topic, go to his full post.
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