We’ve been taught that creating wealth requires years of personal sacrifice:  to work long hours and not have time for ourselves, our relationships, and the things that matter most.  This paradigm, or map of reality, focuses on the end result at the expense of our quality of life. Wealth is separate from our selves, something “out there” for us to strive to grasp and own.

I invite you to experience a paradigm shift, where you engage in the world of money while creating both financial wealth and a quality of richness in your being and relationships.

A New Definition of Wealth

Your efforts to gain wealth can be an authentic and holistic process — an exploration and discovery of your true self.  I call this “True Wealth.”

True Wealth can be attained through:

1. Setting aside time for yourself and to nurture your spirit
2. Creating connecting relationships
3. Taking effective financial action

Picture these as three individual circles.  Each circle interlocks with the others.  In the center, where all three circles join, lies True Wealth.  By standing in this center, you will set aside time for self and your spirit, create rich and connecting relationships with others, and take effective financial action in the world.

The Secret to Creating Richness of Being

We can create a richness of being by connecting with spirit.  Spirit is the unseen part of us that fuels our sense of aliveness, allowing us to feel the depth and fullness of life.  By carving out personal time for ourselves, slowing down and listening deeply through all our senses, we can connect with spirit. By doing this we live our life in a more rewarding way and are more easily able to follow our unique blue print for creating wealth and powerful change.

Building Financial Success Through Connection With Spirit

People have many different names and definitions for what they think of as “spirit”.  Whatever we call it, think of spirit as the source that can transform our lives. Wayne Dyer says “Within the dormant acorn seed lies an infinity of forests.” Think of spirit as the “Miracle Grow” for your small acorn seed dreams.  By paying attention to and nurturing our selves our connection with spirit will become stronger, and we will come to know our unique blueprint for financial and personal success.

How Spirit Can Affect Your Financial Success

Often the way we handle our money is similar to the way we approach our lives -and the way we approach our lives is an indication of how we treat ourselves and how well we connect with spirit.  Some people are controlling and frugal with money, and tend to approach life in a similar way.  They have difficulty trusting and tend to over-think and over-plan each aspect of their lives.  Not surprisingly, they may try to control how their partner spends money.  They likely have a difficult time relaxing and exploring their own creativity.  For them, and for all of us, in order to create a different picture, we need to become aware of how we handle our money, our relationships and our lives.  By doing this we will begin to notice how, when and if we feel a connection with spirit.

Simple Action Steps You Can Take Now:

Click here to sign up for my FREE webinar on March 30th, “Personal Transformation Through Money: How to Consciously Achieve Your Money Goals And Create Financial Success in Your Life.”

You can also write out your responses to the following questions:

1. How do you handle your money?  Do you worry, cling, avoid or take unnecessary risks?  How well do you take care of your own financial needs?

2. How do you interact with your partner when it comes to money?

3. How you do you get in touch with spirit, or creativity and inspiration?

4. How are your responses to these 3 questions similar?

I found myself incredibly freaked out when I arrived back home with my new husband.  I desperately wanted to discover wealth building secrets so that I could not only take practical financial steps but so I could attract wealth and money as well.

During the start up phase of my private coaching practice I decided to take up a side job of landscaping gardens (i.e., read between the lines — I had acquired a part-time job as professional weeder for my mother-in-law of all things!).  I would wake up in the morning and wonder if were even possible to have a successful career as a business owner and get out of the crazy debt mess that we had created.

And we did – but it didn’t happen over night. There were times when we felt like the proverbial fish out of water.  There were many times my husband and I felt discouraged and disheartened.

I see clients in my private practice with the familiar sense of overwhelm that I had experienced.  They feel stressed because they are burdened with student loans and credit card debt and back-taxes.  Others are living paycheck to paycheck with multiple overdrafts on their bank accounts.  Still others are searching for more meaning, purpose and direction in their lives as they embark on new careers.

Many people experience the voice of fear and doubt in their head – yet in spite of this, they persevere. After building a successful career and climbing out of credit card debt I now realize that a big part of my/our success was in “doing the inner work.”

In order to win in life we must be willing to do the inner work.  Success isn’t just about achieving a specific desired outcome.  It’s about shifting our mindsets so that we achieve our desired outcome.   This applies to any struggle or challenge that you’re having – not just the financial challenges.

In order to achieve your desired goal you need to:

1. Get determined. I see people all the time who lack determination. They talk the good talk but they really don’t want to take action and do something about their situation.  What they really want is to vent and complain.  And then there are others who have the burning drive and conviction and you just know that they’re going to “make it” in spite of the many obstacles they encounter.

It’s the inner drive that keeps them going when the going get tough, when the bills pile up, and there’s not enough money coming in.  It’s the inner determination that keeps them pushing until they’ve transformed their failures and struggles into successes.

2. Allow yourself to be a beginner. This is such a tough one for many of us.  When we’re learning a new behavior (like balancing our checkbooks, tracking how we spent money, creating a spending plan, having Financial Dates with our partners, getting rid of debt or embarking on a new career) we forget to allow ourselves to be a beginner.  We expect ourselves to do it perfectly and then act surprised and get discouraged when we fail.

You’ve got to be patient with yourself.  It’s like the metaphor of learning how to ride a bike for the first time.  It feels awkward at first.  Remember to be gentle – you’re not suppose to know what you’re doing!

You will fail at times.  And you know what?  That’s okay – Expect it! All you need to do is stay the course until your old limiting behaviors have developed into strong, powerful habits.

3. Have a faith. It’s okay to get discouraged from time to time, but in the end you must find a way to access faith and belief in your ability to turn your situation around. If you’re frustrated and depressed all you’ll see is a dismal, gray future.

If you’re able to shift your thinking from “I’m stuck and I’ll always be stuck,” to “Anything’s possible.  It’s happened for others and it can happened for me as well,” then you’ll access new insights and creative solutions that you couldn’t have seen from your negative state of mind.

If you do nothing else but implement these three inner success steps you will succeed eventually!  Because financial success really is an inside job.