Believe it or not, the way you feel about money is something that starts early in life. Even though you might develop your financial style early, it can change with time or due to circumstances. It’s not uncommon for people who have gone through significant life change to adopt a very different relationship with money.

Your personal relation and emotional interaction with money is probably one of the most crucial relationships in life that a person can have, because it plays an important role in physical, emotional, financial and overall well-being. The thoughts and emotions regarding your financial circumstances shape your attitudes and beliefs about money and together they create your relationship with it.

“If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.” – Vicki Robin

Money relationships are complicated: this is why so many individuals struggle with them. A simple way to start to evaluate this complex issue will be to identify a word that best describes how you feel about your financial circumstances. Are there words that describe how you feel about money? For example, words like hopeless, pessimistic, or indifferent versus positive, or confident. Then, list the top reasons why you chose your particular category. Those reasons will help to uncover main areas most in need of attention when starting to work to improve your financial future.

The way to change your relationship with money is to understand how you feel about it by putting words to those feelings. It’s not until you really know how you feel about it, that you can work on changing it.

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