The Wealth Edit
Becoming Her: The Woman Your Future Self Knows You Can Be
Everyone has one of those pessimistic, judgemental voices in their head. The one that points out everything that could go wrong instead of everything that could go right. The voice that encourages you to play small⌠because itâs âsaferâ.
Stop, BREATHE, and take a second to name that voice. In my blog today, weâre taking off the covers and bringing this part of you to the surface. You canât clean what you donât see!
Mine is Sally.
Sally does what everyone expects of her. She aims to fit in whether it suits her or not. She doesnât voice her opinions. She doesnât delegate and isnât organised because she doesnât want to impose on people. She feels her way - not in a good way - she feels for what other people want or expect from her and plays that role. She never invests or takes ANY kind of chance with her money or career because she canât be sure of the outcome.
Because Sally canât be her true self, she ends up feeling super frustrated and stuck. Inevitably, she becomes severely depre...
The Meaning of Money for Women
One of the founding pillars Iâve built Love Luck Wealth on is the fact that money represents different things to women as opposed to men.
If youâve been following me for a while youâll be familiar with the fact that men have been running the show for thousands of years whilst women have been quietly in the back ground doing what theyâre told, staying safe, and nurturing their family members young and old.
For men, money represents power. It helps them achieve their honourable primal desires to provide and protect. Our financial, corporate and legal systems have been built on this becuase they were built by men for men in an age when women had no legal powers and their needs were therefore simply not considered.
For women, money represents safety. Safety is very different to power. Itâs softer, quieter, and comforting. Women are primitively wired to crave safety because safety is essential to grow and raise a child and care for others. After all, along with our many other talents
...If You Donât Love Money, Someone Else Will
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Money is a beautiful thing.
It ensures you have choices. It empowers you to help others. It helps you feel safe. It allows you to follow your dreams and live your life âon purposeâ.
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Why then do people say such bad things about money? Why are we made to feel bad for wanting to make more of it? Why do we judge others for having too much of it? Why donât we talk about it? Why do so many women in business claim âitâs not about the moneyâ?
Of course, itâs about the money.
Money makes everything easier including helping others.
Money is not evil, it has no motive.
Money is simply a tool we can choose to apply however we want!
What do YOU choose to use your money for? Do you have a dream? Do you have people you want to provide for? Do you have goals and ideas youâre itching to make come true?
Letâs take a look at the 1988 movie Working Girl (pictured). There was the heroine Tess who had the best intentions and values. Then there was her opportunistic boss Katherine who took ...
Wealthy vs. Rich: Why Theyâre Not the Same (And Which One You Actually Want)
I went to see Baz Luhrmannâs Elvis last week. God itâs good.
Elvis is a good movie not only because of the subject matter (Elvis was, and still is, THE biggest selling solo recording artist of all time), but because it shed light on the unfortunately common occurrence of financial abuse in the entertainment industry.
Iâm not giving anything away here, but at the time of Elvisâs death he was not a wealthy man. Itâs estimated that Elvis was five million dollars in debt and owned no ongoing revenue streams (i.e., royalties) from his music. It didnât seem like there was any way to repay that debt without Elvis around to turn on the income faucet with a performance. This left his child and former wife in a precarious financial situation.
Elvisâs lifetime earnings would have been in the billions, yet he died with nothing. How did it go so wrong?
He lived a rich life rather than a wealthy life. The two are very different.
Itâs easy for people who were never educated about money to f
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