by Cassie Howard | Aug 17, 2018 | Blogging |
Today’s realization: It’s a pretty cool feeling when you get an unexpected $2,000+ bill and you don’t freak out. In fact, you say ”oh, that’s it?” and pay it straight away without flinching. Guess this money mindset stuff actually works. Ahh how much things have changed in the last 3 years! I remember being so fucking SCARED of money. Terrified to let it go. The fear of spending money (even on things I needed, like groceries and gas in the car) had me in a chokehold ALL of the time. And when an unexpected bill came in the mail? I just about lost my shit. The panic and the anxiety would be so strong that I started getting heart palpitations and periods where I’d struggle to breathe. Any time I’d receive money, I would feel scared to spend it. I tried to hoard it, thinking that if I just had some money stashed away, I would feel better. And I did. Until the next unexpected bill came in the mail. The problem wasn’t that I didn’t know how to make money. The problem wasn’t that I was an over-spender. The problem wasn’t that I didn’t know how to save. The problem was that I had deep-rooted money issues to solve. I didn’t realize this until I started working with a mentor who pointed it out to me. I didn’t know when my bills were due I wasn’t setting aside money for taxes I wasn’t calculating my income/expenses properly I didn’t pay off my credit cards on time I would forget to pay bills (especially paper bills that would come to...
