Feeling Guilty About Wanting to Make More Money? February 1, 2008
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I was. But I worked on it.
What are your beliefs about money? Do you feel like you’re not good enough to have a lot? Do you fear you will be looked at differently if you have money? Do you feel greedy to want more money?
I could write a hundred pages listing limiting beliefs about money. The point is, all of them are limiting. In the sense that those beliefs that are engraved in our bodies are preventing us from moving forward financially. Either preventing us from making more money or actually keeping it!
After I watched The Secret, I started thinking positively about money. Yes! That’s how I can do it!! So I actually ended up making more money, but I couldn’t keep it. I still had zero dollars in my bank account at the end of each month, without even spending more. I didn’t understand why this was happening. For a few years, I had been sensing that I will have lots of money, when I say lots, I mean ‘LOTS’. I was feeling guilty about that, and the bank account wasn’t following my gut (go figure!). So I came to the conclusion that I was full of it and that maybe I’m just not meant to have lots of money. Then things went downhill even more (I obviously attracted that…). Not only did I have $0 in my account, but I was starting to get into debts too. “I need help” I told myself. When you ask, the Universe responds…
I had been wanting to get some ‘life coaching’ from an amazing coach for a while. He coached me for my career for about an hour or two and I wanted more… I couldn’t afford it. But after asking The Universe for help, he contacted me and offered to coach me in exchange for my creative services! YES! YES! Absolutely YES! Please coach me on money!
After just an hour of coaching, I realized so much and kept opening my eyes to so many things in the weeks after. I was feeling guilty about wanting to have more money, mostly because of my beliefs, but also because I didn’t really know what I would do with that money. I asked myself “what would I do with a million dollars?”… I didn’t have an answer. Actually, the answer was “I don’t know”. Then why would I need a million dollars?
I have been reading Neuro-linguistic Programming for Dummies. The tagline on the book is “Turn positive thoughts into positive action”. It’s a very good complement to The Secret. You can read more about NLP on Wikipedia. One of the suggested exercises is to write your obituary. Why obituary and not biography? Because a biography is about your life until the moment the text is written. The obituary is about your entire life, until your death. You want to look at the end result. So I wrote my obituary. I let myself go and was writing without judgement, whatever was coming out. Whoa. Was I ever surprised. I found out why I was sensing I am going to have a lot of money. I need it for my project. You see, my ultimate dream, my true passion is to guide people to realize their dreams, to follow their heart and their gut, on a really, really big scale.
Right now, the world is opening its eyes to new possibilities, bigger possibilities. The adults are just starting to learn about this. We need to teach this to kids, so they can grow up fulfilling their dreams, by doing that they will teach their children, and their children, and so on. Kids are learning all they need to know about math, language, physics, etc in schools. What about life? What about following your instincts? I want schools to coach children about this ‘new’ life. So that’s my ultimate goal.
In my obituary, I wrote not only about making inspiring films that are recognized worldwide and are helping the world believe in the ‘impossible’, but also about the ”Natasha Jetté Foundation” that implemented the “Strong Heart, Mind, and Soul” program in schools internationally.
I don’t feel guilty about having lots of money anymore.
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I also am scared and still in the process of working on it. I have to work on the thought that “I deserve to have money” because somehow I don’t feel that I do. Weird.
I’m working on this one myself. I know it has to do with self-esteem. Then my debt and inability to do more for my children (after a divorce) just seem to reinforce this idea that I’ll never have any money.
Thanks for writing about this. Any more practical ideas on the issue would be most welcome.
I will to know much more tx:-)
I think that I would prefer stable/interesting job to bigger paycheck.
It seems that no matter how much money you’re getting, its never enough. While ideally it would be lovely to combine both huge paycheck and job that you like, its rarely the case - a lot of times, you’re either doing things that you love for little money or stuff that you don’t like for little money, hehe.
As far as University/Academia goes…
It seems that a lot of times, University act as a shelter against real world. You see - its always easy to hide somewhere in the back of the classroom and sit through lectures and go home and forget what you were told.
Indeed, its up to a student to explore real world on his/her own, but I do think that more colleges should make gap between Academia and Real World smaller, not wider.
This guilt about making money is such a mental block, an invisible barrier which tells me I’m not capable of producing something of value to someone else, not smart enough to write a business plan and carry it out, and not worthy of working for myself. It’s such a bunch of crap.
Personally I was raised to never ask for money, and as a consequence was not taught the value of money or even the need for it, as if it was beneath me. GOD would provide for my needs, and that’s all there was to it. Today I have plenty of ideas but lack the courage to launch into business, despite a strong entrepreneurial urge. It still feels like a strange thing to do. I’m all for having faith, but there’s no shame in wanting to trade something for money.
Just a quick comment @ Ilya that “no matter how much money you’re getting, it’s never enough.” I just don’t see how that has to be the case. First of all, never enough for what? If a person has no goals in life, having money isn’t going to do much good. Money is just the medium through which goals are accomplished; it opens new and different opportunities and offers access to a host of tools which would not otherwise be available. Greed will get you hooked on the process of making money just to hoard it away, but even that can be a positive thing. Just look at Warren Buffett’s business success and how he uses it. Wanting is not necessarily a bad thing, as it drives us to be creative and industrious.
This is such an interesting topic as so much revolves around money, such as availability and use of time, the effects on the family, life goals and ambitions, economic progress, etc…
@ekettle
What I meant is that no matter how much some people are making, they never seem to be satisfied.
I don’t think that its necessarily a sin when you want to make a lot of money, but at the same time there are plenty of cases where being millionaire didn’t made one’s life better or more satisfying.
Happiness lies in so much more than the amount of money one has. Happiness is a choice. Whether it is present when one has no money or a lot of money is irrelevant. Happiness is found within one’s self.
Encountering an unhappy rich person often creates a belief that money does not bring happiness, therefore one shouldn’t concentrate on making it. But really, this rich person is unhappy not because they have a lot of money, it is because they do not know who they truly are.
Another strong belief about money is that money=greed=bad. If you hold such a belief, look at the world’s great leaders, the ones that have accomplished great things in this world. It might help in realizing that what you choose to do with money is what defines greed or generosity. It always remains a choice.
Much love,
Natasha
So many people have limiting beliefs around money, and they don’t even realize that those beliefs are ones they adopted from other people. And you’re right - it’s not about just having more money but having a strong “why” behind it so that you can attract what you need. Great post.
Bring it!
I have recently resumed making use of affirmations because I need to take charge of controlling the creation of my own reality. I deserve a brighter tomorrow - as do we all!