My Monday blog “Your Life Story” provided the context from which to examine today’s blog “YOUR Money Story,” as it relates to your life story. Certainly money is only one area of your life, but it is the one which most impacts all others. That’s not meant to minimize spirituality, religion, faith, friendship, health, family, [...]
YOUR Life Story
Each month the Center for Financial Social Work offers a FREE webinar; I get to decide what the topic should be. With so many financial subjects to choose from it isn’t easy to decide which one to pick. This month I chose a subject I’ve wanted to dig into for a while, so at 2 PM this [...]
Financial Social Work “Best Practices”
Financial Social Work started almost fifteen years ago; all that has transpired over those years has led to our wonderful new website and to this new, exclusive section for our students and graduates. I am excited to have the opportunity to provide specific materials and information to you because you are the future of my [...]
What’s YOUR Money Lens?
photo credit: Easa Shamih (eEko) | P.h.o.t.o.g.r.a.p.h.y You view your money through the lens of your financial experiences. It’s a lens as personal as the color of your hair or the size of your shoes; one which can work for you, but too often works against you because you forget to change it. Much as [...]
Mirror Mirror
When you look in the mirror is the person you see reflected the person you want to be? Is it someone: You respect? You understand? Whose life has meaning? Who is moving in the direction of a better future? The person you see is the reflection of your personal expectations: filled and unfulfilled. It isn’t the [...]
Helping Clients Make Friends with Their Financial Life
In an earlier blog this week I shared the first three steps for creating a new awareness, understanding and appreciation for your own and your clients’ financial life/lives and how to begin to make better friends with it. Those steps are reviewed below with the addition of three more action steps to support clients in nourishing and [...]
New Webinar on Understanding Your Money – Register for FREE!
Everyone Has a Money Story: How Well Do YOU Know Yours? Wednesday, February 22, 2012 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST | Register for FREE! photo credit: joiseyshowaa Past chapters of your money story reveal how your current financial situation evolved from childhood messages received/perceived. More recent chapters demonstrate how those messages were internalized and [...]
First Steps to Making Friends with YOUR Financial Life
Your financial life determines where you live, the job, car, clothes you do or don’t have, the education available to you, the entertainment and stores you can/can‘t access, etc. As your appreciation for the relationship between your financial life and your overall quality of life expands do you feel excited and empowered to make friends [...]
Got A Financial Life? Of Course YOU Do!
Have you ever really thought about your “Financial Life” as part of your daily life? Have you ever considered it as separate from your ever day life? Last week as I blogged about the uniqueness of each of our relationships with money and how that relationship drives our financial behavior I began focusing on how [...]
Helping Clients Focus on Their Relationship with Money
photo credit: Neubie This week I wrote a series of blogs about relationships with money. Today I am providing a much needed exercise to help clients to begin to pay more attention to all of their relationships, since each of us has many different ones; inevitably certain ones receive more attention than others. This activity is [...]
