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 Wednesday (February 23rd) our FREE webinar is called “Everyone Has a Money story: How Well Do YOU Know Yours?”
Of course, your money story is only one part of your life story, admittedly a crucial one, so today’s blog provides the context from which to examine your money story as it relates to your life story. Both begin at birth and their chapters unfold over days, weeks, months and years.
Your story doesn’t start with “once upon a time,” nor does it include the “happily ever after…” learned in childhood because it is not a novel. It is, instead, the reality of your days. Each chapter is unique and deserving of your attention.
However, only by paying attention to your story’s central theme are you able to begin to write better and different chapters. The story of who you are today isn’t one that happened to you. It is one based upon the choices you’ve made and the outcomes which resulted.
If where you are in your life today isn’t where you want to be, it is likely you haven’t been proactive in the management of your life (and your story.) If you are ready to create change in your life and your story then there is much you can learn from previous chapters.
Do you think of you life as a story? You are always sharing parts of it with friends, family and new acquaintances as you recount things that have happened recently or in the past. As its author you edit your narrative with each retelling.
Regardless of whether your story revisions are large or small, conscious or subconscious, all are purposeful; each provides the opportunity to learn more about your life, from your story.
Are you familiar with your most common story modifications? Are they exaggerations or minimizations; are they falsifications or eliminations? When you are ready and willing to explore why you alter your story the way you do you will begin to discover how to write chapters less in need of editing.
Get started by attending our FREE webinar this Wednesday (February 22nd) at 2 PM Eastern: Everyone has a Money story: How Well Do YOU Know Yours? You can register here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/418746992
Wednesday’s blog will be on “YOUR $$ Money $$ Story”
