{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F702d492a-96e8-41c4-833a-2c0e30be5c3f","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" title=\"UWR 022 Cleaning up your thoughts around money\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" seamless src=\"http://player.captivate.fm/episode/702d492a-96e8-41c4-833a-2c0e30be5c3f\"></iframe>","title":"UWR 022 Cleaning up your thoughts around money","description":"Today I want to speak to you about cleaning up your money mindset to make way 40 cleaner, neater one that serves you and your business. The first step has to be to completely clear out and clean the old thoughts in your mind around money. If we were doing a spring cleaning on our wardrobe, the best way would be to get everything out, clean out the cupboard with nothing left in there. That way we can give it a really great clean and then we go through and decide what we let back in to our newly beautifully cleaned out wardrobe.&nbsp;<br />\n<br />\nAnd it's the same with your money mindset and your approach to money. We need to get everything out, give it a good old clean out and only then let the thoughts back into the wardrobe, AKA our minds that will serve us going forward.&nbsp;<br />\n<br />\nSo how do we decide what to keep and what to throw away?&nbsp;<br />\n<br />\nThe best way is to spread everything out. It's the same with our minds. We need to look at every item individually, everything in our mind individually. Here it's important to speak about choices, because everything is a choice that you are going to re-decide about now. That means we can approach this from a much more deliberate way. So what we need to do now is look at each of the thoughts in your mind, the thoughts that come up around making money, about spending money, about saving money, about people with money, and about people without money. And write down all those thoughts. Get them all out of your mind. Write down every single thought. And I want you to set aside time after you've listened to this podcast to do that, to write down every single thought.&nbsp;<br />\n<br />\nOr if you have time just now, you can pause the podcast and you can start doing that now. You've got everything on paper. Then I want you to ask yourself these three questions. One, do I want this? Two, does it serve me? And three, is this thinking outdated? And interestingly, these are the questions that can also be asked when you're clearing out your wardrobe as well.<br />\n<br />\nAnd these questions only apply to the thoughts that you have around money, not the facts. It might be a fact that you only have 2P in your bank account, but that is not the thought. Apply this to the thought itself. The thing is some of these thoughts might have served you at some point in your life. However, if they are no longer serving you now than it is time to let them go. So if you ask three questions for each and every money thought you have brainstormed out, and if for any of the answers it is a no, then you can make a decision to say goodbye to that thought.&nbsp;<br />\n<br />\nNow, if you are a hoarder, either of thoughts or a physical things, then it might be very difficult for you to make a decision to let go and say goodbye to the thought because that is really hard for a hoarder and at some point these thoughts might have been comforting. At some point, these thoughts might have helped you, but they are not helping you now. I had one client who had an incredibly strong thought that you had to work very, very hard to make money. He often referred to his parent's strict work ethic in our sessions together and his son was taking over his business as he was retiring. His son had a very different way of working to his father and the father felt that his way was the right way and that his son should adhere to that strict work ethic. He didn't feel that his son could run his business successfully while working from home, for example.&nbsp;<br />\n<br />\nHowever, his son was incredibly capable with some great ideas, which I have no doubt would have moved the business forward to a great place. Yet the father was unwilling to change his thought. He was unwilling to adapt this outdated thought. And that meant it delayed his retirement for two years until he got to a place where he realised that his thoughts around this were no longer serving him.<br />\nYou see,","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/7f0840bb-c3fe-4466-8889-71e82a5647fb/podcast-cover-art.jpg"}