Your Money And Your Life

by tony kriz

Psychology 101 tells us that we do nothing in isolation.  Our choices are linked to our life, family, wounds, joys, disappointments.  This is even truer when it comes to the patterns we witness in our lives. Let me describe a scene that I have witnessed on many occasions.  I am in my office, sitting around the consultation table in a coaching session.  Behind me is the whiteboard covered with financial statistics, personal goals and life values expressed by the client during the first twenty minutes of our time together.  I begin to ask the client to talk about what they see on the board.  Their eyes streak back and forth across the multi-colored scribblings, seeing words like “financial security” as a core-value and yet their bank accounts are almost empty, OR they may have insisted that one of their goals is “responsibility” and yet they have a prohibitive credit score/history. “I don’t know why I can’t get a handle on area X in my life.” There is no easy answer as to why we do the things we do.  Whether your finances are “responsible and stable” or, as some of our clients describe, “a train wreck”, there is tremendous value in understanding the stories and events that daily fuel the choices that we make.  And ironically the “responsible” ones are sometimes more trapped by their past then the train-wrecks. It is for this reason that we encourage every coaching client work through a Money Autobiography so they can begin to map the sources and formative events in their life around money and financial decision-making.  There are tremendous light-bulbs of knowledge that are illumined through this process. “And knowing is half the battle.” If you are interested in an introductory coaching session or our mortgage services contact us!

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Author:
tony kriz
Published:
12pm on 01/26/09
Category:
Coaching, Financial Health

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