As a U.S. citizen, I watched the “fiscal cliff” negotiations with some interest. As usual, the conversation about money was less than nuanced. Some had a hardcore position of all spending cuts, some wanted to lean more heavily into increasing revenue.
The truth is a little more powerful: the relationship the U.S., the entire western world, has with money is frightfully, painfully dysfunctional.
We give lip service to our most cherished values and then sacrifice them on the altar of money. It doesn’t have to be that way. Elected officials, corporate executives as well as average people like you and me who don’t walk in those halls of monied power all have the capacity to love, and access to a more nuanced reality around money that speaks to what’s possible.
It is incredible how quickly honest human needs around survival, love, caring and contribution can be distorted in contact with money. Yet money itself is not the problem. The problem is that the relationships we have around money are so distorted. They need to be returned to love.
Because survival fears trump higher aspirations, whenever those survival fears are triggered, it becomes very hard to cling to the values that we truly care about and to make the choices that come from love and lead to real places of results and transformation.
Are you up for it?
It’s a bit overwhelming to contemplate changing the whole world, so a great place to start is with you and your business.
Let’s start by helping you anchor your heart, helping you heal your own reactions to money, starting to create a Divinely-inspired relationship to money so you can:
- Feel more solid and in your heart around money and finances.
- Stop waking up at 3 a.m. with money panic attacks.
- Receive gracefully from all that is around you.
- Yes, earn a healthy amount of money without sacrificing your values.
- Stop letting that knot of fear in your belly derail your hopes and dreams.
I could’ve been a lot more upbeat, and talked about Love and Abundance, but I thought you deserved the truth. There’s a mess around us, and we can move forward by acknowledging and accepting the mess, and opening our hearts to what’s true.
I don’t want you to live in fantasy. I want you to have a grounded, realistic, nitty-gritty, and yet love-filled and Divinely-inspired relationship with money and finances.
How the heck else are we going to heal this thing?
Two Opportunities
Over the next couple of weeks, through January 30, I’m offering a no-cost learning series on the Heart of Money. The first lesson arrives next week, and there’s a live teaching call I’m leading January 23.
You can sign up for the free learning series here:
Heart of Money No-Cost Learning Series
This is meant to help inspire the right people join me for the full Transformational Journey. It starts February 6, and runs eight weeks, and is priced low enough to make it accessible, because of how foundational it is.
And, you don’t have to have a business or be self-employed for the course or the learning series to be effective.
Join me for the full course (I highly recommend the Community version):
Heart of Money Transformational Journey 2013
One More Request
If you’re a fan of Heart of Business, if you think we’re putting out worthwhile material, please encourage everyone you know who could use this to join the No-Cost Learning Series. Just send them the link and tell them to sign up. You know we don’t do hard selling, I’m happy just if more people have a healthier relationship with money.
If you willing, think of three people right now and…
Send this link to them:
Heart of Money No-Cost Learning Series
And give your personal recommendation to it.
Thanks again! If you have any questions, please ask. I look forward to having you on the call January 23.
peace,
Mark Silver
2 Responses
Thanks for sharing your beautiful words! I totally admit it, since the world is driven by money it has ruined all the natural laws of humanity. Charity, love, responsibility can stay only at the second place after profit and money. Unfortunately, we cannot do anything against, that’s how our consumer economic system works, money for everything. I still can remember on a song by Dire Straits which is called ‘money for nothing…’ Because at the end, you cannot remember your money, you only can remember who you loved…
This is a great concept, the western relationship with money does at times seem unhealthy. That is why I enjoy the tax preparation field. I get to work directly with people who are dealing with money issues and hopefully help them remove that stress from their lives. Once removed people can go on doing things they are more passionate about.