Money: A Love Story

What Are Your Money Issues?

Everyone has money issues. Money represents what people consider most important in their lives: love, joy, happiness, pleasure, and the like. Money is a value-assignment and exchange mechanism. Values involve emotions – the essential elements of relationships. All people have emotional relationships – good and bad – with their money.

Those who acknowledge money problems think they can override these issues by securing the best financial planning, finding the most experienced accountant and making the wisest investments. First, you must understand the human and emotional side of your relationship with money. Consider who you are, what matters to you, your values and beliefs – including those about money – and how they affect how you handle your finances. Where do your attitudes about money come from? Your parents? Friends? Society? Your childhood? Cultural attitudes?

Dear Diary

Learn which beliefs about money hold you back from financial success. When you get in touch with your negative financial thinking, you can change it. Write your thoughts in a new personal daybook: your “Money Love Journal.” Maintain a record of your ...