By poverty I mean your self-image of being poor.
Or having less than you want and less than others have.
If you don’t think you feel poor, look at your actions.
It is your deeds and behavior that are the best indicators
of what you really feel and believe about yourself.
Your values, beliefs, and attitude represent that view.
Understanding these is one way of managing your spending
because spending is a primary tool to create and validate
your self-image.
No one can do this for you although it would be helpful.
You probably don’t want to do it for yourself either.
But you should. And your partner could help and vice versa.
This allows an equal exchange that may best serve the relationship.
Now there could be some troubling realizations from this, too.
You may recognize that you are responding mindlessly
to many purchase choices as you seek to raise your standing
in your own eyes. This becomes a habitual pattern.
This fixed-action spending is often automatic.
It doesn’t move you in the direction of your more
consciously considered longer term goals and dreams.
When you refocus your attitude toward what you have
rather than what you don’t have, miracles can happen.
They may not be of biblical proportions immediately.
But over time the cumulative changes that come from
a greater sense of awareness and gratitude for what
you do have will guide your spending to more positive ways
that validate the new self-image you have created.
The gap will close quickly between what you have
and what you want.
You will feel richer with no more than you had before.
Now that’s a miracle to celebrate.
Copyright 2010 William M. MacKay
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