Wouldn’t life be great if the most difficult people in your life would simply change? It certainly would be easier if situations would change to benefit you or if your job would change to accomodate you. It would be grand because you wouldn’t need to anything! No work at all. If only people would see things your way. They would be happier. Right?

Consider this, they way to significant, meaningful and lasting changes in life starts from within. If you really want change or if you really want the changes you are making this season in life to stick, then it will have to start from the inside out. Here you stand in the present, the past on one side of you and the future on the other side of you. Changing involves more than just leaving the action, the behavior, the job, the relationship, the situation. It involves leaving the past MINDSET that created the actions that lead to those things or held you hostage in those things. It involves changing the mindset.

Basically, your mindset is how you think, how you feel, how you perceive yourself, others, and things around you. There is a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. You’re taking a fixed mindset that is built and shaped by your life experiences, belief system, childhood, religion and possibly, expanding, changing, and maybe demolishing them to embrace a growth mindset. It sounds like a lot of work because IT IS. And to be honest, many people don’t want to put forth the effort. Therefore they stay locked in an endless cycle of a life they don’t like. They stay locked in complaining and blaming others for their life and hardships.

The good news is that you can take work of changing your mindset and break it down little by little. Question what you think. Investigate your thoughts. Why do I think this way? Who told me that? Is it true? Even if it’s true, how can I see this from a different angle? Do this with how you feel as well. One way to change your mindset is by READING things that expand your mind and not things that narrow your mind.

Change begins within. I want to change my finances. Change begins with how I feel about money and how I think about money. Change begins with me reflecting on what shaped my money habits and what continues to keep me in the loop of not creating the financial stability I desire.

Wherever you are making changes, take the time to appreciate the lessons and experiences you have had and acknowledge that you have so much more to experience and learn. And you now have a more conscious way of creating lasting, meaningful, and impactful change to your life starting from within.

~Nikki

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