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How to Stop Worrying About Money
Nowadays, a lot of people have lost their source of income and are very anxious about their financial situation. Even if you have a job, one of the most common reasons people give for feeling unhappy in their life is the thought that they simply don’t have enough money. If the money you currently have could assume a human form and talk to you, what might it say?
If you’re like most people, it would probably say something like this: “You never appreciate me. All you ever do is complain about how I’m never enough. You’re always worrying about how I might let you down in the future, or might leave you. I don’t feel like you trust me at all. And after all I do for you! I’m always getting things for you, protecting you, entertaining you, and making your life easier — but do I ever get a heart-felt thank you? Nooooo!”
If we treated our mate the way we “relate” to money, he or she wouldn’t want to hang around us!
Trying to get “enough” money can be like trying to fill a gigantic bowl in which, no matter how much stuff you put into the bowl, it never fills up. We put a Mercedes in the bowl, a new house, a boat, but it never seems full for more than a few minutes. The reason the bowl never fills up is because it has a big leak in the bottom! Whatever we manage to get and put into our life, like a bowl with a leak, it quickly runs out. We are soon left completely…