FINANCE IS MONEY YOUR FRIEND?

Would you say it’s strong and keeps getting better or would you say you struggle to make it work? Would you say your mindset is more abundance-based or scarcity-based? How do you feel about money? Are you excited about it or do you worry? Are there any parts of your money relationship where you operate from fear?

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Shifting our limiting beliefs about money has to start with knowing which ones are not helping. Looking at our current results tells us what our story has been – up until now. And, even if we don’t know how we got to here, we are capable of changing so that money becomes an area that works really well in our lives.

ASK YOURSELF:

Q: How do I think and feel about the amount of money and the amount of business I currently have? Janice Hrushka, C.H.N.

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Q: How do I think and feel about the amount of money 403-952-1920 and the amount of business others have compared to me? Q: What is one word that describes my relationship with Q: How do I think and feel about others who have less money? than me? Q: If I were able to change something important about Q: How do I think and feel about others who have my relationship with money, what would make a big more than me? difference to me?

Q: How do I think and feel about others who have WAY more than me (10x more, 100x more)?

Q: Do I believe I can be as wealthy as I want to be? Q: What are 3 specific actions I am willing to commit to for the next 30 days that will help me improve my relationship with money?

Q: Do I currently have and earn as much money as I want to?

You can Learn and Change

Q: What story do I tell myself about the amount I have or don’t have?

Q: What do I see as the blocks to earning what I want? Both in myself and in my current business?

Q: Do I really love the work I am doing?

Q: In the money area of my business and my life, what do I do well?

Q: In the money area of my business and my life, what do I wish I were doing better?

Q: On a scale of 1-10, how well is the money area working for me right now? A really great resource for anyone working on money is the book Financial Recovery by Karen McCall. I couldn’t even count how many money books I’ve read over the years and this is the very best one I’ve found. What I like about it is that it is a combination of doing the inner work – looking at our beliefs and history with money along with the outer work – the actions to take to make our relationship with money better.

Ultimately, with our level of accessibility to a vast amount and array of knowledge these days, the great news is that we can learn pretty much anything. There’s nothing about money you can’t learn; you can even learn to change your thinking about it. change your thinking

NO ONE EVER ACCUSED ME OF BEING A GOURMET COOK, but, occasionally, I do like to dabble. Granted, when my kids were young, I spent more time being fancy and creative (like, putting the Bougie wieners in the KD, for example), but, these days, store-bought spinach dip with mini naans is a fairly uptown supper.

Nonetheless, I love comfort food in winter, and nothing warms the cockles of my heart quite like soup.

SIX EASY STEPS

Even a can of soup is pretty good on a cold day. A lunch time spent dipping your grilled cheese into a hot bowl of tomato soup while watching The Flintstones is hard to top, but I can do it with my homemade soup! Why? Because it’s made with love and inventiveness!

Here’s the process for making an awesome soup:

Step One: Look in the fridge: “Oh, that carrot is gonna need to be used pretty soon. Is there a soup that calls for lettuce? Oh hey, cabbage! So many options with cabbage. Yes, indeed – time to make soup!”

Step Two: Scour the Interwebz for amazing soup recipes. Question what I am doing with my life that has prevented me from knowing how to carve lotus flowers out of tomatoes by now. Ponder the fine points of the differences between leeks and onions and shallots. Write a Facebook rant post about who ever thought broccoli and pistachios would belong together in soup.

Step Three: Release the shame of not being Martha who-know-who and do some self-care (read: have a glass of wine).

Step Four: When it is safe to do so, go to the grocery store. Buy two of everything you think might go well in a soup. Also, chips.

Step Five: Come home and start making soup (Read: guess at items to include, portions, and seasonings). Decide “The more the merrier” is the best, most true saying ever.

Step Six: Celebrate that I am a freaking soup genius.

PUT YOUR HEART INTO IT

The best soups are made with love and garlic. That’s pretty much all you need to know. The rest of this is free bonus material. Still, solider on; we’re getting to the good stuff.

Sometimes, I am all about making a roux and then building up the stock and researching how spices change during the cooking process (okay, that last one is not true), but usually, I just go for it. I am one who learns by experiencing, so, when I have a great bowl of soup somewhere, I give it a little critical analysis and think either, “Yup, I can totally make this” or “They’d better never change their menu as I will be eating here weekly.” If it is the former, I’ll be at the grocery store the very next day, buying two of everything (and chips) that I think goes into that soup.

I love the creative freedom that making soup affords, especially when one is completely winging it. Other than that time I somehow thought cinnamon would be good, it pretty much always turns out, because I feel like I am putting me – my heart – into it. So, in the end, I’m really not sure if it’s the soup that warms the soul or my love. Maybe it doesn’t matter.

Danielle Klooster is a business coach, trainer, and consultant. She isthe cofounder of Sharp Women and Your Life on Point, with Ranchelle Van Bryce

HAMBURGER SOUP

RECIPE

Potential ingredients:

Hamburger (since it is in the name of the recipe, I recommend at the very least, for sure using this ingredient) Onions Garlic Pearl barley Potatoes Carrots Tomatoes Can of diced tomatoes Beef Stock Worcestershire Corn Basil, oregano, bay leaves Salt and pepper Water

Potential proportions of each ingredient:

No clue. You’re on your own for this.