You can fight with money.
You can cheat on your money by racking up debt.
You can lie to money by pretending you have a different money story.
And you can hide from money by not looking at the bills and receipts and balances.
Or you can be honest with money.
You can have your eyes wide open, know your money truth and honor your money.
You can love your money for everything it provides.
You can keep money instead of trading it all away.
You can use your money to support things you value.
You can nurture your money.
You can love your money.
My relationship with money is my choice.
I choose money love.
The best predictor of permanent weight loss is how much food you are willing to throw away.
No, that’s not it.
That’s one of them, but it’s also how much joy you create in your life.
No, it’s your self talk. That chatter inside your head.
It’s your resilience. How much are you willing to stick with something.
It’s how much you are willing to be wrong.
It’s how engaged and how good you are at staying present.
Wait, wait, wait… I’ve really got it…
It’s how much you are willing to feel.
Yep, that’s the one.
How much you are willing to feel any feeling, even the bad ones, is the biggest predictor of permanent weight loss.
But really, they are all pretty good predictors.
Massive action sounds like it’s excessive action.
But it’s usually not.
Massive action is taking action until you achieve your goal.
It can be slow or fast.
But the hallmark of massive action is that you keep going until you get where you want to go.
Most people take action when they try to fix their money problems.
They create budgets.
They consolidate their loans.
They look at price tags.
Because they want to change their money situation so much, they become a blur of activity.
And that can be good.
But it doesn’t change the underlying thing that got their money out of whack.
Their thinking.
It takes changing what you believe about money to feel abundant.
It takes changing your thinking from, “I might lose it all” to “I can create as much money as I want.”
And that takes practice.
It takes practice to change your feelings of scarcity to confidence.
It takes trying a lot of things and readjusting.
And then readjusting again.
And again.
Without massive action you don’t stick to the budget.
You don’t make the budget an extension of yourself.
And you throw in the towel because obviously this budget or program doesn’t work.
Which isn’t true.
Most budgets or programs work.
You just haven’t taken massive action.
You haven’t kept going until you achieve your goal.
A change in spending and saving doesn’t happen on the first try.
And it’s different for different people.
And it doesn’t have to hurt.
But it may take ten tries to find the kind of change that works for you.
You will get to that place of abundance.
But massive action is necessary for the journey.