The Inner Work Part III – Change Your Money Scripts

by Ryan H. Law

This is the third in a series about changing how we think and feel about money.
You can find the other parts here:

• The Inner Work Part I – Money Habitudes
• The Inner Work Part II – Discover Your Money Scripts

In this post, we are going to look at some ideas for how you can change destructive Money Scripts.

Change Your Money Scripts

Discovering your Money Scripts, which was discussed in Part II of this series, helps us know what Scripts we have, and like the old G.I. Joe commercials said, “Knowing is half the battle.”

Changing a Money Script can be challenging – after all, these Scripts have been with us for a long time. They are like a well-worn path in our brain.

Once you identify your Money Scripts you can start to examine them.

I like to look at each Money Script and ask the following 7 Examination Questions:

1. What is the Money Script?
2. Where did I pick up this Script?
3. What parts of this Script are true?
4. What parts of this Script are not true?
5. How has this Script served me?
6. How has this Script harmed me?
7. What do I want to replace this Script with?

Let’s run through an example. Let’s say that I have a Money Script that I never have enough money.

1. What is the Money Script?
   There will never be enough money.

2. Where did I pick up this Script?
   From my parents when they said, “We can’t afford that. Money doesn’t grow on trees.”

3. What parts of this Script are true?
   None of it.

4. What parts of this Script are not true?
   The entire statement is not true. Lots of people have “enough money.”

5. How has the Script served me?
   It hasn’t served me – it has held me back.

6. How has the Script harmed me?
   It has made me believe that I can’t have enough money.

7. What do I want to replace this Script with?
   I experience financial abundance in my life. Money flows freely to and through me.

This new Money Script can become an affirmation. It may help to put it on a sticky note on a mirror and read it multiple times throughout the day.

When I am feeling like there isn’t enough money I can interrupt my thought process and say, “I experience financial abundance in my life. Money flows freely to and through me.”

This may not initially feel true – after all, I am trying to undo a long-standing belief, but I can change my mindset, which will eventually change my thoughts, and ultimately my behavior.

This can be an extremely valuable experience to go through. Today’s Action Step will help you to do that.

After you do this for your own Money Scripts, you can help your clients do the same.

ACTION STEP:

1. Pick one of your Money Scripts from last week and go through the Seven Examination Questions.

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