Today we’re talking about one of my favorite topics that also happens to be one of the most charged topics out there — MONEY.

First of all, let’s clear any energy around money being good, bad or otherwise.

Money is a tool, just like the hammer in your toolbox or the hairbrush in your drawer.

It doesn’t have emotion or traits unless you project these onto it. It’s an inanimate object that’s passed around the world, traded for goods and experiences, it’s done nothing wrong and it won’t make you good, bad, happy, sad or otherwise.

With that said, money does buy you choices and I’ve found that since breaking my negative relationship with money that I’m a lot happier.

But, I’m not a better or worse person for having money now, I just have a more joyful relationship with currency and I expect it to show up for me.

And this is what I want for you.

When I decided it was time to change my relationship with money I didn’t just lean into it and feel it out. I decided 100% that me and money were going to become besties.

So how would I treat a best friend? Not how I’d been treating money.

In the past I didn’t trust money. It would show up for me sometimes and then it would totally disappear. It felt illusive, all over the place, totally unpredictable.

I wanted to feel in control in my life and money felt like the one place I had no control. I realized I was in an abusive relationship with money. I didn’t think I was abusing it, I thought it was abusing me. Every time I’d get ahead I’d be hit with some unexpected bill and knocked back down.

What I didn’t realize is I was being just as bad to money. The words I thought about it, how I avoided looking at my online bank accounts and credit cards, the way I held onto it so tightly.

If I’d been in a relationship with someone and treated them like I was treating money, they would have thought I was crazy. Obsessively stalking them sometimes, then totally ignoring them, being so joyous they showed up and then crying because they weren’t showing up for me.

No wonder money was all over the place with me. I was all over the place with money.

So if you’re ready to change your relationship with money you have to look at how you’ve been treating it up until now and decide to create a healthy relationship with it instead.

Action Step:

What’s your relationship like with money right now? Are you aware of how much you have, where it’s at, what it’s spent on? Does your relationship feel joyous and supportive or strained and exhausting?

If money was actually a person in your life, based on how you’ve been treating it, how would they feel?

Share your top takeaways over in the Financially Free Entrepreneur Facebook group.

Realizing how I was treating money was a huge eye-opener for me and I immediately started to notice more money come into my life in the form of finding coins on the ground, getting unexpected checks in the mail and receiving things for free.

The better I treated money and the more gratitude I felt for it showing up, the more money that just kept pouring in.

Try it out, I’d love to hear your ah-ha’s and breakthroughs!