Matthew Ferry's Blog » financial advice http://matthewferry.com/blog Happiness and Success: Taming The Drunk Monkey Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:00:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Experiencing Peace During Financial Breakdown http://matthewferry.com/blog/experiencing-peace-during-financial-breakdown/ http://matthewferry.com/blog/experiencing-peace-during-financial-breakdown/#comments Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:39:12 +0000 Matthew http://matthewferry.com/blog/?p=3027 How do you stay in a good place when you’re in financial breakdown? If you go into a bad place, you’re freaked out, scared, resentful, agitated, well, your ability to get out of the breakdown is greatly thwarted. It’s imperative that you work on getting into an optimal, optimistic, joyous state when you are in financial peril.

Now, that’s not easy to do. What I recommend that you do is, first of all, you work to accept the situation exactly as it is. So often people are in a blame game. They’re never saying, “Well, listen, I’m the one who said yes. I’m the one who made those decisions. I signed my name on the line there. I’m the one who went into this not thinking about, you know, what are the potential risks. When I signed up for this, I knew there were going to be risks.” So often we’re not owning it and saying, “Wait it was me. I did this.”

But I’ll tell you right now, one of the ways to feel good in the middle of a breakdown is to own it and say, “You know what? I did this. I made this happen. This financial disaster is me.” You do that, you start to feel good again. You start to feel powerful. You realize you’re the creator of your experience.

Another trick to staying in good spirits while you are in the middle of financial breakdown is to make sure that you forecast out what is the worst possible thing that could happen to you in this particular breakdown and you make peace with it. If you will fantasize what is the worst possible thing and then you make peace with that, you will be at peace now in the process, and that’s the goal.

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When I’m aligned with the truth, and the truth is that life is good and that there are many aspects of my life that are working, then I say the right thing. I’m in the right place at the right time. Amazing things come out of my mouth and I’m able to make money. Will gratitude help you financially? Absolutely, yes.

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