Money Sense for Life

Changing money behaviors takes time. It takes patience and persistence on your part.

You've got to want to be someone else with money and not the same person you've always been. That's how change begins.

This month's money insights and tips focuses on "How To Change Your Money Behaviors."

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People who are successful with money are intentional in the way they make decisions with their money:

* They know that financial success means they'll need to behave their way to it. It's not something to wait for. It's something to strive for.

* Good money habits must be practiced on a daily basis, not just once in awhile, but a mindfulness approach each and every day.

* Deliberate decisions open up a pathway to success. A decision to do nothing or avoid reality slams the door shut.

If you want a different financial life than the one you're living, you'll need to harness some change.

Here are a few ways to do that:

1. Disrupt behaviors you're currently practicing with new and better ones. If you typically emotionally spend, find something else to do instead. If you spend money without a plan every month, choose to create one and tell your money where it's going.

Keep disrupting behaviors until you've created brand new patterns that become the new and normal money habits in your life--now and in the future.

2. Search for new ideas and beliefs about you and money. If you're not searching to learn anything new about you and money, you'll be average, at best in your relationship with it.

Invite new ideas and beliefs about money into your life, ones that move you to take control, in an empowering, take charge kind of way.

3. Seek peace. A financial life in disarray feels like chaos. You have no real plan or you're ignoring the one you created because it feels too hard.

Often times the hard thing is the right thing and what will ultimately bring you long-lasting peace. Stick with your new behaviors, ideas and beliefs long enough and you'll have the peace you've been longing for.