What are your money blocks?

What is it about the pride of being financially independent that can actually deter us from being just that?

I stayed in my dead-end 9-5 job for at least 2 years more than I should have, because I was attached to a stable income.

“I had 2 kids; how could I not be a contributing member of the family?” I would tell myself. “And it’s not just about me anymore.”

This wasn’t the first time I was quitting my job to pursue new dreams. This time the difference was that I had a family and I felt a deep sense of responsibility towards them.

Also, what would I do if I quit my job without another one?

Leaving my job without another source of income was not an option for me - in my head, may I add.

And if I chose the entrepreneurial route: “it’s going to take me a while before I make consistent revenue,” I would think.

Which is nuts because financially we are stable. And we can afford loss of income for a while.

It was some illogical attachment to my own income that was holding me back from any new possibilities.

It was also my ego and pride of always being financially independent that I was not ready to part with.

How can I be dependent on my husband?

Sounds ridiculous, right?

Luckily, my misery at work pushed me to explore side-hustles and the minute I saw potential in them, I handed in my resignation.

However, I still needed to take on freelance work before I was ready to go all in on my side-hustles.

I needed to know that even if I didn’t have a full time job, and even if my business / side-hustles didn’t take off, I could make it as a freelancer if I had to.

Questions I asked myself were and still are:

• Where does this attachment come from?

• How can it be overcome?

• How can I get past it so that I can have the courage to pursue building a business of my dreams that will be more rewarding in the long term?

• Is it even money related at all?

• Perhaps it's linked to the fear of the unknown?

This is the first money block I recognised in myself.

Now that I have started my own business, and am all in since January, my second money block is surfacing.

I suddenly feel tight-fisted. A feeling that is new to me. And I find myself fighting with it.

“With no consistent income, what I have will be gone so fast.” I have this thought at the back of my mind, all the time.

This often leads me to operate from a mindset of scarcity and lack.

I am very aware of it, and I don’t like it. It’s an internal desperation of sorts.

How can I get past this? I am used to having an income. Now I rely on my husband for it which is SO not in my nature to accept, as I have always been financially independent.

What is it about the pride of being financially independent that can actually deter us from being just that? From attracting the financial abundance we deserve?

Well, I don’t have any answers and I am working towards seeking them so I can peel off these layers of money blocks and be free of them.

Can you relate?

If this interests you, tomorrow at 9pm Dubai time / 11am MST, I’ll be going live on Instagram with financial planner and money mindset coach Meera Shireen to discuss these blocks.

Meera, empowering high earning women using strategy, mindset, and energetics.

You can tune in here, and I will share the session recording afterwards too.

If you have any questions you’d like to ask Meera, comment below and I’ll cover them in the session.

I interviewed Meera for this newsletter in 2022, you can read more about her in that too.

That’s all for today.

Love,

Abha x