I know what you’re probably thinking: A love letter to money? For real?
Yes, for real.
Like most humans (it appears), I have a complicated relationship with money. What seems like countless programs exist, all claiming to help us get out of debt, control our spending, invest our money when we have “too much” of it, and simply become better stewards of all our resources. Based on the widespread availability and popularity of these, I think it’s safe to say we all have some sort of issue with money that we would like to improve.
Ever since I met my future spouse in my early twenties, I’ve been constantly working on improving my relationship with money. The particular area of work may change, but the fact that there’s work to be done does not change.
In just the way I work on everything else in my life, I work with my money relationship on all sorts of levels, from the conscious and workaday to the unconscious and “woo-woo.” No matter what level you’re working on with money, mindset is always important. It is so important, in fact, that the course I’m currently taking to improve my relationship with money advises participants to write a love letter to money to keep in our wallets to review from time to time to help improve our mindset.
Since my children’s births, I have written them what are essentially love letters every year on their birthdays, highlighting what I’ve most loved about them in the past year, their biggest accomplishments and challenges over the past year, and what is looming large in their future, so I thought it a great idea for money. I might even write a new love letter to money every year (or more often, if necessary) and keep the old ones to compare to, to see how far I’ve come.
For now, though, I’m just sharing this fantastic idea, as well as my very first love letter to money, for your own inspiration.
7/31/20
Dear Money,
Thank you so much for providing for the necessities of life for me and my family, for food, shelter, and clothing. Thank you for the “extras,” like health care, insurance, and the like. And thank you, especially, for being there and enabling me to enjoy time with my family without worry. Thank you for allowing us to purchase experiences together—the once-in-a-lifetime experiences and the daily and annual experiences that become tradition, as well as all of the experiences in between.
You are beautiful, and I love that you are a form of energy that helps us translate our goods and services into easier, more reliable exchange. You are more than beautiful, in fact. You are numinous,[1] and you are invaluable, for you allow us so much ease in exchange when barter is simply inadequate.
I welcome you into my life. I welcome you to stay and to multiply. And I also welcome you to leave, when it is appropriate and good, when it is time for you to move on to aid in someone else’s life, supporting and funding their hopes and dreams as you have mine.
I am, proudly and lovingly, a fan of your work.
Stephanie
What do you think? Are you going to write a love letter to money? If so, I’d love to see yours! Think this is a crazy idea? If so, what have you found to be an excellent exercise/tool for positively shifting your money mindset?
Note
[1] Although the primary definition of the word numinous given by m-w.com is related to the supernatural, especially deities, I chose this word because it has other shades of meaning that are harder to pin down and that capture a range of emotions and thoughts about money, including “having talismanic properties:magical”’; “inspiring reverence” and “beyond understanding or description:mysterious, incomprehensible.” Money certainly can be like a talisman to many people, and having a lot of it can bring us magical and reverent experiences; as such, when I use the term numinous here, I’m not referring to money as much as to the varied human responses to and relationships with it.
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