How to Stop Feeling Guilty About Spending Money on Yourself

How to Stop Feeling Guilty About Spending Money on Yourself

Vangile Makwakwa
Changing Our Feelings About Money

Over the last few weeks I've been sharing how money asked to be a husband during one of the meditations. Since then I have noticed a change in how I relate to money. And it's a great change.

I noticed that there's a trust and gratitude within me when it comes to money. It's something that's definitely new and it wasn't always there until I started doing the spirit of money meditations and inner child meditations to let go of the past.

I used to look at my bills or expenses and obsess about cutting them and sometimes feel upset that unexpected bills would appear.

I remember arriving in Dubai at the beginning of last month and just being shocked at the pricing of everything.

How Our Relationship With Our Parents Impacts the Way We Manage Money

How Our Relationship With Our Parents Impacts the Way We Manage Money

Vangile Makwakwa
Relationship dynamics and money

 

Most of us aren’t aware of how deeply our childhood and the relationship we have with our parents and/or siblings impacts the way we manage money.

The roles we take on as kids impact our sense of power and the power dynamics in parental relationships.

Because my greatest challenge has been the relationship with my mom, my focus has been on healing the mother wound, but the same applies with fathers.

As kids we learn very quickly what makes our mothers happy and for most of us we learn that it's being the good child, the obedient child.

How to Get Over the Fear of Asking for a Raise or Invoicing Clients

How to Get Over the Fear of Asking for a Raise or Invoicing Clients

Vangile Makwakwa
Pricing your products and services

A few weeks ago I had to ask for money owed to me from my former school in South Korea.

I literally just went back and forth with them and reminded them that we had reached an agreement 3 weeks ago on the payment amount and date and that date has passed. 

A few minutes later the money was transferred to my account and I was like: Thank you.

But then it hit me - there was a time when I would have waited and waited before asking people to pay me money they owe me. I would have created a long story and twisted myself in knots at the very idea of asking for money.

My message a few weeks ago was literally 2 sentences long and to the point.
I’m actually shocked by how much I’ve changed when it comes to asking for money that's owed to me or invoicing. 
 

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