3 Keys to Financial Success Strategy

Align Truth, Love, and Power to Solve Money Problems

Jan 26, 2009

Learn a new financial success strategy using the three core principles: truth, love, and power.

In Personal Development for Smart People: the Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth, self-help guru Steve Pavlina identifies three core principles applicable to all forms of personal development. This article describes how one applies the three core principles, truth, love, and power, as a financial success strategy to solve money and financial problems.

Money and Personal Growth

Pavlina notes that many people who are highly conscious in other aspects of their lives treat money quite differently. Many people have love/hate relationships with money. Understanding money and one's relationship to it is an important aspect of personal growth.

What is Money?

Money is a convenient medium used to facilitate transactions. Money has no inherent value. People determine the current value of goods or services based on many variables, which often are captured by the terms supply and demand. The throw-away of one person may become the treasure of another. The services someone has to offer may be highly valued this year and of lessor value 10 years from now.

Money simply facilitates transactions, allowing goods and services to be transferred among parties without direct contact. The transactions of supplying goods and services are facilitated by money acting as a conversion device; an hour of work is converted to money based on how that hour's service is currently valued. The money earned by that hour's work can then be used to purchase a desired product or service.

Though most people understand intellectually that money has no value, in practice, money is often worshiped, feared, coveted, or despised as if it had human characteristics.

Money and Truth

The first key to financial success is to be truthful about one's relationship with money. The principle of Truth requires a person to reach an understanding of money, what it is, what having money implies, and one's beliefs about money.

Does monthly bill-paying bring on feelings of dread? Do financial discussions cause fear and cold-sweats? Do thoughts of money depress or anger?

Examining this relationship with money may reveal beliefs and attitudes that are limiting financial success.

Money Problems and Beliefs

What core beliefs are held about money? Core beliefs are deeply held thoughts about a thing that reside in the subconscious. People seldom examine their core beliefs, but it is important to do so to fully understand one's money relationship.

Love in Financial Success Strategy

The principle of love is applied to finances by strengthening the alignment between money transactions and one's life purpose. With alignment, a person can have a healthy, truthful relationship with money.

Misalignment, such as earning money by transactions that harm others, or believing that those who flourish financially must do so at the expense of others, will cause unhealthy attitudes toward money. This may actually sabotage or undermine a person's efforts at financial success.

Pavlina notes that alignment with the principle of love also involves earning money in a way that adds social value. Producing a product or service that is valued helps reinforce one's connection to others.

The Role of Power in Financial Strategy

Pavlina's use of the term power does not mean domination or control over others. Aligning financial activities with power means taking full responsibility for one's financial affairs. This involves accepting responsibility for the current monetary situation as well as taking responsibility to improve it.

Pavlina notes financial goals must be empowering to the individual to be effective. A financial goal of earning a specific amount of money may not be as empowering as a goal of providing a certain level of social value.

Personal Growth and Financial Success

Take a fresh and empowering approach to financial strategy by linking to the core principles of Truth, Love, and Power.

Source: Personal Development for Smart People, The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth, Hay House Inc. 2008

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