Dear blog readers, I apologize for not posting a January 15 blog. I haven’t in the least given up on this blog and continue to be excited about the future of it. I had 5 severe sinus infections and kept thinking I’d post something in another day or two but I lost an incredible amount of energy and had severe headaches. The good news is I am now feeling much better and am ready to get on with the future of this blog. I may be making some changes to the format of this blog and the organization and approach, and I may wait till I switch to WordPress to do. I have many thoughts and plans for this blog going on and I am glad to be back writing it again.
Today I would like to talk about how learning to manage money is learning a new skill and can be compared to learning in a school classroom or learning any new skill. It is a common experience for people to experience guilt, shame and a lot of negative energy when they haven’t fine tuned their money management skills as far as they liked. I certainly have. It also is common for people to experience lower self esteem when they aren’t far enough along in their own eyes in their money management journey; however, having low self esteem or feeling guilty doesn’t help you manage money better. Feeling bad about yourself could affect your immune system, physical health, mental health and spiritual health and will make it more difficult to learn a new skill, not easier.
Our culture sometimes tells up to criticize ourselves for our mistakes instead of celebrate the wonderful things we have learned from them and celebrate that we are now closer to success because of the valuable education we experienced from making a mistake.
Money management is a skill and learning to manage money is something we learn, not that different from taking a class in a classroom. There are literal classes in money management and books and articles on the topic, but if you aren’t in a literal class, I challenge you to think of your informal learnings from books, articles and valuable experiences (the value from experiences is ofter overlooked) as being similar to a class. As you put together what you learned from experience with what you have read in a book or online, it is not that different than putting together stuff for a paper or studying for an exam.
The difference lies in that we don’t think of our experiences being as valuable and educational as they are. Also, if you didn’t get a concept right away in a class, you might not criticize yourself the way you do if you don’t learn from a life lesson right away. Learning in life isn’t that different from learning in a class, and there is no need to criticize yourself, put guilt or shame on yourself, because your learning process took longer. Learning is a beautiful thing no matter how long it takes. Education is always valuable and good.
Let’s stay positive and upbeat about all our learnings in a class or in life because they are all good!
Copyright, Sandie Edwards, January 31, 2023.
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