What Does Money Mean to You?

Money Education Steps

How many times have you heard “we can’t afford that” while you were growing up?

I heard it quite often myself. It just seemed something natural at the time. From a very early age I was very much aware of the price of things, almost to the point where I knew that everything that surrounded me had a tag number.

Even though it is important to know that we live in societies that use money as an exchange tool, it is equally valuable to ingrain this awareness without negative energy clinging to it.

The way I was taught on the subject (and probably you and many others from our generation) was always with a not so positive meaning through words and actions that we’d end up mirroring later in life.

Of course our parents wanted the best for us, it was simply lack of awareness of their own behaviours and words towards this tool — just like the parents before them and so forth — that would cause this “education”.

Why is Money such a Sensitive Topic?

The most common associations to this asset are:

1. That it is dirty

Money is hard to earn. You have to sell your soul to get money. You have to work at a job you hate to earn a living. What matters is to be rich…