🫵 Your money emotions
🟣 And a special gift to your financial self
⏱️ The plan for your 6 minutes of financial self-care:
It’s all about you today.
Discover your money emotions.
By doing these two really simple exercises.
Then choose your next Money Feelings session.
And discover a really special gift for your financial self.
🟣 But first, if someone forwarded you this email, Money Feelings is your weekly dose of financial self-care designed to:
Kiss your negative money mindsets and behaviors goodbye.
Grow your financial wisdom in style: less jargon, more emotion.
Increase your financial well-being, one feeling at a time.
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Hello you 💜
The key to changing your behavior, is understanding the emotional drivers behind your behavior.
No one here is singling out your compulsive chocolate egg-eating behavior over the weekend.
I'm simply referencing something financial psychologist Fleur Iannazzo mentioned last week, which will be our focus today:
Understanding the emotional drivers behind our money behaviors.
And we’ll do it just as she suggested.
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Get a big piece of paper and a pen
Write MONEY in the middle
Set a timer for three minutes
And finish this sentence: “MONEY is”
Some additional guidance from Fleur:
There'll be a point where you just go “oh I've run out of words” but push through it.
Have a note of what's coming out on the paper, especially the stuff that sounds irrational.
That’s when it bypasses the thinking part of your brain and it gets to the feeling part of your body.
Just go with the flow, you'll find it really interesting!
Let’s go ⏱️
Now, what do we do with all this introspection?
We could buy this candle and hope for the best.
Or we could look at this piece of paper and find out:
Which emotions enable our negative money behaviors?
Which emotions create obstacles to achieving financial goals?
Which emotions interfere with our capacity to save and invest wisely?
Which emotions undermine our confidence in managing money effectively?
Which emotions stop us from the financial freedom to make our life choices?
If it’s unclear to you, you could:
Take another piece of paper
Make two categories
HELPFUL emotion vs. NOT HELPFUL emotion
Because I research and write Money Feelings for you 🫡 , I was hoping you could share the emotions you find NOT HELPFUL with me.
It would help me understand what you need and how to prioritize your next Money Feelings sessions.
You can share them publicly in the comments:
Privately by messaging me:
Or completely anonymously by voting (I won’t see who answered what):
If you're thinking about money coaching, I'm thrilled to share a special gift tailored to your financial journey.
Fleur Iannazzo offers all Money Feelings paid subscribers a 25% discount on Pay As You Go coaching sessions (the Original price is £200 per session).
Thank you, Fleur!
To take advantage, you need to be a Money Feelings subscriber and contact me to get your special discount code:
If you have doubts, here are resources about Fleur’s practice that you might find helpful. But don’t hesitate to contact her directly if you have any questions. She’s brilliant!
To know more about her and her services.
To listen to her in last week’s session.
To discover her own money story.
You can also browse other exclusive offers on this page:
Et voilà
[Week 1] Discover ⏱️ 5 minutes — ✅
[Week 2] Master ⏱️ 18 minutes — ✅
[Today] Reflect ⏱️ 6 minutes — ✅
Well done for dedicating 29 minutes to your financial self!
Consider the last three weeks as a warm-up… And brace yourselves for deeper dives into more specific topics at the intersection of finance and psychology.
If you want to explore further before our next session, I’ve included a mixtape of quality content below.
See you soon for more (Money) Feelings.
Pauline
[⏱️ 15 sec] A meme that summarizes what most of us feel about money
[⏱️ 3 min] An infographic to discover your money love language
[⏱️ 3:35 min] A song to break the money taboo
[⏱️ 5 min] An Investopedia page about psychology
[⏱️ 8 min] A magazine article about “loud budgeting”
[⏱️ 16 min] A podcast to cultivate a wealthy mindset
[⏱️ 6 hours] An audiobook to explore the psychology of money
[⏱️ 4 days] An online training to boost your Money EQ
[⏱️ 1 year] A Master of Science in behavioral finance
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