Ep 12: Why Changing Your Financial Life Is About More Than Just Learning How to Budget

Ever try a new budgeting tool and experience initial success, but then quickly slip back into old habits after a month or two?  The reason so many of us struggle with changing our financial habits and situations, even when we end up making more money, is partly because there’s not a simple, one-size-fits-all solution. After all, if it were easy you’d already be doing it!  To change a financial cycle or habit for good, you need to first change your mindset. Once you’ve changed your mindset, the changes in your daily practices flow with greater ease.  Famed psychologist and one of the founders of neuro-linguistic programming philosophy (NLP), Robert Dilts, identifies six steps that can lead to achieving change: environment, behaviors, capabilities, values and beliefs, identity, and purpose.  By applying insights from Dilts’ Six Logical Levels of Change to your financial practices, you can develop new learned behaviors and achieve your money goals — not just temporarily, but for the long haul, too.  Listen to this episode to learn: