Financial Autonomy

Episode 70 – Financial Anxiety - is it holding you back? I’ve spoken in past episodes about the potential for overwhelm to lead to procrastination. Procrastination is evil because it results in no progress. You’re stuck in the cement. But there’s another element to the no-progress problem, and that is financial anxiety or financial stress. If you’ve never worried about money in your life, I’d say you are a very rare human being. For most of us, most of the time, money worries are a transient thing that we get through, and then move on to planning our next holiday or getting the kids to basketball practice. But having worked with many, many people over the years, I’ve come to recognise that often, the reason we don’t make progress on the big, really important life and financial goals, is because of financial anxiety. So in today’s episode, we’re going to explore what are the most common causes of this financial stress, and some strategies you might be able to use to reduce or perhaps even remove this worry,