How to Create A Life of Financial Freedom

Julie Murphy • January 17, 2023

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Let me ask you: what are you choosing to focus on?

What are you choosing to energize?

So often I work with clients plus observe that many of us (yes, including me - we’re all human here!) choose to focus on the energy of what we don’t want. We stay in a victim mentality and subscribe to the story that the economy, the government, our boss, co-workers, and everyone outside of us are stopping us from creating the life we want to live.

It’s All About Awareness

This is about heightening your awareness. Pay attention to those stories, to those limited beliefs that keep you in your suffering patterns.

Shine a light on those patterns and stories.

Trust me, it’s eye-opening!

Remember, we as human beings either act things out or work them out, either through our money, our relationships, or our health.

When it comes to finances, I’d like you to think about this as becoming financially naked! Peeling back those layers and your intentions for your financial life this year.

Getting Financially Naked!

Regardless of where you are on your financial journey, the crucial thing here is your approach to creating a life of freedom and Real Wealth. You might not be aware but wherever you are, you have 6 financial buckets and today, I’d like to go through what these buckets are and how you can start to build upon each one.

Let’s first look at your money from three arenas:

- Your Financial Past

- Your Finances in the Present Moment

- Your Finances in the Future

Your financial past is your debts. It’s the choices you made in the past, that you need to pay for today. This usually comes in the form of dipping into resources from your current cash inflows to pay off those debts.

I’d like you to think about this energetically. Money is energy. So, your money energy today needs to pay for yesterday, giving you less flexibility in the present moment.

The only thing it offers you is a lack of freedom to live today, the way you may be guided to do so.

Do you want that for yourself? Yes, you might have reasons for your debts, but let’s now shift that energy to stepping into self-empowerment. Instead, choose the freedom to live the way you want - the way your soul is guiding you to live!

Which do you desire more: feeling short-term gratification with your spending OR do you prefer to have more flexibility and freedom as your life evolves?

This is what I mean by having a heightened level of awareness.

Money in the Present Moment

The second bucket is your money in the present moment. This is how your cash flows and what comes in and goes out every month. Now, many financial planners would use the word ‘budget’ here, but I choose to take a different, more empowering approach.

Having a budget for most people feels limited, so this is about you choosing to decide how you want your energy and money to flow.

To do this, you need to have an easy way for yourself to map out your weekly or monthly expenses. No daunting, fancy excel sheets are needed! Putting pen to paper works just as well here.

The key is to create awareness of how your money is flowing and then choose how you want to tweak and change it to flow in the way you desire.

Your Financial Future

Your financial flow and living in the present moment, are planting the seeds for your third bucket your future. Your intentions for that life of choice, possibility, and abundance cannot grow if you don’t plant and nurture the seeds for what you want to create.

Breaking it Down Further

Financially speaking, it’s also important to break this down into three additional timelines and buckets:

- Your Short-Term Goals

- Your Mid-Term Goals

- Your Long-Term Goals

Your short-term goals are for those seeds you want to plant for money that you will want or need within a year or two.

Your mid-term goals are 1–10-year goals.

And long-term, are those 10 years plus goals.

I’d encourage you to spend some time thinking about your financial goals from these timeline perspectives. Then you can consider if you are funding the correct number of seeds to hit those goals.

Often when we are first rearranging our money in this way, we may not have enough cash flow to fully fund them all. But remember, money is energy and even if it’s $1 (or whatever currency you are working with), that’s still planting the seed! That’s still hitting your goal of energizing what you want to create.

My intention with this blog post today is to enable you to see your money not from a place of scarcity, but from a fresh and empowering perspective. To view it through a different, more colorful, and yes - an exciting lens! For you to see the possibilities you have and choose to make different decisions based on the options you’d like to explore.

To see this shift in your financial thinking and planning as an adventure.

By operating this way with your money, it keeps your nervous system neutral. It prevents it from getting hijacked so that you can focus your energy on being in the driving seat all the way. To know that you and only you have control here - not the banks, not your job or boss, and not the economy and what’s happening within it.

YOU are the creator of your life so keep that awareness high and your energy aligned and just watch those quantum leaps occur!

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