What’s Money Got to Do With It?

By Laura Longville

Does your spending reflect you? Your relationship with money will determine your success in life. Consciously and intentionally knowing how money impacts your life will transform your relationship with money.

What you think and feel about money effects how you handle your money. This is at the core of how you participate in life. Money influences many areas of your life, including your career, family and friends, health, retirement, spiritual life, and how you choose to invest your time.

Many people are uncomfortable talking about money. They have trouble dealing with money objectively and productively. For many, it tends to be more difficult to talk about money without getting irrational and upset than to talk about sex or childhood trauma.

Consciously knowing your money personality style can transform your relationship with money! It will also impact your business and personal relationships. The Money Personality Quiz examines which of five major money personality types describe your tendencies. Bear in mind that each type has both good qualities and shortcomings, and that most people are in fact a combination of types. There’s no need to worry about the outcome. Instead, try having fun with this quiz. Knowing your money style will enable you to change your money style to better serve you and help you attain your outrageous dreams and goals. Take the Money Style Quiz

Couples tend to polarize into oppositional attitudes and behaviors about money and attack each other for their differences. If one thought money was the key to love and happiness, the other considered it a source of corruption and suffering. If one wanted to put their money in joint accounts, the other wanted to keep in separate. If one wanted to save the other spends. In addition to knowing your money style, understanding how your spending patterns impact your goals, dreams and aspirations can help you align your spending with the things that matter most to you.

The Couples Budget Quiz can help couples examine how they are spending money, and understand how money is effecting their relationship. The quiz enables couples to create an open dialogue about their strengths and weaknesses in regards to their spending. Take the FREE quiz to move your relationship closer to what is important in your life. This quiz can help you understand your differences and find healthy ways to resolve them. Take the Couples Budget Quiz

Take pro-active practical steps toward your financial goals and life aspirations. Be your money's steward instead of its servant.

About the author: Laura Longville helps people transform their relationship with money so they can live a passionate and fulfilling life. Laura has worked as a therapist and life coach for over 20 years. To learn more about her life-transforming programs and sign up for further FREE tips like these, visit her site at www.inatm.com.