Today, we continue our article on Freedom in our finances. How did it go with answering these questions and examining your finances? What has shifted for you?

Having a sense of freedom, peace, and calm with our finances accelerates our ability to build real wealth, to be more generous, and create much more with our God given talents and skills. As you continue to do this work this month and beyond, be willing to dig deep within yourself. You CAN change and you CAN build real wealth that transforms your life!

1. Where do you personally feel that you have a gap in what you need with your finances?
2. How clean and organized is your house?
a. Do you have one room that is always overwhelming to you because of the clutter or too much stuff?
3. Do you buy more than you need of things because you don’t know what or how much you have?
4. What is your mindset and beliefs around spending and buying?
5. What are you embracing easily with your finances?
6. What are you avoiding with your finances
7. Are you building assets and investments or are you paying interest and drowning in debt
8. What is your understanding around compound interest?
9. When you buys things, are you investing in things like education or spending on things with no return, such as coffee, eating out, etc?
10. How do you differentiate between your wants and your needs?
11. Have I forgiven myself for my past money mistakes? Have I forgiven others?
12. How much do I trust myself with money? With making it, spending it, keeping it, and growing it?
13. How much of your personal agency have you delegated to other people?
a. Your bank?
b. Your workplace?
c. The government?
d. Other people whom you make take advice from?
14. Why have you delegated your personal agency out to others, especially with finances?
a. Fear?
b. Lack of knowledge?
c. Time?
d. Lack of interest?
15. Are you aware that there is a parallel economy that runs with the “regular” economy?
16. If the world lost electricity for a week, how would you survive? Eat? Purchase things?
17. What is your level of belief that it is possible to be debt free and build real wealth?
18. Do you have an actual plan to become completely debt free?
19. Do you do business or spend your money with company’s that align with your personal values?
20. What type of bank do you bank with? How do you know if they are “healthy” financially or align with your values? That they wouldn’t “de-bank” you over political or free speech choices?
21. Do you know how to create money?
22. Why do you use credit cards?
23. What skills do you have that could be marketed, bartered, or traded for in case there was no access to physical or digital money? Example- repair cars, plumbing skills, cooking, medical, etc.
24. Do you know how to recession proof your finances?
25. How do you talk about money to other people? Do you complain about your student loan, your mortgage, credit cards, how hard it is to earn money, economic policies, etc?
26. What beliefs do I personally hold about money? Do I think I can change them?
27. Do you pray about your finances or ask God for help with them? How do you feel about asking God to help you in this area?
28. In what areas of my life do I not feel “safe” and how does money play a part in that?
29. How much gratitude do I have around my current blessings and wealth, but also my FUTURE wealth? How am I expressing it and embodying it on a consistent basis?
30.Who are you getting your financial advice from? Real people with real areas of expertise and proof that they can and have built wealth? Or are you just “googling” stuff or using AI and hoping for the best?

I hope these questions have prompted you to really think about your finances in a new way. Take time to journal about them and really take a hard look at your life in this area. We build wealth consistently over many years in many ways. ANYONE has the potential to become wealthy! It will require a great deal of focus, attention, choices, and actions on your part, but it can be very rewarding.