There is a secret for success that many people miss and it makes financial freedom so much easier to attain: When your money reflects your values, success compounds naturally.
Designing your success systems in alignment with your values and your purpose creates compounding results that go far beyond the numbers in your bank account.
Why are your values important?
There are many reasons why your values matter, but the short answer to the question is that your values influence the way you think, which drives the actions you are willing (or not willing) to take, and that affects your results.
In other words, aligning yourself fully with your values is the key to fulfilling your purpose and achieving success.
Since your values affect the way you think, building success must start in the mind first. When you are designing your success systems and daily routines, consciously aligning your daily habits with your values will give you greater staying power, making it easier to reach your goals, financially and otherwise.
To start to define the values that drive your thoughts and behaviors ask yourself the following questions:
- When have you felt most out of synch in your life? What was most out of balance?
- Who do you most admire and why?
- If you had to teach one thing, what would you choose?
- When do you feel the most alive and/or the most satisfied?
- What is an injustice that deeply upsets you?
- From your life, if there was one lesson or truth that everyone in the world would have to use, what would you share? Why is it so important?
Take your time with these questions. Dig underneath your answers to find the core ideals, standards and beliefs that align with your values.
For example, if you felt out of synch at a job where your efforts weren’t truly appreciated, did you feel disrespected, stifled, or let down in some way? As you examine your feelings in the situation, you will find that one or more of your values was compromised, making you feel out of alignment.
Conversely, during your times of greatest happiness, you will see that your values were in complete alignment with the situation.
When you define the values that truly make you tick, you can then start to align your goals and success systems with them, making it much easier to make decisions and act on them, keeping yourself perfectly in line with your bigger vision of success.
That will give you compounding results in all areas of your life!
Wealth as a legacy of alignment.
It’s important to remember that wealth comes in many forms, such as love, time, joy, health, and community, as well as money.
Many people think of legacy as what is left after you are gone…but our legacies are built in the now, with every heart we touch. It is created in your actions and the interactions you have every minute of the day. Each one has a result that comes with it.
When your actions and interactions are fully in alignment with who you are at the core and the legacy you want to leave behind, magic happens.
Your complete authenticity builds trust because the alignment speaks to the hearts and minds of the people around you. It connects on a deeper level than words can convey, and that brings opportunities to you, which will lead to your success in every area of your life, including financial.
To start building wealth in all it’s forms as a legacy of alignment, you must shine the spotlight on the things that are out of alignment in your life. Once you know what they are, you can then take action to get back on track with your values, your bigger purpose and your financial planning.
To do it, ask yourself:
- What isn’t working?
- What do you dread?
- What stops you from reaching your goals?
- What do you keep putting off and why?
- What/who drains you?
The answers to these questions will help you create an action plan toward greater authenticity, alignment and the compounding results that lead to your success! They will also help you discover where and how you want to build your monetary wealth and your financial success systems.
Designing financial systems that sustain your success.
Attaining financial freedom will make it much easier to dedicate yourself to the things that are most important to your legacy. When we think about the areas of wealth beyond money, financial freedom gives you the time and mental energy to enjoy more of them. That means you can make a greater impact all around when you attain financial freedom.
Financial freedom frees you to do the things that matter most to you…which is where your bigger vision and your legacy lives!
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Like any other goal, when you align your financial systems with your values and your greater purpose, it will make it easier to accomplish. Investing in stocks, businesses and other assets that are in sync with the things that matter most to you, will make you feel good about your money. And when you feel good about it, you will have greater motivation to keep doing the things that help you build your wealth.
Develop your personal criteria for wealth building by exploring the following questions:
- What are deal breakers for you in your investments? (eg. Tobacco, unethical labor practices, Unacceptable advertising content and practices, etc.)
- What positive change do you want your investments to make?
- Are there social or environmental issues you want to help solve?
- What are the most important principles of your legacy?
These questions will help you better understand what is most important to you which will guide you as you develop your investment portfolio.
Before you invest, do your research, improve your financial literacy, learn how money works for women and men, and gain money mastery. The more you understand the easier it will be to get compounding results. I also suggest to all my clients to engage with a financial advisor or money mentor with a proven track record and a repeatable financial success system.
Remember, if an investment doesn’t feel good to you—for any reason—don’t invest! It doesn’t matter what anyone else says. Always trust your gut. Combined with education, it will never lead you astray and it will keep you in alignment with the things that matter most to you.
Once you have your investing structure, automate your contributions. Automation is a financial success system that helps your money make money without needing constant oversight. Those consistent contributions, even if they are small at first, will add up over time giving you a pool of funds to invest in more income producing assets. And when the income from your assets exceeds your monthly expenses- you have attained financial freedom!
To build on that, it’s important to explore all the ways you can make money…and for that you need to understand your Personal Success Equation.
Your Personal Success Equation.
Part of the process for financial success is understanding your Personal Success Equation. Whether you realize it or not, you already have the talent and ability to create the success you desire, financially and beyond. Your abilities are part of your personal success formula.
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Your personal success formula will help you identify your why (your purpose) and give you a framework upon which you can build your financial success. Whether that’s running your own business, building your own assets or investing in other ways, attaining greater financial freedom will help you live your dream and build your legacy.
This kind of purpose-driven prosperity matters because it helps you make better headway with your financial goals. Many people don’t understand that, which is why they continue to make choices that cause them to live beyond their budgets, keeping them stuck in a never-ending cycle of debt.
To break that cycle, link your wealth building activities (including reducing your debt) to the bigger picture and the things that most matter to you.
For example, if connection is one of your core values it’s important to understand that everything you needlessly spend money on takes you away from the people who matter most.
How?
Every extra dollar you put on your credit card increases the principal amount owed, the interest incurred and the minimum payments required. That means you have to work more to pay off that extra debt. Those extra hours working will take you away from the people who matter most to you, eroding the time you have to connect with them.
By understanding this, wouldn’t it help you stay on track with your financial goals?
From this perspective, it is clear then that when your money reflects your values and your financial systems align with your purpose, you will achieve compounding results that extend far beyond your bank account balance.
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