Affirmation time
2006-07-11, 9:36 a.m.

I went to my primary care doc yesterday and he referred me to an ankle specialist. I have to call today to make an appointment. Other than that, I did nothing special yesterday.

Yesterday before I left work, I made a financial plan. If I stick to it, I'll have over $5,000 in savings this time next year. I've decided that I must be doing something very wrong. I make more than some families make who have a house, and kids, and cars, and they get by just fine. I really think I need to adjust my thinking. Yeah, I can plan for this, and budget that, but if I'm always thinking that I don't have enough money....guess what? I'll never have enough money. So I've got to start changing that. I need to affirm that I have enough to live comfortably.

Seeing as I grew up in a house where money was tight, I think I learned how to always feel like I didn't have enough. It was ingrained in me. Now that I do pretty well financially, it seems that I never have enough. When logically, on paper, I do have enough. Though I do wonder how families do it. I can't imagine raising two teenagers, paying a mortgage, and all that on what I make. But there I go again! Thinking it can't be done.

I have enough money to live happily and comfortably. I have enough money to live happily and comfortably. If I say it enough, I'll believe it.

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