Free up your money motivation!

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Michael Felberbaum, One of Thousands of Life Coaches on Noomii.

If you’re like most people, you don’t want to be perceived as selfish or greedy. So, when you have personal interests that call for making more money, it might pose a real internal conflict for you. You can ease this internal tension by thinking bigger about the outcomes of your income.

Let’s say you have a growing desire to travel and you simply can not afford it based on your current income. No matter how creative you get with your plans, they still require you to make more money than you do currently. Since, like just about everyone else, you don’t want to feel selfish, you may be stuck between viewing your plans and interests as self-indulgent on one hand and feeling trapped where you are on the other.

You can free up this common logjam by envisioning the beneficial outcomes of your income. For example, spending money on traveling and vacations might seem self-indulgent until you consider who else might benefit from your travels. Will you start a blog to share your experiences? Who will you meet while you’re traveling? How will they benefit? When you consider the broader outcomes on others, it will free you up to get excited about making more money. Who knows what options a broader perspective might open?

I’m not suggesting that greed and selfishness don’t exist, nor that you justify extravagant expenditures based on a false sense of benefit to others. The point is to expand your circle of outcomes so that you see your income, and its outcomes, as part of a process of you growing as an individual. When you incorporate the benefit to others in your travels, or any other personal interest for that matter, making more money to support your experience becomes a larger endeavor and ultimately more rewarding. With that mindset, there is no tug-of-war between selfishness and your personal interests.