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Wanted - Mature Women Seeking Financial Freedom

In this priceless part of the multipurpose-Woman website we will explore, investigate, and ingest all kinds of money related issues. We’ll share what we know at the money talks discussion board.

We will ...

• read financial self help books and review them
  
• conduct job satisfaction research
  
• investigate companies we buy from and tell them how we feel about their products, services, and ways of operating in the world

We’ll become money magnets, and financial forces. Our happiness is tied to how we feel about making money so we’ll increase our joy as we become wealthy.

Can We Have Happiness & Be Wealthy?

Do you work hard? I know I do. Yet, personal finance is a challenge. Managing household finances is a burden that I put off and ignored for years. Instead of balancing my checkbook, I made art, tried to write a novel, knitted a sweater, taught workshops, read a lot of good books. When money came in, I spent it. When money was short I waited.

Money talks. Learn to listen.

Luckily some of the books I read provided me with insights into why I was sabotaging my financial happiness and how I could retrain my mind and align my actions with my goals. Lois Frankel’s Nice Girls Don't Get rich: 75 Avoidable Mistakes Women Make with Money uncovered many of my mistakes. The top ones being …

• striving for survival, not wealth
  
• operating without financial goals
  
• not trusting my intuition
  

Waiting is not the Way to Financial Freedom

A little voice started whispering to me, “Do you long to live free of money worries?” I do. I do, I assured the voice. I’d spout the Army’s “hope is not a method” catchphrase and I thought just wanting would be enough. But it’s not. Barbara Stanny’s Secrets of Six-Figure Women: Surprising Strategies to up you Earnings and Change Your Life opened my eyes to the fact that to make money you have to have the intention to make money. That’s wealthy strategy #1: The declaration of intention.

The affirmation – “I deal with and defeat my financial challenges” has helped me stop ignoring money issues. What's at the top of your money to-do list? Take the poll in the right sidebar.

Financial Freedom is Priceless

You must become conscious of personal finance fundamentals. Did you get out of school and grow up without knowing a lot about money and how it works. I did. How did this happen to us? (That’s another issue.) Here we'll join forces and learn together. We’ll brainstorm about money making ideas. We’ll warn people about scams and money pitfalls and we’ll share what’s worked for us personally.

Get started now! Visit the money discussion board and share a money tip, give your opinion on a finance book, ask a question.

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17 tips for being ready to listen when money talks

Make it your business to learn the language of money

Utilize books to gain a broad understanding of how money works

Listen to wealthy people when they talk about money

Take note of any concepts you hear or read and don't totally understand

Intend to be happy regardless of financial fluctuations

Put your money knowledge to work as you learn

Use what you have to get what you want

Read books about money, finance, and economics

Plan to be prosperous

Open your mind to accept new ideas about money, wealth, and self

Simply list your beliefs about money

Evaluate the usefulness of your beliefs about money

Write down your questions about money and find the answers

Order your finances in a simple yet comprehensive system

Manage to talk about money with those closest to you

Add up what you owe and what you own

Number your financial goals by priority