How to Afford

Pursuing monetary success is a path most people look for in life. It costs money to live and it costs even more money to live a life you want to live. Freedom comes with a price and that price is what it takes to be financially freedom. Finding financial freedom has as much to do with perspective on money as the money itself. Your perspective on money and how you achieve the money you desire will shape your life and shape the success or failures within it.

Are you a person who instinctively thinks, “I can’t afford that” when you see something outside of your budget? If you are, you should revisit this instinctual habit. When you tell yourself you cannot afford something you are putting an extremely visible and powerful self-limiter on yourself. What your mind tells you, your body will follow. If you are telling yourself on a frequent basis that you cannot afford, this vacation, this car, this house, this steak, this drink, you will never overcome these hurdles. You will form a habit where you accept your current circumstances and never push the boundaries of what is possible. You will be stuck in a perpetual cycle of telling yourself that you cannot. This cycle will become your new normal and you will struggle to surmount it.

Instead of saying you cannot afford something, frame your mindset to ask how you could afford that particular something. Life is a game. Life is a game of different levels, barriers, and questions that need answers. The question “how” leads you down a path of discovery. The question “how” leads you down a quest for knowledge, enhancement, and production. By stimulating your mind to think “how” when you are encountered with a financial difficulty, you are bound to uncover an answer for how you could conquer it. Asking yourself “how” creates a habit of dreaming bigger than what you already know. In these dreams, you uncover different ideas to make them come true. By asking “how” you are removing the self-limiting beliefs you place on yourself when you tell yourself you “can’t” and replace them with the infinite possibilities of what you can create.

In the monetary world, the ability to afford comes from the ability to pull liquidity out of your pocket to purchase. In the event you cannot produce a viable means of payment, your perspective for overcoming this momentary state of being “broke” comes from your mindset on how you choose to proceed. Ask “How?” Don’t tell yourself you “can’t.” Find a way to afford the life you want to live. Don’t accept your current inability as a reason that you can’t.