It’s the first day of the 21 day Money Mindset challenge and I’m so excited to have you follow me on this journey.

February 2011, I purchased a bottle of Dom Pérignon Champagne to celebrate overcoming a big obstacle to achieving my financial dreams.

My Childhood Introduction About Money

I grew up with a lot of extreme emotional and phyical abuse about money. I just wasn’t getting the message on the evils of money.

My goal since a young girl: To become "filthy" "stinking" Rich. (notice the words in quotation marks, we’ll talk about them in a moment)

Ooops wrong life pursuit for someone coming from a religaholic family who believes the only honor one can achieve is to become a priest… Oops… I messed up again, I came into the world as the wrong sex. No priesthood for me.

Growing up I receiving a litany of rules concerning life and money. Happiness is not found here on earth. All rewards come after you die. We’re not here to enjoy life. Money is evil. My dreams came from the devil.

My high driving, ambitious personality became my parents mission to save me from myself.

My father though I kept missing my mother’s message that I’m doomed for hell. So one day he yanked me off the kitchen chair and dragging me to the stove and place my hand above the flames.

I actually lost those memories and hardly remembered anything about my childhood.

My parent did a lot of damage to my core identity and it would take over 4 years of intensive therapy to recover my sense of self.

I originally went into therapy because I read enough books to know I was sabotaging my goals so they wouldn’t come true. During this time, I recovered many of my lost memories and dealt with many issues while putting myself of sense back together.

Many of my other goals started to happened, but for some reason my financial ones kept eluding me. No matter what I did.

I knew everything my parents told me was a lie. All the personal development, visualization, law of attraction, affirmation etc. still left me stuck. When my father died several years ago, I visualized burying all the "crap" with him.

Still no progress. I continued to experience financial struggles even when generating 6 figure income. I became more and more frustrated.

What was still deep down inside me that kept my financial dreams away? While I intellectually did the right things to attract money, I didn’t know I was pushing it away.

I would create one financial mess after another and swore every time one got cleaned up, I would manage my money better. I couldn’t break this vicious cycle. I soon realized that unless I got help, maybe go back into therapy, it didn’t matter how much income came in, financial struggling would be a way of life.

The Money Miracle

I prayed for a money miracle because I did it again. No money showed up. Instead I received an ebook from somebody I met at business seminar. She asked everybody from the seminar if we would review a book she wrote.

I met her earlier on Facebook and looked forward to personally meeting her at the seminar. I totally misjudge what she did. I thought she was another one of those "Law of Attraction" people.

When I read her book, I went OMG!!!!! Yes, there was something or should I say someone still lurking deep down inside called a Money Monster.

Boy did I misunderstood what Morgana Rae did. She’s actually a money relationship coach.  I was so impressed with the ebook, I purchased her Financial Alchemy workbook and CD.

Morgana recommends the first thing you do is identify your negative beliefs about money.

If you remember when I mentioned my childhood goal, I included the words, filthy and stinking.

Often theses are the types of words associated with the wealthy and money.

My parents told me to aspire to obtain wealth was selfish and/or self centered attitude. Man I don’t know how many time I was told what a selfish human being I was. Of course this kind of attitude was a ticket to hell.

I recently came across an article asking which city has the most billionaires. N.Y. City came out the current champion boasting 60 super "extra disgustingly" rich.

I guess if you rise above millionaire status you become extra disgusting.

Honestly who wants to be associated with those kinds of words?

Your 21 Day Money Mindset Step:

Download today’s action sheet for your Money Mindset Playbook and complete Day One’s Action Steps. (use the form below to the start 21 Day Money Mindset Challenge) You’ll find the download link in your email.

Coming Up Next:

Tomorrow I’ll reveal my financial breakthrough and ways this hidden "money monster" attacked my success.

By the way feel free to share below any of your negative money beliefs.

Ann Rusnak

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Other posts of the series

1. [Money Mindset Challenge] Day 21 - The Eighth Step Toward Riches
2. [Money Mindset Challenge] Day 20 - Forgiving Mistakes
3. [Money Mindset Challenge] Day 19 - The Law of Circulation
4. [Money Mindset Challenge] Day 18 - Attitude of Gratitude
5. [Money Mindset Challenge] Day 17 - Simple Steps to Stop Lack Mentality
6. [Money Mindset Challenge] Day 16 - Picture Yourself With Money
7. [Money Mindset Challenge] Day 15 - How Money Works
8. [Money Mindset Challenge] Day 14 - Your Most Important Relationship
9. [Money Mindset Challenge] Day 13 - Stopping Fear
10. [Money Mindset Challenge] Day 12 - Money Affirmation Video
11. [Money Mindset Challenge] Day 11 - Disarming Your Money Critic
12. [Money Mindset Challenge] Day 10 - Self Worth and Net Worth
13. [Money Mindset Challenge] Day 9 - Healthy Money Relationship
14. [Money Mindset Challenge] Day 8 - Making Room for Money
15. [Money Mindset Challenge] Day 7 - Power of Your Subconscious Mind
16. [Money Mindset Challenge] Day 6 - The Truth About Sowing and Reaping
17. [Money Mindset Challenge] Day 5 - Ooh La La I Like Him
18. [Money Mindset Challenge] Day 4 - Your Secret Companion
19. [Money Mindset Challenge] Day 3 - Talk Nice To Money
20. [Money Mindset Challenge] Day 2 - Big, Bad and Menancing
21. [Money Mindset Challenge] Day 1 - The Money Miracle (This post)