"I don't have the money."

"I don't have the money."

No, I didn't give myself the choice. 

As I sat there looking at some one's income stat, I couldn't imagined being able to receiving that kind of money, but I longed to have extra. 

More money at the end of the month and the ability to say yes to the things I really wanted to do, but there never seemed to be enough money. 

The truth was I didn't actually know where my money was going. Sure I was paying bills and buying groceries, but I couldn't actually tell you what I was spending the money on, until I could. 

Years ago, as the holidays came around again and I wondered how we pay for Christmas, I decided I was ready to look at where my money was going, so I could choose how I really wanted to spend it. 

For a month, I spent as I regularly would, but I wrote down each expense. I figured out where all the money was going in a typical month. That's it. I didn't try to change anything then, just brought awareness to how I was spending my money. 

Once, I knew where it was going, I then gave myself the incredible opportunity to choose how I spent my money. For instance, I saw very quickly that we were spending over $200/month on take out pizza. And while we love our pizza nights, I got to choose if I wanted to actually spend that much on pizza. The truth was, I didn't but I was never aware of the totally cost at once, so it didn't seem like much to me. 

I did this for all of our spending categories and simply knowing where my money was going empowered me to choose how I really wanted to spend my money. It wasn't that I didn't have the money, I had never given myself the chance to actually choose. I let money happen to me, instead of for me. 

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