You cannot chase money - you need to meet it halfway (Aristotle Onassis) “We all come from childhood,” and our ideas about money come from there too. When a client comes to me with a request about money, I usually invite him to remember and write in a column from five to ten phrases about money that he heard in childhood. The most common ones are: “money doesn’t buy happiness”, “money is evil”, “it’s better to be poor but honest”, etc. But among them there is a special and very significant phrase - “NO MONEY.” Let's imagine how a child feels when he hears these words in response to his desires? Perhaps anger, resentment... But I really feel like there’s a certain doom here. After all, you can refuse in different ways. Say, for example: “We have other purchases planned today,” or explain why your son doesn’t need a ninth car in his toy garage. After all, children are not born with the ability to set priorities and highlight the most important things; we must teach them this. So, returning to the “no money” attitude, I suggest the client write next to a phrase that has the opposite meaning. Most often it is “there is money.” At this time, I carefully observe his facial expression and ask the question: “What are you feeling now?” Reactions can be different - even hysterical laughter happens. But most often it is distrust and surprise: how? do they exist?.. And so on down the list we work with all the negative attitudes. We obtain invaluable material for analysis directly from the subconscious. Another favorite exercise of mine is to create a formula for financial success. Its essence is as follows: I invite the client to imagine that he has 1 million conventional units at his disposal, and he needs to decide how to spend this money. You need to write down your thoughts on this matter on a piece of paper. (I must say that at first many people fall into a stupor - it is difficult for them to even imagine having such an amount in their possession.) When the list is ready, we begin to analyze it. Our task is to distribute all expenses into four areas: household needs, development, pleasure and charity. Then we remember the mathematics and calculate the percentages - how much money is spent in each direction. When the numbers are ready, we discuss them, and in conclusion I give a formula for financial success, according to which the material side of any person’s life will find harmony. And it looks like this: household needs (groceries, utility bills, other monthly expenses) - 40%, development (cash deposits, education of children, attending trainings and other forms of personal improvement) - 25%, pleasures (all that helps restore our resources: travel, visiting massage parlors and swimming pools, self-care, traditional family gatherings in a pizzeria, etc.) - 25% and charity (some donate for the construction of churches and monasteries, others buy necessities for orphanages or boarding schools , some prefer to help animal shelters, while others will find a way to help a lonely old woman who is finding it difficult to live on a small pension) - 10%. In fact, there are many such formulas, but this one is closer to me. Practice shows that over time, if a person adjusts his expenses to these figures, his financial situation improves significantly. Readers can use these techniques on their own and understand a lot about themselves and their attitude towards money. In modern society, the following rule applies: many have lost their health, trying to earn all the money that can be earned; and then lost all the money trying to regain their health. Unfortunately, people often realize this too late. There are several important points here: If a person strives only for money, he will receive ONLY MONEY. Many people do not take into account that money is only a means to satisfy needs, and they put money for the sake of money at the forefront. It is not without reason that in the most economically developed countries with high income levels, the most common mental illness is depression, and the most