Ages and Stages of Wealth

In these changing times, with uncertainties in the job market, the stock market, and the climate, many people are focusing their fears on money, as if money were the source of their wellbeing. Totally understandable. We’ve been taught in many ways that our survival, much less our ability to have nice things and go nice places, is a function of how much money we receive and can spend.
On top of that it’s built into the culture that we live in to think that only if we’re working hard can have (do we deserve) the funds that allow us to live well. Otherwise we’ll suffer – and, worse, be dependent on others.
Well, there’s much more to our relationship with money than that. When I teach my “Money Workshop” I offer the following chart and explain the whats and whys and wherefores of each box. 

I won’t do that here, but you may find it useful to explore it and see where you are – and have been – and where the folks who advise you are, as well. I think you will hear what they have to say in a very different way when you understand the age/stage they’re operating from when they’re sharing their current wisdom.
And, if you’re on the journey from Middle Years to Elder, you may also find the following piece from Eric Butterworth’s Spiritual Economics useful:

• I am secure, for I know who I am: a richly endowed extension/expression of the Source of All that is.
• I am secure in all I do for I know my oneness with the divine process.’
• I am secure in all I have, for I know my treasure is in my mind, not in my things.
• I live my life from day to day as if the divine supportive substance were as exhaustless and dependable as the air I breathe, which it most certainly is.

Blessings of Peaceful Prosperity be upon us all! ​