The #1 Reason Why You’re Always Broke

My friend, listen…I want to help you. So please keep reading about the #1 reason why you’re always broke. And the surprising thing is that it has nothing to do with money!

You are frustrated, tired of being broke and ready for a change in the way things are.

I’ve come to give you hope. Because that change can happen today!

It all starts with one small step and one small change at a time.

Money Mindset

First and foremost the number one reason why you are always broke and in debt is because of your money mindset. I know that is probably not what you expected to hear. But it is the truth.

You can read about budgets and how to cut household costs all day long but until you let your mind make a shift, there isn’t much that will be done.

You can even try to put things into action and you might do well with it for the first few weeks, maybe even a month or two, but until you change your money mindset, you’ll fall off the wagon just as quickly as you jumped on it.

The mindset that you have about money most likely comes from what you have heard from your childhood or what you lived through as a child. Money mindsets can last from generation to generation but it can stop with you. There’s no need to pass a faulty mindset about money to your children.

But how can you change your mindset about the very thing that we all need the most? It comes with the knowledge that money cannot control you. You control it. You can control where your money goes. You can control how much you spend and where to spend it.

Money has a way of having control over what you spend and how you spend. Whether a person saves like crazy and never spends a dime or whether a person spends every dime they have the first day they get their paycheck, it all falls to the money mindset they have.

Changing the way you think about money makes all the difference in how you spend.

Money Motivation

Here are 17 motivating quotes on money and wealth that are powerful and helpful.

“Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.”
William A. Ward
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
Seneca
“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”
Ayn Rand
“Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shuts down for ten years.”
Warren Buffett
“Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.”
Erich Fromm
“Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.”
Jim Rohn
“The person who doesn’t know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn’t know where his last dollar went.”
Unknown
“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”
Zig Ziglar
“It doesn’t matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You’re still left alone with yourself in the end.”
Billy Idol
“It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.”
George Lorimer
“I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.”
Robert Bosch
“That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.”
Kahlil Gibran
“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
Henry David Thoreau
“If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.”
Ben Franklin
“It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages.”
Henry Ford

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Money Affirmations

Affirmations are another form of speaking life into your world. The Bible says in Proverbs 18:21 that there is power of life and death in the tongue. What you say is powerful. Very powerful.

Biblical affirmations have great meaning and significance in the person who speaks it by faith. There is scripture after scripture where the Bible states that it is a gift from God to be wealthy. But just how well are you stewarding that wealth?

Here are 7 money affirmations with scriptures to support these affirmations:

I openly receive the blessing of wealth.
“The blessing of the Lord brings wealth, without painful toil for it.” Proverbs 10:22
I am so blessed that I have no choice but to prosper.
“The Lord will make you prosper abundantly.” Deuteronomy 28:11
The Lord will open the windows of Heaven and allow financial rain to fall on me.
“The Lord will open for you His abundant storehouse, the sky, to give your land rain in its season and to bless all the work of your hands.” Deuteronomy 28:12
I am wealthy and I do not have the need to borrow from anyone. I am debt-free.
“You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.” Deuteronomy 28:12
I live a blessed and happy life because it is a gift from God.
“It is also the gift of God whenever anyone eats, drinks, and enjoys all his efforts.”
Ecclesiastes 3:13
I happily receive the gift of wealth and riches that is freely given by God.
“Everyone to whom God has given riches and wealth, he has also allowed him to enjoy them, take his reward, and rejoice in his labor. This is a gift of God.” Ecclesiastes 5:19
I am under the covenant of God and I have been given the power to gain wealth.
“Remember that the Lord your God gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm his covenant he swore to your fathers, as it is today.” Deuteronomy 8:18

If you like to speak more life into your finances you can read the article 10 Scriptures To Speak For Financial Freedom. This has many great scriptures that confirm God’s will for us to be financially blessed when we are in line with His Word.

If you would like to learn more from the experts, I would suggest listening to podcasts, youtube and follow people like Dave Ramsey, Chris Hogan, Rachel Cruz, and Talaat and Tai with His and Her Money. There are many more that could be named but you can start with these few and grow from there.

Just remember the #1 reason why you are always broke, and that is because of your money mindset. It’s what you “think” you can and cannot do. The money that you make should not control you and your thoughts. It shouldn’t make you stressed. If you’re feeling overly stressed, perhaps you should take a long hard look at how you are managing your money and where it goes once it leaves your hands.

Money motivational quotes and Biblical affirmations of scripture are a great way to begin a different mindset about money.