Coaching practices for More Money Mindset
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I keep telling myself life will finally feel okay once I earn or save a certain amount, but I’ve hit those numbers before and the relief never lasts
- I just got the raise and I can already feel myself mentally spending it
- Someone offers me extra paid work and I say yes almost on reflex because the money is right there in front of me
- There’s a job that pays more but eats my evenings, and a longer commute that saves a little cash, and I keep instinctively grabbing the money option
- I make a lot more than I used to and somehow feel exactly as stretched
Practices that may help
- Recognize and counter money worship scripts
"More money will solve everything" keeps the finish line permanently out of reach.
Money Scripts, Made Practical - Pre-commit a raise before you touch it
Direct a fixed percentage of any income increase to savings before it hits your spending account.
Lifestyle Creep: Why Raises Don’t Make You Richer - The Psychology of Money, Made Practical
Morgan Housel’s core claim is that doing well with money is mostly about behavior, not intelligence: ordinary people who control their emotions can outperform experts who don’t. The ideas (enough, room for error, the power of patience) are framings drawn from behavioral economics and financial history rather than a single controlled study — useful as mindset, not as advice. - Actively choose time over money at decision points
People who habitually trade money for time report higher life satisfaction than those who do the reverse.
Time Smart: Buying Back Your Time Affluence - Choose time over money on purpose
When trade-offs arise, weight time more heavily than the extra dollars.
Time Affluence, Made Practical - Catch and stop lifestyle creep
Spending silently rises to swallow every raise unless you intercept it on purpose.
The Enough Mindset, Made Practical - Define "enough" before you need it
Name the point past which more money no longer buys you anything you value.
The Psychology of Money, Made Practical - Apply the "value per dollar" test to major purchases
Before a large purchase, ask how much wellbeing per dollar this generates relative to alternatives at the same cost.
Values-Based Spending, Made Practical - Treat money as fungible across the buckets
A dollar is a dollar no matter which mental account it sits in — decide accordingly.
Mental Accounting, Made Practical - Money Scripts, Made Practical
Money scripts are unconscious beliefs about money, typically formed in childhood, that drive adult financial behavior regardless of what we consciously know. Brad Klontz’s research identifies four clusters — money avoidance, money worship, money status, and money vigilance — each associated with distinct financial outcomes. Identifying and challenging your dominant scripts is the first step toward behavior change that actually sticks.
Related concerns
- The Psychology Of Money In A New Job
Morgan Housel’s core claim is that doing well with money is mostly about behavior, not intelligence: ordinary people who control their emotions can outperform experts who don’t. The ideas (enough, room for error, the power of patience) are framings drawn from behavioral economics and financial history rather than a single controlled study — useful as mindset, not as advice.
- Money Beliefs
Name the specific beliefs about money you absorbed growing up before you can examine them.
Surface your dominant money scripts
- Relationship With Money
Money avoidance — "money is bad," "rich people are greedy" — leads to self-sabotage disguised as virtue.
Recognize and counter money avoidance patterns
- Dunn And Norton Happy Money
Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton’s research found that spending money on others — "prosocial spending" — reliably produces more happiness than spending the same amount on oneself, across income levels and cultures. The effect is real and replicates, though it is not unlimited: how you give matters as much as whether you give.
- Money Belief Origin
Understanding where a belief came from makes it easier to examine whether it still applies.
Trace money scripts to their origin to weaken their grip
- Money Is Bad Belief
Money avoidance — "money is bad," "rich people are greedy" — leads to self-sabotage disguised as virtue.
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