Josip Sesar

THE ROAD TO financial freedom begins not in a bank or even in a financial planner’s office like mine, but in your head. It begins with your thoughts.
And those thoughts, more often than not, stem from our seemingly forgotten past with money. I’ll go so far as to say that in my experience, most of my clients’ biggest problems in life today—even those that appear on the surface not to be money related—are directly connected with their early, formative experiences with money.
So the first step toward financial freedom is a step back in time to the earliest moments you can recall when money meant something to you, when you truly understood what it could do. When you began to see that money could create pleasure ice-cream cones, merry-go-round rides; and also to see that it could create pain—fights between your parents, perhaps, or longings of your own that couldn’t be fulfilled because there wasn’t enough money or even because there was too much. When you first understood that money was not just a shiny object or something to color on. When you understood that money was money. I want you to think back and see that your feelings about money today (fearing it, enjoying it, loving it, hating it) can almost certainly be traced to an incident, possibly forgotten until now, from your past.