How To Recover Financially From Divorce
By Carol Ferguson. Posted on .
1. Find something that can educate you. Learn about creating more income, managing money or something educational about finance.
2. Do something you love. I'm a big believer in do what you love, because when you do what you love, the money just flows. When you're in your passion, when you're in love of what you're doing, then everything just seems to. I know for me, the experience, everything seems to flow and everything falls into place for me. And when I do things that I think or someone else says you should do this, that's where I always falter. But when I do something that I absolutely love, the blessings just flow.
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3. Don't be afraid of money. Sometimes women aren't used to dealing with money and have been dependent on their partner or their husband to take care of those kinds of thing. Don't be afraid of it. Look at it as a game and "oh, here's a game and I'm going to learn how to play it."
It is a game, and it is something that is learnable. It has nothing to do with sex, but we as women have more stigma around money because we are bred that men are stronger. Men are the stronger of the sex, and we are the weaker of the sexes. They are the providers, they are the protectors, they are the ones that should be taking care of us and they are they hunters. We are the gatherers.
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So it's DNA and that's something that men don't have to deal with. They just go out, they produce, they bring the money and that's it. They go, they hunt, they kill the deer, they bring it home and we eat it. So for women to say "oh now I have to go out, create money, go hunting and kill it and bring it home." puts us out of our feminine energy and into our masculine. Keep reading ...
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