Editor's Note: The following article is an excerpt from "Suzanne Whang's Guide to Happy Home Buying."
This may be the most important part of my book. I've prepared what I call my "Financial Abundance Worksheet." I've developed this over years of meeting with people individually to help them increase their financial abundance. What follows is a list of things to do to assist you financially in meeting your goal of home ownership. There is no science, no tried-and-true method to some of these suggestions. Feel free to pick and choose the ones that make sense to you.
Financial Abundance Worksheet
1. Buy a notebook specifically for your financial abundance work.
2. Write down your perception of each of your parents' individual beliefs about money and their behavior with money. If your parents' beliefs or behaviors have changed from when you were a kid, then write that down too. If you weren't raised by your parents, do this exercise for whoever raised you.
3. Record your beliefs about money and your behavior with it. Answer these questions:
a. Do you believe that it's somehow romantic or more noble to be a struggling person than a financially abundant one?
b. Do you believe that you deserve to be rich?...
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