Attitude towards money

I feel that my attitude towards money has definitely changed over the years.  My wife struggles with spending.  I struggle with saving.  Good thing we are married to work together on this.  Generally, my attitude is that we spend what we need too and then we will make more.  I don’t stress too much.  My wife commented the other day on how I have been able to keep my job over the years.  Her dad seemed to lose his job every couple of years, even though he was a very good accountant.  I have never lost a job but have been able to change jobs when I felt the timing to do so came about.  I also have been blessed to have created a business that makes money for my family without me having to do the day to day tasks.  This has also made my attitude towards money more positive.

Money is not the root of evil.  Though humans have a hard time doing productive things with it when then get too much of it.

One of the things I learned this week is how important the idea of “the zone” is to me.  I find that I get “in the zone” far more easily than I probably should.  I think this has to do with my days wrestling.  I learned to have tunnel vision so I could focus only on the task at hand and not get distracted by the crowd or anything else that was going on around the wrestling mat.  Now when I am working on a project I struggle to even communicate with co-workers when it is challenging and requires my full attention.

One lesson yet to learn is how to avoid “tunnel vision” in routine things that do not require my full attention.  TV is an example.