If you’ve ever had a financial challenge (and honestly who hasn’t?!), at some point you’ve probably thought about changing some things up in your life. Maybe trying to figure out how to earn more money. Or invest better. Or pay off some debt.
Sometimes we make plans but then they don’t turn out because we have a default mindset that we return to, especially under stress. Psychologists call this our “money mindset.” It is formulated by things we learned directly or indirectly from our parents growing up, or close role models, friends, colleagues and tv and books.
Like with other changes, it takes some time to change your money mindset. Today I wanted to share a few books that have helped me change my money mindset. These are the books that have really impacted my thinking and helped me save and earn more and have a solid financial foundation.
My Favorite Books To Reset Your Money Mindset
Worthy: Boost Your Self-Worth to Grow Your Net Worth
Nancy Levin’s Worthy has become really popular in the last few years since it was published. She really gets beyond the surface to look at the relationship between our self worth and our net worth. In short, to increase our net worth, we must really have strong self-worth or otherwise we won’t be successful at moving our plans forward.
If you have a lot of plans that you don’t follow through on, this one will likely resonate with you! This book is filled with writing exercises that will help you uncover your limiting beliefs and learn how to start to change them, with big mental shifts along the way!
- Levin, Nancy (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 252 Pages - 08/02/2016 (Publication Date) - Hay House LLC (Publisher)
You Are A Badass At Making Money
This book will really help you understand your approach to money and figure out and troubleshoot why things you may have done haven’t worked out.
What I love about Jen’s book is that she is upbeat and encouraging but also very no BS and straight to the point.
This book isn’t really about specific financial invest but more about mindset. The chapters in this book will help you learn how to uncover the things that are actually holding you back from making money, show you how to tap into your natural ability to create wealth and understand how to challenge and re-examining your own Money Mindset.
- Hardcover Book
- Sincero, Jen (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 288 Pages - 04/18/2017 (Publication Date) - Penguin Life (Publisher)
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
Think and Grow Rich is a classic and a must-read for anyone who is looking to change their mindset around money. Hill’s book is one that people often mention since it’s been around for ages since it was published in 1937!
One caveat, because the book is so old, some of the language is dated but if you can get past that you will enjoy it and it’s a fairly quick read.
The book explores the secrets behind some of the richest people in history including Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. Hill also outlines his revolutionary 13-Steps to Riches as part of his Law of Success philosophy. Hill shows you how to cultivate a burning desire for what you want, support it with unwavering faith and take persistent action so you can think and grow rich.
- Hill, Napoleon (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 386 Pages - 12/13/2016 (Publication Date) - Sound Wisdom (Publisher)
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The Millionaire Next Door
This book is considered a class must read book in the personal finance section. The authors conducted a study of 1,000 actual millionaires over a 20-year period. This book provides a true insider’s look at the thoughts and behaviors of financially successful people.
Hint – most of them are not showing off their wealth on Instagram!
This book helps to show that the popular concept of a flashy millionaire isn’t how most people with money actually live. Instead, most average Joes and Janes with money live simple lives and quietly build a solid wealth foundation for their families.
If you struggling with trying to keep up with your neighbor’s flashy new car and that sort of thing, you will really benefit from this book – it’s a must read that will have a major impact on your wealth mindset.
- Hardcover Book
- Ph.D. Stanley Thomas J. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 258 Pages - 01/01/1996 (Publication Date)
Unleash Your Inner Money Babe: Uplevel Your Money Mindset and Manifest $1,000 in 21 Days
What is most useful about this book is that it is really a workbook. If you are the type of person that doesn’t like to read long books, or frustrated with reading things and then not taking action…this book is a good ones to start with!
Kathrin’s workbook is basically a 21 day challenge to get you to focus on manifesting $1,000 by the end of the 21 days.I tried it and it worked actually! It took me a couple extra weeks, but I got there.
Kathrin is a mindset coach and she is an excellent teacher. Her 21 day challenge has you do exercises to help you manifest money. She calls these “money babe actions” which is a funny term, but at least it made me smile.
- Zenkina, Kathrin (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 201 Pages - 05/27/2017 (Publication Date) - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (Publisher)
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31 Badass Money Mindset Affirmations: A fun easy guide to transform your finances and create the wealth and abundance you deserve
This is one of the newest books in this bunch and really focuses hardcore on self talk and any internal scripts or programming that could be holding you back to improve your financial situation.
Do you constantly have money problems and always in debt, or off track of your own goals?
This book is probably a good fit for you.
Her affirmations really helped me focus on positive self talk to change my money mindset. As we discuss on the blog, your mindset really is the foundation to personal change.
The cool thing about her book is that each affirmation is not just something you say – she also has an exercise to help you see how the affirmation works based on your own personal psyche and background.
In short, this is a really useful book if you need to reprogram your subconscious to attract abundance and become aware of belief systems that are holding you back!
- Rojas, Joyce (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 192 Pages - 08/21/2021 (Publication Date) - My Success Studio, LLC (Publisher)
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