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financial fitness

The Art of

Mindful Money

Get ready to swap cash-strapped stress for healthy wealth

By Penny C arroll

Pop quiz: what’s as important for your ● CREATE A
health as food, sleep and fitness? Answer: MONEY MINDSET
money – and not just ’cos it buys you green
smoothies. A report* found that more than Wealth isn’t just money in the
half of all Australians are stressed about bank, says Campbell, it’s a ticket
their finances, with 90 per cent of women
saying it affects their overall wellbeing. Yep, to freedom – whatever that looks
cash is complicated – but building a healthier like for you. Connect with your own
relationship with your dough doesn’t have financial goals by asking yourself:
to be. “The simplest changes in the way that
you use money can have a profound impact,” 1 2 3
says financial planner Canna Campbell, author What What do What
of Mindful Money (Penguin, $34.99) and does I want to habits do
founder of YouTube channel Sugarmamma. wealth achieve I want to
TV. The key, she says, is applying a few of mean to financially? leave in the
those mindfulness techniques – the same me? past, and
ones you use to stay focused in yoga – to your what do I
spending habits. “It’s about being present and want to
conscious when you spend money so that Take bring into
you get maximum value and appreciation, the future?
and you satisfy your appetite,” Campbell Stock
explains. “Then you can use your new-found
savings and awareness to start building money
rather than just using money as something Time to take a good, honest
to survive on or to spend.” Sound like look at your financial
something you’d like to work on in situation. “Write it out on a
2020? Thought so. Consider these piece of paper and look at
mindful money tips an exercise in what you want to change,”
self-care – ’cos you’re worth it. OUR PODCAST says Campbell. If you have
TUNE IN TO
UNINTERRUPTED credit card debt weighing
Want more? Listen you down, for example,
to our Uninterrupted set a goal to pay it off by
episode with a certain time. “Focus on
Canna on your fave what you can do right then
podcast player.
and there, no matter how
big or small, to get to where
you need to be financially.”

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