"True Up" Finances for 2010
Congruence: the quality or state of agreeing, coinciding
(Webster’s 10th edition)
It’s the “crazy season” of fall, with holidays, spending and opportunities to go awry from our best laid plans of budget, healthy lifestyle and spiritual practices. Even in the flurry of doing there is time for refection and planning as we contemplate “making 2010 a better year for…..”
Strategies for planning and goal setting abound, but few of them have us take the time to look into our “soul” and evaluate the congruence between our spiritual values and our actual habits in finances, relationships, home and work environments, personal health and self. Creating congruence or harmony between the things that you do and what you believe can be life-altering.
In today’s tough times it is worth a few moments to take an inventory of where we are. When we find a discrepancy between our values and actions, we can choose to “true up” or not. Any time is a good time to take a congruence inventory. Since we are gearing up for the completion of 2009 and the new beginnings of 2010, “now” is an opportunity to start the “truing up” process and see what comes up for us in “making 2010 a better year for…”
You are invited to use a sample of this inventory as a support for yourself in bringing more harmony into your life. Take time to answer each question. Write out your answers by the question. Spend enough time with each question to really look and see if you think or feel there is anything out of harmony. Try to answer the questions as factually as possible…that is, with as little interpretation (or “story”) added on as possible. What’s really so about this area?
Congruence Inventory: Finances
• Is there anything in the area of your finances which isn’t congruent with your commitments and doesn’t support you?
• Is there any place where your conduct with finances is not in congruence with your principles?
• Do you owe anyone money?
• Does anyone owe you money?
• Do you pay bills on time?
• Are your expenditures appropriate to your income?
• Anything else?
When you are finished, go back over your answers and write down actions you might take to bring the area into harmony. Revisit this inventory as often as you’d like.
(Article featured on Oracle Visionary 20/20 Ezine, October 15, 2009)