Peter MuReading Journal

June 6, 2024

The Seven Stages of Money Maturity

The Seven Stages of Money Maturity

George Kinder

This is a good point to stop and reflect on the beliefs, assumptions, and attitudes about money you learned as a child and still follow. An exercise I have used profitably with many people is writing an autobiography that focuses on the role money has played in our lives from first memory to current momen

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The assignment is simple—record the messages, lessons, and stories about money you heard in childhood. Answering the questions that follow will help your understanding of how money messages have affected your financial life. What are your three earliest memories of money?

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see if you can summarize the major belief systems you have adopted over time in one-line messages, such as “Don’t lend money to relatives” or “We’ll never have much money.

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