79: How To Create an Abundant Holiday
The Chris Harder Show
Chris Harder
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2017
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
With the holidays and the season of giving upon us, I felt it was only fitting to talk about abundance and how abundance can affect us throughout them. For a good portion of people, the holidays can be super stressful – especially when there's worry around paying for the gifts they want to buy. But here's the thing, when we worry we send the message of lack out into the universe and we're looking for abundance.
Just as a refresher, when you have a mindset of abundance you are attracting more and more wealth and good things in your life. And on the opposite side, when you have a lack mindset, you're pushing away all of those abundant things. So when there is stress around how you will pay for gifts, travel, family gatherings etc., you are actually inviting more struggle into your life. And we don't want that! So this year I challenge you to reframe all of this.
"Break free from the feeling of lack and get back into the good feelings that the holidays are meant for."
Now I get it, if you're comfortable with the traditional gift-giving – keep doing it! But if you observe your feelings and thoughts around this time of year and you come up with feelings of lack, then speak up! Maybe it's time to switch your definition of giving.
For example, my family decided a few years back to forego traditional gifts (we had a tendency to go overboard) and instead rent a cabin, give our time and enjoy the experience of it.
"It's more about the experience than the gifts."
Just think…what could you give that would create the same feelings of receiving a gift that isn't something you can buy? Think non-traditional gift ideas could such as the gift of your time, energy, skillset or creativity – the list is endless. Regardless of what you choose, let's:
"Practice abundance, not stress, for the holidays."
In This Episode You Will Learn:
- What the differences are between an abundance and lack mindset
- How Chris switched up his family's holiday traditions
- Alternative ways you can give to your family and friends
Resources:
For more stories and tips on becoming unapologetically wealthy, follow me @Chriswharder on Instagram and check out fortheloveofmoney.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everybody this is for the love of money where we are making you |
| 0:08.6 | unapologetic about your pursuit of success by sharing the tools, tips, and stories of those who have already made it. |
| 0:16.5 | My name is Chris Harder, and each week I will bring you incredible guests |
| 0:21.2 | in order to prove that when good people make good money they do great things. |
| 0:32.3 | Welcome back everybody to another mini episode of For the Love of Money |
| 0:37.0 | episodes that I like to call my two cents and this time with the holidays |
| 0:42.3 | coming up I thought it just makes sense for me to address the holidays and what they have to do with your feeling of abundance, or sometimes, for some of us, a lack of abundance. |
| 0:55.0 | Now, quick refresher here, when you have a feeling of abundance, |
| 0:59.0 | you're attracting more and more wealth and good things into your life. But when you have the opposite feeling, the |
| 1:05.2 | feeling of lack, then you are pushing all of the abundant things that you want in your life |
| 1:11.4 | away. Now a feeling of lack oftentimes comes |
| 1:15.0 | during the holidays in the form of stress over how are you going to pay for gifts or |
| 1:20.2 | stress around how you're going to pay for travel or pay for those family gatherings. |
| 1:25.0 | And while your heart is in the right place stressing over those things, |
| 1:30.0 | unfortunately it's wreaking havoc on your family financially and if it is |
| 1:36.4 | that it's going to create that feeling of lack and that feeling of black is just |
| 1:39.7 | going to bring more and more struggle your way. |
| 1:43.0 | And so maybe, just maybe this is the year that we reframe all of this. |
| 1:49.0 | Maybe this is a year that some of you break free out of this feeling of lack and back into those good feelings that the |
| 1:56.3 | holidays are meant for. You know, a lot of people I know complain about the spending they have to do with the holidays. |
| 2:04.3 | Yet they do it anyway. |
| 2:06.3 | Maybe this is the year that you find new traditions |
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