Among the stickiest places for dealing with potential has been numbers – and particularly financial numbers. Money has been a highly-charged topic for many of us. As a culture, we’ve often been more open about our romantic lives than our financial lives.
It’s likely that a key reason for historic difficulty in relating with financial potential is that our culture teaches us that we are to be measured by our financial achievements. If we’re earning under our potential, the tendency for many has been to experience that as some sort of failure as a person rather than simply a measure of relative performance.
What is your relationship to your financial potential? Is it easier to explore your potential for financial mastery at work rather than in your own personal balance sheet? Have you been among those persons who ignores your financial potential altogether? What is the optimal relationship to that potential for you?