How to Let Go of Financial Fear and Thrive During a Recession

Julie Murphy • May 16, 2023

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Are you becoming fear based? This could be due to a recession, or perhaps your fear is telling you that you need to work harder or longer hours because of something happening in the macroeconomic environment.

It’s time to step back into your power! With every decision you make, the key is doing so from a place of self-love and refraining from regressing into financial fear-based decision-making.

If you relate to being professionally fear-based, I understand where you’re coming from and am seeing it happen with many of my clients. This is manifesting in the form of their jobs shifting post-pandemic and their employer wanting them back in the office full-time, or working more hours and setting stricter working parameters.

For most of my clients, this isn’t aligned with what they desire in a job or making them happy.

So now, I want you to recognize where you’re allowing yourself to be entrained by others.

Where Are You Allowing Yourself to be Entrained?

What does this mean? Let’s say you’re going to job interviews or attending your employee review. Where are employers trying to entrain you to go in the opposite direction of your inner knowing? Or perhaps this could be your family or co-workers. Where are other people influencing you to go against what you know to be right and true for you?

What professional life do you want to create for yourself?

This is where it’s important for you to focus on the P of my PACT Process ‘Picturing the life you want to create’.

Words coming from someone else’s mouth, TV, or whatever media or person you’re listening to, is simply someone else trying to entrain you to do what they want to do to make their world work.

And in fact, this may or may not work for you.

In some cases, you might be ok with being entrained a little (and with awareness!) because you’re on what I like to call ‘the bridge’ and are viewing that job as a means to generate consistent and stable cash flow and a path to get you to where you want to be. You know this is short-term and continue to voraciously go in the direction of the job and life you want to create.

Often what happens, however, is that we allow fear-based thinking to drive our decisions. The recession, for example. But did you know that as it stands today, there are more jobs available than there are people to fill them, and if we knew just how much personal power we have, we wouldn’t engage in such fear-based responses?

Even if the job situation in the macroeconomic environment wasn’t as such, it shouldn’t make a difference in the fact that you still have complete ownership over your personal power.

Step Into Your Power and Claim What you Desire

Why is it that you should choose anything in your life that isn’t in alignment with what you desire financially?

Or what isn’t in alignment with your dreams, goals, and what makes you laugh? Why is it that you can’t get a job and have fun at the same time?

Let me tell you now; you can!

You just have to decide that it’s an option!

When you are making decisions about your job, professional life, or any part of your life, begin to recognize where you are allowing yourself to be entrained by others.

You’re probably going to notice that once you see it, you can’t switch it off! You start to see it everywhere and perhaps filter into other areas of your life.

This is where it’s super important for you to get in tune with who you really are and on a professional level, what kind of job you desire.

Know the Dream Exists

I have a client in the current round of my group program IMPACT, who told me how she saw a job on LinkedIn where it was a requirement that the successful candidate had to work remotely in a foreign country for at least 30 days in a year. It perhaps wouldn’t suit many people, but for others, including my client, it was perfect and would make the ideal bridge job.

Plus, it made her giggle!

This client expressed that she couldn’t live in a way where she had to be office-based full-time. She desires freedom and flexibility - like a free bird allowed to spread her wings while generating an income!

She contacted the employer and is currently going through the interview process. I share this because it’s a great example of my client potentially getting the income she wants, along with the flexibility she desires. She’d also get to travel, which ticks another box (she’s particularly excited about that part!)

So, use this as inspiration, and this week, look at where you’re negotiating yourself away and allowing yourself to be entrained by others. See if you’re allowing them to entrain you into something that isn’t aligned with your true being. Once you have that awareness, all it takes is the courage to step into what you desire, know it exists, and claim it!

Look for the opportunities that tick those boxes, like my client, and be audacious about what you want!

My group coaching IMPACT will help you step into your personal power and receive guidance from me, in addition to being supported by others who are on the same journey to personal empowerment and a life of Real Wealth. The groups are small to allow me to focus on each individual, and the results we’re seeing are truly outstanding!

So if you feel called to find out more, IMPACT runs every 6 weeks and you can sign up for the next round here.

I look forward to seeing you there!

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