Real Estate Investor Magazine South Africa July 2015 | Page 66

LESSONS

Changing Your

Relationship
With Money

How you can change the way you
approach your finances and investments
BY VANGILE MAKWAKWA AND ETHIENNE HARKERS

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ike most things in life there must be some kind
of parallel in your life where your relationship
with money affects either your mood or your
general environment and ultimately your investments.
Harkers shares how his upbringing had impacted on
his relationship with money. He was quite fortunate
that his father is also in finance. His father tried to
always bring across the importance and also the respect
for money.

“ Your social network is
important when it comes to
creating abundance.”
“In order to be empowered on your money journey,
the only thing you need to empower yourself with is
the knowledge of what to do when and how to handle
different situations with money,” Harkers says.
Find a group of friends, acquaintances, entreperneurs
and other property investors to mentor and support you
on your investment journey. This core group of people
will be influential in impacting the way you think about
your finances and your property investments.

Your social network is important when it comes to
creating abundance. “If you have a social network in
terms of people who can support you with difficult
decisions, it makes a big difference in terms of the
decisions and the quality of the decisions you make,”
Harkers adds.
Psychologists often talk about that you are the
sum total of your five closest friends. Depending on
the peers you are associated with it is the quality of
conversation that arises. Those type of discussions is
what inspires you. If you are not having the discussion
that your peers are having then you start thinking, what
am I doing wrong and what am I doing right?
Harkers continues, “Socially, if you surround yourself
with people who are looking at different angles,
resources and different things they want to achieve
financially, that makes it much easier for you because
just having those discussions starts creating a greater
focus on productive ways to deal with money.”
Napoleon Hill once said that, “Thoughts are things”.
If you are around people who think in a particular
way, you will begin adapting your financial habits and
behaviour which will help you achieve your goal of
growing your wealth by investing in property.

RESOURCES
Wealthy-money.com

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