Step # 1: The Correct Attitude

How you approach this issue of choice is essential to your success. You are creating your own situation. Once you wake up to this fact, you can begin to see, with crystal-clear definition what choices you have made that led to this result. Then you can start changing thoughts, attitudes, behaviors, and choices to get a different result.

You must accept your role in your problems, recognizing that you are responsible, means that you get it. It means that you welcome that the answer lies with yourself. This gives you a wonderful head start toward success.

I understand that when I start talking about mental goings-on, your reasonable reaction may be, “He’s asking me to look at my thoughts and deal with my feelings. Be real, I don’t put myself first.”

I’m not a self-help guru. What I want to is help you take control of your internal self-talk. Then you’ll be amazed at the power you have to get your food budget under control. However, change must come total from within; this is where you’ll find real power to create lasting results.

During the day, you engage in chats with many other people, but your most active and steady chats are the talks you have with your self. It is a real-time metal talk and a flow of opinions that you have with your self about everything that is going on in your life. It is your behaviors too. Deciding your thoughts, you choose the costs that you link with those opinions. If you pick low self-esteem and low self-confidence, it really flows from your self-talk.

Your thoughts are controlling agendas. That’s why your focus with this step will be to throwing away any harmful self-talk you’re dragging around with you and change it with positive, creative inner chats. However, please don’t confuse this with “think yourself rich.” I don’t believe something as important as budget management can be summed up in such a pat phrase, and I’m not here to tell you that the answer to your budget problems is to think good thoughts all the time.