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In the next section of Suze Orman's book "The Courage to be Rich", she deals with a person's attitude about money. Am I angry, shameful, or in fear of losing everything? I can honestly answer yes, to a certain extent, to all of the above questions.

**I would encourage you to read Suze's book and go through the exercises she has on finding your negative emotions and how to deal with them.

Then the next thing that needs to be done is an attitude adjustment about your money. That brings in the respect. Most of us think that money brings respect, but how about respecting money?

Take my example - today I don't know exactly the balance in my checkbook. That is a lack of respect. What happens when we neglect something? It tends to fall apart. Neglect the finances and then we don't control them, they control us. We don't know the status of our accounts, that breeds fear.

Money then becomes negative. Finances as a whole become negative, or bring a negative atomsphere.

To combat that you need knowledge and you need to let go of what happened yesterday and beyond. Today is today -- start fresh and take control.