Worthy: Boost Your Self-Worth to Grow Your Net Worth

At a young age, we only know who we are in reference to other people. We form our self-identity based on what others—parents, siblings, relatives, teachers, friends at school—reflect back to us.

Since I don’t earn the money myself, I feel guilty when I spend

Recently, she left her nine-to-five job to start a new business. The move shifted the balance of financial power in her relationship, which proved to be a problem. “I found myself having to ask him for money and explain to him exactly what it was to be used for—experiences that left me feeling sheepish and disempowered,” she says. “As time passed,

You have to have money to make money.

I don’t know how much money I spend regularly.

“What is now proved was once only imagined.”

I haven’t created a budget, or I’ve created one and don’t stick to it.

I don’t know how to take care of myself financially.

Because you attached your self-worth to whether or not you got that loan. Often, we withhold love from ourselves in such situations.