There’s a serious, silent syndrome that runs rampant in the lives of most women today – an old, outdated, toxic virus that has afflicted women for centuries and centuries.
It’s called The Prince Charming Syndrome.
It’s symptoms, while often subtle and seemingly benign, can wreak havoc on your financial future and self-worth in more ways than you can imagine.
This disease appears when smart women like you and I find ourselves consciously (or not-so-consciously) waiting around for a white knight on a white horse (with a wagon full of cash) to come galloping into our lives — in 1 form or another.
And if you haven’t noticed yet, Princes turn out to be frogs 99 times out of 100.
So to make sure YOU haven’t gone undiagnosed, review this checklist of the top 5 symptoms. If you fall into any1 (or more) of the following categories, then it’s important to get treatment immediately:
1. You think someone (or something) else will come along to save you.
2. You let others handle the finances, trusting their judgment over yours.
3. You exhibit child-like spending habits that get you into trouble.
4. You believe avoiding money issues will somehow make them go away.
5. You expect social security or an inheritance to be there for you.
If any of these sound like you, you may be suffering from this sad and serious affliction — and you must find a cure.
Because women who go undiagnosed for too long often end up in some seriously challenging situations as they get older — often times waking up in their Golden Years to find out there’s no goose in sight, and no golden eggs either.
And that’s utterly unacceptable in this day and age. Truly.
Women like you and I can no longer afford to live in fantasy or stick our head in the sand around money. You can no longer assume that a man, or a government, or your relatives will swoop down to save you. You, and only you, must save yourself.
Times are changing — and you must change along with it.
It’s time to get empowered, confident and sassy around all-things money. It’s time to realize that finances aren’t scary, hard or intimidating — but rather, they can be fun, fascinating and totally fabulous for chickadees like you and me.
So which of the 5 symptoms do you, or someone you know, exhibit most?
What advice would you give to yourself, or another, to begin that healing journey away from the Prince Charming Syndrome and toward a financially-fit, feminine, and oh-so-fantasterific future?
And last, but not least: when making your New Year’s Resolutions for the coming year, make sure to incorporate a vision for a new-and-improved relationship with money. Make your financial fitness just as important as your physical one. We wise women must stick together and craft a new cash-confident future — for ourselves, and for all those wonderful women who will follow in our footsteps.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, BEAUTIFUL!
