Step One: Change Your Expectations

Step One		Change Your Expectations
SURVIVAL STEPS Introduction Step One Step Two Step Three Step Four Step Five Step Six Step Seven Step Eight Step Nine Step Ten Step Eleven		In order to survive a money crisis, Step One is to change your old expectations. Make new expectations: I, alone, am responsible for taking care of my children and myself! This is my reality and it is a permanent condition! I am capable of learning how to take care of my children and myself! My life will never be the same, but it can be better than it has ever been! Once I learn how to take financial responsibility for my children and myself, I may find an intimate partner who shares my values, and with whom I can share my life! Do you know someone who has survived a money crisis and changed their lives for the better? If so, why not ask them about their old and their new expectations? When did they realize they would have to change their expectation? How did that realization change their outlook and behavior? Write a new expectation for yourself. Put it on a note card and read it out loud. Read it every morning when you wake up and every night before you go to bed. Even if you are still in the middle of a crisis, you can start your journey toward taking care of your children and yourself by repeating this new reality over and over, until you begin to believe it! When you have acknowledged your new reality, you should be ready for Step Two.