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Do you ever have one of those days where you actually HEAR the things you say? Let me explain.

During the peak of the housing bubble, my husband and I were talking about (what else?) buying houses. We watched the prices of houses in our neighborhood jump tens of thousands over asking in minutes, and I made the comment that “it’s crazy!”. And then I stopped, and listened to what I’d actually said: “it’s crazy.” It was crazy.

Here are a few of the definitions of “crazy” from dictionary.com:
senseless; impractical; totally unsound
intensely enthusiastic; passionately excited
intensely anxious or eager; impatient
likely to break or fall to pieces

Some synonyms are:
foolish, imprudent, foolhardy

Sounds like the wrong time to buy, right? So we came to our senses just in time, and didn’t buy. Well I had another one of those moments today. I caught myself thinking, “I could probably be better at _____ if I focused more, but that’s not me”.

And then I stopped. I thought wait a minute, what’s not me, exactly? Focusing more, or being better at what I was thinking of? Or both?

Or is it that because I believe that being really good at something isn’t me, that I don’t focus? Ouch. Time to change my belief. The things we believe, about money and otherwise, are what make the difference.