Hi everybody.

This short segment is what we call for the good of the order.

It's something we used to do at the end of my sorority meetings, if you can believe that, where

someone would share something that they came across in the course of the week, a poem, a song

lyric, a short story, that they found enormously helpful as they went about daily life.

And I wanted to pick up the thread because I am so often wowed by something I see in the world that I want to bring back and hand off to you.

So every Friday we produce a short segment called for the good of the order.

Think of it like an audio greeting card, a thing to share with the people that you love around the country

who you don't get to see or talk to enough.

A thing to discuss with the people you do see and talk to on a more regular basis.

This is Kelly Corrigan Wonders for the good of the order. This week's go-to comes from a book that I was just sent by a publisher called Feel Good Finance by Asia Evans.

The subtitle says it all, and tangle your relationship with money for better mental, emotional,

and financial well-being.

And there are two parts that I want to share as I encourage all of us, myself,

foremost among us, to get more involved and be more careful about how much we spend,

how much we save, and how much we donate.

So the first is that there's this work by Dr. Ted and Brad Clonts

and it's showing these four quote money scripts

which get at how we actually feel about money so one is money avoidance

this is when you knowingly or unknowingly avoid dealing with money.

You reject responsibility for finances,

you ignore your statements, you rarely check your credit card balance,

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