Introducing Messy Jessie!
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‘The Worrier’
Your financial attitude is an aspect that determines your financial wellbeing. For the economic empowerment educational program for sex workers, we will be looking at financial attitudes first. You can see what type of financial attitude you have by taking our personality test here.
To illustrate how financial attitudes manifest into one’s life, we created one dimensional renditions that embody a financial attitude. Messy Jessie is the character for ‘The Worrier’.
These characters are simplified renditions of our complex realities. They’re not perfect characters or to be taken too literally. They are used here to help us build the cognitive infrastructure and awareness about what financial attitudes are, how they appear in our lives and how they change over time.
Your financial attitude can be consciously changed through self-awareness, education and experience. To read more about how we’ve framed financial attitudes, you can read this post.
If Messy Jessie doesn’t sound exactly like you, that’s normal. Our financial attitudes change over time, and we keep traits of previous financial attitudes, that continue to influence our thoughts and feelings subconsciously. Consciously, we want to draw upon the inherent strengths and talents of Messy Jessie, because the occasion may call for it.
The idea is to centre ourselves, and our attitude to be ‘Master-Minded’ like ‘Queen Bae’. What makes Queen Bae the master is that she is able to identify situations, knows herself, and she take actions that aligns with her goals and are within her means.
Scarcity mindset is the type of mindset associated with Messy Jessie. However, this attitude can be fitting under some circumstances. If you were suddenly rendered destitute, perhaps by a disability or major life event, taking a page from Messy Jessie’s book could be helpful and you could protect what little resources you have left.
We will soon investigate ways for Messy Jessie’s to improve their financial attitude. If you identify as a Messy Jessie, think about where your feelings and thoughts around money stem from, and ask yourself whether this approach is applicable or fitting for your present day life.
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