SEEING HOW YOUR PAST HOLDS THE KEY TO YOUR FINANCIAL FUTURE THE ROAD TO financial freedom begins not in a bank or even in a financial planner’s office, but in your head. It begins with your thoughts. Your Mindset And those thoughts, more often than not, stem from our seemingly forgotten past with money. I’ll go so far as to say that in my experience, most people’s biggest problems in life—even those that appear on the surface not to be money related—are directly connected with their early, formative experiences with money. So the first step toward financial freedom is a step back in time to the earliest moments you can recall when money meant something to you, when you truly understood what it could do. When you began to see that money could create pleasure—ice-cream cones, merry-go-round rides; and also to see that it could create pain—fights between your parents, perhaps, or longings...