Seven Stages of Money Maturity®

"George Kinder's work provides us with a psycho-spiritual model of adult development using money as a portal. We all experience each of these stages every day. Each money story in our personal autobiography contains elements of each stage. At various times in our lives, to give special attention to a particular stage can allow us to be more effective in growing toward our life goals Without this work, we too easily sabotage even the most brilliantly designed financial plans."

Sally Jo Button

1. Innocence - the belief systems around money learned in childhood; partial and incomplete truths.
2. Pain - the difficult feelings around money. Innocent messages cycle with difficult feelings to sabotage implementation of even the most brilliantly designed financial plans.
3. Knowledge - the practical information and skills needed to accomplish our financial goals. This is the information you expect from traditional Financial Planners.
4. Understanding- the act of transforming our painful money dilemmas. Through the work of the maturing adult, a sense of ease develops as we learn to let the thoughts go and let the feelings be.
5. Vigor - the energy and enthusiasm to accomplish our financial goals. Gaining "voice" results by tapping into the motivation behind our core values and our hearts' desires.
6. Vision - the ability to see what needs to be done in our community and having the skills to take sustained visionary action.
7. Aloha - the passing of a blessing from one person to another without regard to economic differences; true and untainted generosity.

Sally Jo has been trained to work with clients with the tools developed by George Kinder. For additional information, it is recommended that you read his book, The Seven Stages of Money Maturity. You might also like to visit his website, www.kinderinstitute.com