If you listened lately to the media’s constant streams of financial fears, you likely failed to shop much for loved ones over Christmas. Not that buying less detracts from the magic of Christmas. Yet, sadly, the gloomy news turned into poor proceeds for stores, just as fear blocked winning opportunities from your own brain. Why so?  

Fear is fueled by dangerous cortisol chemicals, and anxiety increased for many people this holiday season through relentless reports of lost money, lost jobs, lost homes, lost health care  and lost security. Did you feel the fear where you work?

Luckily, the human brain can create new neuron pathways past fear, and by so doing it also pumps in serotonin chemicals that help you to sustain well being, in spite of financial or other challenges. Thanks to neurogenesis, which shows how the brain rewires and reshapes itself, fear can be transformed into prosperity and success. It does require an action plan on your part though.

Add life-changing brainpower to replace financial fears, and watch new adventures begin to reboot your brain for profitability. Smart skills, for instance,  combine traditional hard and soft skills to create tools for a new neuron pathway forward.

Smart Skill 1 -  Question to Lift Finances Past Fears.

1. What one practice defines a financial guru you know, one that you can do to step forward? Whenever you mirror a successful person’s action, at the same time you rewire your brain for more of the same results. Of course this also applies to other issues that cause fear too. Simply pose a question about who’s successful in that area, and what one practice that person does best. Then do that one practice and rewire mentally for your own expertise.

2. What would it take to attach your best talent today to a revenue stream for tomorrow? Amazing financial gains come to those who draw on their spatial intelligence to project a concrete image to shoot for.  Or a monetary action plan clearly sketched and illustrated, in this case. Finances elude those who have not projected specific images into their mental performance. Toss in a question that draws from an area of the brain other than logical mathematical intelligence, and you add more brainpower to ratchet up the bottom line.

3. When exactly do you expect to generate that first dollar, and how will it become a dollar-a-day? On the other side of fear lies profit,  for those who risk stepping forward to create a date and then make that first dollar with the brain in mind. It’s opposite to business as usual and the action itself, builds you another new neuron pathway toward financial gains.

In each case the question asked fuels the brain to create a winning action or movement toward your financial gains. Ask one of the two-footed questions listed here, or create your own better question to move your mind past fears into an action plan for profitability. What’s the best question to open your financial spigots?

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Smart skill 3 = Question with the Brain in Mind and Move
Smart skill 4 = Question Research to Create Cutting Edge Tools
Smart skill 5 = Question Myths and Reboot Brainpower
Smart skill 6 = Question Ahead for Grandparent or Family Roles
Smart skill 7 = Question to Know How You are Smart
Smart skill 8 = Question with Two Feet to Spark Curiosity
Smart skill 9 = Question Broken Systems with Solutions in Mind
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I’ll admit that whenever I enter stores where clerks rush dive-bomb me with guises such as greetings you expect only from best friends, I run. Ok, I’m gone for a few other reasons. Every time I hear how we’ve structured national and global systems to make people buy more, cajoling others to carry more debt for junk that helps some pitch more wares debris, I dart from the greed we’re branding.

That said, I love to shop at Christmas, with the brain in mind. You can set up twinkling lights, brightly colored bobbles, and apple-pie-aromas in July and I’m thrilled. The sooner the wonder, the better the Christmas joy for me.  You?

It adds serotonin when I stroll through favorite shops with a special person’s delight in mind, and a 2-footed question in toe. What would they laugh over most? How could a unique gift bring out their own distinctives? What would they enjoy and savor as a small symbol of their special place in my life? What one item would tap them on the back, with the encouragement they may need to journey to the next place in their life?

Just the thought of blessing people I care for at Christmas,  with a gift they need or a treasure they’d enjoy, makes my day grand.  Have you had the same magical experience at Christmas?

I still run from people who pressure me to buy stuff I neither need nor want. And I run from the cortisol that fills my brain from buying with credit what I cannot afford with cash.

That’s basically why I like to shop at Christmas with the brain in mind. What’s your best moment of Christmas shopping?