Could you live on 40% of your income—and save the other 60%? It sounds impossible (or tortuous), yet Mary-Jo Dionne says she's learned to make it happen—and happily—with a system she calls the 1-2-3 saving strategy.

"Every time I get paid, I instantly pop 10% into my shopping/mad money account; 20% into a business expenses account; and 30% into a taxes account. I've learned to live on the remaining 40% only--this is what I use to cover mortgage, retirement, bills and real-life stuff," Dionne wrote to us.

Really?! Live on less than 50% of your income? Even in the disciplined corridors of DailyWorth's headquarters, we struggle to save 20%.

I contacted Dionne, a freelance advertising copywriter and amateur pet lobbyist in Vancouver, to learn how she became a mega saver.

Dying to hear how she does it? Us too!

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Affirmation:
I always have everything I need. There is more than enough of everything for everyone at all times.

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It's time to release our financial concerns, limitations, perceptions of lack and scarcity, attachment to certain pictures or versions of wealth, resistance to wealth and all illusions about money. It's time to grow up and step into our full worth as human beings. To do this, we need to learn how to heal our lives by having the courage to be free. This is not about throwing caution to the wind and hoping for the best. Instead, it's a mature, responsible, deep enrichment of an awakened reality that starts right now.

Do you know that your financial status has nothing to do with money or your career? You will shift your capacity to acquire wealth by shifting your beliefs about youself and life itself. Your assets will transform as you begin to recognize and release withheld beliefs about your self, family, friends, strangers, money, addictions, shopping, greed, poverty, stealing, giving, sex, love, anger, pain, sadness, beauty, weight, control, safety and the other invented measures of your magnificence.

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