How to Make Money Feel Easy (without Burnout): The Zen Money Method
Let’s be honest: we’ve have been conditioned to believe that making money requires grinding, hustling, sacrificing sleep, and earning every dollar through sheer willpower.
And financial stress doesn’t just impact your bank account. It’s linked to a slew of physical and mental health issues. (Sleepless nights, anyone?)
What if I told you… it doesn’t have to be that way?
The Zen Money approach flips that narrative completely.
The Big Lie: Why We Think Money Has to Be Hard
Today, I want to walk you through how ease, alignment, and energetic clarity can unlock more abundance than burnout ever will.
The Lie: “You have to work hard to make money.”
This belief is so common it’s practically gospel in the business world. And if you’re like most of us who grew up in the 80’s and 90’s, the belief that anything worth getting requires endless difficulty is deeply embedded in the psyche.
But underneath that trope is a fear-based mindset: that money only flows when we suffer for it. That if we’re not constantly pushing, we’re failing. That ease = laziness.
But here’s the truth: aligned effort is wildly more powerful than constant hustle.
It’s not about doing nothing. It’s about doing the right things — from a place of clarity, confidence, and calm.
Enter the Zen Money Philosophy
Zen Money isn’t just about making money. It’s about how you make it. It’s about what you do with it once it’s in hand.
It asks:
Am I in alignment with what I’m offering?
Is my pricing rooted in self-worth?
Are my systems creating flow or friction?
Is my energy attracting or repelling abundance?
The goal is to build a business that supports your nervous system and your bank account.
Step 1. Dream
It’s fairly common when we’re trying to jumpstart our businesses to complete skip over a fundamental task: dreaming up our big ideas.
We often start with a “just” mindset that can hold us back in the long run. I just need to earn $1000. I just need to make rent. I just need to sign one client.
These are all valid thoughts, don’t get me wrong. But they tend to put us in a state of minimal returns. It’s hard to feel abundant and confident when we’re just getting by.
Enter Zen Money Dreaming. This is the part of the process where we invite our inner selves to come out and play a little bit. When we ask ourselves what a wonderful version of income might look like. And what an abundant version of take home cash could do in our lives.
Take a minute and ask yourself: What do I want to create? How does that look, money-wise?
Once you have an idea of just what might be possible, you can move more easily to the planning phase of Step 2.
Step 2. Map
This is where the rubber meets the road, from a strategery standpoint.
Mapping your Zen Money includes looking at your services and offerings and pricing, and creating a plan.
How many clients do you need to work with to make the money you want in your life? What’s the easiest path to that?
Simple as that.
Step 3. Implement
Once you have a general strategy for your finances, it’s time to put it all into play. That includes taking steps to raise your rates or bring a new offer into the world.
It also includes reflecting on your successes (and failures) so you can continue to tweak and adjust in order to meet your on-going money needs.
Whether we like it or not, our financial health is integral to the health of our business…and of course our personal lives.
And having it means continuing to review our numbers (at least once in a while) to make sure we’re staying on track and continuing to prosper.
Clarity Over Chaos
Money loves direction. The clearer your services, offers, pricing, and messaging are, the easier it is for the right clients to say YES.
When things feel heavy, it’s often because your business ecosystem is cluttered with too many ideas, scattered offers, or underpriced services.
A Zen Money move? Simplify.
Start with one clear, powerful offer and build from there. We don’t usually need a huge menu of options and we can make money with surprisingly few, actually.
Strategy + Soul
Too much strategy = burnout. Too much “go with the flow” = no cashflow.
Zen Money blends both. We map out soulful strategies: an hourly rate that feels aligned, a business plan that provides real value, a core offer that actually delivers results without tanking you in the process.
No spammy tactics. Just flow-based strategy designed to support your ideal customers and support your income.
Energetic Alignment
Here’s the big one: your energy matters more than your algorithm.
If you’re selling from desperation, fear, or self-doubt — it shows. People can feel it.
But when you show up grounded, confident, and generous, the energy shifts. Clients respond differently. You magnetize instead of chase.
Practices like breathwork, tapping, journaling, and even checking in with your Financial Archetype can help bring you back into alignment.
If that feels a little woo, I hear you. I would have said the same 10 years ago. But after years of watching clients shift to a sense of calm, which in turn shifts to additional revenue, I’m a believer in the energy of it all just as much as the metrics and math.
Final Thought: Easy is a Business Strategy
Making money doesn’t have to be a grind. It can be graceful. When you align your offers, energy, and strategy, a path opens up and you start to breathe more easily.
If you’re tired of doing “all the things” and still not seeing the results, maybe it’s time to try a new way — the Zen Money Method.
Want support creating your own Zen Money Map?
Take the Zen Money Financial Archetype Quiz to uncover your money patterns.
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Thanks for joining the conversation. Can’t wait to see where you go from here.
With calm and clarity,
Liz
