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Your Relationship with Money
It may be right to say money can't buy happiness, and it may
also be a way to stop thinking about the tougher issues. What's
your relationship to money, for example, and how do you use this
most powerful of worldly tools? Chasing money for its own sake
is destructive, but it's also damaging to have a powerful instrument
in your hands while pretending it has no importance.
Money Is Important
Some say money isn't important, but this isn't true. They
just don't see the importance. They make more than they need
and complain they have no time for their children, when they
could trade time chasing money for time with their kids.
They want self-improvement, but instead of buying books or
a class, they put a television on a credit card. Then they work
to pay for it, taking even more time from their children and
their personal development goals.
This isn't about televisions, which can be good things. It's
about priorities. How we make money and how we spend money reveals
ourselves. Do we like what we see? Money IS important, isn't
it?
Money and Happiness
So, can money buy happiness or self improvement? No, but it
can put the right conditions in place. Name any valuable goal
or direction in your life. Can't you, with a little imagination,
see how money might help? Earn money in a healthy, satisfying
way, and spend it wisely, and of course you have a better chance
to be happy, and to grow as a person.
Clearly, we need a deeper understanding of money than a cliche
- or a newsletter - can provide. This, then, was just some food
for thought.
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