Stuart’s Philosophies

I recently made an interesting comment - do you make money, or does money make you.

I thought it was kinda interesting because the way many people think about money is ‘yeah, I’m out there making money’. But in reality, money is really taking control over them, eating them away.

Here’s how to tell:

1. Are you to bogged down into your work that you don’t pay attention to the human beings around you?

2. Are you grossly in debt, and letting that affect you adversly?

3. Do you typically think of “hitting it big” in lottery, or some kind of get-rich-quick program?

4. Do you frequently turn away from people who request money for charity purposes?

5. Are you constantly in fear that there is injustice in the world and that you are not being treated fairly?

Of course, the answers are not a reflection of who you are, even if you realized that the patterns you exhibit are not all that positive. Most of us will never learn this concept unless we experience the many faces of money. Money has a multiple personality disorder. It’s a friend, then it’s an enemy. It is a breaker of hearts and it’s a healer of souls. It is whatever we make money out to be.

My suggestion is to really understand not money, but ourselves. We have to be constantly in search for a direction ourselves so that we aren’t corrupted by the lust or desire for money. It’s in the quest that we win, and it’s in the arrival of the goal that we feel empty and wanting more. The direction in which we work towards in our life will determine the amount of money we have… but NEVER determine the amount of WEALTH we have.

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Deep Thought, General, Wealth Building