The Rich Mans Illusion
This is what you want, sporty new cars, big elaborate houses, designer clothes, sparkling diamonds, and a magnificent house on the beach! How about joining the country club, staying in 5-star hotels, traveling abroad, and enrolling your kids in the finest private schools and when you can’t afford it any longer, there’s always “MasterCard”!
Turn $5 a Day into $100 Realistically
Ah, now that’s the good life isn’t it?
Or is it?
Today’s world is so focused on immediate gratification and hyper-consumerism that many people have forgotten how to enjoy life. They don’t even know how to slow down and enjoy the simple things in life that can give so much more meaning and fulfillment to their lives. I recently read where social scientist after years of study concluded that the natives of Alaska and similar peoples were as happy as any rich man on Earth. Why is that?
People are spending an inordinate amount of time at their jobs and they’re constantly scrambling to keep up. That leaves little time left over for family and friends, and they certainly don’t have time left over for themselves! Many have abandoned their personal values for the sake of “appearing wealthy”. Their vital capacities of life are suffering and they don’t even realize it is happening.
In a world where spending tomorrow’s earnings and cash has become the norm, it’s hard to imagine a life with financial, mental, physical and spiritual peace. But don’t be fooled. Simplifying your life and living a ‘better life’ that is filled with purpose is just at your fingertips. And all it requires is taking control of your finances and your vital capacities of life.
Unfortunately, most people don’t know how to slow down long enough to take control of their own lives. They continue on the treadmill and rat-race of life day in and day out – experiencing little joy and fulfillment with where and how they spend their time. They’re so busy trying to keep up with everyone else, that they lose themselves and their own identity in a sea of faces.
Today’s “I’ve got to have it now” mentality is robbing tens of thousands of people from enjoying life. The stress and anxiety from being over-worked and loaded with debt takes a toll, yet they keep on doing what they are doing.
And if they keep on doing what they are doing, they’ll keep on getting what they have been getting , deeper in debt and more stressed!
Isn’t it time to make a change?
Unless you get lucky you simply cannot make a lot of money quickly. Only a fool will believe you can. But you can turn $5 a day into at least $100 a day long term. That will go a long way to getting you out of debt.
January 12th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Wow – great article!
How true that so many of us are trying to “beat the Jones’” when really that may not be what makes us happy. This is how we got ourselves into this mess in the first place!
Time to slow down and remember what really matters to us.