Some time back last year, I briefly penned a post Time or Money? at a point when I was gloomiest about work.
Today incidentally, I caught something interesting in the book 4-hour Workweek:
"People don’t want to be millionaires—they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy. Ski chalets, butlers, and exotic travel often enter the picture. Perhaps rubbing cocoa butter on your belly in a hammock while you listen to waves rhythmically lapping against the deck of your thatchedroof bungalow? Sounds nice.
$1,000,000 in the bank isn’t the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows. The question is then, How can one achieve the millionaire lifestyle of complete freedom without first having $1,000,000?"
This set me thinking.
Our gratification does not really come from having money? Money is an inanimate object that holds the value we tag it to.
What does this mean?
Money is just a medium of exchange to enable us to get our living essentials, fulfill certain life objectives, experiences and perhaps to even create values for others (or ourselves). If we fail to assign money smartly on these purposes, what is the point of counting how many zeros there are behind our accounts' balance? It proves meaningless.
My thoughts drifted again...
So how to achieve what we want to achieve in life with limited money? That led me to yet another question - what resources beside money do we have?
Resource, hmm a powerful word indeed.
No, not advocating for anybody to quit work and become freeloader or something. Neither am I saying that money holds no importance. It's all about our mentality towards the way we view money, time and our wants.
I am not going to delve into more details here but feel free to share your comments below.
Really curious to find out more from this interesting book and maybe on blog readers' perspectives. Perhaps the rest of the book has got nothing to my thoughts above since I am only at chapter 1. There's not going to be any model answer here but stay tuned (or read the book to decipher it yourself).
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