Most of Us Ignore These 10 Money Truths for Fear of Society
#2 — Money is not important
Society wants you to do something stupid with your money.
Money is here to protect us when we are old.
Being rich for the sake of being rich makes no sense.
Don’t chase after money without tying it to a concrete goal in your life.
These lessons about money come from the story of a Portuguese woman who lived in Porto, Portugal.
Everything was going well until she found herself facing serious cash flow problems after a tax reminder. These difficulties left her penniless and even unable to afford a birthday cake for her daughter.
Being broke is crap
When you are broke, you have to solve urgent problems all the time.
It is exhausting.
The lack constantly occupies your mind and your emotions.
I can still hear the sound of the bills falling like a spaceship coming from Venus. It still scares me.
Breathe, and make the decision to succeed in your goals. Find your focus and stop sabotaging yourself.
Money is not important
When you no longer worry about your money, you realize that money is not important.
I can’t afford to be poor.
Money is important
Society keeps telling us all the time that “money is not important,” or “rich people are not good people.”
Such beliefs push us to get rid of money, to the point that we sometimes lack a lot of it.
Money doesn’t make you a bad person. It just makes you “more” of who you already are.
Money allows you to take care of yourself and give back more.
It is elementary
There is a lot to learn about business, investing, and entrepreneurship, but it is actually very simple:
Spend less, earn more, invest wisely, and most of all: value yourself.
But simple doesn’t necessarily mean easy.
Not so easy
Just like Parkinson’s law:
Your expenses will always increase to match your income.
This law explains why many people retire with $0.
And why lottery winners usually end up broke within a few years.
Stop acting like an Italian woman who likes roses or a twelve-year-old child when it comes to spending.
Wealth is not about having big possessions, but few desires
Many wealthy people spend a lot of money to be quiet.
But inner serenity can be found in activities that cost $0.
Reading a book while drinking tea, walking in the woods or camping, running or playing with your children in the basement of the house. That’s what matters.
The deepest feelings of happiness are found in the simplest moments of life.
Now that I have money, I choose to live like I’m broke.
Time is not money. Money is time
We all start by trading our time for money. The problem is that time is not extendable and we don’t value it at its fair value.
I decided it was time to value my time.
Revaluing the value of your time allows you to spend less time working and more time living.
Money is the same as the value
It’s okay, you are worth every penny.
We tend to underestimate our own value. This is certainly due to a lack of self-confidence and how you perceive yourself.
Start seeing yourself as a valuable person.
No matter what people say
Whatever you do, there will always be people who disagree with you and who will criticize you, sometimes violently.
How other people treat you doesn’t reflect who you are, it reflects who they are.
No matter how harsh the criticism is, it is not personal and mostly it has nothing to do with you.
What you tell yourself matters
You are the person you talk to the most and influence the most.
Having less money may be a circumstance in your life, but don’t confuse those circumstances with who you are.
Circumstances do not define you.
It is your responses to those circumstances that define you.
Instead of defining yourself by failure or poverty, try to be kind to yourself and tell yourself that you will get through this no matter what.
Be nice to yourself, but don’t take yourself so lightly.
You can handle it.
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