Clearly, life unblurred
Life and what it looks like is important; we get one of them, there's no coming back once it's over, so I'd say living one's best life should be on the top of every human being's to-do list.
Knowing my life will end helps me live better in the moment and to plan to live better in the future. What others do is their business although I often wonder why people do not seek a better now and future.
What a meaningful and happy life looks like is different for everyone and we all have our reasons for that. I know many people that chase money and fully expect that when they have it their life will be better, but I also know many people that have it and still do not feel content or happy with life.
Money doesn't buy a meaningful life in my opinion.
I also know people that focus on the very moment they are living in and seek every pleasure available with no thought to the future that "may or may not come" but in my opinion that's setting oneself up for a rather lackluster future should the future eventually arrive.
Unfortunately the future is not clear to us when looking ahead into it. That makes it difficult to prepare for however I believe working towards a better future now (one of your design and creation) is the best way to making a meaningful and happy life a possibility in the future. It means that the next hour has a better chance of being better, the next day, week, month and year....and life overall.
I've had a great life.
I feel it's been generally enjoyable, fulfilling and meaningful and I've impacted on people's lives in positive ways. None of those things came because of money alone...yes, having some money helps but I believe there's so many other things that come before it.
Professional growth and development (job satisfaction), strong relationships, good health, continual personal growth, a sense of value and meaning to others and oneself, the ability to help and protect those who need it, self understanding and contentment and the ability to change what needs changing within myself...these and other such things are what have brought me a meaningful life...sure, I have a few dollars here and there and some nice things...but take them away and life is still something I value and which has meaning.
I grew up in a family that after paying the bills there wasn't much left at all.
I worked hard for what I gained from the age of seventeen and a half when I left home; relationships, knowledge, skills, investments, travel and so on, and I have had it all taken away by a rogue business partner - lost it all...then rebuilt it all...I believe that's because I refused to look forward and see my future as blurry. Instead, I saw it clearly, what I wanted it to be, and that allowed me to work towards it in better ways.
What do you reckon...what's been your journey? Have you floated along aimlessly, sought to structure your present and future, planned or not planned? Do you value money over everything else or are there other factors that contribute to what you see as a meaningful life?
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Life is not all about money, but one need money to grow in all aspects of life.
I value money but my first priorities are peace of mind and good health, without them money is nothing, these are things money can't buy. Do have a great day. Thanks for sharing.
I don't value money, I value the experiences and things that money permits me like a roof over my head, food, travel and so on. We all do it differently though I guess.
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i learned it pretty late in life, money is not everything, at least not in sense of happiness. people may assume that money is what makes them happy but certainly there is a time when they would realize what all happy moment they have sacrificed in pursuit to earn money. 😉nice to see u both together in a single frame..🍻
I am the first to acknowledge the importance of money in the modern age in which we live but I'm against the concept that it brings happiness and contentment. This means I find those things elsewhere and in other ways which is important to create a better life. So while money is a necessity, it's not everything. It's good you learned that even a little late.
I've seen studies on exactly this... I think it was US based, but basically life can be really stressful up until the household has an annual income of around $75K, money can't be happiness, but it can alleviate a lot of stress, which can allow people to be happy, but then after around $120-150K annual income, more money doesn't increase happiness at all, if anything, more money diminishes happiness because your mindset changes from what makes you happy to trying to keep your money and/or mistrusting your relationships. Those numbers probably aren't accurate, but I think I trust the general gist that chasing money after a certain point makes life worse.
I'm much better at planning the future than I am enjoying the now, and I'd say that comes from a lot of uncertainty growing up, but once I get to a position where my finances are set and forget then I don't think about it again. Relationships are far more important to me... and I like to think that I've made things slightly better for the planet and the people around me.
Sorry you had such a dodgy business partner, but it is a really important lesson for everyone that it's honestly never too late to start over.
It's a chase that so many people will fail at and for many reasons; a lot of those reasons revolve around want it now and FOMO and much around the lack of discipline so many have, the inability to think long term and say no to short term enjoyments. Balance, that's what's required. Patience, vision and understanding that no one will do it for you...so ownership.
As for starting again, yes it wasn't pleasant and I could have done without it. I learned a lot though and it's those learnings that have helped me work myself into the position I currently hold financially. But yes, for sure it's never too late to start...or start over.
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A healthy perspective is to see money as a tool, not the ultimate goal — something that supports the life you want, not something that defines your worth.
Yeah, that's the gist of my post.
Here it's said "money doesn't make happiness but they do help on it", money for sure play a big role in our society, you spend most of your life working for them, if you had so many that you wouldn't need to work you would have plenty of free time, it also improves your quality of life, I had to do a surgery and by paying I had it quick and with a non invasive method, with the free healthcare long queues and painful and invasive method... So they do help a lot, but also you can't being them with you when you die, they will remain here on this world, so is there really a point to obsessively go after them and spend your whole life and die without having enjoy anything else? Like everything else balance is the key, hunt money but don't focus only on that obsessively, enjoy other things, food, travel, family, hobbies
Indeed, having money can make for a better life, I certainly enjoy mine, but many get bogged down focusing on the money and forget that life flies by them.
It's all personally choice though, however in my experience those who value money over all else aren't generally any happier with their life...and none of their money can go with them when they die right?
Expecially if they put money upfront of everything and then end up even without getting anything, they sure are not happy... Or who sacrifice family for more money, when it's all lost they realize they sacrifice
Well said.
Money, in my view, is but a means to an end. A means to build the kind of life you want, to develop areas of your life that need developing, like skill acquisition, personal improvement, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, etc.
I hardly see money as something to pursued for its own sake, something to use to make life just more pleasurable without making it better. People who have this mindset about money often turn out miserable even after the make lots of money.
Yeah that's exactly how I feel about it as well.
I would say that at the beginning of my youth, I was unclear about almost everything, as if my mind were a big fog and I felt quite lost. It helped me a lot to ask myself questions, rethink my life, and invest time in getting to know myself, to figure out what I wanted from my life and where I wanted to go with it. That's when I started working hard for it. Money helps, but it's not the most important thing. It makes life easier, but many people have money and nothing else, as if they were missing a soul...
Today, I am very clear about what I want from life: to build it with that vision and reach a peaceful and relaxed old age.
Clear about what you want for life and I presume you have a plan to attain it.
Of course, one that is well planned and with all weapons loaded and ready!
The only reason I own my house is because I was good at Excel. That blows my mind.
There's no limits to what excel can achieve.
There are, but that's when python's pandas libraries, proper sql databases and R come along to save the day
I don't feel like I have floated around aimlessly, but I do feel like I have taken for granted the time that I did have in the past. Just things I could have done differently or time I could have spent differently. No point in dwelling on that now, just gotta move forward.
Taking time for granted, wasting it, certainly doesn't feel nice later on when there's less of it.
I guess money doesn't bring happiness, it brings freedom to do whatever you want that makes you happy though. Although money doesn't fall from sky and I'm sure that the efforts one puts in accomplishing any goals ahead, related or not to money but certainly related to growth, can provide a wonderful journey that get us closer to happiness and fullfillment, both containing the richness of every experience with lived, what they provided, what we learned that made us smarter, stronger, bigger and braver. That compendium applied to the future experiences certainly will makes us live them in a better way and enjoy life.
Freedom is certainly one thing money can bring, or closer to it than no money anyway.
Absolutely.
Look at you two 😍 That's a great picture!
Some say money is the root of all evil, which is along the same lines as guns kill people. Ignorant sayings at best. The lust for money, (and power) is the true root of all evil, that's the way I see it.
Unfortunately, is doesn't work out well if you completely ignore money and the need to have it in your life. It also doesn't work out well if that is the only priority in your life.
Life is for living, not for chasing that hot dog on a string.
What a shitty business partner to have had, hopefully he choked on his stolen goods.
I bring the standard down somewhat, but she lifts it so it's all good. 😬
I hope he choked on my money, seven figures so a lot to choke on. I'll admit to wanting to kill him but there were enough reasons for me not to spend my life in prison so I didn't.
I don't buy that. You two are on the same level, the fit is hand and glove tight.
I understand the 'not wanting to spend your life in prison', but it sure would be nice to see his gloating face turn into a sobbing mass of defeated flesh.
A pile of sobbing, defeated flesh..mi like the sound of that. I'm sure he'll find his own misery eventually, people like him often do.
I've been a floater for quite a while. There were few things that I really wanted. There was a time when I was clearly lost, but life didn't leave me there, but smacked me around, starting with knocking up Lily's mom - bad choice in a woman, but the child we have makes it worth it, always. And having Lily, plus the many differences with her mom, made my path a lot clearer. Now it's just there, and each day, it gets easier to walk the line, stay straight up. Yes, a few detours for fun, a little straying here and there, and some necessary corrections of direction. Slight ones, nothing drastic. My future, too, is pretty clear. A great feeling, isn't it?
Deviations and corrections are always a part of life, I guess all we can hope is we end up heading in the right general direction.