It Takes A Selfish Person To Stay Poor!
It Takes A Selfish Person To Stay Poor!
In this blog post, we will talk about how to stay rich with a selfish personality. We'll explore the idea of frugality and why it's not sustainable. As the article says, "It was a very good day."
What is money? For most people, it's just a medium of exchange and nothing more. However, in order to achieve financial independence, you'll need to understand what money is metaphorically speaking as well as how it relates to your life physically speaking. The things most people consider financially important are subjective opinions because they have an inside perspective from their own state. For example, a new luxury car might mean financial freedom to one person while another person might see this purchase as a waste of money.
The truth is that money was invented to be an instrument of exchange like the piggy bank analogy. You give up your valuable time and energy to work on projects you don't want to do in order to get money, then you use it with other people in exchange for the things that they produced that they don't need or want anymore. It's a universal principle and it applies universally across culture and geography. It's just another way of saying, "Give up something you value for something else."
Financial freedom means being in control of your time and energy. If you are not in control of your time and energy, you cannot be in control of your destiny. You need to be able to do things with your day that you value instead of other things that may or may not bring "value" to your life. If there is no value being added to the world through anything you do, what's the point? If money is only a finite thing, then why should it have any special importance over anything else? Money is just as subjective a concept as love or happiness. It isn't necessarily wrong, but it isn't necessarily right either.
The definition of 'frugality' is the practice of living with little expenditure for basic necessities like food and shelter. However, frugality is not sustainable in an economic system where money is a scarce resource. We have to look beyond just the monetary value of our expenses to determine the "value" of our time and necessary resources. Frugality is just another word for poverty.
It doesn't matter whether you are frugal or not if you aren't spending your money on what you want or need to live a fulfilled life. If everything is materialistic, then nothing will bring value as opposed to nothing being valuable. What's important isn't what you spend but what you bring into the world by how you spend your time and efforts in order to get it. If time is money, then being poor in time is poor in value.
This same principle applies to money and everything else that we hold as valuable. For example, if you are obsessed with buying other people's judgment of you as opposed to making your own judgment based on what brings value to your life, then what you spend will be worthless. If it's all about the physical appearance of things, then the outward trappings of things will have little value in regard to what you bring into the world relative to the things that are important to you and those around you.
If you are poor in time, energy and money, what you buy is not going to improve your life because you will spend it on things other than what brings value to your life. If we don't do what we want or need to do while there is still time, then our efforts have little value or consequences. The old saying of "you can't take it with you" holds a lot of truth in that fact that if your spending isn't bringing any value into the world while there is still time, then you are spending your time and energy on things that might as well not exist in the first place.
The real wealth in life is in accomplishing tasks, projects and experiences that give meaning to the world. That's what is valuable, not the physical trappings of things. If you don't do what you want or need to do, then you can't expect it to come back to you in the same way that giving up your personal power for a boss is not going to change your life for the better.
The definition of 'spirituality' is the quality or state of being concerned with love and reverence toward God or nature and self-improvement. While frugality is a state of being concerned with materialism above all else, spirituality involves developing senses of purpose, connection and compassion. If we don't find ways to spend time on what we want while there is still time, then our lives will be meaningless as a result.
The old adage goes something like this, "I don't have much, but I've made a lot." In other words, you must do what you want to do while there is still time. There is no value in waiting until the last minute when everything you want to do won't be done in time. When we are frugal or poor in time, we are going to find that our day is filled with worthless things instead of precious things. Those things will add up to nothing of value and everything that we do will become an empty and materialistic existence.
Here's the truth, we can't bring it all with us into the next life. We are born into a world of things that either have inherent value or inherent lack of value. Either way, there is nothing that can be done about it. However, we still have some control over what we do with our life and how much value we add to the world through what we do and how we do it. If you are poor in time, energy and money, then there is little value in what you accomplish whereas if you are rich in those three qualities, then you will find more value than average in everything that you do.
The word "spirituality" means that our purpose in life is to love and be loved, to connect with others and our world, and to evolve into a better person. I agree completely with that definition of the word. So if you are poor in time, energy and money, then where is the value in that? If you are poor in time, energy and money, then you have little value in what you do while there is still time as opposed to having it all later on when there is no more time. There simply isn't any way to measure the value of what we do once we no longer exist.
If we love our lives as much as we say that we do, then why are we so willing to waste our lives away making empty promises to others who we will never see again? If love is the highest value, then there is no value in dying with everything that you have accumulated in life. We should be more concerned with the other things that matter more such as time, energy and money. If you don't spend your time on what you want or need to do, then what's the point of having two eyes and a brain?
We all live in a world where wealth and power are measured by money.
Conclusion
By living a frugal lifestyle, I stand on firm ground and have a solid foundation. If I can't afford anything that I want or need, then I can't afford to be poor in time, energy and money. That's why my life is so much more valuable than the lives of those who are poor in time, energy and money. The only way to be wealthy is through frugality.
I don't try to impress others with how rich I am by driving fancy cars or buying expensive things that aren't my style. My philosophy is that if you take care of yourself financially, you won't have to worry about being poor in time, energy and money.