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Let's start with what is money and what does it do. Money is a tool for trading goods and services. Does money have intrinsic value? No, its value is based on faith and what it can be traded for, as a tool it is easy to use and provides for a better experience. Is money bad or evil? No, in fact the opposite is true. Money is a means. The problem comes when it is the end or the meaning. As a tool money is meant to be used. That is what it is for. Money has energy, it is energy. If your belief is money is evil, bad or worthless. Would your energy accept or reject money. Would it attract or chase away money? I used to be needy for money, I wanted money, but I was not good at accepting money. The energy I had was not in alignment with money. Because of that money I wasn’t attractive to the energy of money.
If you meet someone that is negative, who bad mouths you and doesn’t want to be around you, How much effort do you want to put into being around them?
“While making money was good, having meaningful work and meaningful relationships was far better. To me, meaningful work is being on a mission I become engrossed in, and meaningful relationships are those I have with people I care deeply about and who care deeply about me. Think about it: It’s senseless to have making money as your goal as money has no intrinsic value—its value comes from what it can buy, and it can’t buy everything. It’s smarter to start with what you really want, which are your real goals, and then work back to what you need to attain them. Money will be one of the things you need, but it’s not the only one and certainly not the most important one once you get past having the amount you need to get what you really want. When thinking about the things you really want, it pays to think of their relative values so you weigh them properly. In my case, I wanted meaningful work and meaningful relationships equally, and I valued money less—as long as I had enough to take care of my basic needs. In thinking about the relative importance of great relationships and money, it was clear that relationships were more important because there is no amount of money I would take in exchange for a meaningful relationship, because there is nothing I could buy with that money that would be more valuable. So, for me, meaningful work and meaningful relationships were and still are my primary goals and everything I did was for them. Making money was an incidental consequence of that.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles
If we are tapped into the energy of money and know how to use it to bless the lives of those that we meet, money will be much more attracted to us. If we are Smart and healthy and happy without money we will be the same with it. Money is a magnifier. It does not change feelings, It does not provide self worth, It doesn’t improve relationships. It in and of itself doesn't provide health. It can buy things that do produce health like better food personal training. But that is in using it as a tool like it is supposed to be used. So let’s get going with goals that will make you attractive to money.
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