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The meaning of life...
Money Making Insider | 16 November, 2009 | Hot Topics:
Over the last few issues Stuart, editor of Money Tree has been pulling no punches and telling you the truth about how to get wealthy.
If you’ve just joined us in this short series, let me give you a recap. There are four steps and Stuart’s covered three of them.
1. First step - become debt-free and that includes your bond.
Forget any rubbish you've heard about debt being good. It isn't. Debt is a slave-trap for the poor, deluded masses.
2. Step two is to get enough capital so you can exist at your current level of poverty on the interest you get from investing it.
3. Step three is to accumulate about R10 million. It varies from person to person. Why R10 million (or so)? Easy.
That's the amount you need to get you set up in a decent house (mortgage free) and to squander on some holidays and toys.
I'm not recommending you squander a million in toys, holidays and the like; it's just that I've yet to meet someone who could keep their hands out of the sweetie jar once they get a million or more.
So you need to get this stage over with. Buy a sports car, get a boat, have some 'designer' clothes, buy a silly expensive Swiss watch, which nobody can tell from a R100 fake. Live 'the dream' for a while...
Then it's time to wake up. Because, my friend, the stark truth is this...
How to discover the purpose of life
Stuart, Editor of Money Tree
Even with 10 million you have achieved NOTHING of value. All you have done is to become a free man or woman and buy yourself some fancy toys. Big, fat, hairy deal.
Why would anyone want more than R10 million?
Why does Richard Branson get up in the morning? Why does Paul McCartney keep writing songs (please stop, please stop...)? Why doesn't Bill Gates pack it all in? After all, they've got LOADS of money, right?
Are they just greedy people who can't get enough?
No. They have all passed into stage four - the REAL point of life. The point which few people ever glimpse because most people spend a lifetime in a panic-stricken struggle to raise enough money to pay the PETROL BILL!
I am talking about stage four, which is the heart of the matter.
It is the purpose of life. The real reason (I believe) that we exist. The noblest struggle in which a man or woman of integrity can engage.
It is nothing more or less than the struggle to be all you can be as a person. To live a life of power and passion in the pursuit of your dreams - whatever they are.
Every person is unique and has, if they did but realise, a special set of talents and abilities not possessed by another living soul in that exact combination. The purpose of life is to become free (debt-free; financially independent; play with some toys) and then to follow your dream.
Becoming wealthy has little to do with buying a bunch of stupid toys. You have to be a very lost if this is the limit of your imagination.
How much champagne can you drink? How many Rolexes do you need? How big a wardrobe of 'designer' clothes will satisfy you? This is all junk.
They are toys - harmless, sparkling baubles to amuse our childish minds for five minutes.
These toys are NOT the purpose of a noble life.
The real purpose of money
Once you are free from the crippling burden of debt and then amass enough funds to release you from the treadmill, then (and only then) is your creative spirit released and your true, inner self allowed fully to blossom.
The money is for following your dream with power. The more money you have, the bigger the dream you can actualise.
Richard Branson and Bill Gates do not get out of bed in order to make another R100 million. They both have a dream which they are following with passion.
The money they make on each project allows them to dream BIGGER the next time. The only limits to our dreams are self-imposed.
The goal is simply to be all you can possibly be.
This is enough. This single goal encompasses all others.
There is no ‘retirement’! You can't retire from life... until what? Until you’re dead? The 'retire at 65' mentality is for the brain-dead sheep - the digits on the counter - not for you.
You will die in the pursuit of ever larger dreams and goals - this is how to live a noble life.
Editors note
Pascale Barrow
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