I love articles that share X lessons about something and today we one have about life and love.
It’s easy to see everything through the lens of money. Decades of growing up in capitalism has that effect on you. Also, bills do that too.
It’s always refreshing to focus on the reason we care so much about money in the first place – because it enables the life we hope to live.
22 Lessons on Life, Love, and Choosing What Matters Most [Michael Thompson] – “True freedom is much simpler than that. True freedom is having the courage to be yourself — while working to develop the stones to continually bet on yourself.
Money comes and goes. That curly-haired money-hungry vegan in the Bahamas is a good example of that. Plus, it has a funny way of chaining people to the pursuit of more, more, more forgetting that golden handcuffs are still handcuffs.
Follow people who can teach you to be monetarily wealthy if that’s your thing.
But don’t forget to also develop into the type of person who stays true to yourself if you lose it.”