Money Is a Wonderful Servant but a Terrible Master

As you increase the richness and satisfaction of your lifestyle, please don’t get caught up in the pack of people chasing a treasure that might turn out to be fool's gold.

Those that are obsessed with money generally fail to understand that it’s the magical experiences of a life wonderfully lived from true wealth.

This is what my latest book The Wealth Money Can’t Buy is all about: the EIGHT forms of wealth.

Once you know these and work a little on them each day, your life will never be the same. If you’d like to learn these eight forms of wealth, go ahead and read my latest book, The Wealth Money Can’t Buy.

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There is nothing wrong with making a lot of money. Money is important. It allows you to have freedom. It can reduce stress. We live in a sensory world. I love flowers. I love art. You love being fit. You love having a great family life. Why wouldn't you want an appropriate amount of money for yourself and for your family? To help your family, to do things for people in need. But here's the key. Do not let it be your God. I have mentored so many super rich people and money is all they have. Some of the richest people on the planet are cash rich and they're life poor. I've met people who have so much money you would think they have incredible lives. I've mentored them on their private jets. I've advised them on their private yachts. They have private islands.and they're consumed with lawsuits, they're consumed with worry, they feel bad that their 25 year old children won't even talk to them, or they're going through divorces. It just goes on and on. The whole idea of rich life is to live beautifully, financially, but also spiritually and simply so that you enjoy the small blessings of life and have abundance in all ways. I want you today and everyday after to shift from seeking FFA And I want you to leap, and it's a quantum leap, to JPF, Joy,Peace and Freedom. FFA, this is where the 95%, that's where they are. They are chasing fame, fortune and applause. Fame, fortune and applause. Because that's what PENAM teaches us, that's what society teaches us, that's the cultural hypnosis. If you have fame, if you... have fortune financially. If you have applause and everyone likes you and you get great social media numbers, then you will be happy. But it makes me think of the great Zen proverb, wherever you go, there you are. It makes me think of one of the psychological theories called the theory of holes. It's almost like we have these holes within us. These are the micro and macro traumas that I mentioned to you earlier. And a lot of people, and please hear me on this because I believe it's incredibly profound.So many people in the world want more money and they want more things and they want more fame and they want more followers because deep inside subconsciously, and they're not aware of this because they haven't done the inner work that you're doing with me, but they're trying to get all these things to make them feel better and fill the holes. Makes sense, right? Powerful, right? And so they get the money, but they still feel the same. They get a million followers and the next day they feel the same. I think about one person, he was a client of mine, sold his company. He said, it was incredible. All this money was coming into my bank account. I thought I feel completely different the next day. He goes, I woke up the next morning, super rich and felt the same.And so please don't fall into the trap of thinking that when you get these outer things, you're going to feel any different because as the Zen proverb says, Wherever you go, there you are. Now, does that mean you should not pursue fame? Does that mean you should not pursue financial fortune? And does that mean you should not pursue applause? Of course not. Be in the world, but not of it. Pursue those things, but here is the key. Do not make them dependent on your self-worth.