You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.
— Warren Buffet
We all secretly crave to be wealthy, but shy away from admitting it. In my opinion there is nothing wrong with it. Our society always demeans those who dream of getting rich. There is some sort of stigma attached to the money. In fact, most of us feel that those who become wealthy always do it by exploiting others. Many people turn philosophers when it comes to the topic of wealth creation and they start telling us that “Money is not everything.”
Yes, it may be true that Money is not everything but that should not stop us from realizing our full potential.
Yes, money can’t buy happiness but it can buy many things that bring happiness with them. The most important joy I felt when I started earning was that, now I can buy whichever book I desire. Books are synonyms to happiness to me and money only can buy it for me.
This may apply in many areas of our life. Money can’t buy health, but it can buy healthy food. It can buy medicines when you fall ill. Count the number of cancer survivors and then count their wealth. Those who survive fatal diseases mostly are wealthy and can afford the treatment.
We may all may not become super rich or richest person on the planet, but we can always become what we deserve. It’s very sad sight when we see unrealized careers, when people spend their lives in self-inflicted poverty.
So, at the very first, we need to change our attitude towards money. There is nothing wrong with wanting more money. If we see around us, there is huge ignorance about the money and wealth creation. Let’s call it financial illiteracy. Let’s admit that we all secretly dream of getting wealthy, but do not take concrete steps towards it. That brings us in unending loop of workaholism, consumerism and unsatisfied lives. So many of us do hard work but never get to it. In my honest opinion the answer to all these issues is: “Financial Illiteracy”.
Many of us and now our children get good literacy (Not always education). We are trained to become engineers, doctors, lawyers, professors and we work hard towards it. But what we do wrong is we focus on our core skills only. Yes, those core skills only bring us our daily bread and butter. But what we forget is that daily bread and butter loses its value daily and we don’t even realize it. We are too lost in our core skills that we forget the challenges life brings to us. Evolutionary biologists suggest that ancient humans possessed way more skills than today’s average human beings. He knew around 60 Square KM map of the jungle he’s living (when was the last time you found an address without Google Map?). He knew herbs and medicines to cure many ailments. He even knew self-defense, hunting, cooking and what not. Today we can see highly specialized humans around us who can do only one thing their entire lives, but they ignorantly fail to achieve basic proficiency in any other field.
Similar problem is happening with the financial literacy. It is one of the important problem among us. This problem is leading to self-inflicted poverty. So if you are looking to enhance your skills, keep Financial literacy as your next priority item.
We know how to earn the money but we don’t know how to Protect it, save it, invest It and grow it.
And nothing can be more serious than that!
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