Is money just pieces of paper passed around as means of exchange for goods and services? What is it that makes money such an important commodity to have?
We learned about the attributes and effective strategies on making money. We find out about the steps to getting financial freedom. We know all about the importance of wealth building. There is one more important quality you need to know about money that ties it all together-it is that money must circulate.
Money has value only when it is in circulation. Making money is an otherwise pointless task if you have no plans on using it. It sounds simple enough but unfortunately, many individuals are unmindful of its relevance to them. Too many people have sacrificed their quality of life on the altar of the promise of wealth building opportunities.
An example of this is Mr. Chapman. Mr. Chapman was a junk dealer who roamed the blocks getting the things people have discarded and exchanging them for whatever he can get. He had never become rich and lived a solitary life until he passed away, stooped in posture and fixed in his ways.
Because he had no close relatives and friends nearby, the authorities had to come in his property to take stock of all that he has left behind. You would expect all the old memorabilia and junk from him-but imagine the surprise of the policemen rummaging the place to find boxes and boxes of cash amounting to more than $100,000 in the house.
You can say you have financial freedom if you had $100,000 literally sitting in your house. Yet even with all the cash in his possession, there is no one that can say that the quiet junk dealer was a success. Since all the money did was collect dust in nooks and crannies of his house-you can say that it was equal to all the useless junk he collected that didn’t served him any good.
Don’t get me wrong, you must never spend all that you have on wasteful living-of course not. What we are saying is that you must use money to enjoy and have a quality of life everybody deserves. Exercise wisdom in managing your finances, but always put money in its proper place in your life.
We can tsk tsk old Mr. Chapman for his unwise actions but really, so many people have become rich and have been found guilty of the same thing-accumulating wealth without using it wisely. At the end of the day, success is found not in the quantity of money you have, but by the quality of living that you have done.
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Filed under Science of Getting Rich by Robert Hall

