No B.S Friday: People often make this mistake about being rich
My life is full of problems.
But I like my problems.
This is the mistake that everyone thinks about when they imagine being rich. They think it’s all cocktails and club chairs in the sun, and nothing to worry about any time of the day.
It’s not.
It’s cocktails and club chairs in the sun, and any number of problems to get your teeth stuck into.
This week, I’m trying to get a better handle on Googles algorithm, and where my marketing spend is best directed.
Last week it was something different. Next week it will be something else.
My life is still full of problems.
But I like these problems.
I like them because they are generally more interesting and challenging.
But I also like them because they were mine. If I was trying to allocate a marketing budget for somebody else’s business, Id probably go nuts. I’d hate it.
But because it’s my business, I kinda enjoy it. I like it because its’ mine and it’s meaningful to me.
And this is the thing. With wealth comes freedom and with freedom comes the ability to focus your time and energy on the things that matter to you.
Nobody else gets to tell you where your energy goes. You decide for yourself.
And at the end of the day. Humans like challenges. People retire and they do cross-word puzzles and sudoku.
So a rich and meaningful life is full of challenges.
But the great joy of being wealth is getting to decide which challenges you say yes to, and which challenges you say no to.
And you know which challenge I do not miss at all?
The challenge of keeping my head above water financially.
This challenge is zero fun.
But people can spend their whole lives revisiting this challenge, year in, year out.
And its not the making money part.
Making money is fun. I still enjoy it.
The reason it’s a drama is because of the stress.
When you don’t know if you’re going to be able to make your mortgage payments, or pay for school fees, or keep the family in the life they’ve become accustomed to, that’s a stress.
And it’s a stress that wears away at your health if you’re stuck with it long enough.
So this is the point I’m trying to make.
We are always going to have problems in life. That’s just life. And problems themselves aren’t even bad.
But we do have the opportunity to choose what problems we want to deal with.
Elevating up the problem hierarchy does involve a commitment of time and energy. You need to manufacture wealth and the life you want to live in.
But it is possible. Anyone can do it.
And if you’re getting sick of dealing with the money-survival problem… well, good. You should be getting sick of it.
There are better problems out there, just waiting for you to take them on.
JG.