Defeating the green-eyed money envy monster
Yahoo! Finance writes: “To overcome money envy, we need to figure out our purpose, identify what we love and value most, and make our money obey our values by setting specific financial goals… This isn’t a one-time exercise, but a lifelong struggle. The Joneses, the media, and American culture will forever seduce us to betray what is genuinely meaningful for what is comfortable, beautiful, and enviable.”
Yet another entry in Smooth Harold’s “giving money the bird” series.
[via Lifehacker]
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“so you say money doesn’t buy happiness? Well, it allows me to do the things I love most, and those things make me happy. Things like spending more time with my family.”
Don’t confuse get’n pay’d with envy which is what this post addresses.
But it also says “giving money the bird”
Ahh, confusion noted. “Giving money the bird” is merely used to show disrespect towards the idea that money is of real value. While important, I try to view greenbacks only as a facilitating liquid asset, nothing more.
got ya. I agree completely on the “disrespect towards the idea that money is of real value.”
Look at us all conversing digitally and stuff while we do our work.
Yahoo Finance didn’t write that quote, Laura Rowley did. Give her credit. She did a good job.
I heard someone put it this way once . . . “so you say money doesn’t buy happiness? Well, it allows me to do the things I love most, and those things make me happy. Things like spending more time with my family.”