Your Money or Your Life
If someone thrust a gun in your ribs and said that sentence, what would you do? Most of us would turn over our wallets. The threat works because we value our lives more than we value our money. Or do we?
Where’s all the life we supposedly made at work? For many of us, isn’t the truth closer to ‘making a dying’? Aren’t we killing ourselves — our health, our relationships, our sense of joy and wonder — for our jobs? We are sacrificing our lives for money — but it’s happening so slowly we barely notice. Eventually we may have all the comforts and even luxuries we could ever want, but inertia itself keeps us locked into the nine-to-five pattern.
Psychotherapist Douglas LaBier documents this ‘social dis-ease’ in his book Modern Madness.He found that focussing on money/position/success at the expense of personal fulfillment and meaning had led 60 percent of his sample of several hundred to suffer from depression, anxiety and other job-related disorders, including the ubiquitous ‘stress.’
Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them — work, family, health, friends and spirit — and you’re keeping all of these in the air.
But the other four balls — family, health, friends and spirit — are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same.
You must understand that and strive for balance in your life.— Brian Dyson
your money or your life book by vicki robin and joe dominguez
IN MY PERSPECTIVE and EXPERIENCES.
People who are rich (born rich) are having more privilege than other people, why? because they have MORE CHOICE, whether they want to be successful or not whether they want to work or not, whether they want to do the right thing or not, they still living in PROSPERITY.
While for people who are coming from the middle low level, they don't have choice except FIGHTING for a better life, otherwise they cannot have a better life.
FIGHTING comes with the consequences, health, happiness, serenity, you might not get all of them at ONE.
SEEMS UNFAIR BUT IT'S LIFE. GOD WANTS TO CREATE BALANCE IN THIS WORLD.
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