Don't work for money as far as possible. It will become an addiction that will only bring you bondage. A good-paying job does not give you real security. it only gives you a false sense of security on a month by month basis. If economy is bad, your job may no longer be secure.

Instead, work for passion and enjoyment and enrichment to others and build a system that runs on its own to generate passive income or invest in a system so that money will work for you!

Don't be the system either (self-employed) that will force you to be too dependent on yourself. If you fall sick or run into any mishap, that's the end of your income too!

Example
Don't fetch water from the river to sell to the village. Build a pipe system to transport water from the river to sell to the village instead. The first is active income, the second is passive income that frees up your time and energy to do even more meaningful things in life!

Money is not an end. Never earn money for the sake of money or just for materialism.

Money is a mean to an end. The end should be something meaningful and beneficial to others. Only then will you be able to come up with a concrete plan and persevere to implement it in spite of whatever failures you must face along the way.

6 Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

7 Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed;

2 Cor. 9:6-8

I'm beginning to understand God's economy where more giving actually results in more receiving!

This story never fails to move my eyes to tears and prompts me to give to those in need so that they do not have to go through what she has gone through...

Some people don't get it
And even some of those who do don't live it...

I agree with your last post. It's hard to keep tabs on yourself. Way easier to keep tabs on others. It's a bit of a shock when I realize just how far I've gone...
» middaymoon on 2008-03-03 09:42:14

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