Our ability to cultivate inner peace and our relationship with money are inexorably linked to one another. For that reason, money and its many impacts on our lives will be a key area of exploration on this site. Like many people my relationship with money and its effects on my life has been a source of stress for me. As the years have gone on my relationship with money and my ability to manage it has improved so I’m glad to share my thoughts and experiences with you.

Over time there are a number of money related themes that I will explore but it’s important to start out by highlighting an important big idea with respect to money (and wealth in general). The blind pursuit of money just for the sake of accumulating great wealth is one of the surest ways to not find inner peace. Because while money allows you to take care of yourself and your family, and affords you access to luxuries that could give you some happiness, the pitfalls of money increase as you accumulate more of it. One key pitfall of the pursuit of money is the tendency of people to become obsessed with accumulating more of it. In fact, many of the world’s wealthiest people have been known to be obsessed with the preservation of their wealth.

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