Living 'poor' and loving it
By Donna Freedman
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/LearnToBudget/LivingPoorAndLovingIt.aspx
... Blaming the victims ?
... I'm redefining the word so that it will lose its power to harm. Being poor is what my dad would call a "useful life skill."
...
Being "poor" for a while -- that is, making a conscious choice to manage money differently -- would be good for them.
Here, then, are the rules for How to Be Poor:
Rule 1: Have very little money.
Rule 2: Live on it.
Rule 3: Rule 2 will change your life, if you let it.
...
An attitude of gratitude
... discovering how little I really need and how much I already have.
... What's important is knowing that I have everything I need and some of what I want. Although I have never been more broke, more tired or more uncertain about the future, I've also never been happier. I'm no Zen master, but I can say that having less makes you that much more grateful for what's in front of you. I've also learned that paring down possessions means a lot more room in your life as well as in your house.
... Being rich wouldn't necessarily make me happy or generous. Those two states of mind have nothing to do with your bank balance.
There's a world of difference between poverty and poverty of spirit.
Not that being poor makes me noble. It doesn't. It just makes me careful. And grateful.
Published Feb. 9, 2007
dozo
domo arigato gozaimashita
Donna Freedman sensei
:)
By Donna Freedman
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/LearnToBudget/LivingPoorAndLovingIt.aspx
... Blaming the victims ?
... I'm redefining the word so that it will lose its power to harm. Being poor is what my dad would call a "useful life skill."
...
Being "poor" for a while -- that is, making a conscious choice to manage money differently -- would be good for them.
Here, then, are the rules for How to Be Poor:
Rule 1: Have very little money.
Rule 2: Live on it.
Rule 3: Rule 2 will change your life, if you let it.
...
An attitude of gratitude
... discovering how little I really need and how much I already have.
... What's important is knowing that I have everything I need and some of what I want. Although I have never been more broke, more tired or more uncertain about the future, I've also never been happier. I'm no Zen master, but I can say that having less makes you that much more grateful for what's in front of you. I've also learned that paring down possessions means a lot more room in your life as well as in your house.
... Being rich wouldn't necessarily make me happy or generous. Those two states of mind have nothing to do with your bank balance.
There's a world of difference between poverty and poverty of spirit.
Not that being poor makes me noble. It doesn't. It just makes me careful. And grateful.
Published Feb. 9, 2007
dozo
domo arigato gozaimashita
Donna Freedman sensei
:)
P.S.:
"the price of success is much smaller than the price of failure"
whealthyfreeman
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