Money is an important question many people shy away from talking about but they desperately need help in dealing with to avoid catastrophic situation that may lead to story that touch. All wish to attain financial freedom and wealth but only few always achieve it and even among this few only a handful ever get financial satisfaction. In a world where there is enough for us all to have $10,000,000 each, why is it that many still wallow in abject poverty and only few ever end up with financial satisfaction?
We all set out at an early age in life in search of wealth and satisfaction. We are told to work hard and toil day and night and live like nothing else matters. read with both eyes closed to fun, Pray and everything will fall in place, then we can get that nice cool job with nice pay and good retirement benefits and have enough to rest on when our own fair share of labour is done but most people always realize at the end of their own fair share of toiling in search of wealth and happiness that they never actually achieved it and have lost themselves in search of the financial satisfaction and most don’t even get close to wealthy.
An article by the Atlantic argued that “most rich people are dissatisfied with what they’ve achieved in life at the later hour of their life and their money often contribute to their deep anxieties involving love, work, and family”. Wealthy men are frequently dissatisfied even with their sizable fortune and some don’t even consider themselves financially secure. If the rich can feel like this, then what of those below the ladder?
Money didn’t fall from the sky but was created by man thousands of years ago to replace the barter system which was not an acurate means of exchange. Many object was first used before metallic coin which are most times either Gold, Silver or Copper was introduced. Gold, Salt, Cowry and shells was embraced in place of barter in some part of Africa to replace barter system too. Globalization led to the emergence of a global market which resulted in the need for a more appropriate means of exchange, then paper note (Currency) and Coin that were not made of Gold, Silver and Copper were introduced. Though this currency are without any use of their own but they are acceptable as a medium of exchange due to legal backing from governments.
The most recent of this currencies are digital currencies which was introduced at the late years of the 20th Century. According to Forbes, “the most common of this digital currencies which is popularly referred to as Cryptocurrency is Bitcoin and they exhibits properties similar to physical currencies but allows for instantetaneous transactions and borderless transfer-of-ownership”.
Money on its own can’t do anything but it act on the emotions of those who own it. I am the one that will make the decision maybe I want to spend my money to get an IphoneX even when it is not convenient just because that is what my friends are using or spend to learn a new language school which has a long term value than a phone at a language School. Strong emotions like jealousy, anxiety, embarrassment and regret has led many of us toward the path of bad financial decisions but we just don’t sleep and wake up with this emotions but they were ingrained in us by the social institutions and belief system we met on ground and this has turned us to slaves of money instead of the other way round. To break free from this emotional constrain, we need a neutral approach to money inorder to be free from this emotional constrain.
As Napoleon Hill said that “guilt and shame is the number one thing that blocks people from building wealth”. Shame has halted the drive of many in their quest to achieve financial freedom and guilt has stopped many who have crossed the first hurdle from ever getting satisfied. From when I was just learning the intricacies of being a social man, I was being told that trying to get more than what I desire is wrong and is nothing but 'greed' and this has stood with me even till now that I am a man and has affected my ability to make healthy decisions that will make me more richer and financially free and this is a general idea and is a problem many are battling with knowingly or otherwise in the world but Robert Kiyosaki rightfully debunked this Idea in his book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" stating that trying to get more than you desire cannot be referred to as ‘greed’ but ‘desire’.
This wrong vibe that has been attached to the attempt to get what you think you desire is an idea innocently diffuse in the society through the family by religion. It is believed that money is evil and holding on to it without sharing out or tenaciously going in search of it is wrong and it is more blessed to give than receive. This wrong mindset has affected and is still affecting our tenacity to go for what we desire.
The mindset of “receivers are cursed” were ignorantly transplanted in us and it has its root in our belief system as Plato, Prophyry and some other great philosophers ably pointed out. To keep the people susceptible to the church and the whim and caprice of the Priest, their mind were enslaved and it was rightly accurately stated by the 2nd Century Churchillians “we must keep them impoverished and ignorant. For if they ever discovered the myths that we promulgate, this whole thing falls". This is even more profound in most of Africa today where religious leaders live flamboyant lifestyle at the expense of their improvished followers who don’t even have easy access to them. ‘It is better to drop your salary for God than to use it to get food on your table’ they’ll say.
This unhealthy mindset has destroyed many people’s chance of ever becoming financially independent and if we are not prepared to unlearn and relearn new set of skill that can lead us to financial freedom and satisfaction, it will only remain in the realm of dreams for us.
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