Meaning of money

What is money?

Food on your plate. Clothes on your body. Nice car to drive. A way to your dreams or the cost of your dreams. How you determine your worth or how your worth is determined by others.

From where I see it. It is very personal to each one of us. Thus, the way we define "money" for ourself, shapes our relationship with it. This will be the lens painting your every interaction.

This also has an impact on how we will think about earning money.

If you see it as limited and scarce, you will always be willing to give anything for it. Even the most precious resource of yours (your time). Their most precious resource – time itself – becomes a commodity they're willing to sacrifice endlessly in pursuit of what they perceive as limited.

On the other hand, when people see it as unlimited and abundant, they find ways to earn money using their skills and mind. Not through their time.

Personally for me, money is way to create and have more options. Also, an extension of how much value am I creating for the world. A measure not of worth, but of impact.

This perspective helps me make money choices for my future.

This reminded me of a saying that goes: “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” (Matthew 16:26, KJV).”

I would love to know how do you see it?