Today someone asked the question “what does financial success mean?” 10 years ago I probably would have said something like,”success is making as much money as my dad.” Today’s answer was totally different. Being unemployed and barely scraping by for almost a year gives you lots of time to think about things like that.

Most people work 5 days a week to earn money so they can enjoy the other 2 days of the week- and they do that for 40+ years! That’s completely backwards. What is money for? It’s so you can buy things that make you happy and pay to do things you enjoy. How does it make sense to spend 70% of your days doing something just to facilitate your enjoyment of the other 30%? Life is waaaay too short for that.

For me and most people, money is an obstacle. It’s something that forces us to spend most of our time doing things we probably wouldn’t be doing if we had the choice. It’s one of the biggest sources of stress. It’s something that keeps us from getting out and doing the things that we enjoy the most.

Life was meant to be enjoyed. Financial success is the point where money stops being an obstacle and becomes just another tool to facilitate your enjoyment of life. I don’t care if you have 10 million dollars, a Ferrari, or a private jet. As long as your work dictates when you can enjoy life, you haven’t made it.

I haven’t made it yet, and in fact I’m flat broke. But I’m happy and living life, and I think that makes me a lot closer than a lot of people I know.

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