Money Must Circulate
Is money just pieces of paper passed around as means of exchange for goods and services? What is it that makes money such an important commodity to have?
We all know and have discussed about the qualities and the effective ways on making money. We want the steps to attain financial freedom and read all there is to know about wealth building. This is all well and good but there is one more thing you must know about money-it must circulate.
Money is worthwhile only if it is circulated. Your efforts on making money will become a waste if you are not going to cash in your check and use the proceeds. Seems easy enough to grasp but you will be surprised that people still don’t know this truth and sacrifice an excellent quality of life for wealth building that have no purpose but to be accumulated.
An example of such a person is old Mr. Chapman. He used to go around streets looking for junk that others have discarded so he can sell them off for whatever amount he can get. Mr. Chapman had never become rich because he lived the same way until he died after several years.
Because he had no close relatives and friends nearby, the authorities had to come in his property to take stock of all that he has left behind. You would expect all the old memorabilia and junk from him-but imagine the surprise of the policemen rummaging the place to find boxes and boxes of cash amounting to more than $100,000 in the house.
Having this much money would certainly afford anybody with financial freedom to do as he pleased in life; yet even with so much money, no one could say that the old junk dealer was a success in life. Far from it, because he never spent and used his money-all the hard work and wealth he had were as good as the trash he collected.
This is not to mean you spend all that you earn and live in a foolhardy fashion– not at all. Money is meant to be used for you to enjoy a quality of life everybody deserves to have. Be prudent in your handling of finances, but never lose sight of the purpose and place money has in your life.
You might deem Mr. Chapman a really foolish old man; but if you think about it, there are many people who had become rich but are guilty of doing the same thing– amassing wealth for no purpose but to have a pretty figure in their bank account. Remember, your success is not the amount of money that you have-it is measured by the quality of life that you have lived.
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