Life Balance – The Key to Long Lived Success

Author: Jacek Wroclaw
Source: ezinearticles.com

We live in days where money is considered to be the most important thing, but is this really so? Not at all! Money is only the tool that, when used well, will help us to achieve everything that we want in life. Notice I said “help us to” this is because money is only a tool. Many people have the wrong viewpoint of money. There is a principle that many people live by, they “value money and use people”, but that’s backwards we should “use money and value people.”

So how can we achieve true happiness in her life if money is not the first thing. First let’s establish that having money is not the most important thing.

Here is a list of some of the wealthiest people who lived in the last century:

Charles Schwab, the president of the largest steel company.

Samuel Insull, the president of the largest electric company.

Howard Hopson, the president of the largest gas company.

Arthur Cuttin, A great wheat speculator.

Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Exchange

Jesse Livermore, a great Wall Street trader

These were some of the most wealthy people who have ever lived. Wealth beyond many of our imaginations. We’re mentioning them for a purpose, what happened to them. Let’s see:

Charles Schwab went into bankruptcy in the last five years of his life living on borrowed money.

Samuel Insull died penniless a fugitive from justice in a foreign land.

Howard Hopson simply went insane.

Arthur Cutten went broke and died outside of the U.S.

And Jesse Livermore took his own life.

By today’s standards the wealth of these people had should have made them the happiest most satisfied people in the world, they were not.

What is the lesson, We need to balance our life. Money is not the ultimate goal is simply a tool to achieve a happiness that we all deserve. If you haven’t given serious thought to the other aspects of your life now is the time to do it.

We need to put into its proper place our health, our family, spirituality, and many other things that make
a well-rounded and successful person.

Simply put money alone does not bring happiness that you can’t be happy without it, balance is the key.

Jacek has been a contributor and writer for over a decade. You can see some of his material at Glass Block, and also Glass Block Installation