VITAMINS FOR THE MIND by Ron Reynolds #3727 (Monday, January 19, 2015) Lots or None Some people have an abundance of money, but most don’t have enough to make ends meet. What can we learn about that – if anything? Well, first – having lots of money is not necessarily an indicator of success. I know people who have ‘wealth’ but their character, personality, degree of happiness and how they use their money qualifies them as a bit of a ‘pee-wee.’ Some of those with lots of money are rude and arrogant and take their ‘money’ as a symbol of power and authority over other people. You probably know of some people with money who are that way. Conversely, having not enough money is not an indicator of failure, either. I grew up in a rather poor family, where not having enough money was always an issue. My mother and father were divorced when I was still an infant, and they ‘gave’ me to my father’s mother to take care of, and they did all they could. Sometimes, I visited my father and his new wife, and ‘how they lived was rather appalling. I also visited my mother on rare occasions, and her life and lifestyle had become just the opposite; both she and her surroundings were elegant, compared to those of my father, and those two opposite environments made my mother’s way of living far more attractive, and my affection for her sophisticated mannerisms formed thoughts in my mind about how I wanted to someday be. But, I married at the age of eighteen, and in four years, their mother and I had four children. I didn’t do well financially, and each month found me deeper in debt and constantly struggling to ‘make ends meet’ – which they never did. Then, I had a ‘day that turned my life around.’ It was a day when I concluded that my current condition were strongly suggestive of how my future was going to be, and I found that possibility to be repulsive and unacceptable, and I took active control over my life by resigning from my employer in aerospace and taking a different position in a distant city, and that charted a new course for my life. What I somehow knew deep inside was that if I kept doing the same things, in the way I had always done them, then my results could never change. The process of change was far from easy, and there were times when things were worse than they would have been if I hadn’t changed my direction, but I knew that I had to do better, and I simply refused to “allow my current circumstances to serve as an accurate indicator of either my value or of my destiny”. Today, my life is extraordinarily better; I don’t suggest by that that I’m ‘rich,’ but I’m not where I would have been had I not made some difficult decisions; I simply worked harder on myself than on anything else, and by ‘becoming more,’ I discovered that by becoming more, I was able to have more. But that journey demanded that I force myself to make it a habit of doing things that were not quite comfortable for me, and by forcing myself out of what had become my ‘comfort zone,’ I was slowly becoming the kind of person it takes to have more than I once had. You can do the same, but only if you make that your obsession. Just remember that having no money is not an indicator of your value, just as having lots of money is not an indicator of success; it all depends on who you allow yourself to become, so use your AdvoCare opportunity wisely. The views expressed on this post are those of Ron Reynolds and do not necessarily reflect the views of AdvoCare.
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 13:00:00 +0000
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