Money is a TOOL!

I was scrolling through my Facebook feed, and I saw this comment saying that she wants to help, but she does not even have a job right now. And I thought to myself you cannot pour from an empty cup. The best thing you can do right now is to help yourself first. Get a job. Survive first, then work on getting yourself out of the survival mode you are in right now.

If you cannot even meet your basic necessities like food, shelter, you cannot help others. You are not in a position to help anybody right now.

I have a job, but I am not at the point yet where I can give freely. I need to be selfish right now, so I can be giving selflessly later on. I need to use the resources that I have right now, invest the little that I have so I can get myself in a position where I do not have to worry about money. I need to raise myself to the point where I can give without thinking or if I will be ok next week after giving this up because I wanted to help.

Aim to have more than enough money, so your next thought is what can I do to help others.

What is Your Money Mindset?

Money is a tool. I’ve heard people say money is the root of all evil, and I say, how do you know when you’ve never had it.

Yes, there are bad ways to spend money, bad ways to get it too. But in the end, it is a tool, an instrument that can change lives for the better for the worse, impact lives for the better or, the worse, make lives miserable, or help people up.

The accumulation of money is not being greedy. What is your intention? Do you accumulate money to have enough to help people, be a difference to your part of the world? Or is your goal is to just make a lot of money for the sake of having a lavish lifestyle, a big house, expensive cars, the pursuit of material things? If that is your goal, you may live a hollow life.

How many rich people in our society have committed suicide, they were rich, powerful, famous, and they were so sad that death was their ultimate escape. That is how having money is not a true but a hollow end goal that can end to misery if not used for good.

Money is a tool to make things happen, change the world, enables us to create solutions. It gives you freedom.
Your mindset on money comes about if you have your life together first. Do you have financial freedom? It is only then you can influence people, only after when you are stable and wealthy. Help yourself first before helping others.

During your flights, the stewards go over flight safety, and they teach that when oxygen tubes drop, they say put your oxygen first before you put it on your child. That is right because if you give it to your child first and you pass out, you are no good to your child.

Keep working and stay wealthy so you can focus on others. Look at the end goal, have long term vision.

On the subject of giving to a charity. Would it be better to keep that money so you can create the solution to homelessness rather than provide for the short term? If you donate now, it takes away from what you are creating. The better path is to create more wealth so you can have a greater impact, provide the cure, not just a temporary solution.

If your goal is to make lots of money to have a luxurious lifestyle, you will live a hollow life. SO KNOW THY GOAL!

What is Your Motive?

The ethics of money revolves around how you make and spend your money.

Money is an amplifier. That is why it is important to have the right mental state.

Money is a tool, a resource, a solution to a lot of problems.

It can exponentially improve people’s lives. Some people can spend lifetimes, but if you have money, you can change things and impact others in only one lifetime.

Money is a skip button for business. It can pay for shortcuts. Strive to go to the top so you can pull people up.

A lot of good things are done because of money. Also, a lot of bad things happen because of money.

Make money and use it to help the world a better place. That is Success.
A hammer can kill, or it can build. It is how you use the tool.

The rich will get richer because money allows you to fast track things. If you have money, you can afford to take risks that other people cannot do.

Let us be realistic. To make a significant change in people’s lives, you need a lot of money to make a significant impact.

Become the Person

Money allows you to make things better. Create things that have more value. Build better things that are worth more money than something that somebody is building in their garage.

If you play video games, and when you get the token, you become faster and more powerful, you have more power to overcome and go through faster. That’s the same with money, its a power token that can help you skip and jump more and go more quickly to your end goal.

What is your motivation? What is your purpose? The real fulfillment comes from impact.

So go ahead, make money. Fill your cup to overflow that you can make an impact, a great impact.