But Is All This Really THAT Important?


Have you ever considered how much you DO that actually doesn't help you one little bit?

We all seem to have so little time in our lives...but what do we do with all that time? I, for one, used to think that I had no 'spare time' whatsoever - yet now, I'm busier but at the same time have MORE free time!

How is that possible?

Well...it all comes down to what's important. Important in the sense that, if money was no object in your life, who and what would you still want from your life.

Yes, I know that money will always seem to be an issue (although it doesn't have to be)...but just humor me for a moment, and spend a little time with me considering the following...

- Who would you still want around you to share in your wealthy lifestyle?

- What activities/hobbies would you wake up looking forward to doing?

- What 'work' (yes, I DID say the dreaded four letter word!) would you actually WANT to do?

I bet you're wondering why you should 'work' even when you don't 'need' to.

Well...you DO need to!

Why?

Unless your mind has something to focus on apart from lying on a beach all day, or spending all day in bed watching TV, then you ARE going to get bored with life!

Honestly.

Ever wondered why people like Bill Gates and Richard Branson continue to work - when, quite obviously to the rest of us, the don't HAVE to?

Well...they do so because they WANT to...and get enjoyment out of doing so.

Richard Branson has said that "I don't think of work as work and play as play. It's all living."

I 100% totally agree with that.

As long, of course, that it doesn't get in the way of the OTHER things that are important in my life...like my family and my health.

Too many people forget that spending all hours to earn a big salary to 'provide for my family' almost always works to the disadvantage of the very same family 'unit' that they are trying to protect.

I've seen the looks on my daughter's classmate's faces as they are told that mummy or daddy can't come to the school play because they have an 'important meeting at work'.

Of course...in the real world...some sacrifices DO have to be made, but unfortunate though it seems, you will NEVER be able to tame that money 'monster'.

Remember a few years ago when you used to be able to live on HALF of what you might live on now?

The more you earn - the more you spend. It's practically one of those unwritten rules of human nature.

It doesn't HAVE to be that way.

But...until you come to a realization for yourself that all the money in the world can't replace being there to see your child's first steps, or to see the pride in their face as they read to you - then I will never be able to convince you otherwise.

For years - I used to be the sort of person whom I now wish that I never was where my family was concerned.

I got lucky...and got 'sent' a special needs son who needed the 24-hour care of both his parents.

I was even 'luckier' in a sense to be given my life back once he left us.

Even though, of course, I would rather have him around...I can now appreciate that just plain smiling and having fun is seriously underrated where leading a successful life is concerned!

YOU might well not be as lucky as I have been...but it's never too late to really look at what you do, day-in-day-out, and see whether what you are doing is THAT important.

People get ulcers because of stress at work...yet all it takes is a laugh with someone you love to wipe away all of that pressure (if you let it of course.)

Many things that we take for granted don't cost us a single thing - whether it's money, effort, or even time.

Yet, it's these very same things that we would most want to have in our lives when we 'make it'.

But, the time you have spent reading this is wasted unless you actually DO something about it.

Your life is in your OWN hands. You already know what's important to you.

I think that it's about time that you did something about it, don't you?