Comments on: Being Wealthy is Only a Feeling

By: Mento

Mento — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 04:10:45 +0000

Wow. Great! I am certainly gonna do it your own way. Work hard like for some years and then set up a business I have a passion for.

By: JET

JET — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:30:21 +0000

Elise, great response! Thanks for sharing. I’m sure all the lazy people will not understand. My mom was kicked to the curb when I was 9. She had to go to school to become a US citizen and cleaned apartments to pay the rent and feed us. She then continued school to become a nurse and worked graveyard shifts. I never consider her to be a work a holic. Just a super hero. All 4 of her kids are now hard working parents with families.

What I’m concerned with is the idea of our youth ( yes I am assuming the writer to be Super Awesome and Young) toward work. 4 hour work weeks? They want to measure success by how little they do, not what they accomplish.

They want to be paid great money, live like a millionaire and in debt, get gifts from mommy and daddy instead of giving them.

But who wants to change the world. Who wants to do more. Show me somebody that makes other people’s lives better? I’m afraid young people think about work as a honey pot. Where all they have to do is push a button and complain about how hard they work.

We live in the greatest times, we have more time on our hands than ever before to learn, paint, sculpt, play, dance and read. I’m hopefull that the leaders of this new generation will not be the bloggers, but the doers. The inventors. The helpers.

We need to create, not just consume.

Congratulations on your hard work and doing right by your kids. You inspire me to do more not less.

By: Elise

Elise — Fri, 20 May 2011 21:22:15 +0000

Sometimes there are things that you can’t see or don’t know about a workaholic. I was fortunate enough to be paid hourly, in a business that was rather understaffed. I turned into a workaholic, but for a reason. I paid off my thirty year mortgage in ten years. My cars are paid for. I don’t carry a credit card balance. I did this as a single mom with two kids. We are the last of our line, so we had no other family to help, we had to do it on our own. One day a week and all weekends were off limits for overtime work. That was my ‘mommy’ time. And if the kids had something going on, I could always take a couple of hours off to go to their games, etc.

My kids and I had to be pretty well organized, but that serves both my kids well, even today. It meant they both had to be very responsible for themselves, like getting homework done, and picking out their clothes for the next day, completing their chores before I got home, etc. but these habits also still serve them well today. I recently asked my son if he ever felt ‘cheated’ because I put in so many hours working when he was a child. He looked at me with a surprised look, and said “Are you kidding? You took us on vacations, did things with us whenever you could, and always made sure life was never boring. It was the greatest non-school education a kid could ever hope for. The other kids were jealous of all the things we got to do because of you.”

Because I chose to be a workaholic back then, I could retire comfortably at 50. Now I am having the time of my life playing with my grandchildren, going places when I want to, doing what I want, while I’m still young enough to do them. My kids love it when I take the grandkids for a few days. They tell me that the kids always come home happy and much smarter. I don’t know about that, but I’m loving being able to do it when I want to. We go places like museums and art galleries, we do science experiments, we build things, we take things apart to see how they work…the latest victim was my toaster…next week we’ll put it back together.

Becoming a workaholic, and managing my money judiciously when I was younger has enabled me to have the life I want, now. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.

By: Richard Tanner

Richard Tanner — Fri, 20 May 2011 19:27:55 +0000

What is fun in savings is to apply the D.R.I.P. reinvestment to several good stocks like J&J or Buckeye Pipelines.Both of these two have a study growing dividend.You safely advance your total wealth by slowly buying more shares and paying no broker too.
I long ago gave up on things like a CD which used to pay great but not any more.
Richard

By: flora

flora — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 06:40:52 +0000

One day, you don’t work for salary any more, then you can be regarded as reaching the highest possible stage.

By: Moneymonk

Moneymonk — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:37:09 +0000

Good response Money Reasons.

By: MoneyReasons

MoneyReasons — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:42:46 +0000

Wealth is relative once you get past the basic needs (food, shelter, clothing). Unless your Bill Gates or Warren Buffet, there is always someone more rich than you are and someone more poor than you are.

Try to make as much money as you can while still enjoying life…

By: John DeFlumeri Jr

John DeFlumeri Jr — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:32:08 +0000

Working smart is better than just working hard. If you want something done fast, have your laziest man do it.

John DeFlumeri Jr

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:41:47 +0000

“If I told you that someone’s credit card bill is $10,000 this month. Is that person a saver or spender? Now, what if I told you that he made $100,000 this month, and all his expenses are on his credit card? $10,000 is a huge amount of money, but saving 90% is AWESOME. (This deserves capital letters, don’t you think?)”

Saving 90% is better than awesome. It’s….well, it’s super awesome.

By: marci

marci — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:35:45 +0000

Having “enough” is a different level for all of us.
Each person needs to find their “enough” level at some point in their life.
And then ENJOY.
For me, under $20,000 is still “more than enough”… and I live well.
And Time – the older one gets – seems way more important than money anymore.

I think for each ‘season’ of your life there is a different level of ‘enough’…
And yes – it’s all about attitude – and it IS all in your head – and your heart.
Enjoy.