Showing posts with label wealth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wealth. Show all posts

Friday, 25 February 2011

Link: Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four

Monday, 18 October 2010

Link: Why I don’t care about success

A lot of people in my field write about how to be successful, but I try to avoid it. It’s just not something I believe is important.
Now, that might seem weird: what kind of loser doesn’t want to be successful?
Me. I’m that loser.

Read the full post at... http://zenhabits.net/anti-success

Monday, 19 July 2010

Link: Thought for Today: The Secret Of Immeasureable Wealth

The secret of immeasureable wealth is to need less. The wealthiest human beings ultimately give away vast amounts of the money that they have spent half their lifetime acquiring. This suggests that the motivation behind all their efforts was not the pursuit of wealth but something else. The need to prove something to oneself, for instance? Replace need - whether it be at an emotional or physical level - with an unshakeable faith in one's self and in God. Neither will ever let you down, if you hold fast to this faith.

http://www.thoughtfortoday.org.uk

Friday, 12 February 2010

Link: Millionaire gives away fortune which made him miserable

Austrian millionaire Karl Rabeder is giving away every penny of his £3 million fortune after realising his riches were making him unhappy.

Read the full story here... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/7190750/Millionaire-gives-away-fortune-which-made-him-miserable.html

Wednesday, 9 December 2009

The Surprising Truth of Sufficiency

We each have the choice in any setting to step back and let go of the mind-set of scarcity. Once we let go of scarcity, we discover the surprising truth of sufficiency. By sufficiency, I don’t mean a quantity of anything. Sufficiency isn’t two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It isn’t a measure of barely enough or more than enough. Sufficiency isn’t an amount at all. It is an experience, a context we generate, a declaration, a knowing that there is enough, and that we are enough.

Read the full post here...
http://www.ijourney.org/index.php?tid=673

Saturday, 8 August 2009

Riches

The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches with them, but to reveal to them their own.

www.thoughtfortoday.org.uk

Wednesday, 10 June 2009

Living Wealthy On A Daily Basis

Do you really think that living wealthy is all about having an abundance of money? What good is it if that's all you have?

Read the full article here...