My Kind Of Rich
“There are people who have money and there are people who are rich,” Chanel
Many people feel their problems will be solved by money but money in itself is meaningless.
Fun fact, most lottery winners lose their money and end up worse off than before.
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A windfall without understanding what it means for or how you want to use it leads to financial traps and unsustainability. This is a tale of warning: when you think the answer is “more money,” maybe it’s not. The real answer is often more consciousness around money, more self-awareness and more intentionality.
This approach will make your life feel better and more abundant. It creates more meaning when you set targets in your business and when you receive or spend money. It also helps you move away from consumerist and capitalist pressures that make most of us feel we need more and more. Algorithms, marketing, and societal pressures constantly push us to buy, buy, buy, interrupting our self-reflection and feeding anxiety rather than happiness.
We’ll spend time exploring what money means to you, your idea of what rich is and why. Often our needs can be met cheaply, sometimes for free, and often far more easily than we think. Defining your personal idea of wealth allows you to use money for what really matters and create abundance now.
Ask yourself: what do you care about? What brings you joy? What experiences matter most? That’s what money should support. Is it to free up time? Time is available now—so how do you want to invest it? How do you want to structure your life?
Few people pause to take control of their spending and the meaning they assign to money, objects, or consumption. This is a powerful invitation to stop and reflect before setting budgets or business targets. Let’s create meaningful, aligned spending and conscious decisions and goals about time and money.
This process can change your life. Put aside a decent amount of time to explore these questions and observe where you are out of alignment with what truly constitutes a rich and abundant life for you.
Journalling Activity
Use the quotes and questions below to explore your beliefs, emotions, conditioning, and desires around money, wealth, abundance, and meaning. Write slowly. Ask “why?” after every answer and keep going until you reach the real reason beneath the surface.
“There are people who have money and people who are rich.” Coco Chanel
- What is abundance to you?
- What would more money mean to you?
- If you had more money, what would you buy? Why?
- If you had more money, what would you do? Why?
“Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail.” Josh Billings
5. If you had more money, how would you feel? Why?
6. How would your lifestyle look if you had more money?
7. How much savings would feel good for you?
8. Why that amount? What could you do with it?
