Why Don't We Do What We Want?
found no more efficient strategy for solving the problem of how to handle our finances than asking “Why is money important to you?”
Carl Richards • The One-Page Financial Plan: A Simple Way to Be Smart About Your Money
Our preoccupation with money feels highly respectable, but its true cause is poignant and unexpected: we keep wanting more money because we haven’t yet identified a passion that matters enough to us that it replaces money-making in our minds.
The School of Life • A Simpler Life: A guide to greater serenity, ease and clarity
Instead, ask yourself: What do I want my money to do for me?
Jesse Mecham • You Need a Budget: The Proven System for Breaking the Paycheck-to-Paycheck Cycle, Getting Out of Debt, and Living the Life You Want
The more we associate experience with cash value, the more we think that money is what we need to live. And the more we associate money with life, the more we convince ourselves that we’re too poor to buy our freedom. – Rolf Potts