There is value to be found in a life lived without materialism. But there’s a difference between materialistic gluttony and seeking the financial prosperity you need to provide for your family, and recognizing that is a vital step in following the path to success laid down before you.
The Difference Between Prosperity and Materialism
Before you can begin following the path to prosperity without guilt and free from fear, you have to first understand that there is a difference between prosperity and gluttony. As with all things, the difference lies in both your actions and your motivations.
Before you read another self-help book on becoming financially secure, before you pray for the lottery to go your way for once, and before you spend another dime on the next sure-fire business opportunity, stop. Ask the question “What am I doing this for?”
The answer may astonish you. Most don’t search for prosperity because they want to sit around and do nothing for the rest of their lives. Being rich to be rich is not everyone’s goal or prime motivator. For the majority of people, the drive to gain financial success is based on a very real desire to eliminate financial stress from their lives.
Being stressed over monetary issues keeps you from doing what you want to do, like relaxing and joining in family fun. Financial stress causes fights between spouses and deprives them of time spent in amusement with family and friends due to monetary constrictions. You can’t even treat your community and favorite charities the way you wish you could.
If a Comfortable Living is your Motivating Force, you will Succeed
You will find a path to success. It will not involve winning the state lottery. Each one of us has a pleasant life ahead if we only know where to look.
Life will always be full of tough decisions. Some people go through life pleased in knowing that the glass is half full; others spend a lifetime lamenting that it’s half-empty. The truth is there is some water in the glass. It is almost never completely full or completely empty. That would be too easy. Now your only job is to decide how you perceive that glass and follow your faith.
Call it God. Call it fate. Call it your ties to the universe. Regardless of which philosophy you happen to believe in, success is sitting at your fingertips. And the only one that can stand between you and that success is you.
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