- Time:
- to be,
- to discover,
- to talk,
- to walk.
- Health:
- in mind,
- in body,
- in heart,
- in soul.
- Friendship:
- across time,
- beyond the past,
- loving the possibilities,
- across geography.
- Wealth.
- Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. Henry David Thoreau.
- Care-free, long, long, long summers as a child...
- timeless hand-holding with your sweetheart...
- cash-in-hand...
- fat wallet-in-pocket.
- To drive-out.
- to
- The drive-in.
- via
- An occasional drive-thru.
- Knowing him;
- trusting her totally.
- A pipeline of business,
- great clients,
- appreciative accounts.
- Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. Henry Ford
- Walking the hills,
- running the beach,
- enjoying the sun-set,
- coffee and sun-rise.
- No rush to leap out of bed.
- OR
- Leaping out of bed, raring to go, exciting stuff to do...
- The buzz of being on a mission.
- brimming with ideas:
- enlightened;
- able to lighten up.
- Observing the bird of prey swoop across the valley against the mountains.
- Words on a fresh page of a fresh note-book in a fresh city on an always fresh planet Earth.
- A talk in a cafe on a beach with the voices of children playing in the distance.
- Marrakesh market and fresh mint tea.
- A whoop for joy.
- ...a bit of a dance around the kitchen while the sauce bubbles down...
- a financial plan:
- what's coming in & what's going out
- the former an atom bigger than the latter
- that's all for wealth.
- a tidy garage
- an empty attic
- a system to the basement
- a job;
- a career;
- a passion;
- In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. Confucius.
- Reading
- Reading
- Reading
- Observing
- Listening
- Writing
- Wisdom outweighs any wealth. Sophocles.
- Appreciating the small stuff again.
- Marvelling at the large stuff once more.
- Taking it one day at a time.
- Enjoying one conversation, one voice, one soul.
- At a time.
- Wealth:
- soft wealth: health, relationships, creativity, art, books, deserts, perfect pizzas.
- hard wealth: cash, enough to live on, finances managed.
- Chase quality of life...
- ...not standard of living
- Real wealth:
- a decision
- courage
- a loss of fear
- a skill
- a knowing
- a getting really good at something
- free museums
- a scepticism of society's seduction to buy more sofas.....
- Real wealth:
- belief in oneself
- seeing a bigger picture
- beyond the daily latte
- beyond the daily commute
- beyond the endless e-mail
- Real Wealth:
- starting thinking again
- breaking patterns
- asking questions
- Real Wealth
- getting it at last
- and
- waking up all over again
- today.