Money Is Not the Answer

*Money Is Not the Answer*

*By T. Harv Eker*

Money is not the answer. That's got to sound ironic coming from someone who
believes whole-heartedly in the benefits of being rich. Forget about getting out of debt, paying bills, buying nice things, etc. That stuff's great, but at the end of it all you're not going to give a damn about your credit rating. Money's the last thing on your mind in that moment, I would imagine.

Money can reduce the stress of living, but it can bring just as much if not more anxiety. I've gone through my cycles of accumulating and losing money, getting more and losing it again. The money wasn't burning a hole in my pocket. I just had a big hole in my pocket and didn't bother to sew it up.
That hole represented something in my mental blueprint that kept me from
being stable with money. There was nothing wrong with the money.

On the other hand, people without money often think if they just had enough to do this or that, then things would be better. While that may be true, what happens when the mind goes into 'Only if …' consistently? That's exactly what you get … 'only if.'

'This will only happen if…'

All of a sudden nothing's happening and you don't even know or remember that
rule you created. In business that thinking often translates into "It takes
money to make money." No! If you have money it can certainly grow more money, but it doesn't take money to make money. It takes creativity to make
money.

Throwing money at a problem is disaster! In business there's no such thing as a money problem. That problem grew out of somewhere else. You want to fix
the root of the problem. If you throw money at a business problem, you'll
have the same business problem for the rest of your life and no money. Creativity and knowledge are the answers, not money.

It's also not logical to blame money for people's shortcomings, or the world's for that matter. Obviously there are people that are rich and greedy, but there are poor people who are greedy and there are middle class people who are greedy. There are rich, poor, and middle-class people who are generous. There are rich, poor and average income people who can be both generous and greedy, depending on the stress they're going through at any
given time.

To say rich people are greedy as a blanket statement is just as unfair as saying poor people are lazy. I've met many a hard-working poor person who just hadn't yet turned the corner on working smarter instead of just harder.

Money can't be the root of all evil. Envy, jealousy, and greed—all based on
fear of not having or getting enough of something we want—pre-dated currency
(think about the story of Cain and Able). It's a part of what it means for us to be human.

If money isn't the cause of all that's wrong, it's not going to be the cure
either. It's not the answer. It's the fruit of our expansion—or lack thereof—beyond ourselves and of the impact we're having on the world. What we choose to do with that is a result of who we choose to be, not because of money.

Edited by: Lawyer Asad