We did a radio show for our book this morning, an opportunity kindly provided by Bill Frank of Radio KKZZ, AM 1400. Bill did a great job getting to some nitty-gritty points of importance, and the show went well. But even before that, we had received a request from a journalist to provide some comments on how to spend money to bring more richness into one’s life. This was for an article for SUCCESS Magazine, and it’s a good topic. Here goes.
All great joy and all great pain are human joy and pain. Our experiences as humans, not as consumers or tourists or in our working occupations, are the ones that really bring meaning to our lives. When we advise people about spending money to tie into some solid enjoyment, we tell them to look for the human element, either their own or that of someone meaningful to them. Buy yourself some new and needed clothes, but find a good local charity to give your old ones to. Find a local bicycle club with people in it you like, then buy a new bike and get to know more of those people, people who will bring you more, and more diverse, human contact. If you want to have a meeting with someone to discuss something important, use the “old world” tradition of buying that person a meal, discuss enjoyable things during the meal, then get down to business over dessert.
As we go along through the years, we can take our family and our circle of friends for granted, so look for ways to revitalize and expand those circles. We don’t mean with gifts. We mean by using money that’s earmarked for yourself, and spending it in ways that widen and enrich your exposure to other people who may or may not yet be part of your life.
Buying a Good Time
We did a radio show for our book this morning, an opportunity kindly provided by Bill Frank of Radio KKZZ, AM 1400. Bill did a great job getting to some nitty-gritty points of importance, and the show went well. But even before that, we had received a request from a journalist to provide some comments on how to spend money to bring more richness into one’s life. This was for an article for SUCCESS Magazine, and it’s a good topic. Here goes.
All great joy and all great pain are human joy and pain. Our experiences as humans, not as consumers or tourists or in our working occupations, are the ones that really bring meaning to our lives. When we advise people about spending money to tie into some solid enjoyment, we tell them to look for the human element, either their own or that of someone meaningful to them. Buy yourself some new and needed clothes, but find a good local charity to give your old ones to. Find a local bicycle club with people in it you like, then buy a new bike and get to know more of those people, people who will bring you more, and more diverse, human contact. If you want to have a meeting with someone to discuss something important, use the “old world” tradition of buying that person a meal, discuss enjoyable things during the meal, then get down to business over dessert.
As we go along through the years, we can take our family and our circle of friends for granted, so look for ways to revitalize and expand those circles. We don’t mean with gifts. We mean by using money that’s earmarked for yourself, and spending it in ways that widen and enrich your exposure to other people who may or may not yet be part of your life.