Want More Money? Change Something.

All of us need to make money. The richer you are the more you need to make just to stand still. Inflation is built into this economy. It is also built into human expectations in our consuming world view.

If you really want to be a big spending consumer then start a business. My wife once spent a million and a half dollars in less than an hour and a lot of people were happier that night. Even her, all of our bills were paid.

If you think doing what you love will bring you money then you are really lucky to love work. I don't love it but my tolerance level for work is pretty high. Yours will be too after a year or two of running your own business.

This is not to say that all of the garp about doing what you love and the money will come is totally fiction. If you chose to do something that you love to do and it is something that other people pay someone to do, that works. Then you have a good chance of living your dream life.

Meanwhile running a business, any business is work and usually hard work for most of us. It is also rewarding if you really want to be your own boss bad enough to work for a real slave driver. I would have said prick but my wife would have corrected me before this got to print.

Here is another exercise for you. Try reading all about the most attractive product that you can imagine owning, a car, a computer an ego boosting vacation, whatever you really lust after. Really study that product for a week.

Then try telling yourself why you shouldn't buy it. If you wind up owning it then you may need to stop buying things and start selling them. You sold yourself on changing your life in at least a small way. The hard part about changing yourself is to get the result you want after you make the change. That is a hard thing to do even when you view the change as desirable.

The urge to buy is tied to your sense of self worth in this society. That is far from universal but it is the predominant tendency in our social system. So indulge that urge at a new and higher level and start your own business. It can be fun and even occasionally profitable.