subject: 5 Reasons Creating Wealth Does Not Have to Include Selling Your Soul [print this page] Talk with the average person or watch the average movie, and there is a common theme tied to creating wealth in our society. It's this idea that people with money are somehow bad. We have sayings in our culture like, "Money is the root of all evil," and then seem to immediately assume this also means that the root of all big money must be evil. Talk with people who don't have it and you will hear them speak disdainfully about wealthy people and say how selfish they arehow they take advantage of everyone else.As if there is no way to create profits other than cheating or hurting others...But this is not the reality about money, and these ideas are often perpetuated by people who cannot accept that they don't have the motivation and drive to change their lives. It's an excuse to stay where they are and not move forward.Here are 4 truths about money that offer another perspective.1. Money Itself Is Not SinMoney is just paper. We give this paper power by setting a certain value to it, but even this powerful idea of value-wielding money is not evil or sinful. What is sin is when certain people take that money and use it to hurt others, or when they hurt others in the process of creating wealth.But it can just as easily be used to better people's lives and do good things for the world. If you are creating value, there is no reason not to profit, and this process is not sin at all.It is a tool that can be used in different ways.2. Money Represents the Value You CreateWhat a lot of people never understand is that money represents valuenothing more and, fortunately, nothing less. The more value you create in the world, the more money you will gather into your possession. And in fact, if we use our free time to engage in too many low-value activitieslike wasteful habits and spendingthe money will even leave our hands faster, as if balancing itself due to our give and take of value in the world.If you never take the time to work and create a product or service for people, to better the lives of those around you, you never create value. So actually, it is those who decide money is wrong and avoid creation wealth by refusing to participate that offer nothing to the world.People often complain about the discrepancy of value between the lower end workers in a corporationthe men and women who keep the building running, for example, and the high-paid CEO. But if you think about it, each is paid a rate based on the value they bring to the company.While the building could not run without the maintenance men, who work hard at what they do, the building would not exist or have anything in it, let alone make a profit, if the CEO did not make the right decisions.3. Money Will Not Make Someone BadWhat it does is give them the power to enforce their influence upon the world. It gives them a chance to shine and express themselves. So if they are already a bad person, it gives them the chance to do bad things and that part of their nature then becomes evident. But if they are already a good person, they have more power to express and act on this as well.What money does is provide freedom, and what somebody does with that is more a reflection on them than the power of currency.4. Money Allows You to Do GoodOn the same token, if you are a good person, and I hope you are, having wealth provides you an opportunity to do the things you want for other people. It allows you to make a contribution.Fortunately, the majority of people are inherently goodI truly believe that. Most people have something they believe in and good they want to do in the world.When you are wealthy, you don't have as much stress, and you can share more. You can donate towards causes or get projects off the ground that provide more value for the world. You can help someone in need. Opportunities to do good things are always in your reach.And that is reason in itself for putting a real focus on creating wealth.
5 Reasons Creating Wealth Does Not Have to Include Selling Your Soul
