What Does That Mean, Success is not Just About Money?

I can hear what you’re saying and tell what you’re thinking. It goes somewhat along the lines of: How can he say that? It’s obvious that success is measured in money terms, isn’t it? What use is it to be successful if you’re still poor? And what kind of a success is that?

The first thing to say is that I can see a lot of very sensible reasons why someone would ask questions like that. So it’s worth looking at what it is that makes you ask them. Let us be clear that I’m not actually saying that you can be successful without having any money, or that having money in some way prevents you from being successful, that would be absurd. Money is not a bad thing or a corrupting influence or dangerous or anything like that.

Money is merely a medium of exchange. It allows you to easily get what you want.

And this is the key to what we are saying. It is not actually the money you want, but what the money can bring you. So when you say that your aim is to have X amount of dollars in your current account by a certain date, it is entirely possible that you will not achieve that because it is not anything real that you are giving your attention to. You have to think about what it is that you want the money for, that is what you really want, and that will be the measure of your success.

Monet has often been viewed as being like a flow, like a current. This is a very useful analogy for money. It is like flowing energy, and it is my belief that it works best when it is doing that, moving, flowing. This is why we also say that an aim of having X amount of dollars is an attempt to fix in one place an entity which is most effective when it is in motion. Just like water it will stagnate, and ultimately drain away.

The true purpose of money is to make things happen, to make things manifest themselves.

So do not worry about the money. Just make sure it keeps moving. Think of it like a river. You can sit on the bank of the river and watch the river but you cannot fix the water where it is, it will flow. Strangely enough the water in the river often retains its same shape, making it appear that the water is the same all the time, but it is not. It flows, And the same happens with money. So keep it flowing.

When you have a desire to fix the flow of money it is easy to understand where that comes from. You are desiring to have security. You want to have security so you will not have to worry about money anymore. You think that having a lot of money will bring that, but we say that if you think this then you are thinking of it the wrong way about. The security has to come first, then the money will flow, and then you will have success.

But how can I get security if I have no money, you say? And we would say that it makes no difference if you have money or you do not have it. This is where we start to get into the key area for this entire discussion, the area of faith. Faith is the key that unlocks the door to life. But this article has now come to its end, and so the discussion of faith is best left for another chapter.