If You Want To Be Wealthy, Jump Into Slow Living
There is no point in running fast and treating life as a rat race.
The world grew to be an awful place to live in.
We were handed over advancement and given access to free resources, but we use it to our disadvantage and overlook most of them.
Sadly, the place where we reside now has deceived us into mirroring a fast-paced life as a benchmark for living.
Earth is overcrowded with people longing for more luxuries to crave, more people to consider as networks, more cash and assets to work for, and so on.
Immersing ourselves in this overcrowded world makes us confused, depressed, stressed, and disappointed.
We have been accustomed to and immersed in a life of excessiveness.
I am blessed that God has been faithful to my needs. He has provisioned even my luxuries.
Thank goodness I was able to see what others see. I have been guilty of the world’s delusion and praying not to return to that life again.
People overlook the culprit of their unwanted feelings of yearning for more and ending up lonely at the end of their day.
Let me tell you something: we are all victimized by this main suspect.
Overstimulation
It has been a problem for many people like you and me.
According to my friend Chat GPT on the meaning of overstimulation, it refers to a state in which a person’s sensory input or cognitive demands become excessive or overwhelming, leading to discomfort, stress, and potentially harmful physical or psychological effects.
The real meaning of success and fulfillment has disillusioned us.
Chasing the non-essentials of the world’s standard of achievement leads me to the following.
- I am skipping meals in the morning to catch up with my work emails.
- Overoccupying our schedule with tasks and voluntary work with the wrong motives and agenda, such as joining politics for fame and power
- Fantasized with numerous goals that do not mean anything to me
- I throw myself in large crowds intending to flex to many people, seek validation, or receive applause.
It is a hard fact that these things resonated more with me upon reaching the age of 41, and the wisdom I obtain from others and learn from life keeps going.
There is nothing wrong with dreaming. We are expected to perform anything with excellence.
God created and designed humans to work, whether you like it or not.
It is fulfilling to reach a goal. We all need to have something to get for.
People are made to interact because we are social beings, after all.
What we need to do is prefer quality over quantity.
Dedicate some quiet time, seek and ask
- What are you called to do, and for whom? Seek from the Lord and pray for it.
- Check your motives if your time is spent on the essentials
- Revisit your goals if they matter. If it does, then justify why it means to you.
- Take an inventory of your social group and ask yourself why you are sticking with them.
To gradually transition into slow living, you need to revisit your lifestyle first and make an audit of your priorities.
Slow living does not mean letting go of your dreams, goals, and objectives.
It means redesigning and transforming yourself by focusing on the essentials to appreciate the fullness of life.
Once you are onboard to this newfound start, wealth will not be a problem since you have cleaned up the baggage you’ve carried throughout your life.
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