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A high income and a regular acquisition of expensive stuff do not necessarily make people rich. People may have a high income, but many won’t survive three months if they are suddenly without their high-paying jobs.
Being Rich is different from being Wealthy.
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Wealthy people have sustainable access to money, often for a very long period of time. Their habits are now aligned with the wealth that they have incurred.
Pseudo affluence, on the other hand, is what people experience when they are currently earning lots of money and start to believe that they are rich. They pay for their expensive lifestyle with a high amount of borrowed money and are just a job-loss away from being poor again.
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... is a ‘state of excess’ when the stuff we own makes us poor, as the debt we incur has trapped us to keep working our jobs to fund the expensive lifestyle and habits.
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... does not mean having lots of money. There are thousands of stories where people have won the lottery or inherited a large amount of money, only to be on the streets in a few years.
The problem is our definition of being rich may be flawed.
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Being rich is, at its very core, about being patient with your money and the accumulation of knowledge, experience and your net worth. If you are investing in appreciating assets instead of spending it on liabilities (like a fancy car), you will experience true wealth.
If we curb our restaurant outings and the impulse purchases and sell the homes we don’t live in, investing the money in appreciating assets, we are on the way to maximize our investments.
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Being rich is about freedom, about independence and about being on your own. If you are filthy rich but still have to do things you hate doing, then that’s not real wealth. You are not poor if you don’t own a BMW and your neighbour does. But you are poor if you are not having the freedom to do what you want in life.
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It isn’t the only factor in being rich, no matter how many articles tell you that. Money is at most a superficial and incomplete representation of wealth, and there are many more ways to think about riches.
Money changes people, and in many cases, makes them less grounded, less content and less human. If you feel unhappy most of the time, maybe equating money with happiness and success is a part of that problem.
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They buy things that convey success. They want you to know just how much stuff they have by showing off their success.
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We all, rich or poor, have the same 24 hours in a day. But we can use our money to buy more time. For example, by eating out, you don't have to decide what to cook, shop for ingredients, cook, and clean it all up.
If you can carve out more time for yourself, you can use it in other ways that will improve your life. You can start a side hustle, exercise, read, or spend time with family and friends.