Love and Money

"Love without money is better than money without love."
- Warren D. Evans

This quote comes from a mentor of mine, a dear man who lives a gentle life filled with moral behavior. Yet, he has enjoyed fantastic financial success along the way.

Often, we are so ground into the negativity surrounding corporate irresponsibility and the undercurrent of avariciousness swirling around us as we seek to find stable footing in life, we find that we have absorbed a kind of negative perspective that anyone with money, anyone who has succeeded financially, must be a crook. It's both a sad and pervasive mentality which permeates the middle and low class.

I've said in these blogs before that money is not the goal of a good business, money is, instead, the measurement of how well a business maneuvers and behaves. Money is the measurement of the company's interpersonal ability.

Let's remember that business is a social act. It depends on trust, respect, and successful communication. Let me also remind us that these are all qualities that indicate love. Trust, respect, and successful communication are, after all, the hallmark of any quality marriage.

This quote is great in that it challenges me to put the first thing first. Put love before money. If I act right, then success will pursue me, not the other way around.

So, I'm going to spend tomorrow thinking about my behavior, ensuring that my behavior is a successful expression of my internal world. Of course, I will find that, in some ways, my behaviors alighn with my internal world and in others, my behaviors don't. I'm human; this is a process which I will have to repeat throughout the days and nights of my life.

It is my belief, though, that as I work to align my internal world, as I become more articulate about that which I believe, as I understand better what I have to offer the world that is unique to me, I will become an ever more capable witness of love.

I believe in the art of putting the first thing first. I guess it's time to start my Spring cleaning...
I hope everyone has a wonderfully peaceful and relaxing Sunday!

Z