Felix Dennis cont...
Felix Dennis in his new book, mentioned in the last post, states... "I have yet to meet a single really HAPPY rich man or woman - and I have met many. Am I happy? No. Or at least, only occasionally."
Later in the review Dennis says: "Never have I met a self-made rich man or woman whose family or relationships were not plagued by the burden of creating a fortune, even a small fortune, the childless Dennis writes. "Somewhere in the invisible heart of all self-made wealthy men and women is a sliver of razored ice."
And the next quote is great... "Ask me what I will give you if you could wave a magic wand and give me my youth back. The answer will be everything I own and everything I will ever own."
In my years of consulting with traders, I've always stressed the importance of a balanced, happy life. And that the secret of financial success is financial freedom, not being rich. But remember what I said in the last blog. I think the purpose of life is to be happy. This involves evolving spiritually, which I stress in my psychological work with traders, and doing what you LOVE to do.
Van
Comments
FYI, a "blog" is your website. In this post and your last post I think you mean to use the word "post" instead of blog. You could also use the phrase "blog post", but saying "mentioned in the last blog" you are mis-using the terms and many bloggers will focus on this instead of your actual content (which is good).
Thought I'd let you know.
Posted by: No Thanks | August 31, 2006 06:42 AM
Dear Van,
dear people,
this is really something:
"Ask me what I will give you if you could wave a magic wand and give me my youth back. The answer will be everything I own and everything I will ever own."
I think, this problem occurs to everybody, rich or poor. It's not really fun to get old.
For me it sounds quite challenging to trade AND evolve spiritually. Sometimes I get the impression, it's better not to trade if you want to evolve spiritually. You are risking to sit too many hours in front of a computer and I get the impression that man is not built for that.
Therefore, I like the idea a lot that the secret of financial success is financial freedom, not being rich.
That allows you a lot more sparetime :-) Hopefully.
Best greetings
Gabriele
Posted by: Gabriele | September 1, 2006 06:30 PM
Hey "No Thanks", you're assuming he meant "blog" as a noun. It's also a verb, which works (albeit awkwardly in this case). :P
Posted by: J. Kelser | September 2, 2006 03:45 AM
Great article. I bought Hawkins book Power vs. Force and just started reading it /it's mentioned in the forum/. I also share the belief that a balanced and happy life is the most important thing and one of the prerequisites for is a person to become more self-aware...
Posted by: Krasimir | September 5, 2006 07:58 AM