Category: True Wealth

There is a strange moment that can come after years of working hard: you finally get some of the things you were working for, but you discover that you are too tired, too distant, too unhealthy, or too preoccupied to enjoy them. The house, money, and the achievement are there but somewhere along the way,…

We spend years learning how to make money, but very little time learning how not to lose the things money cannot replace. We know how to protect a bank account, insure a car, secure a house, and grow an investment portfolio. Yet we can be careless with a marriage, reckless with our health, unavailable to…

Lately, I have begun to think of how I can build a way of living that my body can survive and my life can sustain. A temporary transformation can be impressive, but a sustainable habit can become a way of life. One produces a result we can photograph; the other produces a life we can…

It is fascinating how easily we spend money to protect the things we own, yet hesitate to invest time and resources in protecting the person who owns them. We insure our cars, maintain our businesses, service our machines, and carefully plan for our financial future. But when it comes to our health, we often say…

“We are what we repeatedly do, “ said the sages. The things we practise in private eventually become part of the life we experience in public. One of the strangest things about human behaviour is that we can be terrified of a sudden danger yet remain comfortable with habits that are quietly hurting us every…

It is interesting how we spend our younger years wishing to grow old, then spend our older years wishing we had taken better care of ourselves when we were young. We celebrate birthdays, count milestones, and pray for long life, yet rarely pause to ask what kind of life those additional years will hold. We…

There are people who go to bed exhausted but cannot sleep because their bills are still awake. Their bodies are tired, their eyes are heavy, but somewhere in their minds, rent is due, school fees are waiting, food prices are rising, and tomorrow is demanding money they have not yet found. It is a strange…

We have become so good at making life easier that we sometimes make living harder for ourselves. We want food without cooking, results without waiting, movement without walking, success without struggle, and convenience at almost every turn. And while there is nothing wrong with making life easier, I sometimes wonder whether, in our attempt to…

The quote, “Fear is a powerful human emotion that can hold you back or help you grow, depending on how you face it,” captures something important. Fear itself is not always the enemy. In fact, nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.  Fear can alert us to danger. It…

There is something strange I have observed about humans. That has to do with our tendency to be genuinely grateful for what we have until we see what someone else has, and suddenly our blessing begins to look like a deficiency.