Your Money or Your Life

“shop till we drop”

“nine to five till you’re sixty-five”

On one level, values are the ideas and beliefs on which we base our decisions. They are like an invisible ethical DNA, made up of our sense of right and wrong, that structures our choices. So our values reflect our beliefs.

Living our values gives us peace of mind.

So many of us have spent so many hours, days and years of our lives devoted to someone else’s agenda that it may be hard to get in touch with our dreams.

Do you come home from your Job zestful and full of life, joyously launching into personal or planetary projects, or into intimate sharing with your family or other loved ones? Or are you tired and drained, taciturnly lurching into the soft chair in front of the television set, beer or martini in hand, because “It’s been such a day”? If it takes a while for you to “decompress” from the pressures of the Job

In short, I could stay home, work part-time where I live and actually save money by making half of what I formerly made.”

over the years we have seen considerably less illness and illness-caused absenteeism in volunteers than in paid employees.

you can never get enough of what you don’t really want.

our life energy does—at least to us. It’s tangible, and it’s finite. Life energy is all we have. It is precious because it is limited and irretrievable and because our choices about how we use it express the meaning and purpose of our time here on Earth.