You have probably heard about the four Colombian children aged 11 months to 13 who survived for 40 days in the Amazon jungle.
How heart wrenching and yet how incredible.
The tools their mother taught them included what fruits it was safe to eat and how to stay safe from snakes and bugs and predatory animals.
What are the dangers in our society?
Our survival is a step removed.
We don’t have to forage for fruits and seeds. We use money to buy basic foods.
We don’t have snakes and bugs and predatory animals nipping at our ankles. We use money to pay for shelter and air conditioning.
What tools are you teaching your children about survival?
Are any of these tools about money?
What tools are you teaching your children about flourishing?
You have a certain amount of money.
That is fact.
That is math, not drama.
If you want more, you can create more money or spend less.
That is math, no drama necessary.
It’s just a matter of figuring things out.
Trial and error.
Curiosity and action.
Creating more money means doing the math, trying new things and continuing to try new things until something works.
That is called massive action.
Math is simply truth.
Massive action is continuing in spite of the drama your brain creates.
I just saw a post that said,
“When your kids get married, decide in advance that you’re going to be the most drama-free, loving, and supportive mother/father-in-law on the planet. You will have tremendous power to either make your kids’ marriages feel blessed or feel stressed.”
I love the idea that you can decide in advance to be drama-free.
Kudos!
But you do not have tremendous power to make someone else feel blessed or feel stressed.
You have INFLUENCE.
You have zero power.
You can’t anoint yourself with tremendous power.
Just decide who you want to be.
Then act accordingly.