My 5 Lessons on Money and Relationship 🤝

Issue #60 — Money & Relationships. My Favorite File Converter Tool. Ancient wisdom on ROUTINE.

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💡 Here are 3-tips to help you learn, grow, and be inspired this week!

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🎓 Learn

Here are my five favorite lessons on Money and Relationship:

#1: Good friendship can’t be bought with money, only earned

Good friendship, unlike material possessions, cannot be bought; it's something to be earned and cherished.

The wealth of a strong friendship far outweighs financial wealth.

• Spend genuine and quality time to nurture your friendships.

• Be available for your friends when they need you, not when you are available.

• Money can’t be a substitute for kind and loving care.

I'm very blessed to have a few great friends like Kaushik Baroliya, Aslam Multani, Jeremy Fremont, and Colleen. 🙏 

Key Takeaway: Build and maintain your "Friendship Wealth."

#2: When you receive something valuable for free from someone, make an effort to return the favor with compliments

I've learned and been inspired by numerous individuals online and offline.

Still, I had only sometimes taken the time to acknowledge them for their efforts in creating and sharing valuable content.

Now, I make a conscious effort to leave comments, like and share their work, and mention them in my newsletter if their video, blog, or newsletter has helped me learn something new.

Key Takeaway: It's important to recognize the effort people put into creating free content that helps or inspires you.

#3: If someone doesn't pay you back, they probably need it more

I have lent money and possessions to friends and family, most of whom have returned them.

However, a few didn't.

Instead of resenting them, I remind myself that their financial situation might be more desperate, and they may need that money more than me.

Key Takeaway: Instead of harboring resentment, try empathy. It may not get your money back, but it'll give you peace of mind.

#4: In your relationship with money, check who is the MASTER

Money is a powerful force that impacts our lives in significant ways. 

However, it's essential to consider the dynamics of our relationship with money.

Are we the master, or does money control us?

It’s worth asking these questions to find out if you are in control:  

• Can you comfortably donate some money to your favorite charity or cause? 

• Can you buy meaningful gifts for others with your money? 

• Can you give money to help a friend, relative, or stranger in desperate need?

Key Takeaway: When you feel like Money has way too much power in your life, try to take back the control.

#5: The best gift I ever received only cost $3

In 2019, as I moved from India to the USA, one of my team members gifted me a $3 book called The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning Elevate Your Life.

This book inspired me to establish a growth routine.

As a result, I developed several new habits, such as meditation, reading books, practicing yoga, and napping, which helped me achieve a balanced life.

To this day, I consider this book one of the most remarkable and life-changing gifts I have received.

(Thank you, Shailesh Patel, for such an incredible gift of wisdom!) 

Key Takeaway: Books are inexpensive yet invaluable gifts.

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🚀 Growth Tip

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🤩 Inspire

My growth routine has been one of the secrets to my peaceful growth journey.

It’s fascinating that ~4,000 years ago, Mahrshri Patanjali, the father of Yoga, also talked about the importance of routine and discipline for personal and spiritual growth.

Here is how Osho described the Niyama (the 2nd limb of Yoga) in his book, Yoga: The Science of the Soul.

"Unless you have a regularity in your life, a discipline, you will be a slave of your instincts. And you may think this is freedom, but you will be a slave of all the vagrant thoughts—that is not freedom. You may not have any visible master, but you will have many invisible masters within you, and they will go on dominating you."

— OSHO

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👋 Anil

Keep learning + growing 🪴