Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
W. Somerset Maugham
1874 – 1965
Editor’s note: Today we have a Lesson from one of my mentors, David Krueger, MD.
You’re writing a story that you may not know how to tell. It’s a very personal story with its own history and language. It’s highly visible to others but often not to you.
It’s a story that you talk about every day and think about several times a day. It is remarkably simple yet intricately complex.
This story has an internal and external dialogue, a secret language, and encrypted messages.
It’s complicated because some important aspects are emotional, unspoken, and even unconscious.
This story is about the longest relationship you’ll have in your life. Your parents discussed it before you arrived; people will deliberate it after you die. Maybe you’ll get ten years out of a car, perhaps fifty with a spouse, but this story you can never stop writing or living. You can’t break up with it, run away from it, or coax it into loving you more.
Even though it’s unexamined and elusive, you orient life decisions around it.
When I spoke with a well-known self-help guru, his response was, “You know, Dave, I don’t know how to tell this story to myself in order to know what to change.”
You alone determine the genre: fiction or nonfiction; tragedy or triumph.
This story ghostwrites every aspect of your life story. From what you eat and drink, to what you plan and play. Health, recreation, stress — all impacted.
At times you’ve used this relationship to regulate your moods, increase self-esteem, influence others, and perhaps soothe emotional pains.
And how you live this story will be what you teach your children.
The villain or hero is the most popular legal substance to all people of the world.
It speaks to you. You speak with it.
It’s your money.
Everyone has a money story — a money autobiography with a plot, storylines, conflicts, and strivings. Fortunately, we can learn to decode the secret language of money, enabling us to both achieve greater wealth and derive greater happiness from the money we have.
~David Krueger MD
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McGraw Hill releases The Secret Language of Money
O money, money, money,
I’m not necessarily one of those who think thee holy,
But I often stop to wonder how thou canst go out so fast
when thou comest in so slowly.
Ogden Nash
1902 – 1971