Comments on: Choosing less stress and pay and feeling good. http://www.financialzen.com/2007/07/02/choosing-less-stress-and-pay-and-feeling-good/ personal finance - a zen kind of journey Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:05:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Money Zen | Money And Investing http://www.financialzen.com/2007/07/02/choosing-less-stress-and-pay-and-feeling-good/comment-page-1/#comment-494 Money Zen | Money And Investing Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:03:25 +0000 http://www.financialzen.com/2007/07/02/choosing-less-stress-and-pay-and-feeling-good/#comment-494 [...] the only one with thoughts like these.  Others advocate, choose or desire the simpler life, like Financial Zen. work at home business is getting popular among people in the past few years. make money at home [...] [...] the only one with thoughts like these.  Others advocate, choose or desire the simpler life, like Financial Zen. work at home business is getting popular among people in the past few years. make money at home [...]

]]> By: Jose http://www.financialzen.com/2007/07/02/choosing-less-stress-and-pay-and-feeling-good/comment-page-1/#comment-493 Jose Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:03:22 +0000 http://www.financialzen.com/2007/07/02/choosing-less-stress-and-pay-and-feeling-good/#comment-493 Just referenced your site in one of my posts. I advice this to most of my friends: Pay all your debts, cut down your spending to a minimum, a really bare minimum, no ipods, no eating out, no fancy cars, no extreme vacations. Then, you can have a job doing exactly what you like, for the number of hours you want. Then... every extra dollar you earn beyond the basic sustenance amount will be seen as luxury, and that will be the dollar used to buy the ipods, eating out, the fancy car, and the extreme vacation. Society pushes us to do it all in reverse: peer pressure makes us buy all of the expensive stuff, get ourselves into debt, and then try to crawl out of it with a job that we may or may not like, but it has to be the one that pays the most we can get: for our debt requires it. Just referenced your site in one of my posts.

I advice this to most of my friends: Pay all your debts, cut down your spending to a minimum, a really bare minimum, no ipods, no eating out, no fancy cars, no extreme vacations. Then, you can have a job doing exactly what you like, for the number of hours you want.

Then… every extra dollar you earn beyond the basic sustenance amount will be seen as luxury, and that will be the dollar used to buy the ipods, eating out, the fancy car, and the extreme vacation.

Society pushes us to do it all in reverse: peer pressure makes us buy all of the expensive stuff, get ourselves into debt, and then try to crawl out of it with a job that we may or may not like, but it has to be the one that pays the most we can get: for our debt requires it.

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