This book was recommended by Qiqi, and I collected it as one of the books I read for my wealth. I read this book twice in a week, the first time I read the chapters of interest intensively, and the rest of the book was read like a date, and after reading the whole book, I simply understood that this book was different from other wealth books. Then I re-read the book, and then I slowly understood the ideas and important ideas that the author wanted to convey to us.
1. Summary of the book
The recommendations for the release of "The Soul of Money" are spiritual, inspirational and wealthy. The book consists of four parts and 12 chapters, which mainly elaborate on the dilemma of thinking about feeling "lack", the feeling of never being satisfied, and three toxic myths. It doesn't teach us how to save money and how to manage our money, but in a different way of understanding the world, it tells us that when we have the right relationship with money and life, we have great potential.
Author Linne. Twester is a global philanthropist whose main objectives are to end world famine, protect rainforests, improve women's health, economic and political situations, and increase scientific understanding of human consciousness. Her experience has encouraged people to see money as a tool for achieving the highest pursuit of life and love and discovering the meaning of life. She leads us to re-examine the value of money and redefine the meaning of life.
Second, my harvest
1, the recognition of money: money binds us, but also let us have more ability. By adjusting the relationship with money, you can consciously live a life of abundance and joy, and at the same time, learn to understand this inner flow process. Make money and heart one and transform your life.
2. The indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest have always lived in harmony with nature and the relationship between people's homes, and have nothing to do with money, even if there is a war, it is a fight for honor. It wasn't until the arrival of the missionaries that they learned the role of money, and money went from being optional to being a necessity. They began to exchange land tenure for money until they lost their land, home, way of life, and the legacy of their ancestors.
3. People invent money to facilitate the sharing and exchange of materials and services between individuals and groups. Now we have made money more important than ourselves, making it more meaningful than life.
Women in Indian villages, who need high dowries to marry, are considered a huge burden on the family, and baby girls are often killed by their biological parents as soon as they are born, but a group of women have joined forces to change this situation.
4, we are always in a state of scarcity, life is full of "not enough", "insufficient" and "dissatisfied". Three toxic thoughts about want: a shortage of resources, for our own benefit; the more the merrier, driving effort to accumulate, striving to acquire, and insatiable competition; and as it should be, we think we are powerless to change everything.
The women's living conditions shown in the reports of Microsoft's senior executives are the same fast-paced, high-stress pattern, only breakfast time with their families, computer screens are their lives, and conversations are conducted online. They have to fight for more, endless chases, drowned in the excuse of "keep competing, one more round, one more deal, one more time...".
5. Affluence means living in the moment of perfection and abundance and sharing it with others. Use them with gratitude to create difference.
8, money is the flow of water, is the carrying tool, is the channel for us to manifest our wishes. Money carries the promise of our souls. Mother Teresa never reserves cash and runs more than 400 orphanages in 102 countries. She is using her money to achieve her highest ideals and commitments, and she experiences a sense of fulfillment and satisfaction.
9, appreciation to create value, if we can focus all our attention and appreciation on the existing resources, we can immediately experience the generous gifts of Heaven. What we appreciate and pay attention to determines the quality of our lives.
10. Cooperation creates abundance, and cooperation brings us to abundance and makes us deeply rooted in abundance. Openness and interaction and open hands and hearts connect us not only with others, but also with inner fulfillment and abundance.
Third, my actions
1. Be grateful and cherish everything you have.
2. Always examine your own thinking and break the lack of thinking.
3, within the scope of ability, generous altruism.
4. Excerpts from golden sentences
1) When we give happily and receive with gratitude, everyone is pampered.
2) Every moment in life is crucial, and life itself is grace.
3, if you make money flow to the things you care about, your life will also shine, which is the real use of money.
4) When you really pay attention to what you have and stop trying to accumulate more, you will live a life that is bigger than just "getting" and "owning".
5, money is like a nose ring, leading our nose at will. It's just that we've forgotten that we're actually the designers of it.
6, money itself is not a problem, it is not good or bad, money itself does not have the question of power, is our interpretation of money and the interaction with money, however, this also provides us with the opportunity for self-discovery and personal transformation.