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<\/p>\nSometimes children can cut right to the chase with the questions they ask.<\/p>\n
A few years ago, I remember that after a particularly nice win on the share market, I rewarded my little boy by getting him a new computer game.<\/p>\n
He ran around the house like the excited seven-year-old that he is, and swept us all up in his laughter and pleasure.<\/p>\n
My two-year-old was in hot pursuit and it was impossible not to be caught up in the moment.<\/p>\n
Then, he stopped in his tracks, looked me straight in the eye and said \"Mummy - Can money buy you happiness?\"<\/p>\n
Wow!<\/p>\n
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\"Well...\" I started. \"I guess I'll need to think about that. What do you think?\"<\/p>\n
Generally, I'm a pretty happy sort of person... not in a feverish laughing, maniacally happy-clapping sort of way - but I guess I derive a lot of satisfaction from what I'm doing in life.<\/p>\n
Helping you become a better trader, being a good mum, and pursuing trading excellence for myself - these are all things that give me pleasure.<\/p>\n
Executing a trade exactly to my trading plan, the laughter of my kids, and enjoying a great conversation over good food and wine.<\/p>\n
Pretty simple stuff really.<\/p>\n
I generally find that I go to bed with a smile on my face and wake up anticipating a good day - so yes, I would define myself as an optimist.<\/p>\n
After my seven-year-old and I chatted about it for a while, I told him a quote that I'd once heard: \"You'll have problems with money, and you'll have problems without money - but I know which type of problems I'd prefer\".<\/em><\/p>\n It gives me the power to say \"no\" and \"yes\".<\/p>\n \"No\" to a 9 to 5 job that sucks the very youth out of my cells.<\/p>\n \"Yes\" to better education choices for my children and better holidays for my husband and me.<\/p>\n So, by my way of thinking, money gives me the ability to create my own world, where others don't dictate the terms.<\/p>\n A world where I make my own destiny.<\/p>\n Where I make decisions out of desire, not need.<\/p>\n A world that you, as a student of the markets, can join - by following my footsteps.<\/p>\n So... what do you think?<\/p>\n Can money buy you happiness?<\/p>\n What makes you happy?<\/p>\n Are you doing what it takes to make you feel the type of motivation that it takes to pursue your goals?<\/p>\n\r\n\r\n Sometimes children can cut right to the chase with the questions they ask. A few years ago, I remember that after a particularly nice win on the share market, I rewarded my little boy by getting him a new computer game. He ran around the house like the excited seven-year-old that he is, and swept…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":92675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,653],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-property-updates","category-personal-finance"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"Family](\"https:\/\/cdn.propertyupdate.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/family-money.jpg\")
<\/p>\nI like the freedom that money gives me and my family, and the choices it opens up.<\/h4>\n
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