Changing your Money Story -Part 2 - The Richest Man in Babylon
This write up kind of follows Changing your money story by replacing if then by wouldn't it be nice. You might want to read that too, if you haven't already done so.
Days ago, seemingly out of nowhere, I received a message from an artist named @brunonacif
I bought two pieces of digital art of his, months ago on NFT Showroom, and must admit that I like his style. Apparently, I had sent a message to him along the lines of:
If I were rich, I would buy a lot more of your art.
Let's say that I have been a struggling creative ( as well as a supporter of fellow creatives ) for many years - probably even decades - and this has had quite an impact on my money story.
I am only now coming to grasps with all of this ( at the mid-life crisis age of 39 ) and the blockchain, Hive and Leofinance play an important part in turning all of this around.
Part of the work that I'm putting in to change my money story for the better, to get rid of old believes that aren't serving me and replace them by new, healthier and more helpful believes, is listening to audio books on finance and money.
I have to admit that - being a storyteller and having been a writer since I can hold a pen - a lot of finance content that I read or listen to doesn't stick. It's too dry, there's too many numbers, too much jargon, too little story. It goes one ear in and out of the other. It's often too much of the same.
Nevertheless, every now and then, there's this book or podcast that is like a drop of water in a desert, a breath of fresh air.
To get back to @brunonacif 's message, I read the following words in the newly added BeeChat feature on Peakd, some days back:
Make it your purpose to be rich and you will achieve it
He also recommended me a book, that lead me to writing this post, titled:
"The Richest Book in Babylon"
So, in the last three days, I listened to the entire book ( about 5 hours ) and I must say I love it.
It already seems to be shifting some gears, changing the wiring of my brain.
As is often the case, when I'm in the right mindset, I start to see more and more parallels between my life and the information that I receive. It's as if the pieces of the puzzle - that seemed to be unsolvable up till recently - start to get together, slowly but steadily. The vision is getting clearer and finishing it, reaching a previously impossible goal, suddenly seems totally possible.
I wanted to make this a short post so I'll end it here by saying that the lessons in this book might not be entirely new to you but, if you like stories and if listening to an audio book suits you, I highly recommend this title.
In fact, I plan to give it another listen very soon and will start practicing the lessons that I learnt from it, starting now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wglndSWrvsM
The Richest Man in Babylon - YouTube
If you're into ( digital ) art and want to support ( more or less struggling ) creatives, here's:
Brunonacif's art on NFT Showroom My art on NFT Showroom
And, in case you like this kind of content, here's an older post of mine
on another awesome book on finances:
I'm looking forward to book recommendations on finance from you guys / girls. Preferably with somewhat lesser know titles with actual storytelling. Feel free to share them with me in a comment. Cheers!
The picture above this post is a screenshot of my little chat with Brunonacif. I hope he doesn't mind me sharing it.
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